Halima Aden, 19, is the first Muslim model to be seen walking runways and be the cover of different fashion magazines. Originally she is from Somali but was born in a Kenyan refugee camp. She moved to US with her family at the age of 6 and was raised in Minnesota. She participated as the […]
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Many of us are tired by the end of the day — way too tired to care what clothes we choose to wear to bed. If we’re lucky, we’ve managed to brush our teeth and wash off our makeup before we pass out on the pillow. But thinking about pajamas? Not so much. Your bed […]
Hussein Chalayan is a Cypriot-British fashion designer known for infusing intellectual concepts into his designs. Hailed to be one of the most experimental and innovative designers in the contemporary era, he has created designs that include airplane parts, garments resembling furniture and a robot dress loaded with Swarovski crystals. Renowned internationally for his futuristic and […]
The body can be seen and thought of as a machine, a vehicle, as well as a building. Therefore it could be stated that dressing of an individual provides a definition of personal space as do architectural structures though they are bigger in scale. Fashion and architecture have many connections: they both aim to “make” […]
Yayoi Kusama, (born March 22, 1929, Matsumoto, Japan), Japanese artist who was a self-described “obsessional artist,” known for her extensive use of polka dots and for her infinity installations. She employed painting, sculpture, performance art, and installations in a variety of styles, including Pop art and Minimalism. By her own account, Kusama began painting as a child, at about the time […]
Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren titled this collection Fashion Statements. “To what extent can you say something with clothing, literally,” they said backstage. Their studio had imagined 18 outstanding, outsize dresses constructed entirely in brightly hued tulle: some with puffed sleeves, others with tiered skirts, all very colorful and very voluminous. And, well, each creation […]
Embroidery is an ancient art with variety of subsets. It was probably the primitive man who first started needle crafts. He would create threads from animal wools and plant fibres and needles from bones and ivory. As time passed, these stone aged men became more creative and began adding beads, bones, and stones to their garments […]
In case you missed it, a notable book on Iranian interiors was just published, called Behind Closed Curtains. It documents all the pretty interiors of Iranian designers, conservationists, and boutique hoteliers. Finally someone had decided to properly photograph and write about our interiors that are so inherently Iranian. While flipping its pages I came upon […]
فصل گرما رو به پایان است و کم کم وقتش رسیده که لباس های خنک و دوست داشتنی تابستانه مان را جمع کنیم و سراغ رنگ های گرم و عمیق پاییزه برویم. این هفته من رنگ سبز زیتونی تیره را انتخاب کردم. بیایید این را بپذیریم: سبز زیتونی و سبز در هر تنالیته رنگی تقریباً […]
