Celebs’ favourite shoe designer Christian Louboutin sues both YSL and a Brazilian brand over shoes. I’m not speaking in puns, it’s actually true that Louboutin is enraged with the House of YSL for adding HIS OWN trademark red soles to THEIR shoes. Mr Louboutin has started a legal battle against the french fashion House, claiming 1 million dollars in damages. It’s been since…
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‘We want to be modern’, an exhibition looking into Polish design between 1955-1968, is going through its final two weeks on show at the National Museum in Warsaw. The exhibition attracted a great number of visitors, with over 4000 in the first week alone. As the new director of the National Museum, Agnieszka Morawinska states: “This is the first exhibition to focus exclusively…
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Kikos Lanitis’ paintings have always influenced me since the very first glance. It’s the dynamics that the image obtains by the mixture of figures, rough materials, words and phrases with warm colors, red being his favourite by far. The artist himself says his paintings awake such strong emotions that they are tough to look at. I’d say they “up-set” your mind in a way…
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Young Creative Poland, an initiative started by Anna Pietrzyk – Simone & Miska Miller – Lovegrove a few years ago, is now presenting the 2nd edition of the project “Young Creative Poland: in production” at Milan’s Salone del Mobile from Tuesday 12th to Sunday 17th April. The project which aims at promoting design in all aspects of everyday life, this time showcases the…
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This is the phrase in which historian Robin Lane Fox describes one of the exhibits at the “Heracles to Alexander the Great: Treasures from the Royal Capital of Macedon, a Hellenic Kingdom in the age of Democracy”exhibition. Referring to one of the queens’ necklaces displayed since Thursday at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Robin Lane Fox named it “the single most beautiful object in gold on the…
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