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What do the futuristic urban mise-en-scènes of Blade Runner and the brightly colored objects of Memphis Milano have in common? What about Andy Warhol’s art and the cover of David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane?
Apparently nothing. Except that they have everything in common: a mix of the contradictory and the unstable, Postmodernism marked the second half of last century with its multiformity and indefinability. Now an important exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London is celebrating a movement that from the 1970s to the 1990s had a great influence on art, design, architecture, music, cinema… and all of Western society. Read more…
Photo by Marianne Barcellona
yoox.com is celebrating the 95th birthday of Rosamond Bernier with a limited edition release of her memoirs, commemorating the legendary life and style of a most fascinating world authority on art and culture. Read more…
These days it seems almost banal to use adjectives like ‘rigorous’, ‘essential’, ‘conceptual’, and ‘elegant’ to describe Japanese design. We all have in mind the Japanese aesthetic, we conjure up a black and white mental ‘tagcloud’ of names written small in Helvetica - names like Rei Kawakubo, Junya Watanabe, Yoji Yamamoto, Tadao Ando, Naoto Fukasawa and Nendo. But one name in particular is missing from this list – Shiro Kuramata. Read more…
The New Yooxer hits the Red Carpet with Livia Firth at the 68th Venice Film Festival
Already a talented producer, a loving wife to a “certain actor” and a passionate environmentalist… Livia Firth is now taking on yet another role as an eco-designer; for yoox.com, she came up with an exclusive dress, entirely made from recycled materials, available online from the end of November. And where better to debut this very special garment than the 68th Venice Film Festival? Read more…
The party started the way all great parties do, with an outrageous surprise. Although it was the heat of summer, in the middle of the king-sized yacht was an enormous ice sculpture shaped like the Matterhorn, on a rotating platform, surrounded by two dozen models wearing gold satin trench coats. The platform turned slowly…
