Design takes center-stage: innovative new projects and events not to be missed – our guide in this voyage of creativity is acclaimed journalist Cristina Morozzi. We embark on an exclusive tour showcasing the best of Milan Design Week. Read more…

“I love shoes! Footwear is constant inspiration for me. Whether it is researching characters for the films I am the Costume Designer for or designing a costume for an artist I work with like Madonna or simply planning a fashion editorial, I always start from the shoes up.”
So quips Arianne Phillips, a celebrated Hollywood costume designer as well as the longtime stylist of the Queen of Pop, who regularly walks down the red carpet and attends fabulous parties. Nevertheless, there is one aspect that Arianne shares with all other women: a deep love for shoes.
It’s no surprise then that she will be the godmother of the launch of a brand new website entirely dedicated to the world of shoes: shoescribe.com. Read more…

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…