Art

Renée Gouin

17. August 2017
Modern Fashion Paintings / Illustration by Renée Gouin

Renée Gouin creates abstract and modern fashion paintings in beautiful color palettes. She seeks her inspiration from an array of aesthetics including the spare flatness of Japanese woodblock prints and the reductive visual vocabulary of Morandi. Her most recent work is influenced by the color palettes and ambiguous spacial effects found in fashion photography. By emphasizing these flat abstract forms, Renée Gouin embraces the playful antics of cubism.…

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Christy Dawn – Dresses made of Deadstock Fabrics

8. August 2017
Christy Dawn – Dresses made of Deadstock Fabrics #ethicalfashion

Christy Dawn grew up in a timeless town called Placerville in California Little has changed there in the past hundred years. Though, it wasn’t until Christy moved to Los Angeles that she noticed just how timeless Placerville really is, and how much her hometown influenced her view on fashion. All Christy Dawn dresses are made in downtown Los Angeles where each seamstress is paid a fair living wage. Christy Dawn can be proud of the positive environmental and social impact…

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Folc Eyewear and Sunglasses

31. July 2017
Clean and timeless Sunglasses by Folc Eyewear #madeinitaly

Folc Eyewear: Sculpted and Handmade in Italy. Designed in Barcelona. Folc eyewear is a Spanish brand from Barcelona that developes small collections of clean and timeless eyewear and sunglasses. They produce all collections with just a limited number of models and put quality over quantity. Folc follows the traditional Italian manufacturing process, where a very important part of the process is still made and crafted by hand. The philosophy at Fold is to think locally which is why all glasses…

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Illustrator Amelie Lihl and the Fartisserie

5. July 2017
Amelie Lihl – I'm a Fartist – Female Illustrations

I stumbled across the colorful work by Amelie Lihl through Eike König’s Instagram account and needed to share it with you! Amelie Lihl is an illustrator from Munich, Germany and loves to produce whatever comes to her mind: Prints, Cards, Zines, Shirts and many more things. She also has an online shop with the very subtle name Fartisserie (I admit, I love it).…

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Ode to Sunday – Linen clothing from Lithuania

24. June 2017
Ode to Sunday – Simple Linen Dress

Ode to Sunday is an independent women’s clothing line from Lithuania. Agne, the co-owner of the brand, introduced me to their concept and I liked it right away. Ode to Sunday mainly uses Lithuanian linen for their clothing pieces because of its low-impact production and characterful imperfections. Personally I very much appreciate the cooling effect of linen clothing on hot summer days. And we have a lot of these lately! Agne and her team also make sure to work with…

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Mleko Living – Essential over Excessive

18. June 2017

Mleko Living is a design studio from Krakow, Poland, with a mission to simplify and improve our everyday lives. It was founded this year by Katarzyna Goluszka and Michal Zaluski. The studio creates simple objects for everyday use in cooperation with local craftsmen. The two founders developed their great interest in the functionality and aesthetics of human surroundings through studying architectural design, whilst living in different European cities. Mleko means milk: a natural product for daily use. Everyday life and…

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Nanushka – Beauty follows Function

21. May 2017
Nanushka | Rustic weave dress with tape strap. Fringe hem and adjustable waistbelt.

The fashion brand Nanushka was founded by Szandra Sandor who was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary. She moved to London to study design and to follow her mother’s footsteps in the fashion industry. In 2005, Szandra returned to her hometown Budapest to create her own contemporary womenswear label, Nanushka. The basis of her brand’s aesthetics is effortless confidence. Szandra’s creative process is driven by a simple philosophy – beauty follows function. Designed in Budapest and made in Europe, the…

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Berit Mogensen Lopez

9. May 2017
Bold colors pattern | made in Copenhagen

Can’t believe my last post is one month old already! I am really sorry for that and hope to be able to invest more time into the blog in the following weeks. I enjoy researching interesting art and brands as inspiration for you guys, so lets keep the posts coming! Today I’d like to share the work of Berit Mogensen Lopez with you. Berit is a Copenhagen based artist who has worked in the fashion industry for many years. There…

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Cristina Celestino creates Happy Room for Fendi

30. March 2017
Cristina Celestino | The Happy Room for FENDI

Cristina Celestino is an Italian product designer and creative director. In 2009 she moved to Milan where she founded her own design brand under the name “Attico”, which produces lamps and furniture characterized by a deep research on materials and shapes. In 2012 she was selected to take part in the Salone Satellite and after this experience Attico products have been exhibited in several international galleries and showrooms. Her work currently spans from limited editions for design galleries and museums,…

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Mixed Business LA – Specialty Retail Shop

23. March 2017
Mixed Business LA | thin cream turtleneck and wide high waist pants

Mixed Business is a specialty retail shop in Silverlake California. The brand offers a simple line of everyday basics in beautiful colors. At their flagship store Mixed Business assembled a collection of their own in house line, fine vintage clothing, and also other contemporary brands they love for men, women, and kids. The focus of the products Mixed Business creates is on the natural materials they are made of and their clean simple construction.…

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