See Alexander Calder’s Unique Jewellery
Alexander Calder is one of my favorite sculptors, his mobiles are so light and simple and yet stunning with serene beauty. However, today I...
Magda Michalska 10 November 2021
Fashion
Best 15 Fashion Photographers of All Time OLD VERSION
From the very first moment of the invention of photography in 1816 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, the newly discovered medium became used in various...
Caroline Galambosova 16 August 2021
Fashion like a Russian: Kokoshnik, a Traditional Headdress
We all know the proverb Clothes speak for men. In the Russian national costume, a headdress called Kokoshnik played a significant role: it completed...
Elizaveta Ermakova 27 July 2021
Madame Grès, The Sphinx of Fashion
During the 1930s, fashion was heavily influenced by ancient Greece. In the previous decades, there was an appreciation through patterns such as the...
Errika Gerakiti 26 July 2021
Masterpiece Story: Princess Olga Orlova by Valentin Serov
Late Tsarist Russia evokes images of great social inequality in respect of health, wealth, and happiness. In addition, it evokes images of extreme...
James W Singer 17 January 2021
Wearing the Message: Changing the World One Outfit at a Time
From the original silk banners worn by the Suffragettes, through to slogan T-shirts, we often quite literally wear our protest message. This...
Candy Bedworth 24 November 2020
Painting of the Week: Firs Zhuravlev, A Fashionista Wife
Firs Zhuravlev’s realistic paintings show all aspects of Russian life. And we can imagine the scene from the picture A Fashionista Wife in the...
Elizaveta Ermakova 20 September 2020
Dior AW 2020-21: Deconstructing Art References
Maria Grazia Chiuri is famous for creating spectacular collections and phantasmagorical shows. Each show is unique, not just for the beautiful...
Errika Gerakiti 15 September 2020
Is Fashion a Form of Art?
Fashion and art are two passionate lovers. Their beautiful affair has been commemorated many times in museums, exhibitions, and on the runways.
Errika Gerakiti 11 March 2020
The Artistic Inspiration of Balenciaga
Cristóbal Balenciaga was the “Master of us all,” as Christian Dior said, and a “couturier in the truest sense of the word,”...
Errika Gerakiti 15 October 2019
Voyage Cinétique II – Kinetic Art on the Runway
Transforming a woman’s body into a piece of art, the Venezuelan Oscar Carvallo introduced 35 outfits with prints, textures, cuts and details...
Gabriela Hurtado 18 February 2019
Heavenly Bodies Spring to Life in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art
I am not Catholic. And I am not up on the latest fashions. Yet here I was, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on Fifth Avenue with...
Howard Schwartz 30 July 2018
