8 JUNE – 21 JULY 2013
Curator Lidewij Edelkoort has selected the theme of Fetishism in Fashion for the fifth edition of the M°BA (Fashion Biennale Arnhem). It will feature a series of exhibitions and events which explores and charts the passionate relationship the public has with fashion and [...]

DI FRAGILITA’ E POTENZA
by Federico Gori
A project curated by the Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina
Palazzo Strozzi Courtyard
Florence
30 April–30 June 2013
For the 2013 Florence event ‘La Notte Bianca’, the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi has been presented with a new work by Italian artist Federico Gori, Di fragilità e potenza (of fragility and power).
A striking installation that finds [...]

During the event Fuori Salone 2013, the media library of Santa Teresa in Milan hosted the most interesting lab of Milan Design Week, presented by VisionLab – Triennale Milano, curated by Alberto Pizzati Caiani.
The theme was “the ability to see what is not visible, but is there …”.
VISIONICA aims to “uncover different places and [...]

Two interestingly distant worlds trying to communicate with the Krizia exhibition space during Design Week 2013. On the one hand the work of Ingo Maurer, with its magical light creations that combine LED and synthetic materials. His new designs: Candle in the Wind, presented as an LED chandelier and table lamp; Zak Zarak, an articulate [...]

EUROPEANA FASHION INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Fashion Industry and the GLAM Community
SAVE THE DATE
17 – 18 April 2013
Florence
On 1 March 2012 the Europeana Fashion project was launched.
This exciting three-year project, co-funded by the European Commission within the ICT Policy Support Programme, will publish online by March 2015 over 700,000 fashion-related digital objects, ranging from historical dresses to accessories, [...]

28th International Festival of Fashion & Photography Hyères THE FESTIVAL
Through parallel fashion and photography competitions, the Festival International de Mode et de Photographie à Hyères, directed by Jean-Pierre Blanc since its creation 28 years ago, gathers every year under the spotlight ten young fashion designers and ten young photographers under the patronage of an international [...]

THE BRIDGE – AN INSTALLATION BY POLIMODA – during Milano Fashion Week – via Tortona, 58 February 23 – 24 – 25 2013.
A great industrial pavilion and metaphorical bridge connecting two cities, (Florence and Milan), countries, cultures and continents. The installation created by Polimoda in Via Tortona builds a bridge between the past and the [...]

A MONSTER BY FILEP MOTWARY
ATOPOS Contemporary Visual Culture presents ‘ARRRGH! Monstres de Mode’ the first international exhibition on character design in fashion and art.
From Alexander McQueen to Andrea Crews, Craig Green to Walter Van Beirendonck, ARRRGH! features a selection of fifty-eight contemporary fashion designers united by their use of monstrous forms and expressions in their [...]

Following the enormous success of his first book “The Sartorialist” (published in 2009), Scott is now back with a new collection of images of men and women who have captured his attention all over the world. In his new book “THE SARTORIALIST: CLOSER” the famous photo-blogger narrates the different stories in greater depth, underscoring the [...]

Dante, Giotto, Arnolfo di Cambio; writer, painter and urbanist were the avant-garde of the Renaissance… Suzy Menkes is our avant-garde for Fashion writing and she will received the prestigious ‘Fiorino D’Oro’ of the City of Florence yesterday.
Florence has a great passion for fashion and the fashion industry, and thanks to Pitti Immagine, fashion is more [...]

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FONDAZIONE PRADA
Calle de Ca’ Corner – Santa Croce 2215 – 30135 Venice
“The Small Utopia. Ars Multiplicata” – Curator Germano Celant
Friday 6th July – Sunday 25th November 2012 -
My comment: A great exhibition if you want to know more about the introduction of editions and multiples into the cultural and commercial circuit of art. From the [...]