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Author Archive | Lina Rodriguez

Sports Couture: High-end collaborations

“They are known for their show-stopping catwalk looks and dressing the stars. Now, they’re taking their high-fashion looks to the gym…” Tasmine Crimmens elleuk.com The collaboration of great designers with sports brands respond to the boom of trends such as co-creation and the importance of lifestyle, it is also a good platform for designers to […]

Made in Colombia – An overview of the design scene

“Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do” Rumi (Persian poet and philosopher.) In cities like Paris, Milan, London, or New York design is something that is part of the daily life and names like Coco Chanel, Bauhaus or Phillipe Stark are commonly recognise by everyone. There is a general understanding of […]

Vintage Fashion: a look to the past

“At Holala we have been dedicating the last 40 years to our passion, vintage clothes and recycling. We travel over the whole world, visiting all the flea markets and the textile recycling industry to be able to carefully handpick the unique and best pieces of our taste, one by one.” Says Holala, one of the […]

Innovation and Fashion – 5 books to get inspired

“The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.” Pablo Neruda Reading a book on the iPad next to […]

5 Amazing Textile Innovations

The Unseen: Air Is the new collection of See the Unseen Studio where Lauren Bowker it’s founder, artist, textile designer and chemist developed next to her co-workers a wind reactive ink, which changes color upon contact with the air. “Intended to reveal the otherwise unseen turbulence surrounding the human as it goes about its environment.” […]

Concept Stores & Fashion

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. It’s in the sky, in the street, has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.” Coco Chanel A quote by Coco Chanel that is perfectly represented in the concept stores. These shops that are closer to be art galleries than retail stores, are […]

Georgina Chapman will be at the 080 Barcelona Fashion

From June 30 to July 4 Barcelona celebrates the 080 Barcelona Fashion, the event which is held twice a year is the perfect platform to meet new designers especially Catalans, who are setting trends in the city.

The Next Black: A film about the future of clothing

“Shouldn’t it be something more progressive than design and style changes…shouldn’t there be innovation that alters the entire concept of clothing”. The Next Black, is a documentary produced by the German company AEG (German General Electricity Company) that observes the future of the fashion industry within six different perspectives but with the common denominator of innovation […]

Greate Eco-Jewelers

In recent years it has triggered a boom related to the environment, trends such as “eco-friendly” have been taken by designers who embody the eco soul in furniture, product and jewelry. In this case we show five designers or brands that appropriate the eco-jewelry at its best. Ágústa Sveinsdóttir  This Icelandic designer works in her […]

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