The Matador Couture Collection from Schiaparelli. Olé!
Paris Fashion Week has returned and with it a slew of new breathtaking and impressive fashions from designers who have spent the last year working hard under quarantine. This year…
Ipnot Has The Art Of Embroidery All Sewn Up.
We’ve featured several pieces on artistic embroidery, but none like this. This Japanese artist wields her needle like a paintbrush, creating miniature pieces of art and motion graphics with thread and needle. (more…)
Vintage Items Made Irreverent With Typography
Canadian artist Marie-Claude Marquis (aka MC Marquis) as adds irreverence to vintage china tableware and embroidered tapestries and they are a hoot. She finds old needlepoint and dinnerware upon which she prints intricate typography referencing explicit swear words, Québécois slang, and hilarious pop references. (more…)
Couturier Guo Pei Wows With Her Alternate Universe Collection
Couturier Guo Pei unveiled her Alternate Universe Couture Collection for Fall Winter 2019/20, marking the finale of the Haute Couture shows for Paris Fashion Week. If memorable was the way they wanted to close the event, they chose the right collection. Surreal and sumptuous, simultaneously dark and light, the impressively crafted extravagance of Guo Pei’s presentation was breathtaking. (more…)
Sporticulture: One-off Embroideries From Iceland’s James Merry
Self-taught embroiderer James Merry has embellished vintage sportswear with flora and fauna for a series he calls Sporticulture. (more…)