To celebrate Women’s Month we are highlighting the life and careers of six creative women doing everything from dominating fashion week to designing “Panties with Purpose” and even the next big Nashville music star. THALE BLANC Founded by Deborah Sawaf in 2010, Thalé Blanc is a luxury fashion brand specializing in women’s designer handbags, accessories, and jewelry. In […]
Meet three Black-owned brands making their own way, from a mother-daughter owned bath and body company to a fashion week phenom, and even a designer re-writing American history. To celebrate Black History Month, we are highlighting these amazing brands in order to tell the story of their incredible founders and of course show you some […]
Downward spiraling into the Covid-19 abyss, the human need for visual and figurative art magnifies. Lockdown may have stifled many artists’ desire to create, but it has intensified patrons’ hunger to appreciate and engage with the finer arts: Paintings, sculpture, photography, music, film, literature, design and cooking. Entrepreneur and curator Marina Dojchinov recognized this gap […]
TAG Heuer’s Connected watch certainly made a worthwhile statement just days prior to pandemic-lockdown. Restraining time does after all embolden a core focus around which mini dials and hands do circulate. Disrupting the long held stereotype that watch wearers are uptight and square, the new edition of the Connected fractyllizes variety. Media, brand ambassadors and […]
Seven Crash had their second-go at New York Fashion Week, and they didn’t disappoint! Last year, they debuted their “Quantus” collection at NYFW19, which was described as “a significant breakthrough in fashion,” by BASF.com and “representing a change for the future of apparel.” This year, Seven Crash showed at Spring Studios for FW20, unveiling […]
It’s NYFW, the Big Apple’s honorary holiday where thousands of people celebrate iconic fashions and yes! It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Last Thursday, I attended the OqLiq show at Spring Studios for FW20. As the lights dimmed, and whimsical Taiwanese music rocked the room, the models, one by one, strut the […]
Titled Retro Sentinel and designed by Niu Niu Chou, MRHUA MRSHUA marched vibrant colors and intense patterns down the runway this past NY Fashion Week. The collection can basically be bisected into a homage to Chinese ethnic minority dress and a tribute to American pop art. However, bold colors and gender nonconforming pieces fuse them […]
The ” Down the Rabbit Hole ” exhibit curated by Marina Dojchinov transports viewers through a delicatessen of interactive spatial and visual delights. Held at an exquisite East Village townhouse, attendees enter a foyer bequeathed with one of Mari Gior’s fractyllized series: “Her abstract work spiraled up to her bunny girl series […]
Nature-jeweler and artist Kira Koktysh created a new series of hand-sculptured pendants, or talismans, for Katya Leonovich’s S/S 2020 Menswear collection this New York Fashion Week. Fix and Fax marks Katya’s shift to menswear from couture womenswear. Kira too, had limited experience creating fashion for men; having merely created pearl cuff links, she was pleased and […]
Conceptual designer, Kyungah Min, launched the high-tech KAIMIN SS20 collection during New York Fashion Week. Unveiling a commercial denim line, SLFF (pronounced ‘self’) honors transformation in the conditioned world. Albeit through exaggerated tulle and ruffles, or geometric cutouts of denim, vinyl, or leather—the innovatively inclusive KAIMIN’s “Introspective Prism” SS20 collection wildly epitomizes the cultural fractal. […]