Alongside broccoli, blueberries have long been heralded as a ‘super food’, encouraging the rise of supposedly healthy breakfasts of pancakes and muffins. However, they have only infrequently been used in beauty products. With the popular response to the unveiling of The Body Shop’s Blueberry Range this may all change. The...
Although this stunning house has been completed for a few years, every time I look at photographs of it I confirm that it is most probably my ideal holiday abode. Located on an island near the colonial town of Paraty and Angra dos Reis (between São Paulo and Rio de...
Even though backpacks have become visibly more popular over the last couple of years, I haven’t been able to come across many successful examples that have managed to infuse style into what an accessory born out of utilitarian purposes. However, when I first came across the backpacks produced by Fleming...
Clothing group Arcadia has confirmed today that it is opening a flagship store for its Topshop/Topman brands in New York alongside the creation of a new US head office based in the city. Scheduled to open by the end of the coming summer, the store will be located on the...
As the Autumn/Winter 2014 collections unveiled during the twentieth edition of Amsterdam Fashion Week oscillated between the technically proficient and conceptually accomplished designs by Mattijs and Tony Cohen and the politically-infused creations by Aziz Bekkaoui or Francisco van Benthum, the show that stood out for all the right reasons was...
As two creative realms that share a high level of social influence owing to their sensorial materialities, fashion and architecture have on many occasions joined forces through fruitful collaborations that have resulted not only in inspiring postulations, but also in seductive exercises about the perception of physical spaces and materials....