Jean-Francois Lepage

January 5, 2014July 29, 2014 | Design & Culture by Ed

Jean Francois Lepage looks for unbalanced in his photographs. So he reworks his negatives with a knife to create strange images that can now be seen in Inside the mirror exhibition in Galerie Made, Paris. Jean-François Lepage does fashion photography on the razor’s edge. His images, with their bare compositions – solitary figures, no accessories, immersed in an endless lunar landscape or a vast, almost empty white house – express a brand of minimalism seldom seen in fashion photography. They are strangely motionless, as if suspended in a time and space where women are beings possessed by dreams, living in a world where the photographer, the model and the viewer’s imagination project and come together.

Printed Girl: Helen Bullock

November 7, 2013November 7, 2013 | Design & Culture by Ed

Helen Bullock, coming from London’s Central Saint Martins, is a textile and fashion designer whose works and illustrations were published on Dazed Digital, I-D and Vogue throughout the seasons. Using strong silhouettes as a platform for bold prints of a visceral nature, her Summer 2014 collection is simply amazing. With sharp cuts, strong colours and interesting textiles, Bullock is a designer whose name can’t be forgot. “Helen’s work is full of vibrance, energy and spirit. Her clothes radiate a sense of confidence, both in proportion and application of line. She is a true creative force, and produces work with a beautiful timeless quality” as said Julie Verhoeven, a supporter of Helen’s work. Together with the beautiful model Frances Rose Knee and photographer Chloe Oretice, the look book for SS14 is full of structured tank-tops and patterns that we really love. Hopefully, soon, we will hear even more of Helen Bullock!

Berlin: Christmas in KaDeWe

November 6, 2013February 2, 2015 | Design & Culture by Ed

The best time of the year just came to Berlin’s biggest department store- KaDeWe. The main hall is all covered with Christmas Trees, presents, decorations, teddies, honey-cakes… In other words, Christmas is approaching with big steps. The splendour of all these shiny glass balls and cute muppets just make your eyes hurt! But still, it’s really warm and charming!

Architecture. Vick Beckham SS14

September 8, 2013 | Design & Culture by Ed

Victoria Beckham did a really good job with her SS14 collection! It’s very in her style, minimalistic and beautiful. The collection was inspired with modern architecture- easy forms, black & white colours, truss triangle pattern on bags and dresses and many other showed the things that influenced Vicky’s clothes for Summer. But, although the collection is pretty warm (come on, golf sweaters?) and cold at the same time (well, these colours would for sure better match the next winter!), the collection is very good and I like it! The opener of the show was of course the new muse of Beckham, Edie Campbell, the British beauty, that season before was together with Cara Delevigne in every campaign and show!

Byredo 1996 by Inez & Vinoodh

August 22, 2013 | Design & Culture by Ed

“This Christmas I worked with Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin on the special text for their exclusive perfume gift. Inez and Vinoodh are two of the most prolific photographers working today, and a dynamic duo who also created a son together. I met them at their son’s birthday party last year, and boom – my being tall got them talking. You never know where life may take you. The fragrance was inspired by one of Inez and Vinoodh’s photographs – ‘Kirsten 1996′, which Ben Gorham of Byredo took as inspiration for the woody, oriental scent. The perfume came in a cedar box and a pink paper, inscribed with the inscribed with the professional musings of yours truly.” Byredo, a famous fragrance label that is produced in France, is launching a collaboration perfume with photographer Inez & Vinoodh. The fragrance is called 1996 and is created and inspired from all the travels they been too. Collected into one scent, which is a mixture of between fashion and warm wood. But, what is interesting, the perfume was first to be created just like a gift to the photographer duo, but after people exploded in the web, Byredo decided to launch the fragrance within the Byredo Parfums collection!