Fashion

Bethany Williams: Alternative Systems opens at the Design Museum

March 8, 2022 James Parkes 0

Clothing by Bethany Williams is hung from branches

An exhibition highlighting London-based designer Bethany Williams’ waste-combating, social-driven vision for the fashion industry has opened at the Design Museum. Exhibited in the atrium of London’s Design Museum, Bethany Williams: Alternative Systems is a celebration of Williams’ work which explores and responds to social issues through the use of community-led enrichment initiatives. A number of key

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Seven sustainable design courses on Dezeen Courses

February 10, 2022 Amy Peacock 0

Sustainable Architecture MArch at the Centre of Alternative Technology

Dezeen Courses: interested in the field of sustainable design? Check out seven sustainable design courses listed on Dezeen Courses that respond to the future needs of architecture, fashion and design. The courses include undergraduate degrees, postgraduate degrees and short courses taught in the UK, Hong Kong, USA and online. Students will be challenged to design

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Marcel Wanders wraps Louis Vuitton Miami store in diamond facade

January 29, 2022 Jenna McKnight 0

Dutch studio Marcel Wanders has created a white, patterned screen for a Louis Vuitton menswear store in Miami that was informed by the luxury brand’s leatherwork and iconic monogram. Located in the heart of the city’s Design District, the store opened in December 2021 during Design Miami. While the building and interior design were handled

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Balenciaga designs concrete Berlin store to reference the city’s modernist architecture

December 17, 2021 James Parkes 0

Fashion brand Balenciaga has opened its first retail location in Berlin, which continues the brand’s Raw Architecture aesthetic and boasts monolithic concrete slabs and distressed surfaces. Located in Charlottenberg in western Berlin within the Grade II-listed Haus Cumberland building, the store occupies 296-square-metres across the ground floor. In sharp contrast to the building’s neoclassical exterior,

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Bath Spa University spotlights 11 student design projects

October 22, 2021 Dezeen staff 0

A photograph of a student fashion project

An animation where magical characters travel through valleys collecting treasure and a naturally-dyed kimono project are included in Dezeen’s latest school show by students at Bath Spa University. Also included is a textile project based on the colours of India and a range of 100 per cent traceable knitwear accessories and garments. Bath Spa University

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Sunnei transforms former recording studio into fashion brand HQ in Milan

October 14, 2021 James Parkes 0

Italian fashion brand Sunnei has renovated the interior of an ex-recording studio to create a minimalist headquarters as a canvas for furniture and art pieces by the brand’s collaborators. Located near its flagship store in Milan, the brand named its headquarters and studio Palazzina Sunnei to reference typical Milanese residential buildings. Palazzina Sunnei was organised as a series

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Ten fashion, architecture and design projects from Hong Kong Design Institute students

June 28, 2021 Dezeen staff 0

A fashion collection inspired by 1970s clubbing culture and a project that imagines humans with crustacean exoskeletons are included in Dezeen’s latest school show by students at the Hong Kong Design Institute. Also among the projects on show are a self-care tool that aims to help boost young people’s immune systems and a project that

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Jun Aoki & Associates wraps Louis Vuitton’s Tokyo store in “poetic yet playful” pearlescent facade

March 25, 2021 James Parkes 0

Japanese studio Jun Aoki & Associates has created a distinctive flagship store for Louis Vuitton in Tokyo’s Ginza shopping district with an undulating facade and interiors by architect Peter Marino. Replacing the brand’s previous store, which has occupied the same corner since 1981, the seven-storey Louis Vuitton Ginza Namiki store is wrapped in a water-like facade.

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Virgil Abloh creates Paris landmark and skyscraper puffer jackets for Louis Vuitton

January 22, 2021 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Paris and skyscraper architecture puffer jackets

Fashion designer Virgil Abloh has made puffer jackets covered in Paris landmarks and well-known skyscrapers as part of the Louis Vuitton Fall-Winter menswear collection, which debuted in a Barcelona Pavilion-informed set. The collection designed by Abloh, who has been men’s artistic director at fashion house Louis Vuitton since 2018, was debuted yesterday as part of Paris

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I started my fashion brand to do architecture says Virgil Abloh

December 22, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

Fashion designer Virgil Abloh doesn’t “believe in disciplines” and instead thinks architecture should be used to explore many things. In this interview, he explains how his architectural training helped create his brand Off-White. Abloh told Dezeen that after receiving a master’s degree in architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology, he chose to build a

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