The couturier / Alaïa

January 23, 2019
by maria foka
Categories: Short stories
Inspired by ‘The Couturier’ exhibition of the Design Museum in London, I decided to study Azzedine Alaia and the silhouettes he created. The Tunisian-born sculptor-then-couturier described himself as a builder. He thought with his hands, shaping the fabric by draping and cutting directly on the models' body. His ultimate goal
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Punk / Vivienne & Malcolm

January 8, 2019
by maria foka
Categories: Short stories
Punk was a surprisingly short-lived cultural phenomenon but it had a major impact and starting off from the UK spread around the world. British punk emerged from a group of wild youth. In the summer of 1976 London art students and the unemployed started hanging out around a shop on
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Helmut Lang

January 5, 2019
by maria foka
Categories: Short stories
Spanning just 18 years, Helmut Lang's impact on the fashion world was monumental. The self-taught designer created a new design language and his name became a byword for minimalism, deconstruction and utilitarian aesthetic. His hallmarks defied the shock factor and seemed so basic but so refreshingly opposing to the Gaultiers
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