Fashion

With the advent of digital civilisation, the abundance of information has in a sense taken over from material abundance. In today's world with all these sources, not always legitimately ordered, we are faced with a constant barrage of information.

Audet Tahon creates an innovating light textile material on a Korean technique of traditional knots called “maedup knots” that she applies to the creation of objects for fashion accessories and decorative items.

As a new V&A one-man show opens the Japanese designer reflects on his thirty year career in fashion.The fashion world hardly knew what to make of Yohji Yamamoto's extraordinary alternative vision of fashion when he  first showed his clothes on the Paris catwalks in 1981.

The debut of Christopher Lemaire at Hermes was crowned with ultimate success. After a seven year period as Creative Director with Jean Paul Gaultier, it is extremely difficult to expect that another designer could understand and respect the distinctiveness of such a luxury brand.

Michael Kampe is a 23 year old student of the Royal Academy of Antwerp who has designed this extremely intriguing Autumn/Winter 2011 Collection entitled “Exploded View”. His fashion has been inspired from architecture and organic inspirations.

Inspired by the endangered aquatic world, Alba Prat created her Universität der Künste  graduate collection “Synthetic Ocean” as a statement illustrating the mutations and defense mechanism life forms might  have to embrace in order to exist among decay and pollution.

Haider Ackerman is possibly the most talked about name in today’s fashion world. Karl Lagerfield expresses his admiration and rumors have it that he may take over the house of Givenchy.