Papercut work by Magda Malina

Dresses with little pockets for colored felt-tip pens that bleed into the fabric? At first glance this sounds kind of odd to me. But Portuguese artist Fernando Brizio disabuses me.
As part of the Turin-based exhibition “flexibility - design in a fast changing society” Brizio turns heads with his “renewable clothing”, based on the concept I mentioned before. Surprisingly, the dresses are very beautiful and wearable. And the greatest thing of all: the dresses can be cleaned and colored again…and again…and again. Stunning idea! For more, jump to designboom.

All photos from designboom

Another Magazine has exclusively commissioned some of the world´s leading fashion designers to create a dress in collaboration with an artist of their choice. And so, Maison Martin Margiela met Gotscho, Bernhard Wilhelm worked with Olaf Breuning, Riccardo Tisci collaborated with Paolo Canevari …
The creations bandwith goes from breathtakingly beautiful to  the sublime, some  are in-your-face theatre, others are as conceptual as their creators. Each dress is electrifying as the partnerships that created it. For more, check out Another Magazine.

Photos via Another Mag

Can´t help - i just see some analogies in the sculptural knitwear by Sandra Backlund and Lucas Nascimento.
Both work with the female silhouette and create artistic, unique shapes that are built around the body like artpieces.

But still, huge difference is, that the grandmaster of knitwear: Sandra Backlund creates pieces that are more art than fashion…and the more edgy aspiring Knitwear designer Lucas Nascimento creates the fashion pieces that inherit a touch of art.

So for today, i leave it at that and consider this post as some kind of knitspiration.

Photos via Lucas Nascimento and Sandra Backlund

When fashion is gently crossed with arts and still stays wearable and remarkably unobtrusive then it´s called Hui-Hui. When the three textile-designers Anne Schwätzler, Katharina and Johanna Trudzinski founded their label Hui-Hui in 2002 they stroke the road to success and soon gained international reputation and acknowledgement. The fashion of Hui-Hui doesn´t need to scream loud with bright neon-colors and massive prints, it doesn´t impose a certain style-term to the person that wears it but is still extravagant- idiosyncratic. Playful without being kitschy, rich in detail without appearing ornate, sometimes with a folkloristic-ethnic touch - Hui-Hui´s fashion gives space and affects on first and second sight. Hui-Hui is available in selected stores in Berlin, Paris, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Tokyo and New York.

Photo credits: Hui-Hui

Not an everyday-item, but absolutely mentionable - Glasses by Linda Farrow Vintage.
Photos via lindafarrowvintage.com

Although it´s two years ago (sorry for being late) that COMPANY came up with these dance shoes for father and daughter i HAVE to bring that thing up…maybe there are some people - like me- that haven´t already seen that fabulous invention. When visiting Germany in 2006, the designer duo had the strong idea that Germany must have a lot of Schumachers. I really have no clue, why they came up with that idea - because like everywhere, the professional Schuhmachers are also very rare in Germany.
Anyway, they found one: Toni Engelberger. He taught Aamu and Johan for some months and helped in developing the Tanssitossut Model which is one of the funniest, essential, cross-cultural products that I have seen for years. Today, some of the dance shoes are manufactured in Finland and are available in the COMPANY online store for about 80 €.

Here, you can see some of the many products and ideas of com-pa-ny. Aren´t they great?

Photo credits: Company

Andrea Crews announce the AW collection and yeahyeahyeah…i am looking forward for more pictures. No one is superior, faster, more provocative. Unifying Fashion and Arts with a little bit of fun and humor - c´est Andrea Crews - c´est adorable. For those who don´t know: Andrea Crews is THE fashion-arts collective in Europe. Founded in 1999 by the sassy artist Maroussia Rebecq. Her troupe tampers with the buzzwords fashion, art, activism nearly every intersection of fashion, arts, living and business. Fashion collections, exhibitions, performances, sceno´s there´s nothing that the girls ´n guys muss out. … and even when the crowd gets nudely it happens under the cloak of arts. Besides all escapades and eccentric attitudes - they think! Andrea Crews know what they are doing and are always one step ahead. There´s nothing more to write, because others already did: in fact here and here and here.

Photo credits: Romain B. James/Andrea Crews