The 3,000-year history of the hoodie
The hoodie is a lot more than just a comfy sweatshirt. Design curator Paola Antonelli takes us through its history.
Fashion In The Metaverse
With classes, concerts, and meetings being held online, the virtual world is gaining dominance. As people spend more of their time there, they wish to have themselves better represented. They want their avatars to look their best. You may know someone who has paid a tidy sum on a pack of Zoom backgrounds or a…
Some things you should know about Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTS)
Fashion has increasingly been engaging with NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, as gaming and digital fashion have come to the forefront. For its fall 2021 collection, Gucci partnered with the art auction house Christie’s on an NFT video called “Aria,” which sold for $25,000 in June. Christie’s was also where Beeple, the most famous digital artist,…
Paname Art Cafe
Since 2008, the little hybrid cellar in the 11th arrondissement has been hosting the cream of French comedians, as well as the future talents who will be making Parisian audiences laugh in the next few months. In the small street of the Fontaine au roi (11th), its gray frontage would almost go unnoticed. No crowd,…
Khwezi Strydom
Born of a French tunisian mother and a mixed South African father, Khwezi Strydom was blended in a crossroads of cultures and influences, which he enriched through numerous travels and initiatory experiences. After his baccalaureate, he started a university course in astrophysics before finally turning to craftsmanship: he passed a glassblower’s CAP and worked for…
– FenX –
FenX is an urban artist born in 1974 in France (Hauts-de-Seine – 92). As a teenager, he was fascinated by the street art movement: graffiti, hip hop, skateboarding. In 1995, he created his pseudonym FenX (pronounced Phénix). Rebellious, he started graffiti to defy the ban (system). Lulled by the culture of the 1980s (manga, superheroes,…
Erté (Romain de Tirtoff)
Romain de Tirtoff, better known as Erté, was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1882. He was the son of a Russian Naval Academy inspector, but his father recognized that the Navy was not a career choice for his son. Erté went to Paris in 1912 to fulfill his dream of working in fashion. He…
Erika Schwinte
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