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“It’s fine to be useless, totally fine” says Christian Louboutin

December 7, 2023 Rupert Bickersteth 0

Following the opening of his first hotel in Portugal, French designer Christian Louboutin, famous for his red-soled shoes, discusses creativity and sustainability in this exclusive interview. “The secret to good design – and it’s a very basic answer – is to be true to yourself,” Louboutin told Dezeen. “You can take advice from people but

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Nine Black designers who left their mark on the past 100 years

October 26, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Charlene Prempeh’s Now You See Me book celebrates the work of Black designers during the past century – from the lauded to the chronically overlooked. Here, she selects nine that have had a particularly significant impact. Titled Now You See Me: An Introduction to 100 Years of Black Design, the book features architects, fashion designers and

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Nine Black designers who left their mark on the past 100 years

October 26, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Charlene Prempeh’s Now You See Me book celebrates the work of Black designers during the past century – from the lauded to the chronically overlooked. Here, she selects nine that have had a particularly significant impact. Titled Now You See Me: An Introduction to 100 Years of Black Design, the book features architects, fashion designers and

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USM Haller creates “techno-chic” Coperni retail space at Parisian shop-in-shop

September 25, 2023 James Parkes 0

Parisian fashion brand Coperni has collaborated with Swiss furniture company USM Haller to create its first-ever boutique, a shop-in-shop at French department store Printemps Haussmann. The shop-in-shop, installed at Printemps Haussmann in Paris, marks Coperni’s first-ever physical retail location and will be replicated at London’s Selfridges store and China’s Duty Free Mall in Hainan Island.

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EBBA Architects designs sculptural pop-up shop for Rotaro at Liberty

June 28, 2023 Kate Jacobs 0

London-based studio EBBA Architects has channelled the environmental ethos of fashion rental platform Rotaro for its pop-up boutique at department store Liberty. The project aimed to show that beautiful and interesting spaces can be created for temporary use, while still considering the environmental impacts of materials and construction. “We are very aware of our environmental

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Loewe ReCraft store in Osaka finds ways to let leather live on

June 27, 2023 Natasha Levy 0

Fashion brand Loewe has opened a store in Osaka that, for the first time, is specifically dedicated to the repair and preservation of its leather goods. The opening of Loewe ReCraft continues the “obsessive focus” that the brand has had on leather since 1846, when it initially launched as a leather-making collective. The store is set

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Saint Laurent stages menswear show at Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie

June 15, 2023 James Parkes 0

Fashion house Saint Laurent presented its Spring Summer 2024 menswear collection at Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, which was recently overhauled by David Chipperfield Architects. The Saint Laurent show took place on 12 June in the stone-clad exhibition hall of the Neue Nationalgalerie. The museum, which is located in the Tiergartenviertel neighbourhood

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“I sometimes feel like I fell into doing fashion” says Jonathan Anderson

June 1, 2023 James Parkes 0

Loewe creative director Jonathan Andersen set up the brand’s annual craft prize to decode the “chintz” and “pastiche” associations of the discipline, he tells Dezeen in this interview. Luxury fashion house Loewe recently announced the sixth winner of its annual craft prize at NYCxDesign, which celebrates applied arts and innovation in modern craftsmanship. A spiky egg

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The Offbeat Sari exhibition celebrates “one of today’s most important global fashion stories”

May 19, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

The first sari to be worn at the Met Gala and sequins made from discarded X-ray film sourced from hospitals feature in the Offbeat Sari exhibition, which showcases around 60 contemporary saris at London’s Design Museum. The Offbeat Sari is the first UK exhibition to explore the contemporary sari, according to the Design Museum. The

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Supreme’s Los Angeles flagship features its first fully floating skate bowl

February 28, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

A team of architects and designers has mixed retail with a skateboard facility for clothing brand Supreme’s Los Angeles flagship store, sited in the building that was once home to the iconic record store Tower Records. The overall design of the he 8,500-square-foot (790-square-metre) store was carried out through a collaboration of London interiors studios

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