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If fashion houses have realised that their archives are the epitome of their long-lasting legacies, fashion photographers have certainly been the ones who have paved the way for their legacies to endure the passage of time. And even more, the ones defining our relation to fashion.
Looking at Mark’s photography, we are certain of two things. The first one, that the streets used to inform the aesthetics of magazines, and the second, that Mary Ellen Mark was born in the heyday of the women’s rights movements in the U.S. and so her subjects are mostly women.
It is clear that pop culture loves gays — it commodifies, fetishises and consumes their intimate relationships. And while this is all happening, many questions regarding who gets to write queer stories, how does it represent the community, what can be sexually explicit — or at least suggestive — and the values they stand for are all debatable.
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s body of work explores the ways emerging technologies – those that are lifelike or engineering life in some ways – can redefine life and our relationship with the natural world. In this occasion, we talk about gaining agency instead of using technologies to manipulate the natural world.
'Let life be beautiful like summer flowers', along with Wehrmuele's 2023 program, explores the complex nature of identity in today’s world: how do we define the Self in contrast to the Other.
Looking at the art-meets-fashion agenda from a place of creative synergy feels like a congruent read of the Raf Simons Spring/Summer 2017 collection illuminated by Robert Mapplethorpe’s photography.
Looking with naive enthusiasm at situations that are anything but motivating relate most recently to the emergence of the New Age and its hotch-potch of ideas based on spiritual beliefs and practices that embrace the expectation of a major and universal change based on harnessing the human potential.
“Droog was all about challenging traditional design norms and exploring unconventional concepts,” says Droog co-founder and current director Ramakers. What's been down in the last thirty years, since the foundation of the Droog design collective?
The most evident example of how our relations are gendered is by looking at the way nature and women are objectified and seen as passive resources to be exploited for economic gain.
Also known as #cluttercore or #corecore, mindful mess celebrates the idea and quest for authenticity and community, while rebranding wellness and self-care.
