Harmonizing Life and Lyrics: A Deep Dive with Musician Cian Ducrot
Two years have passed since we last sat down with Cian Ducrot, a rising star in the music industry whose meteoric ascent continues to captivate fans worldwide. In that time, life has been a whirlwind of change, yet Ducrot remains remarkably grounded and true to himself.
Is it possible to think of a future based on today’s economic, social and political systems? That’s a matter that Ghanaian-Scottish architect and academic Lesley Lokko reflects upon with the different initiatives she’s engaged with, including this year’s edition of Venice Architecture Biennale.
For starters, backstage staff pasted AVAVAV-scribbled pages on the wall before pushing a model onto the runway, and with this, the mood of the show — chaos, unfinished pieces, undressed models and discrepant concepts — was set.
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.
Joseph Williams Raidt’s graduate collection, titled ‘Oma Gertrude’, is a beautifully crafted visualisation of his Oma’s Alzheimer’s, in which the designer imagines the way she interacts with her surroundings when she’s alone. Joseph’s collection was selected by the Lichting project and presented during Amsterdam Fashion Week in August.
“The Geeks, the ones that care, the ones that do it for free, they are the ones who stick around”, said Tyler, The Creator.
Explore the Phenomenon of Teezo Touchdown: A Genre-Defying Musical Maverick
How fashion stores epitomise the spirit of their brands in terms of atmosphere and in relation to spaces?
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.
