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Haider Ackermann Interview
One of our favourite designers, Haider Ackermann, spoke with Eugene Rabkin of Style Zeitgeist following his Spring Summer 2016 Menswear Collection at Galliera Museum earlier this year. “There is an unapologetic luxury in Ackermann’s work, to the point of decadence, as if his ideal woman (and more recently, man) spends her time lounging around in pajamas so…
Teresa Freitas' Photographic Collages
Portuguese photographic artist, Teresa Freitas creates gentle, summery surrealist collages. Freitas lives in the idyllic seaside village of Cascais, from which she gains much of her inspiration, taking walks and capturing her surroundings before endowing them with a dreamlike twist. Freitas’ latest pieces focus on portraiture and surrealism, yet it is perhaps the weather that serves as the photographer’s most enduring influence – her works…
4 X Openhouse Magazine
Spanish editorial publication Openhouse highlights the places that people live and work, as well as the stories behind them. Published twice yearly, the magazine looks to bright, creative people from around the world, that open their homes or private spaces to the public and features different activities about gastronomy, art and design. With the third…
Inside Iris van Herpen's Studio
Style Zeitgeist photographer Matthew Reeves recently visited the Amsterdam atelier of the designer Iris van Herpen. Iris van Herpen will be exclusive to 4 for Autumn Winter 2015 and available very soon. See all the photographs from this series at Style Zeitgeist.
Archi Depot Tokyo at The Triennale di Milano
The architectonic models of 41 great Japanese designers were on display at the Triennale di Milano exhibition facilities between July 10th-19th, 2015. Expressing the deepest inner spirit of an architectonic culture that thrives on the connections between the avant-garde and the memories of the past, the Archi Depot Foundation was founded in 2015 by Terrada…
4 Newsletter #18 - Each X Other Special
For the 18th issue of our Monthly Newsletter we investigate the intrinsic connection between art & fashion that exists at the Parisian label Each x Other. Born of an encounter between fashion designer Ilan Delouis and artistic director and gallery owner Jenny Mannerheim, the ethos of the label has always been “Art Meets Fashion” –…
Men's Swimwear Grows Up
As men’s swimwear has grown, the category has given rise to new transitional shorts, suitable for wearing both in the water and at the dinner table, which have attracted new consumer demographics and, in turn, new entrants to what had, for a long time, remained a relatively static marketplace largely dominated by lumbering surfwear leviathans with products targeting…
Simen Johan Digitally Constructs An Imagined Animal Kingdom
Simen Johan’s ongoing series ‘Until The Kingdom Comes’ depicts the natural world as something familiar, yet undeniably surreal. While many photographers choose not to utilise digital technology to enhance and distort the content of their work, Johan describes it as an essential part of his practice. ‘its rare that I see something that i want to simply photograph…
Antony Gormley’s sculptures At Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris
The visual impact of Antony Gormley’s major show, ‘Second Body’, is immediate; from his precise and densely packed arrangement of 60 orthogonal forms to his impenetrable, dimensional grid of steel. Upon entry, visitors are confronted by a massive, peaked sculpture that stands four metres tall, its silhouette conflating house and body. Beyond this, a series of towering…
Rick Owens x Adidas Spring Summer 2016
Rick Owens has once again partnered with adidas to present two new silhouettes and give his iconic Runner a makeover. The two new models, the Cargo Sandals and Clog, are based on the ubiquitous Runner. The former imagines the Runner as a futuristic military-infused sportswear sandal, focused on masculinity and practicality, while the latter features a gladiator-style design. Both are…
Night Blooms
Freaky Flowers: Echinopsis Cacti in Bloom from EchinopsisFreak on Vimeo. The Echinopsis cactus flowers at night and then only for a few hours. To capture this short-lived moment of beauty, Echinopsis aficionado Greg Krehel uses a HD camera and a timelapse system, set up overnight. Here are some of his favourite blooms of 2014. Read the full post on Broadsheet.ie.
Places, Strange and Quiet
It was while shooting his breakthrough 1984 film Paris, Texas that landmark German director Wim Wenders first felt compelled to take up photography; 27 years later, a penchant for documenting his films’ environs has fostered a canon of sparse panoramic landscapes. The series Places, Strange and Quiet, presents 40 of Wenders’s large-scale images – happened upon by chance, and each…
Adidas x Raf Simons Spring Summer 2016 Footwear
Adidas has revealed the results of its latest collaboration with Raf Simons, carrying over some of its key footwear styles for spring/summer 2016. The Belgian designer has taken on the task of redesigning the Stan Smith for his Spring 2016 collaborative collection. Called the Adidas by Raf Simons Stan Smith Strap, the sneakers feature a three-stripe…
Iris van Herpen’s Science Fashion
For many, the merging of fashion and technology means ‘wearables’ like the Apple Watch. But for Dutch designer Iris van Herpen, technology is the key to a weird wonderland of creative possibilities where materials innovations — not gadgets — offer the most potential. Van Herpen’s Autumn Winter 2015 ready-to-wear show broke new terrain with an assemblage of…
Paulina Lenoir's Excessively Long Shoes
Central Saint Martins graduate Paulina Lenoir has designed a pair of comically long shoes that force wearers to reconsider their daily routes and pace. For her graduation project, she considered how architecture dictates the pace of urban living, masking inhabitants’ “individual rhythm”. The pointed lace-up shoes are twice the length of a foot and have a weighty silicone insert, causing the…
Henrik Vibskov to Show At The Daelim Art Museum in Seoul, South Korea
The genre-defying Danish designer and artist Henrik Vibskov is bringing his delightfully perverse vision to Daelim Art Museum in Seoul, South Korea from July 9th – December 31st , 2015. In typical Vibskov form, it is not yet known what exactly will be shown but an expected 300 or so pieces will be on display, arranged in an…
Haider Ackermann Menswear Spring Summer 2016, PFW
Haider Ackermann used two wings of the Palais Galliera’s semicircular Ionic peristyle as the somewhat romantic runway on which to unveil his SS16 collection in Paris last week. With a line up of both male and female models, Ackermann showed how all-embracing his aesthetic can be. The swarthy male models, with their bushy thick eyebrows and…
David Koma Resort 2016
For David Koma’s debut resort collection, the designer said he wanted to look at athleticism as a source of inspiration – that and the colors and textures of empty swimming pools. Koma — who is also creative director at Mugler — has generated designs that skim the body, at times with sculptural flourishes. While the…
Julius Spring Summer 2016, PFW
Since debuting on the Tokyo runway in 2005, Tatsuro Horikawa’s JULIUS label has come to define dark fashion. This season they unveiled their Spring Summer 2016 Collection at the Couvent des Cordeliers where, along with the black draped fabrics and deconstructed tailoring which we have come to expect, their was a strong sense of tribalism – of a collection…
Thomas Tait Presentation, Pitti Uomo
Thomas Tait is a London-based designer who took home the inaugural LVMH Prize for 2015. Last month he added another laurel to his crown, debuting a conceptual presentation as Pitti’s special guest womenswear designer. There was something moving about Tait’s Pitti presentation, installed in a ballroom in Florence’s Boboli Garden. The setup was rather spartan:…
