Fashion

Jacquemus creates surrealist interpretation of his own bathroom for Selfridges pop-up

May 11, 2022 James Parkes 0

Image of a blue tiled replica changing room at Le Bleu

French fashion designer Simon Jacquemus has opened a series of surrealist pop-up installations at London department store Selfridges, including a luxury-bag vending machine and a swimming-pool changing room. Titled Le Bleu, the installation occupies a number of locations across the store, including its creative retail space The Corner Shop and the Old Selfridges Hotel, a

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Balenciaga wraps London store in pink faux fur to celebrate its Le Cagole “it-bag”

April 28, 2022 James Parkes 0

Interior image of the Le Cagole pop-up at Balenciaga

Fashion brand Balenciaga has transformed its Mount Street store in London, creating a maximalist look to launch its Le Cagole collection by blanketing the interior in bright pink faux fur. To celebrate its popular Le Cagole bag, which references Balenciaga’s maximalist It Bags of the past, and launch the line’s collection of accessories and shoes,

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Bethany Williams: Alternative Systems opens at the Design Museum

March 8, 2022 James Parkes 0

Clothing by Bethany Williams is hung from branches

An exhibition highlighting London-based designer Bethany Williams’ waste-combating, social-driven vision for the fashion industry has opened at the Design Museum. Exhibited in the atrium of London’s Design Museum, Bethany Williams: Alternative Systems is a celebration of Williams’ work which explores and responds to social issues through the use of community-led enrichment initiatives. A number of key

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Seven sustainable design courses on Dezeen Courses

February 10, 2022 Amy Peacock 0

Sustainable Architecture MArch at the Centre of Alternative Technology

Dezeen Courses: interested in the field of sustainable design? Check out seven sustainable design courses listed on Dezeen Courses that respond to the future needs of architecture, fashion and design. The courses include undergraduate degrees, postgraduate degrees and short courses taught in the UK, Hong Kong, USA and online. Students will be challenged to design

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Marcel Wanders wraps Louis Vuitton Miami store in diamond facade

January 29, 2022 Jenna McKnight 0

Dutch studio Marcel Wanders has created a white, patterned screen for a Louis Vuitton menswear store in Miami that was informed by the luxury brand’s leatherwork and iconic monogram. Located in the heart of the city’s Design District, the store opened in December 2021 during Design Miami. While the building and interior design were handled

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Balenciaga designs concrete Berlin store to reference the city’s modernist architecture

December 17, 2021 James Parkes 0

Fashion brand Balenciaga has opened its first retail location in Berlin, which continues the brand’s Raw Architecture aesthetic and boasts monolithic concrete slabs and distressed surfaces. Located in Charlottenberg in western Berlin within the Grade II-listed Haus Cumberland building, the store occupies 296-square-metres across the ground floor. In sharp contrast to the building’s neoclassical exterior,

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Bath Spa University spotlights 11 student design projects

October 22, 2021 Dezeen staff 0

A photograph of a student fashion project

An animation where magical characters travel through valleys collecting treasure and a naturally-dyed kimono project are included in Dezeen’s latest school show by students at Bath Spa University. Also included is a textile project based on the colours of India and a range of 100 per cent traceable knitwear accessories and garments. Bath Spa University

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Sunnei transforms former recording studio into fashion brand HQ in Milan

October 14, 2021 James Parkes 0

Italian fashion brand Sunnei has renovated the interior of an ex-recording studio to create a minimalist headquarters as a canvas for furniture and art pieces by the brand’s collaborators. Located near its flagship store in Milan, the brand named its headquarters and studio Palazzina Sunnei to reference typical Milanese residential buildings. Palazzina Sunnei was organised as a series

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Ten fashion, architecture and design projects from Hong Kong Design Institute students

June 28, 2021 Dezeen staff 0

A fashion collection inspired by 1970s clubbing culture and a project that imagines humans with crustacean exoskeletons are included in Dezeen’s latest school show by students at the Hong Kong Design Institute. Also among the projects on show are a self-care tool that aims to help boost young people’s immune systems and a project that

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Jun Aoki & Associates wraps Louis Vuitton’s Tokyo store in “poetic yet playful” pearlescent facade

March 25, 2021 James Parkes 0

Japanese studio Jun Aoki & Associates has created a distinctive flagship store for Louis Vuitton in Tokyo’s Ginza shopping district with an undulating facade and interiors by architect Peter Marino. Replacing the brand’s previous store, which has occupied the same corner since 1981, the seven-storey Louis Vuitton Ginza Namiki store is wrapped in a water-like facade.

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