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YELLOWER
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photo by eric tourneret
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Is it me or is it happening?
Of course, I was just following a hunch when saying that yellow would be the new pink, yet I do seem to see more and more yellow in detail as well as in bigger pieces of fashion and design – even as a colour for scooters and cars. Yellow seems to resonate with today’s current mentality, searching for a break from pessimism, radiating confidence and glowing health and wealth.
As discussed last week, the arrival of mustard is changing our taste palette and style palette all at the same time; distributing tanginess in our salads, soups and sauces and a range of strange warm colours from light brown to bright yellow to yellow-green. This week I would like to discuss honey, which also seems to be an important ingredient on its way to becoming a mega trend. With the current bee scare (where we see bees endangered and disappearing at an alarming scale), it is only natural that honey becomes a luxury too.
With our countryside monopolised by industrial farming, biodiversity is in danger, causing beehives to die and bee colonies to dwindle. The cynical truth engrained in the condemning of an instrument of our own survival is telling of the power of greed over the basic intelligent management of our planet. Without bees no food, without food no survival; thus we are toying with the livelihood of our species just by dedicating land to the feeding of poor animals, destined to be industrialised for the mass consumption of tasteless hamburgers.
Therefore it is sort of a relief to know that bees are swarming to join us in the world’s big cities since bee biodiversity is now greater within the urban context – a strange reversal of fortune where our bees feed in our parks, rooftops, balconies and urban gardens, accessing plants, flowers and herbs from the four corners of the world as accumulated by us modern nomads. These urban bees are very happy to transform their exotic finds into fusions for new kinds of honey.
Thus the beehives atop the luxury brand buildings and major world bank edifices are doing well enough to presume that we will soon see Vuitton Honey and Hermès Royal Jelly from their own farms. Bringing us different honey colours to be used also as the nicest colourcards for their leather goods and scarves.
Biodiversity beauty!
To be continued…
Lidewij Edelkoort
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DARKETING WITH LIDEWIJ
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photos by dietlind wolf
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Web-Influencer and Trendwatcher since 2005 Darkplanneur is the Parisian reference in the world of Media, Luxury and Stars. An observatory of the modern world created to develop curiosity. Behind « darkplanneur », two guys working in advertising agency as strategic planner during the day and sassy bloggers at night.
They recently featured President François Hollande or Pierre Bergé among others.
One of their series called Darketing is about marketing. They interview international experts on their favorite subject. Lidewij explains us the métier of Trend Forecaster and the next big trends she sees in our society: spirituality in our every day life, the importance of the new father, a much more fluid society…
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MODERN ORIGAMI
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photo by jun mitani
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Jun Mitani is a computer engineer, but he’s also a paper artisan; he designs origami pieces with computer programs that he develops himself. Seems complicated ? Not for him, as he explained to us: « My speciality in the field of computer graphics is geometric modeling, so it’s not difficult for me to develop computer programs for designing origami once the underlying theory of origami geometry is clarified. »
The beauty of his creations might be in the clearness and smooth complexity of the shapes, almost just curves.
The form is completely calculated by computer, it looks like an impossible things to make with just one piece of paper, but it is; Jun first start to work on his program, explores variety of origami shapes before he began to fold a sheet of real paper.The programs generate a crease pattern (a pattern of valley fold lines and mountain fold lines).
The pattern is scored on a sheet of paper by a cutting plotter. With these digital devices, now these sophisticated origami pieces are realized.
That’s why his art work is not just the folded origami pieces but also the software programs.Recently,Jun Mitani collaborated to »132 5. Issey Mikake » collection.Those three-dimensional garments are not cut or sewn but folded with permanent pleats. Invisible snaps allow the garment to be adjusted and fitted to the body.
Jun Mitani creations are really at the confluence of Art & Science, one of the long term trend for the future.
Caroline Aufort
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URBAN CAMPING
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During the Berlin Design Festival (DMY) at the former Tempelhof airpot I did spend my nights in an inspiring and remarkable camping-space in the middle of the city. The two founders of the camping, Silke Lorenzen and Sarah Vollmer, have lived in Neukölln for more than 7 years. One day they found the old vacuum-cleaner factory located in the Hobrechtstraße, fell in love with the building and decided to build a small hotel. Silke and Sarah created a space where people would actually meet each other instead of disappearing in their rooms forever.
In the beginning the room-in-room concept contained several wooden huts. Afterwards they applied more flexibility to the space by transforming the huts into caravans. Every hut is individually designed and situated in the main hall of the factory.
This mix between a camping-space and a log cabin creates a feeling of freedom and solidarity. All the guests have their own private cabin and share a more overarching space. Anonymity became something which belongs to the past. Nostalgic youth memories are brought back. Urban camping gets a new meaning.
Willem Schenk
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MILAN TREND REPORT #2
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Some designers are collaborating with their machines, inviting them into the design process and proudly telling their story.The revival of industrial production is burgeoning.
Tom Dixon appropriately chose the Museum of Science & Technology as the venue to show his work, including TRUMPH’s enormous machine performing live for the public and cutting out his designs. Other designers used wheels, spokes, nuts and bolts to create production-line settings, demonstrating live like scientists growing new matter. Innovative form-shaping techniques included the use of magnets by Jólan van den Wiel in his ‘Gravity Stool’.
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EXHIBITION
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INDIA: ART NOW
Over the past ten years a brand new fashion scene has grown up in India, where we see young Indian designers challenging and experimenting with the traditional dress culture. ARKEN Copenhagen is showing colourful, witty, imaginative, sculptural and experimental creations by the seven most prominent young designers of India.
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BOOK
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Artist's Handmade Houses
The book is a collection of 13 homes handcrafted by the finest artists and craftsmen in America, including George Nakashima, Henry Varnum Poor, Sam Maloof, Wharton Esherick, and Russel Wright. Built over the course of 75 years, from the late-19th century to the mid-20th century, these homes were each designed and built by the artists as an expression of their aesthetic sentiments, and in many cases, as extensions of their artwork. As such, these private domains are utterly unique and deeply imbued with each artist's singular vision and talent.
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EXHIBITION
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ENDS OF THE EARTH
Ends of the Earth in MOCA - Los Angeles - is the first large-scale, historical-thematic exhibition to deal broadly with Land Art, capturing the simultaneous impulse emergent in the 1960s to use the earth as an artistic medium and to locate works in remote sites far from familiar art contexts.
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MORE TRENDS
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TREND TABLET
trendtablet.com explains how trends grow, evolve and flow, and helps us better understand and perceive how they interact in our daily lives.
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BOOK
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Armor Undergarments
From the bizarre steatopygous forms of Victorian bustles to the haunting facial masks on medieval helmets, Tanya Marcuse has illuminated the complex relationship between body and clothes, with all the ambiguities this entails. Her fascinating photographs show that although clothing on its own can look strange and inanimate, it also has a story to reveal. The undergarments she presents here are the kind that would most likely have been kept well-hidden from view, for these are the hard foundation garments such as corsets and bustles that – invisible on the outside – could completely change the shape of their wearer.
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MAGAZINE
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Bloom
Over the last few seasons we have seen flowers starting to bloom on textiles, experimental plants invading dresses and witnessed leaves whirling onto scarves.Therefore, we have created a magazine that is much like a bazaar, containing all the types of fashion that flowers have to offer, exploring their influences to the fullest.
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CATALOGUE
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Post Fossil
Post Fossil. Excavating 21st century creation. This catalogue was printed on the occasion of the exhibition in Tokyo.
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