Travel: Luxury Luggage
Samsonite Trunk
“Integral to the McQueen culture is the juxtaposition between contrasting elements: fragility and strength, tradition and modernity and fluidity and severity” says the official website for the award winning designer. It could not be truer than with the collaboration with Samsonite for their Black Label collection. CONTINUE READING THIS POST >
Travel: China Now
Just a decade back, China was a mystery, shrouded behind the impenetrable wall of communism. No country has witnessed such a sweeping transformation on so many levels. China consists of 160 cities with a population of more than one million per city – and more are planned. Two decades ago private enterprise did not exist; now five million firms flourish. In 1986 China had perhaps a single millionaire compared with current estimates that 10,000 people are ‘worth’ more than $10 million each.
Travel: Antwerp: Maybe There is a God
The Mode Natie, at the corner of Antwerp’s Nationalestraat and Drukkerijstraat, is the creative fashion heart of the city. The MoMu Fashion Museum, the Fashion Academy and the Flanders Fashion Institute have all set up base here. The interior is stripped-down, minimal, all very skeletal and austere. Perhaps more Yohji than Yamamoto himself.
The Antwerp fashion scene is clustered in and around Nationalestraat and serves as a source of inspiration for the entire neighbourhood. Antwerp is known worldwide for designers such as Raf Simons, Ann Demeulemeester and Martin Margiela – all of whom graduated from the Antwerp Academy of Arts.
Travel: Fused In Toronto
400 BANDS IN 4 DAYS FROM OVER 20 COUNTRIES AT 50 INTIMATE VENUES VENUES AND A HANGOVER THAT’LL LAST UNTIL CHRISTMAS. It could only be NXNE in Toronto – The Live Music Capital of North America. CONTINUE READING THIS POST >
