• Arper : KIIK design by Iwasaki Design Studio

    Written by Fashion Tales

    Islands for gathering. Constellations for activity. Kiik is created for the spaces between entry and departure, between waiting and doing. This modular collection of seating, tables, ottomans, and consoles creates moments for working, gathering, or relaxation in graphic forms with myriad
    configurations.

    Kiik has been created to address the needs of waiting rooms, university lounges, workspaces, meeting areas, and mixed-use spaces. Its modular nature and material finish specification options make it a complementary addition to any context. Kiik’s fundamental structures can be created with seats with and without backrests and tables in triangular, circular, square or rectangular shapes and completed with ottomans and low or raised consoles. Upholstery options in a variety of textures and colors create a unique expression appropriate to the space. Combine diverse configurations together for a dynamic effect, or create patterns with a repeated form. Kiik is ideally suited for any contract use to create bespoke spaces, to pause, to work, to meet.

    Kiik is a modular system consisting of frames of various dimensions which can be combined with pads, available with or without a 63x63 cm backrest, and a seat height of 45 cm. Kiik tables come in different shapes and dimensions (rectangular, square, triangular, quarter round) thus allowing linear and L-shaped modules (120° and 90°). The collection is complemented by a console with a 252x40 cm top in three heights: 58, 72 e 105 cm, and by a 126x157.5 cm ottoman with a seat height of 36 cm.

  • Sneakersnstuff X Converse One Star

    Written by Fashion Tales

    Sneakersnstuff is the latest sneaker boutique to interpret Converse One Star. The Converse One Star continues to show up across global street culture, with celebrated sneaker boutique Sneakersnstuff (SNS) creating a limited-edition capsule in collaboration with Converse. 

    Fueled by a desire to modernize the Camo print, a staple on the scene, Converse x Sneakersnstuff introduces a bold twist on ERDL, a print developed by US Army Engineer Research and Development Laboratory in the 60s. 

    The One Star take on the military print comes to life through texture and color. Translating a traditionally graphic application into a unique patchwork of suede and leather, Converse and SNS focused on two palettes – the classic “canteen” palette, and an audacious “deep lavender” palette, which is exclusively available from Sneakersnstuff. The sneaker’s foxing tape features a military laundry tag and heel stay displays a debossed SNS logo. Additional features include goat leather lining, vintage cotton laces, co-branded sock liners, and the silhouette’s iconic star in Nappa leather.

    The deep lavender palette also informed a capsule collection of apparel, which includes a GORE-TEX Coaches Jacket with wind and water-resistant fabric, silk screen reflective logo and adjustable draw cord at the hem. Rounding out the collection, a deep lavender Converse Essentials long-sleeve tee and egret short-sleeve feature military-inspired spec graphics and dual-branded logos.

    Originating in Stockholm circa 1999, Sneakersnstuff has helped define street-style through distinct product curation and collaborations ever since. The collection will be available starting April 12, 2018 at Sneakersnstuff, Sneakersnstuff.com, Converse.com and select retailers.

  • Design: Kristina Stark

    Written by Fashion Tales

    During 2018 Kristina Stark celebrates 25 years as a designer and 10 years as her own producer. In January, Kristina launched her new brand Stark, and presented the first collection under the new brand; Cylinder, a series of mouth-blown vases that Kristina produced at Bergdala glass mill in Småland, Sweden.

    The Series Cylinder consists of cylindrical vases of various sizes, all based on the same proportions and expressions. In the bottom of the vases, Kristina Stark has placed elevated three-dimensional rings - a seemingly small detail but adding a big and important function. The rings are meant to create support that causes both solitary twigs and stems as well as entire bouquets to be stable and beautiful in the vases.

    In addition to support, the rings also give a poetic expression to the vases as they create a reflection and are reflected on the water surface in a similar way as when releasing a stone in still water.

    Kristina Stark's new collection is featured during the spring exhibition “Glasklart” at the Malmstensbutiken on Strandvägen in Stockholm. In the shop there are also Kristina's beautiful paintings of the Cylinder vases. In conjunction with this, the vases will start selling in the store.

    The exhibition will take place in the Malmsten store until 8 April 2018.
    Strandvägen 5B, Stockholm

  • Mother Earth

    Written by Fashion Tales

    Wetterling Gallery presents the exhibition Mother Earth. A new solo show by the renowned photography based artist Nathalia Edenmont. Mother Earth includes portraits from the artist’s latest series Fruitfulness. Through her imagery, Edenmont examines the living conditions of the contemporary woman and questions about motherhood, fertility and ageing are recurring themes. With references to historical portrait- and still life paintings, iconography and contemporary art Nathalia Edenmont has created a unique expression.

    In her latest series, the flowers from her earlier work, have been pollinated and developed into fruits or vegetables. Throughout art history the seasons have played a major role in artists’ explorations, as have the subjects of fertility and fecundity. Edenmont addresses both these themes with her unique approach and sensibility. Each of the fruits recalls a stage, a moment when nature yields a crop of tender grapes in the Fall, a bounty of green tomatoes for only two short weeks in Summer, or bright white asparagus in Spring. Without earth and worms, the harvest of fruits and vegetables would be impossible, and thus, the artist gives us a portrait of Mother Earth, a beautiful, regal woman dressed in a mountain of earth, with hair piled high and her gaze fixed on the viewer, a potent planter. To fertilize the earth, Edenmont’s self-portrait, Full of Life, has her dressed in a garment of worms, a stylish assemblage of crawling brown earth worms, while her hair is coiffed in the style of a Renaissance portrait.

  • J.W. ANDERSON X CONVERSE

    Written by Fashion Tales

    Jonathan Anderson’s first collection with Converse, a three-part collaborative effort, has been a study in contrasts — always toying with the tension between the fringes of youth fashion and the ubiquity of Converse icons. The first, Glitter_Gutter, pushed the egalitarian Chuck 70 into a new provocative space. Following, Anderson’s Simply_Complex employed suede and denim to give simple silhouettes a sophisticated statement.

    If the first two parts of the collection introduce Anderson’s stance on Converse, the third, New_Classics, epitomizes Anderson’s daring curiosity. Here, Anderson again draws inspiration from the vintage ballet slipper (the genesis of the Chuck 70 U-Throat), re-interpreting its elements with a modern juxtaposition of natural materials and a technical build. “The vintage ballerina that inspired the shoe was actually more of a sport slipper in mesh. I liked the functionality and lightness of that shoe, and we decided to adopt some details to reinterpret the icon,” he says.

    The collection launches April 4 on converse.com and j-w-anderson.com, it will also be carried at JW Anderson stores and select retailers globally. The Chuck 70 XX Hi in Turtle Green (shown below) is available exclusively through JW Anderson Workshops and jw-anderson.com.

    In addition to the collection, a limited-edition print publication featuring Larry Clark’s work from all three parts of the Converse x JW Anderson collection will be available at select Converse stores and JW Anderson Workshops.

  • Alphabeta Floor Lamp by Luca Nichetto

    Written by Fashion Tales

    Following the success of the iconic Alphabeta Pendant Lamp, which was first introduced in 2015, Hem tapped renowned designer Venetian designer Luca Nichetto to create a reimagined version of the piece which he has named the Alphabeta Floor Lamp. The Floor Lamp is bi-directional and comes in eight different shapes and four different colorways, offering a staggering 1,024 configuration options.

    The chameleon-like lighting system, which features an accompanying online configurator, is offered in a variety of designs, from flamboyant pink, to sleek black, or softer serene white.

    “When designing Alphabeta Lamp, I wanted to create a system, in which you can combine shades to create your very own lamp. I did a lot of research on different kinds of shades and the variety of light effects you can obtain. I wanted to allow the users to create their customized lamps by combining different pieces - like letters in an alphabet, ” says Luca Nichetto.

    Nichetto began his career working for respected brands Salviati and Foscarini before launching his own design firm in 2006. Born from a deep passion for industrial manufacturing and craft, Nichetto’s practice combines Italian and Scandinavian cultures in fields of product, industrial and interior design. This is Nichetto’s third design collaboration with Hem.

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