The first time I met Delphin Musquet, he was lying on a portable table in agony as Giorgio de Duesanti inked his body at a Californian event in 2019. Both he and Duesanti are part of the resident team at Sang Bleu—a well-known brand and studio based in London, Zurich, and Los Angeles. Musquet established in the […]
Category: Fashion
SVPRR: Stay Cold Apparel’s Superior Line
Made in Berlin, Germany — Stay Cold Apparel has been a bloodthirsty reference in the tattooed communities, having previously collaborated with dark artist Matt Chaos and Cristian Casas. Their latest collection “SVPRR” (aka “The Superior Line”) has surpassed anything they have created till now. Taking a year to plan and meticulously execute by creator Maximilian […]
2019 A’ Design Awards: Last Call for Entries
The deadline for the A’ Design Award and Competition is fasting approaching. It is every artist’s ambition to make their mark in the world. Open to entrants from all countries across the globe, the A’ Design Award and Competition will be shutting their doors to applicants on 28 February. Artists can submit work in a […]
2019 A’ Design Awards: Early Call for Entries
One of the world’s most influential and prestigious design award and competition is calling for entries. Are you an animator, architect, fashion designer, conceptual artist or software designer with a unique approach to your work? The A’ Design Awards exists to recognise the greatest achievements in design. With 100 main categories, including Architecture, Building and […]
2019 World Design Rankings + 10 Award-Winning Projects
It is a sparkling new year and the results are in for the World Design Rankings, an A’ Design Awards platform displaying the accumulation of awards (platinum, gold, silver, bronze) received by nations from 2010 to 2018. Artists, designers and other creatives participated with their top works in the A’ Design Awards to contribute to […]
Ten of the Best Costume Designs in Recent Films
The costume designer is a key member of the filmmaking team. Their job is deceptively simple (to illustrate through clothing a character’s personality or even their psychology), but the challenge is great. Costumes, too, can tell stories of their own, offering the viewer visual information which complements the story on the screen. Sometimes, a movie […]
Alien Nation: Photography by Ekaterina Belinskaya
The award-winning (Russian-born, living in Los Angeles) photographer Ekaterina Belinskaya launched “Alien Nation” on Halloween—featuring alienesque demons, female-fetale robots and other bizarre characters wearing neon props and surrounded in black lighting. “Dark, beautiful and mysterious” is how she describes the images shot from her camera, the majority taken for the fashion industry and magazines such […]
Radical Beauty: Elizaveta Porodina with Lily Moore
Elizaveta Porodina is a Munich-based (Moscow-born) fashion and fine-art photographer. Her work is experimental, bending reality with colour-burst surrealism and black-and-white romanticism. The emotional symbolism underlying her work derives from her studies in clinical psychology. Featured here is her contribution to Radical Beauty, a photo project aimed at challenging beauty normativity in contemporary culture. The […]
Armour: Empowering Hairstyle Imagery by Luke Nugent and Lisa Farrall
Featured here are works of incredible hair art, photographed by Luke Nugent, a London-based photographer who specializes in portraiture, fashion, and hair & beauty. The stylist is Lisa Farrall, an award-winning hair session stylist and the beauty editor of Noctis Magazine. Titled “Armour,” this series about “embracing women and empowering women.” Combining abstract hairstyles with […]
Minimalist Creature Portraits by Delphine Cencig
Delphine Cencig is a French photographer who discovered her passion for photography after working in various fields, such as cosmetics and visual communication. This diverse background shapes her current work, which is best described as vivid and eclectic; through a combination of photography, fashion, makeup, and digital manipulation, she turns models into dolls, beasts, and […]