Coveting

...Jane Keltner De Valle's shoe closet, designed by her architect husband. Being an architect myself, I really have no excuse.

/via The Coveteur

Clothing as dwelling for the body

Athens School of Fine Arts is inaugurating its permanent collaboration with Athens Fashion Week this season.

This past week, four teams from the school started working in the Fashion Week's premises in Technopolis, participating in a workshop titled Clothes as a Dwelling for the Body under the supervision of Michalis Manousakis.

The students werd called to create their own original work based on the concept of that clothes are literally acting as homes for our bodies. You can understand why it looks so interesting to me and hopefully to you, being readers of this blog.

The workshop started last Monday, March 28th and it was open to the public every afternoon, to visit and watch the students work. The presentation of the results will take place today, as a catwalk, at 21:00.

All pics above were taken Friday night.

And if the words "Athens Fashion Week", "workshop" and "fashion and architecture" used together seem interesting to you, you might want to check out this series of posts, from two and a half years ago.

Future Sentiments

Future Sentiments is a fresh concept wear label founded by two architects between Amsterdam and Vilnius, Lithuania in late 2010.

Citing cosmic miracles and disco as some of their inspiration, I was mostly striken by the fresh point of view on t-shirt design, using clean, loose shapes, shiny inserts and the odd conceptual twist.

And by that I mean, wearing a t-shirt printed with something you use to "dress" your home?
That's architectural fashion with a twist.

Denis and Victoria - the couple behind the label - were kind enough to send me a lovely email introducing themselves and their work and arranged for me to have one of their designs, all the way from Lithuania, to post here on the blog.

How could I say no to fashion by architects?
As you may have guessed, I was quite into the whole concept of the carpet print as well as the top quality of the fabric and the sewing.

I was also very impressed by the packaging and labels.

I mean, this one above is the - quite hidden - washing instruction label, and they have thought of putting a nice message for you to discover there as well.

Loved it, great job guys!


I couldn't post every single picture from their collection here, so if you're hungry for more, you can always visit the salmon-pink official site for more info, find their limited edition preview collection available for purchase online at their e-shop (only there) and show them how much you like them too on facebook.

Lucy and Bart

Lucy and Bart is a collaboration between Lucy McRae and Bart Hess described as an instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, performance and the body. They share a fascination with genetic manipulation and beauty expression. Unconsciously their work touches upon these themes, however it is not their intention to communicate this. They work in a primitive and limitless way creating future human shapes, blindly discovering low – tech prosthetic ways for human enhancement.

Pics and text are fraction of what's on display at lucyandbart.blogspot.com, so head over there for more of the that stuff.

Polyhedral compounds

They are cool and they introduce architectural design practices into fashion.

Some examples:This dress by Amila Hrustic via Foundshit.

These hats by House of Architects found via Today And Tomorrow.

This dress by 132 5. Issey Miyake that expands from a two-dimensional folded piece of cloth into a 3D garment, found via Dezeen.


This photo by Mario Sorrenti found in Touchpuppet showing Raquel Zimmermann wearing this Jean Paul Gaultier Fall 2009 Haute Couture creation (big thanks to Sandman who identified it for me so I could link it).

This shoe by Andreia Chaves called "The Invisible Shoe" in a photo by Fernando Biagioni found in Yatzer.


This wolf shirt that, part of THE T-SHIRT ISSUE project by Mashallah Design and Linda Kostowski.

This shoe called Lo Res by United Nude, a brand that is co-designed by Dutch architect Rem D. Koolhaas as previously mentioned in this post.

This collaboration between fashion brand Fendi and architectural studio Aranda\Lasch at Design Miami titled Modern Primitives, found via this post by youstrikemefancy.


This dress presented by Irina Shaposhnikova from her collection called Crystallographica, in a backstage photo by Sonny Vandevelde found via Today and Tomorrow.

The first pic of this post is a detail from this collection.