Those guys at Made.com are just so darn inspirational, aren't they?!
Collaborating with the Chelsea School of Art and the non-profit organisation Monkey Biz, that provide beads and beading materials to 450 women living with HIV in Cape Town, Made.com run a Glocalisation competition for Chelsea's students to design a series of wall panels using the traditional South African beading techniques. The entries were judges by Lucia Van der Poste, Nina Campbell and Made.com's Chloe Macintosh. The winners have had thier designs made up onto canvases and sold by Made.com. Some of the proceeds will go back to the winners and to Monkey Biz.
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Friday 8 July 2011
Wednesday 6 July 2011
STYLE NV Chatting With Lene Toni Kjeld of Walldecoration
Danish print designer, Lene Toni Kjeld of Walldecoration, whose bold retro inspired, block-like prints are turning heads, talks to STYLE NV
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Tuesday 5 July 2011
STYLE NV Happy Birthday to SIR PAUL SMITH
For three creative and party fuelled years, I lived in Nottingham, studying art at Trent University. I found the people of Nottingham to be warm, fun and more importantly very design conscience. So it comes as no surprise that their most famous son, the designer, Sir Paul Smith, is so highly respected there. The little shop on Byard Lane was a mecca for any self respecting Nottinghamite and on Saturday mornings the shop was packed.
Sir Paul Smith was born in Beeston in Nottinghamshire today, the 5th of July in 1946. At the tender age of 15, Paul left school with dreams of becoming a racing cyclist. Frogmarched to work at a local clothing warehouse by his father, at first, Paul was not interested in fashion at all. But when a terrible cycling accident occurred, his ambitions were thwarted and he spent six months recovering in hospital. It was then that he met a new group of friends. "Just by chance I met a lot of people from the art college and became interested in things like art and fashion," he recalled. "Back at the warehouse I started to make displays in the showroom. . .the boss was really impressed and he gave me all the buying to do for the men's wear when I was still only 17."*
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Sir Paul Smith was born in Beeston in Nottinghamshire today, the 5th of July in 1946. At the tender age of 15, Paul left school with dreams of becoming a racing cyclist. Frogmarched to work at a local clothing warehouse by his father, at first, Paul was not interested in fashion at all. But when a terrible cycling accident occurred, his ambitions were thwarted and he spent six months recovering in hospital. It was then that he met a new group of friends. "Just by chance I met a lot of people from the art college and became interested in things like art and fashion," he recalled. "Back at the warehouse I started to make displays in the showroom. . .the boss was really impressed and he gave me all the buying to do for the men's wear when I was still only 17."*
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