Posts Tagged ‘features’
MUJI The Future is Bright
MUJI The Future is Bright

MUJI’s New York store is located in the New York Times building, which was designed by Prizker Prize-winning Italian architect Renzo Piano. The grand, modern, and open structure perfectly suits MUJI’s aesthetic and is where the company’s North America president, Hiroyoshi Azami, has agreed to meet to tell SOMA more about MUJI. Defining MUJI however, […]

Black Fashion Week
Black Fashion Week

Fashion history is wrought with imagery defying our perspective of what is beautiful: tall, slim, blonde, blue eyes…characteristics you’d normally attach to a white person. Fashion has always made it harder for the darker skinned girls, despite the few that triumphed such as Naomi Campbell, Chanel Iman and Joan Smalls. There just isn’t enough demand, […]

Fashion for a Cause
Fashion for a Cause

  A new collection by Bally Switzerland is always special. The company has been crafting luxury leather goods for more than 160 years and is known the world over for its beautiful designs, distinctive style and exquisite quality. The new Lips for Life capsule collection, however, is extra special. Bally has joined forces with DKMS […]

WHEN YOU GOTTA GO…
WHEN YOU GOTTA GO...

Remember when people used to visit a bar or restaurant for the drinks and food? Now a whole crop of venues features design-forward lavatories that have patrons lining up for the loos Sketch London When Sketch opened in London in 2002 in an 18th-century townhouse in Mayfair, its formula of delicious food by master chef […]

FROM ART TO ANTHRO
FROM ART TO ANTHRO

Clothing and home retailer Anthropologie scouts artistic talent to design not only its products but also each of its surreal, dream-like locations in an effort to revamp a traditional strategy Most retailers operate with specific methods, chasing profit via products with the widest appeal. It’s a formula that ensures fun colors and funky styles are […]

CUSTOM COUTURE
CUSTOM COUTURE

Experts pertaining to varying confines of the fashion industry have gone back to school to study under clothing guru Simmin Sethna The day Simmin Sethna left her family’s home in Calcutta for Paris, with dreams of mastering the ‘art of couture’, it seems unlikely that she foresaw the way in which she would inspire generations […]

CONTEMPORARY SIMPLICITY
CONTEMPORARY SIMPLICITY

Creative director Kenya Hara and product designer Naoto Fukusawa come together to design well thought out contemporary homeware. Quality meets simplicity in this brand new concept Since setting up shop in SoHo back in 2007, MUJI is a brand that many will be familiar with—modern furniture, simple lifestyle goods and everyday essentials. But with a […]

STORYTELLING IN THE FLESH
STORYTELLING IN THE FLESH

Often recognized for tattooing an impressive roster of celebrity clients, the New York-based artist, Scott Campbell, has now branched out with a well-received gamut of fashion and fine art endeavors Whether in collaboration with Louis Vuitton’s menswear collections or in dynamic sculpture, watercolors and mixed media art, Campbell’s work is attracting international and cross-genre appeal. […]

XVALA WAS HERE
XVALA WAS HERE

XVALA reshapes social commentary like he reshapes Mark Zuckerberg’s coat hanger: creatively, boldly and a little bit inappropriately Guerilla tactics crossed the boundaries of warfare a long time ago, and their presence in the art scene is certainly no new phenomenon. What is new, however, is XVALA’s approach and use of contemporary art to comment […]

Elisa Stephens In The Fast Lane
Elisa Stephens In The Fast Lane

Academy of Art University President Elisa Stephens is famed for accomplishing many things, but she described only two things as in her blood during an interview last month Text by Shilpika Lahri Photography by Bob Toy This well known entrepreneur’s various areas of interest boil down to two main passions: cars and leading the San […]

Raw Edges
Raw Edges

A Marriage of Work & Life Littered haphazardly with wood cuttings and blue prints—all the necessary tools needed for conceptualizing creative ideas—the small North London studio is the backdrop to Shay Alkalay and Yael Mer’s designs that run the gamut from cork lamps to plaid benches for their label, Raw Edges. In a partnership that […]

Three to Watch
Three to Watch

The only constant about the artistic landscape in Berlin is that nothing stays the same. Sure, there are common practices in the city: a rich culture of artist-run project spaces, hybrid/mixed-used venues and an unusually high concentration of artists who regularly DJ. However, mostly due to the financial precarity of earning a living here, it’s […]

Mary Katrantzou
Mary Katrantzou

Snapshots by iconic fashion photographers Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin are typically synonymous with the glossy pages of high fashion magazines like Vogue, or they hang idly on the barren white walls of an expansive gallery. Trendsetting London-based fashion designer, Mary Katrantzou, has taken these stylized photographs to another level, splashing them on her latest […]

Siki Im
Siki Im

Among the most buzzed about fashion designers in NYC, Siki Im designs for an intelligent and articulate audience. In his own words, “He or she is well traveled and educated; has values but also loves to be challenged and takes risks; someone who gets bored easily and has humor, too; someone who is not so […]

Kimiko Yoshida
Kimiko Yoshida

Misfit Monochromes Kimiko Yoshida’s face practically disappears into a black 
background—her eyes and lips being the only clearly discernible features. Painted a dusky gold, her lips perfectly match the intricate headdress she wears in 01 Painting (Goddess of War Athena), a large-scale photograph that references Gustav Klimt’s renowned “Pallas Athene.” Like a monk repeating a […]

Polly Morgan
Polly Morgan

A blurred line between morbid & magnificent Dead finches lay strewn about an East London studio in a macabre amalgamation of feathers and skins and bottles of solutions. In Polly Morgan’s seemingly sordid world, death can be beautiful and taxidermy is an art form. Morgan is a master of this embalming method as art pieces […]

Lori Goldstein
Lori Goldstein

Lori Goldstein is a master storyteller. Through the medium of fashion, this uber-stylist and industry insider spins unforgetta- ble tales of high society and everyday women, full of gorgeous fantasy and provocative scenarios. From Versace’s legendary Jacqueline Susann-inspired campaign with Steven Meisel, to her latest work with Annie Leibovitz on the Jones New York “Empowering […]

Christophe Lemaire
Christophe Lemaire

Christophe Lemaire, as it turns out, is not effusive about fashion. He’s measured, and thoughtful, and opinionated, and smart, and funny, and kind, and generous—but no, not effusive. And he’s not interested in fame or celebrity. He wants to design and produce the best, and he wants to like what he’s doing. Which—when you think […]

London’s Mixed Media
London’s Mixed Media

Thumbing through the pages of this issue, it’s clear that we’ve inadvertently chosen London as our current favorite design center. The sprawling metropolis is constantly thrumming with new artists and designers hoping to make a splash. SOMA had the chance to photograph a few of our favorite artists, putting the spotlight on them and leaving […]

Girl At The Bottom Of The Sea
Girl At The Bottom Of The Sea

The green movement has picked up steam in recent years, buoyed by the tragedy of natural catastrophes like hurricanes and earthquakes—as if to say, see? our industrialized human actions are truly upsetting the balance of planet earth. Ironically, it is industry itself—in the form of consumer culture—that has helped anchor the green movement into our […]

Jihae
Jihae

Jihae’s own Vintage dress Raquel Allegra Lace bandeau Jihae’s own Jewelry worn throughout With her new album, Fire Burning Rain, South Korean born artist/musician/muse Jihae moves away from the more traditional, though no less compelling, musical concepts of her 2008 release, Elvis Is Still Alive, and embraces her surreal side. “This is more heavy beat […]

Hurts
Hurts

Elegant Look, Poignant Tunes, Heartfelt Emotion Theo wears :Grey suit Richard James, Roll neck Hugo Boss Adam wears : Roll neck Hugo Boss Hurts were being hailed as Britain’s next big thing before they’d played a single gig. The Manchester based duo—singer Theo Hutchcraft and guitarist/synthesizer wiz Adam Anderson—captured the public’s imagination last summer with […]

The Wonderful World
The Wonderful World

The Wonderful World @ 4th & Bleeker From Susie Bubble to Bryan Boy, the dub-dub-dub world has exploded with style queens eager to share their tips, trials and tribulations about fashion with an ever-growing virtual audience. Yet, among the millions on offer, few inject a sense of humor or intimacy alongside the latest snap of their […]

Charlotte Gainsbourg
Charlotte Gainsbourg

A Portrait of an Ethereal Icon Dress, Rodarte. Charlotte Gainsbourg answers her phone with a breathy and distant hello, as if she were in the middle of packing for a flight or stepping out of the shower. The actress and musician has been running a very brief public relations circuit from Los Angeles to New […]


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