The caleidoscope: such a simple, clever game. Nothing more than a hardpaper tube, mirror and colorful glass. Always the same object, endless combinations of shapes and colours. Often the simplest concepts give birth to the most complex and beautiful things: that's what I thought when I saw Vitae scarfs. Vitae is a newborn project that belongs to Vito Infante and Caterina Ruggeri, a photographer and a graphic designer. They met each other one year ago, by living in the same building, and they started immediately to collaborate to several projects due to their passion for research, aesthetic and experimentation. Their first real project, Vitae, is a ***

Sometimes it happens to be struck, mesmerized, crushed or simply amazed by something you never could conceive in your imagination but someone else did through superb craftsmanship. I'm talking about the work or better, pieces of art of the artist and Chinese fashion designer Ma Ke, who stands in opposition to China’s mass-market production and consumerism presenting in his work local cultural value, sustainable materials like natural cotton, linen and silk fibers. Ma Ke says: “ Believing that genuine fashion should not follow trends, but should uncover the extraordinary in the ordinary. In a world of conflict and never ending wars, of polarization between rich and poor, ***

I promise we're going to finish this topic soon, but it's so exhilarating watching how far can a girl, or in this case even man go to reduce their own sizes or just getting a better silhouette, that I can't help to write about this subject. Of course some of these photos are just provocations around the corset theme, but my research goes further in order to have a panoramic of different styles and different approaches. ***

If once stones were worn as jewelry, now we can wrap them around the neck thanks to a soft scarf. These magnificent photographs portray amazing natural gems on silk fabrics and vibrant color tones. Beautiful images that depict materials as Agate, Malachite, Crystal and Amethyst, reinterpreted by Jen Altman, a professional photographer and author. She is also a jewelry designer and the author of three books and two blogs Nectar and All About Eve. I really love some of these scarves, it's astonishing seeing something apparently so sharp being worn with elegance around your weakest body part. ***

Judging from the name you would say that the Hungry Castle crew has a clear idea of what they want to communicate through their creations, Cool Shit is a hilarious line of T-shirts that mixes old icons together in unexpected combinations. Mixing images is a trend of the last years, there's even a blog that picks images of street hunting and mixes them up randomly with really exhilarating results. Hungry Castle makes public art for planet earth. Based in Barcelona, the collaborative of Dave Glass and Kill Cooper creates large-scale works inspired by Internet pop culture. The Pop shirts talk about icons and cliche ***

I loved HIGHLOW jewelry as soon as I stumbled upon the site of the designer Sonya Gallardo. With a degree in Painting & Drawing at California College of the Arts San Francisco in her Loverboy/s Collection Sonya focuses on romantic love and how to represent it in jewelry. Each piece in this project consists of a pairing of two parts and what they represent reflects some of her ideals on what love is. Combining vintage with new, ancient and modern, tradition with the unexpected, the designer gives life to an amazing collection with new languages of fashion that we're thrilled to present as a ***

Springtime, and everything is about nature. "Floral for spring? Pure avant-garde..." would say the terrible Miranda in The Devil Wears Prada. But actually, besides wearing floral prints and enjoying the first warm sunny days, how many among us really experience nature in spring? The difference between experiencing nature, and in particular the forest, and just having an internet, pictured experience of it is the focus of A.BERG "Framing Forest" collection by the Swedish designer Sara Lundberg. Our lives are lived through pictured events. Today more people experience the forest through the internet than in physical life. Through digital image-making nature is retouched, leaving us confused ***

Faustine is my new hero. everything is just perfect, starting from her website: clean, easy, updated, fashion sperimental (as bad this may sound); the campaign, the video. The Garments. The Garments. The material research. The concepts. So 90, so catching, so confortable for sure, so simple, so handcrafted, so everything ahahha! And she is wise too. And intelligent. And has a "social content in her message". Check if you doubt what I'm saying!...though she goes innocently: "In our studio we work around pieces, not themes." She starts her story like this: "There are these jeans 501, forgot in your dad's wardrobe, except they are ***

There are pieces of art that make me feel uncomfortable somehow, it's happen to me when the artist's work is rich in energy and so strong and powerful that strikes me right away when I come close to it. Maybe I'm too sensitive (almost a matter of fact) maybe the artist has so much to give of her nature through the expression that I can feel all the waves that move her artistic flow. The illustrations of Marina Richter are incredible, when I look at her work I have a strong and mixed feeling of something that's going to come out from the paper. Her ***

Fetishism in Fashion is an upcoming exhibition at Moba in Arnhem with the strong curatorial contribution of Lidewij Edelkoort who believes the exhibition to be a revelation of a daring and instinctive future for style and culture. Fetishism in Fashion investigates topics including the evolution of taste from birth to adulthood, the elevation of shoes through ever-higher heels, the psychology of branding, the effects of infantilism, the power of black, the fetishizing of objects, and our interaction with skin and the body. It collects work of may artist prior featured on Edelkoort's website and also on DC like Barth Hess and Georgina Santiago. Edelkoort's book ***