Reed & Rader: Notvideo

A Brooklyn art duo mixing fashion with augmented reality for creepy-beautiful moving images

Pioneers in fashion photography, it’s difficult to imagine that Brooklyn-based team Reed & Rader started shooting digital photographs just one year ago. The trailblazers “highly believe that technology and the augmented world is the future”—a concept they implement no matter the medium. Currently part of the group exhibition “Shoot The Messenger” at NYC’s APF Lab, they shot their creepy animated “notvideo” on a common point-and-shoot …

Black. Masters of Black in Fashion and Costume

A retrospective of fashion's favorite color at Antwerp's Mode Museum

An apt location for an exhibition dedicated to the use of black in fashion and costume design, Antwerp is arguably the industry’s minimalism mecca. As an influential fashion capital, its status owes much to the Antwerp Six—graduates from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the early ’80s—whose roster includes Dries Van Noten, Walter Van Beirendonck, Ann Demeulemeester, Dirk Bikkembergs and briefly, the reclusive Martin …

Quali Cose Siamo?

Milan's Triennale tackles big design questions with a new exhibit on the meaning of objects

After taking a look at Italian design origins in one exhibit by designer Italo Rota and exploring production contradictions with curator Andrea Branzi’s “Serie Fuori Serie,” this time the Triennale Design Museum turns to another maestro, Alessandro Mendini, to conceive the latest installation “Quali Cose Siamo?” Asking “what things are we?,” the exhibit journeys through collective and private memories, defined through over 800 objects on …