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Iris van Herpen
Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen works with cutting-edge materials and techniques, in particular exploring how 3D printing can be harnessed to make clothing.
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Issey Miyake
Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake turns 79 next spring but his brand is still a major player. This year the fashion house unveiled a new technique for pleating fabric that involved applying glue and baking garments in an oven. Our post about the resulting Spring Summer 2016 collection was one
Li Edelkoort
One of our biggest scoops of 2015 was our exclusive interview with leading trend forecaster Li Edelkoort, who announced that "fashion is dead". The provocative interview, in which she described fashion as "a ridiculous and pathetic parody of what it has been," was widely reported by other
COS
Swedish fashion house COS – a firm favourite with the creative set – has aligned itself closely with the design world over the last few years, presenting installations during Milan Design Week and hiring cutting-edge architects for popups and permanent stores. It even teamed up with Danish design brand
Dior
Legendary French fashion house Dior has been busy over the past few years commissioning new stores around the world from a range of different architects. Our readers have noticed, and propelled the 70-year-old brand to number three in our fashion list.
Acne Studios
We only wrote one story about Swedish fashion house Acne Studios, but it was popular enough to earn it a place in our Hot List.
Camper
Brands such as Aesop and Dior have made a point of commissioning different architects to design their stores around the world, but the pioneer of this approach was Spanish footwear brand Camper.
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“We are not in the midst of a revolution, we are between revolutions”
Opinion: Justin McGuirk argues that despite the furniture industry's decline in Italy, it's still the best place to buy a sofa until the digital manufacturing revolution delivers on its promises.
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Alberta Ferretti via Montenapoleone by Sybarite
London architects Sybarite have completed this shop interior for fashion house Alberta Ferretti in Milan.
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“‘Looks like’ is the lowest kind of criticism”
Comments update: architectural debate commanded the conversation on Dezeen this week, with one reader accusing the Modernist movement of "raping South America", while others were more concerned with defending MAD's design for the George Lucas museum from lazy criticism.
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“321,320 visitors celebrate 50 years of the Saloni” – Cosmit
Dezeenwire: 321,320 people visited the 50th Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan last week, an 8% increase on last year, according to organisers Cosmit. See the full figures below.
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“A 60 per cent reduction in plastic is the bare minimum we need the world to do”
We need to end our use of plastics for the sake of the planet and human's health, writes the director of Earth Day's end plastic initiatives Aidan Charron.
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File into the Future Stadium
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Gaudí Centenary celebrates the legacy of an architect like no other
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Parametricism is the architecture “of neoliberalism itself”
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Design and architecture are overdue for a Performance Review
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Are we on the verge of a cob comeback?
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“Art deco designers shared a desire for an aesthetic appropriate for a modern world”
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Prada
Italian fashion house Prada has a close relationship with Dutch architect OMA and its research arm AMO, and its position on our Hot List is almost entirely down to the work the brand has done with the sister companies and their founder, Rem Koolhaas.
Paul Smith
British fashion designer Paul Smith regularly crosses over into the world of design, applying his signature stripes most recently to Gufram's iconic cactus coatstand.
Chanel leads our Fashion Hot List, ahead of COS and Dior
Dezeen is not a fashion site but we cover the topic when we think a collection is interesting enough for our designer audience, or when the brand collaborates with architects and designers from a non-fashion background.
Chanel
Founded in 1909, Chanel is one of the most revered fashion brands in the world, but it doesn't tend to crop up on our design radar too often. However it has stormed its way to the top of our fashion list this year thanks to a single project: Crystal Houses, its