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Fashion puts travel back on the agenda, not to mention real-world runway shows Share After a year-long lull and a move to online shows, fashion is once again gearing up to cross borders, inspiring audiences with the stuff of dreams and, more than ever, offering them a voyage of escapism. Athens, Venice, Los Angeles and Shanghai are just some of the destinations chosen by the big names in fashion to present their next collections. All this seems to suggest that things are slowly getting back to normal in the industry — an industry that’s evolving, and which was heavily impacted by the ...

May 12 2021 X-ray ptychography has recently opened up applications across physical and life sciences at large-scale synchrotron facilities such as the UK’s Diamond Light Source, by producing quantitative phase images with the highest possible spatial resolutions (10’s nm) – going well beyond the conventional limitations of the available X-ray optics. Now an international collaboration of scientists has demonstrated for the first time how the technique of high-resolution phase contrast diffraction imaging can be performed with small-scale laboratory sources. The t...

Berluti autumn/winter 2021 By now, the fashion community is well versed in distilling a fashion collection via the medium of Zoom. But no matter the ply count of that cashmere sweater, it’s hard to communicate a message about luxury products in digital format. Thank heavens, then, for Kris Van Assche’s take-no-prisoners approach at Berluti. “You could say it’s pretty eye-catching,” says the designer over video link from Paris, where his autumn/winter 2021 collection swung from rails like rainbow bright sentinels in the background. Colours, from Balearic sea blue to dusky sunset, dr...

Kris van Assche’s design approach has really come into bloom at Berluti, not only in the form of the Belgian designer’s fresh approach to cut (during his tenure at Dior he was wedded to a razor-edged silhouette, yet at the brand’s lower-key LVMH stablemate Van Assche has embraced a wider profile), but also, perhaps most notably, in his way of tackling colour.  The storied Parisian bottier is most famous, after all, for the brightly hued patinas which are layered upon the uppers of its shoes to create a smokey, saturated finish. It is this process which Van Assche’s palette has been ...

Ceramics Are in Fashion Jonathan Anderson and Kris Van Assche are among the designers inspired by contemporary creations. A dress from the JW Anderson fall 2021 collection and presentation, which explored volume and shape, and a ceramic piece by Shawanda Corbett.Credit...Juergen Teller, via JW Anderson By Jessica Bumpus The fashion designer Jonathan Anderson has always valued the relationship between ceramic forms and fashion. In December, he curated an exhibition of ceramics and porcelain by Akiko Hirai, titled “Setting a Hare in the China Shop,” at the JW Anderson shop in London and, in...