March 10th, 2010 - marikot - 0 Comments
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© Yoshikazu Yamagata

What is fashion? What can we do with fashion?
Fashion designer Yoshikazu Yamagata, works to emotionally expand the concept of fashion and tackling big questions like those above. He stirred controversy with his collections at Japan Fashion Week, including “The Everyone’s New Clothes” which questioned what fashion was about, ”Graduate Fashion Show 0′ Point”, which showcased the strength of starting from zero in fashion and “The Fashion Show of The Gods”, his Spring/Summer 2010 collection, which examined the origins of creation, presented in October 2009.

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March 6th, 2010 - sarahp - 0 Comments
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I asked the subject of this week’s MOOKS Report, to give me three adjectives that describe a photograph? And he gave me two… not because he couldn’t conjure up a third, but because following rules isn’t really his style.

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February 8th, 2010 - marikot - 0 Comments
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Strongly inspired by Japanese manga, Fantasista Utamaro creates works across several creative mediums including illustration, textile, graphic design and film production. Examples of Utamaro’s work include an illustration for Tokyo Bar in NY and manga works for mashcomix.

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January 31st, 2010 - marikot - 1 Comment
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The ten_do_ten exhibition "Female nude and picture book craft paintching!" Photo: Naoshi Usuda (www.usudanaoshi.com)

Welcome to the world of red, white and black pixels…
Known as one of the leading Japanese pixel designers, TEN aka ten_do_ten has just released his new book entitled: “CALM & PUNK Book #1 ten_do_ten” and hosted an exhibition to celebrate the book launch last December.

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January 28th, 2010 - sarahp - 0 Comments
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Growing up in the sun-drenched Karoo, amongst little cave crawlies and lanky desert birds that can’t fly, Chris Slabber sees Cape Town as a place of wonder and surprise. Like a kid in a theme park, everything is a joyride.  Aside from the “bergie” (homeless dude with a passion gap that is always drunk and shouting “Jou ma se POES” to his/her fellow bergies) waiting around each of Cape Town’s corner, is a world of opportunity and sensory indulgence.  Each day comes wrapped in potential.

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January 25th, 2010 - sarahp - 0 Comments
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This weeks Mooks report is about a young lady who’s putting an indelible stamp of innovation on contemporary ideologies. Meet Larita Engelbrecht, a visual artists living and loving in Stellenbosch, who has an obsession that’s currently in excess. Visual excess in overdrive.

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Locations & Writers



Berlin - Germany


emilym
Easy

London - UK


hynamk
Hynam Kendall


jessicah
Jessica Hazel


melanieh
Melanie Hick

Melbourne - Australia


jono
Jonathon Howard


michellel
Michelle Legge

Tokyo - Japan


marikot
Mariko Takei

New York - US


marisaa
Marisa Aveling

Cape Town - RSA


sarahp
Sarah Picton

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