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Alexia Aubert
Mathieu Lehanneur, common inspirations

Mathieu Lehanneur, common inspirations

Mathieu Lehanneur has made quite an impact on the international design scene over the past twenty years. In 2001, his graduation project, the “Therapeutic Objects” (which aimed at transforming our relationship to medicine) was quickly integrated into the MoMA’s permanent collection. Lehanneur’s interest in science, though unexpected for a designer, is at the center of his approach. It led him to create iconic objects such as ‘Andrea’, a living filter absorbing toxic compounds from the air around us. Combining advanced technology and handcraft, Mathieu Lehanneur seeks to represent our own complexity by creating a hybrid space where technology and nature...

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Yiqing Yin, Secret garden

Yiqing Yin, Secret garden

For Yiqing Yin, haute couture is a state of mind. The Grand Prize winner at the 2011 Andam Fashion Award is a true architecte for clothes. After working as a creative director for big names of ready-to-wear, she now takes the time to create her own way. Her 10-year-old label allowed her to be awarded the official ‘haute couture’ designation by the Chambre Syndicale back in 2015. While she works as a creative consultant here and there, Yiqing Yin now dedicates herself entirely to her craft, and considers haute couture as a laboratory of experimentations that allows her to dip...

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WARM TO JANUARY - SHEARLING INSPIRATION

WARM TO JANUARY - SHEARLING INSPIRATION

As long as it’s cold outside and you don’t pair them with Aviators – which is as grave an over-egging of the thematic pudding as wearing chukka boots with a polo shirt – there are no disadvantages to wearing it.As well as being entrenched in popular culture, it’s a material that offers the warmth of a puffer coat with the suave, virile authority of a trench. We’re talking, of course, about shearling: a material which invariably qualifies collars and lapels for the adjectival use of the phrase “fuck off”, and makes for linings as warm, as tactile, as any material...

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Christophe Chassol, “The Message of Xmas”

Christophe Chassol, “The Message of Xmas”

Interview réalisée par SAYWHO Aujourd'hui, le compositeur français partage cette pièce inédite à travers un album de Noël, "Le Message de Noël", disponible le 5 décembre. L'occasion pour Say Who de le retrouver dans son studio, exactement un an après notre premier entretien, pour revenir sur son année 2020, mais aussi sur une décennie faite de rencontres, de voyages, de découvertes et, bien sûr, de musique. Cette interview est la première d'une série numérique intitulée "Portraits d'une décennie" complétant notre livre anniversaire des 10 ans sorti en décembre. Qu'est-ce qui vous a donné envie d'en faire un album de Noël...

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