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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...

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...

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...

Interview produced by SAYWHO Today, the French composer shares this unpublished piece through a Christmas album, ‘The Message of Xmas’, available on December 5th. The occasion for Say Who to meet him in his studio, exactly one year after our first interview, to look back on his year 2020, but also on a decade made of encounters, travels, discoveries and, of course, music. This interview is the first of a digital series titled ‘Portraits of a Decade’ complementing our 10-year anniversary book out this December. What made you want to turn it into a Christmas album? Christophe Chassol: The Christmas...