Naoto Fukasawa

Fashion / 8 May 2018

‘Azzedine Alaïa: The Couturier’ celebrates the designer’s extraordinary cut and dash with the help of a few friends

Azzedine Alaïa dedicated his life to designing clothes that transcended trends, super-enhanced the female physique and upheld the classical ideal. His designs had an apparent simplicity, hard-won through fearless experimentation and technical complexity. One of the last projects he worked...

Fashion / 26 Apr 2018

Maison Alaïa opens its first London flagship

‘Azzedine Alaïa never wanted to have one interior designer and one architect as he wanted to design his world and he did not understand why one would. He liked to work with his friends – Pierre Paulin, Marc Newson, Konstantin...

Fashion / 19 Mar 2018

Issey Miyake opens a Kyoto boutique in a timber townhouse

From the roof tiles and walls to the pebbles that fill the courtyard, one colour takes centre stage at Issey Miyake’s new Kyoto store in a subtle myriad of shades: grey. The new Kyoto flagship, located on a low-rise lane...

Design / 19 Apr 2016

Marble zones: Nendo splits the mesmerising wares of Marsotto in half

Everyone is well aware of the mesmerising qualities of marble. Its decadence, its power, its weight, its sculptural qualities – the list goes on. In a unique Japanese-meets-Italian collaboration during Salone del Mobile, it was the intensity of its colour...

Design / 2 Mar 2016

The things that define you: an exhibition of zakka at 21_21 Design Sight Tokyo

The Japanese term zakka very loosely translates as ’stuff’. Or, to refine this within its common context, ’sundries’ or ’miscellaneous goods’. If, in Western parlance, this evokes a higgledy-piggledy bric-a-brac store, then think again. In Japanese, the first part of...

Design / 18 Nov 2014

Piero Lissoni redesigns Luminaire’s flagship showroom in Miami

A visit to Design Miami in December has always included a stop at Luminaire Lab, the experimental gallery for cutting-edge contemporary design on NE 2nd Avenue. In time for this year’s event, however, Luminaire has given us good reason to...