South Korean designer Goom Heo, behind the eponymous label GOOMHEO, was raised between Jinju, South Korea and Springfield, Illinois, before relocating to London, where she attended Central Saint Martins to study fashion design. Both her BA and MA collections earned her venerable L’Oréal Professionnel Creative Awards, and the young designer was swiftly taken under the…
Hailing from Bangkok and presently based in Paris, artist and art director PZ Opassuksatit’s eccentric humour and off-kilter style riffs on an amalgam of references, from trite infomercials and karaoke videos, to weddings and, more broadly, post-Internet culture. After working with Demna Gvasalia as VETEMENTS’ Head of Image and Visual Design for three years, Opassuksatit…
Hailing from South Korea and presently based in Chicago, artist and self-taught chef Hyun Jung Jun launched her project dream cake test kitchen at the start of the pandemic last year, quickly amassing a burgeoning fan base when she begun sharing her mesmerising edible works of art on Instagram. Her culinary adventures see Jun experiment…
Behind floral design studio Renko, artist Ren MacDonald-Balasia creates fantastical living sculptures with an emphasis on local, seasonal and unexpected materials. Working between Los Angeles and Honolulu, the Hawaii native’s mesmerising creations intertwine everything from lush green foliage, tendrilous string beans and striking banana blossoms, to prehistoric-looking Mink Protea flowers and sumptuous fruits from carambola…
Hailing from Copenhagen, with imminent plans to relocate to Paris, Danish designer Louise Lyngh Bjerregaard’s eponymous brand brings together unexpected material combinations in distinctively cut garments, subverting established traditions of knitwear. A graduate of Central Saint Martins and the Scandinavian Academy of Fashion Design, Lyngh Bjerregaard’s off-kilter offering spans ready-to-wear and couture pieces, imbued with…
Established in 2003 by Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample, New York-based architectural practice MOS Architects’ fascinating and eclectic body of work oscillates between diverse outputs from housing, educational sites, cultural institutions and retail spaces, to exhibitions, installations, furniture, and objects; the practice also regularly produces books, speculative software and films. Their distinctive approach to design…
This spring, London gallery Taymour Grahne Projects is set to present Life Without Night, the first UK solo show by New York-based artist James Bartolacci. The exhibition draws from Bartolacci’s personal experience of queer nightlife in New York City prior to the pandemic, as well as current and on-going scenes staged in friends’ bedrooms, which…
Hailing from Man, a city in western Côte d’Ivoire, Lafalaise Dion, who studied journalism at the Institute of Science and Technology in Abidjan, grew up fascinated by the traditions of her ancestors, admiring in particular the cowrie adorned headdresses worn by performers during rituals. In ancient times, the small molluscs’ shells played an important function…