Weekly Debrief #8

Step inside Kim & Kanye’s Home

With an assist from Axel Vervoordt and other international design luminaries, Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West transform a suburban California estate into an otherworldly oasis of purity and light.

Martin Margiela: In his Own Words

A look at Martin Margiela, the fashion world’s answer to Banksy, an elusive and enigmatic designer whose revolutionary creations changed the face of fashion while remaining completely anonymous.

LVMH Prize annonces their 20 finalists

After launching in 2014, the LVMH prize is a fashion contest that received more than 1700 entries from 110 different nationalities. For it’s seventh edition, the jury selected 20 semi-finalist that will go to the next selection step the 27th and 28th February.

Phoebe Philo’s fashion comeback

The designer is said to be readying her own collection with an eco angle. We can’t wait to see what’s next for Celine’s ex-creative director.

Piercing Studios are steering the earscape trend

While multiple piercings have become fairly normalised in the last few decades (for example, when I was 10 in 1999, I had double holes and I was raised in a conservative Jewish home), nowadays ear piercings aren’t just random. In fact, ears have become a new body part that can be styled with intention – the new “arm party”. People are thoughtfully considering where on their ears they should get pierced and how each earring will look together in a recent phenomenon called “earscapes”.

Forgo soap brand in response to wasteful cosmetic industry

Swedish design studio Form Us With Love has unveiled Forgo, a mix-it-yourself cosmetics brand that minimises carbon emissions and avoids plastic packaging.

The brand’s first product, a concentrated powder that is mixed with tap water to make soap, was launched at Stockholm Design Week.