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Unconventional luxury brand collaborations are everywhere. Here’s why

Inside Retail

As a result, new forms of luxury consumption, like second-hand luxury markets , are popping up. While luxury brands are known to collaborate with artists , they have been pushing the boundaries of the luxury strategy by teaming up with unexpected non-luxury partners.

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“A creative polymath”: Isamu Noguchi’s life explored in new Barbican exhibition

Design Week

A landscape artist? Ostende has curated the Barbican’s upcoming exhibition on Japanese-American designer and artist Isamu Noguchi. In this way, she says he has more in common with the artists and designers of today than perhaps he ever did with his contemporaries. “Was he a designer? A sculptor? Sapporo, Japan. ©INFGM

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Visionnaire blurs the lines between art and design

Design Wanted

Form follows function ” goes the old saying, a design directive prioritising an object’s use before any unnecessary decoration. And yet, for well over a century, artists and furniture designers have turned this maxim on its head, blurring the lines between art and design. Meta-luxury” brand Visionnaire has taken up this same charge.

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From Cobblestones to Cyberspace: VMSD Celebrates Its 125th Year of Service to the Retail Industry

VMS

He believed that merchandise presentation was an art form. In 1925, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover said, “The Midas of advertising has given artists freedom and independence.”. department stores were soon feeling the effects of this new form of “shop” shopping. As such, visual merchandising was born. Marquand and F.