Posts by Vera Shaban
How Kalaurie Connects With The Soul

We’re emotionally linked to the clothing we wear. Beyond staple items and trends, the garments we select express our emotions and personalities. Through garments you can gather several characteristics of the person wearing them. For emerging label KALAURIE, the designer utilizes creativity as therapy, achieving a clear awareness about herself.

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Katya Dobryakova. Designer With Intellectual Humor

Art and fashion are always together and today fashion and technology. What if we added art between the worlds of fashion and technology it could be explosive, but when it comes together it produces something pretty cool. Katya Dobryakova, contemporary Russian fashion designer who has something to say, designs with satire and ironic messages. 

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A Quest For Extraordinary

As a London-based jeweler that works with precious metals, Niza Huang references to her “imagination and environment to create beautiful sculptural jewelry,” which is always created by hand. Her background in the arts and jewelry making is supplied with a degree in industrial design, an evident trait, when you look at the level of scrupulosity with which Huang’s jewelry is crafted.

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Gosia Herba

Gosia Herba is multiply artist-illustrator. Her work includes painting, drawing, graphic designer and comics. One of my favorite works of Gosia it's an amazing surreal portraits in profile with gorgeous color palettes. She is doing hand paintings on canvas, gif-files, hand-drawn aesthetics, covers for music records, custom playing cards and ceramic illustration designs. 

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Unfinished Conversation

The mysterious world of Paul Phung’s photography captures a memory, a moment in the life of a stranger, that’s both intriguing and mundane. There is always a story, hidden emotion or an unspoken truth in Paul’s black and white imagery. It’s technology combined with unique artistic vision that brings something simple under a different light and opens an alternate world of expression.

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Colorful Expression

Art serves as a translation of emotion and turns internal abstracts into physical displays. Thus, artists use the product of translating their internal sentiments to express what they feel. Painter Patricia Derks follows the deeply personal approach. She loves to paint and her passion, inherited from her father and driven by the academy, Arendonk, exudes on canvas. 

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TRIPTYCH: These Stylish Shoes Are Made For Walking.

An architect by training, New York-based Tania Ursomarzo created an accessories line, TRIPTYCHwith an idea that a comfortable shoe can also be stylish. Her wondrous designs in predominantly neutral palette are subtle yet extremely sexy. Intricate cutouts in unconventional places that expose toe and ankle cleavage, sumptuous textures, and a shoe-within-a-shoe. 

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Rise And Shine

As pianos collect dust and electronic music threatens world domination, musician Taylor McFerrin perches somewhere in the middle ground, balancing one keyboard in each hand. On one side is live instrumentals, vocal recordings, impassioned collaborations - traditional forms of music with soul. Then there’s the electronic production, the laptop keyboard that allows for mixing and experimenting, slicing and dicing. 

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