The question is not trivial: was denim already known at the time of Giorgione? This painting finally throws a sunbeam 

to the topic. The Madonna is, without doubt, wearing a denim poncho, while the sheperds both wear, respectively, a

stone washed denim shirt and a sleeveless jacket. Interesting enough, the jeans seems to be the only piece of cloth 

that is really enduring the…

Digital photography, thanks to its user-friendly interface, automatic setting of every variable, digital filtering, and

correction in post production, generated a crowd of lousy photographers. It's not rare to meet with professionals in the

fashion industry who even shoot filming the scene, then selecting with stop frame the right picture. The set looks like

something…

I'm very sorry to make improper use of the Envy and I apologize with Samantha Lim for posting, every now and then, a topic which has very little to do with fashion cool stuff. But, you see, I can't look at future trends if I don't take my time and stop to look in the rear mirror.…

Last Friday I bumped into a window shop that literally stole my eyes. On display at Chanel, 600 Madison Avenue, New York, you can see the Holy Twin Goddess of Fashion yourself, if you hurry. You will have the chance to pray, in front of the precious double statue, for a blessing from the Olympus of Luxury, as long as you don't wish for a discount, which is blasphemy. The twin Goddess of Fashion, if you show…

Ben Heine produces eye-catching portraits made out of circles. In the painting above, Marilyn's face surface from the geometric pattern of elements which work together like "circles in a circus", with an amazing progression that reminds us of fractals. This is the result of a careful…

Talking about low impact on the environment, here's a new line you can wear to reduce your footprint on the planet. 

This is not exactly a new fashion label, but the work of a photographer with a kind spirit and an eye for color matching. 

This inspiring art direction could be used to promote a new…

The biggest work in progress in minimalist imagery.

A project born from an artistic movement that wants

to counterbalance the side effects of visual inflation

of today's culture, providing a…

The trend is for sharp cut, garden sculptures and Magrittian hairstyle. This reinvented bobcut is beautiful and improves your hearing.

Fill up and go! It seems peace is only possible when you run out of missiles.

Check the honeydrones story on Brandpowder, an alternative use of…

This might be a great idea to tell people recycling is chic!

Carlo

Dear Envy Friends,

I recently received a book from a dear friend who works up in the Italian Alps as a lumberjack. The book's title is "Nature", by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and it was written in 1836. I am pretty sure every person living in America knows or at least heard about this writer, thinker and philosopher who, for some reasons,…

Dark jewellery, along with dark tattooes, dark beer and dancing in the dark, is cool again.

Even if you are not in this sort of things, dark jewellery comes up with a message that goes beyond the underground visual jargon of a cynical, suburban teenager.

Dark jewellery, for…

Lisa Nilsson is producing wonderful paper quills which can be seen as a foreplay in fashion production, since every dress is born from paper and also because the flesh dresses our bones and our skin, like the outer, ultimate layer of a human onion, is giving us appearance before any garment or fabric whatsoever.

Paper should be used more often in concept fashion, as an economic but incredibily adaptable medium for…

A new line of cameras for looking at the world of fashion from a different angle. The Digifukk is a series of products invented for the professional photographer who's tired of the digital perfection of hi res images and supersharp details. The Digifukk cameras allow you to record reality the way brain works, with a certain degree of unaccurateness.

Many artists have been shifting to this new trend, producing a…

Ha - ha - ha! LOL :-) verrryyy fuunnnyyy!!!

NO! IT'S NOT FUNNY!

This is bad taste, this is lack of respect, this is poor humour. Bunk and bogus stuff. I wonder why Amnesty International doesn't do anything about it.

Last week I was in Hollywood and I had the opportunity to interview Rintintin (one of…

John Calliano is not an easy catch. He works in Barcelona, Paris, Berlin and Milan. I had the opportunity to interview him only because a common friend…

John Calliano is not an easy catch. He works in Barcelona, Paris, Berlin and Milan. I had the opportunity to interview him only because a common friend…