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The emptiness after the glamour

Olivier Rousteing and Balmain part ways
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Symbolic image: Black mannequin with a golden dress against a gray background

He was the orphan who invented himself. For fourteen years, Olivier Rousteing turned the house of Balmain into a pop spectacle – a time between genius, hubris, and digital self-worship. Now an era...

Commentary
The Pose of Enlightenment

How Moral Awareness Became Aesthetics — and Why Wokeness Lost Its Depth
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Minimalist photograph of bright blue water with a single yellow rubber duck floating near the lower right — a calm yet ironic reflection on surface and meaning.

Wokeness was once an awakening; today it serves as a backdrop. The line between moral gesture and aesthetic reflex, between attitude and staging, has almost vanished. What remains when awareness...

BOOKS
On NFTs – Art in Digital Transformation

The compendium of NFT art is available as a standard edition.
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Cover of On NFTs by Robert Alice, TASCHEN Standard Edition

NFTs have long since become more than digital collectibles—they are a symptom of our time. „On NFTs” asks what happens when art, technology, and the market begin to speak the same language—and what...

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From Mannequins to Avatars

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How Algorithms Are Replacing Humans in the Fashion Industry
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Symbolic image for the change in the fashion industry: a server room as a metaphor for the replacement of real models by algorithms.

From the mannequins of the 1950s to the supermodels of the 1990s: fashion constantly reinvented its icons. Today their names are Shudu, Imma, and Lil Miquela – avatars instead of humans.

BOOKS
Hokusai

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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) was one of Japan's most prolific and versatile artists, whose work in various media such as woodcut, painting and book illustration is impressive. His oeuvre is divided...

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