Ms. Jongerius has chosen new colors for Eames and Panton furniture, hoping that the new shades will be closer to the designers' original vision.
Maybe the lumbering economy has spurred the team to strengthen its identity, but the clothes looked more in line with the designers' original ideas about the supremacy of posturing southern Italian men.
I've often found that it's easy to forget about the iPad, especially five years after its launch; but the tendency to overlook the Apple tablet is evidence that it has achieved exactly its designers' original intent.
A welcome injection of a new life into the old marketplace that has seen declining attendance with the uprising of ebay and other reselling platforms of designers' originals.
In the series of sneaker photographs, each shoe, whether a pricey designer original or a shoddy knockoff, comes emblazoned with a single, logolike letter on its side, and he has arranged the shoes in stacks to spell out names: Jung, Kafka, Marx and so on.
Boticca, which launched out of London late last year, is an ecommerce startup which creates a marketplace for limited edition designer original jewellery and other accessories.
At the Academy Awards ceremony last Sunday, the gowns were designer originals but the toilet tissue at the Kodak Theater's restrooms was 100percentt recycled.
The counterfeits sell on the street for $20 to $50 or more, as against $250 to more than $5,000 for the designer originals.
After all, in order to keep up with the budget copies of designer clothes, many of which are available only weeks after the designer originals that inspired them were first shown, the high end has retaliated in kind.
Monica, Alexa Penavega and Vanna White Designer originals in red were Gustavo Cadile, Badgley Mischka, Jay Godfrey, Pamella Roland, La Petite Robe Di Chiara Boni, Nicole Miller, Laurel Dewitt, Black Halo Eve, BCBG Generation, Halston Heritage, Escada, Naeem Khan, David Meister, and Ieena for Mac Duggal, Carmen Marc Valvo, Reem Acra, Michael Costello, Tabitha Webb and Romona Keveza.
At Maison Martin Margiela, the designer's original spirit is now a pale shadow of its powerful origins, as a team sent out the latest (but not the newest) riffs on deconstruction.
