It was exactly three years ago when wellness professional Anna Achilleos decided to leave her job at a prestigeous fitness studio in Manhattan and decided to return to her native Larnaca, Cyprus, to launch an organic spa with absolute respect to nature. That’s how the Earth Spa was born. On its 3rd birthday, the Earth Spa is an eco dream…
Browsing through fashion and beauty files on my laptop, I found an amazing, forgotten series of pictures from “The Lace Garden”, the very first exclusive collaboration between paper eyelashes brand PAPERSELF and the Victoria & Albert Museum, which was first launched in early September 2011. Given the brief of LACE by the V&A, the PAPERSELF team was inspired by French…
Mabe pearls are the result of a fascinating collaboration between man and nature; although cultured, the hemispherical pearls appear to randomly rise from the shells surface, creating wondrous patterns. The third collection of GEM SESSIONS explores a hypothetical scenario in which the pearls are orderly placed against the shells surface, almost as if they were fossilized jewels lost in sea.…
Textile designer Simoni Papaefstathiou presents her latest collection of women’s fashion handbags, scarves and earrings, “Sun Below The Horizon”, for Spring Summer 2013. The new collection is inspired by the colors of sunset, mixing orange with yellow, purple, fuchsia and blue on the textile, to give the impression of a painting on canvas. All textiles are hand-woven, hand-painted and hand-stitched.…
Whatever leaves a mark tells a story, and like the face of an old prizefighter, the streets of every town bear a myriad of scars, fruit of a million different tales of the city. Places tell their stories through use and decay, and in Storyville, British photographer Barry Cawston has made a project of recording them. [James Freeman Gallery, London,…
