Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake was born #OnThisDay in 1938. He took inspiration from the work of graphic designer Ikko Tanaka, in particular the 1981 poster for Nihon Buyo, for this pleated dress from his 2016 Pleats Please collection. V&A collection. #fashionhistory
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O Protagonismo Indígena e os Desafios Contemporâneos:
A lista de 7 filmes vem de encontro com os desafios que os jovens indígenas vêm enfrentando em nossos dias:
“Chuva é Cantoria na Aldeia dos Mortos”, de Renée Nader Messora e João Salaviza, 2018. Representa...
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This black-and-white still from Mikio Naruse’s 1955 cinematic masterpiece, Floating Clouds (Ukigumo), captures a moment of heavy emotional stillness between the two lead actors, Hideko Takamine and Masayuki Mori. The composition is tight and intimate, focusing on the weary expressions of Yukiko and Kengo as they lean toward one another over a patterned kotatsu cover. Takamine’s character rests her head pensively, her gaze averted, while Mori looks on with a shadowed, contemplative expression that mirrors the film's broader themes of post-war disillusionment and the complexities of human attachment.
Still from 1955 Japanese movie “Floating Cloud”. Director Mikio Naruse. Actors Hideko Takamine and Masayuki Mori
Autorretrato.
Onze Filmes Realizados por Cineastas Indígenas da Abya Yala:
"Yõg ãtak: Meu Pai, Kaiowá", de Sueli Maxakali, Isael Maxakali, Roberto Romero e Luisa Lanna, 2024.
(No DOC Canal Brasil)
“Mãri Hi – A Árvore do Sonho”, de Morzaniel Ɨramari Yanomami, 2023. (Itaú Cultural Play)
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Zoom in on this painting and you can clearly see De Zwart’s style: broad strokes, loose touches and strong colours. Up close, it is easy to forget what you are looking at. But step back a little and the brushstrokes fall into place. 🍏🍎
👁️ https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20028535
Tunisian-born Italian actress Claudia Cardinale was born #OnThisDay in 1938. She wore this c. 1964 Nina Ricci Haute Couture black shantung cocktail dress, embellished with silk petals around the bust, as Maria Grazia in Il magnifico cornuto (1964). Sold via Sothebys. #fashionhistory
Made in North Korea - Graphics from Everyday Life in the DPRK, Phaidon Press, 2017. designreviewed.com/artefacts/ma...
Japanese woodblock prints have long celebrated sakura season, capturing cherry blossoms in delicate pink and white. The cherry blossom, or ‘sakura’, is one of Japan's most enduring cultural symbols.
👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection
Guitar Wolf pointing at Ace saying "Love has no borders, nationalities, or genders!"
Wild Zero (1999) #TDOV
La Nuit fantastique - 1942 - Marcel L’Herbier
Cinematography : Pierre Montazel
Los Visitantes de la Noche (Marcel Carné, 1942) 🏰🎦
Yuki no mosho (Shroud of Snow) (1967). Dir: Kenji Misumi
VIVE L'AMOUR (1994) title card
VIVE L'AMOUR (1994) screen capture
VIVE L'AMOUR (1994) screen capture
VIVE L'AMOUR (1994) screen capture
VIVE L'AMOUR (1994)
dir. TSAI MING-LIANG
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Gebrauchsgraphik, 06, 1965. Cover design by Lutz Roeder designreviewed.com/artefacts/ge...
Jigoku 1960 地獄
Directed by Nobuo Nakagawa
A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell #filmsky #moviesky #japan #cinema #movies #Jigoku #NobuoNakagawa #中川信夫 📽️
Funoon Arabiah, No. 1, 1981 designreviewed.com/artefacts/fu...
Chibusa yo eien nare (1955)
Directed by Kinuyo Tanaka
This week's #TwentiesTuesday garment is this two-piece jade green georgette crepe silk dress, dating from 1926. It is decorated with three rows of self-scallops around the skirt hem, blouse cuffs and down the centre front of both pieces. Goldstein Museum of Design collection. #fashionhistory
Japan Typography Yearbook 1976, Japan Typography Association, Graphic-sha, 1975 designreviewed.com/artefacts/ja... #typography
Kristina Tzekova
Front view of a bright emerald green sleeveless chiffon dress covered with a symmetrical pattern of dark metallic geometric embroidery
It is a jewel in dress form, an emerald seemingly engraved with architectural geometric motifs but in fact embroidered in sinuous swirls. A dress in which to shimmy as the band plays faster, #1920s #PalaisGalliera #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
American sculptor and art patron Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was born #OnThisDay in 1875. Howard Gardiner Cushing painted her wearing a Leon Baskt white tunic with black cactus flowers, orange trousers, and a plumed hat, for the Whitney Studio Mural (1911-12). #fashionhistory
Back cover of Design (Japan), 097, 1967. designreviewed.com/artefacts/de... #graphicdesign