Month: April 2021
Beautiful portfolios
The marvellous hand drawings, paired with her German sense of organisation: a terrific example of a portfolio balanced between art and the ability to present everything clearly. Her menswear… the innocence of childhood or the conformism of adulthood? Brilliant…
ITS ARCADEMY IS COMING!
Kristian Guerra, ItalyFinalist, ITS 2011 – Fashion Amazing puffer outerwear, a decade before Moncler Genius!! Now back to these roots: “Ice Surface Temperature” together with his sister Laura (former print & pattern designer for McQueen and Prada)
BUILDING THE ARK
Masha Lamzina, RussianFinalist, ITS 2009 – Fashion Such a coherent development of her career: incredibly evolved in her craft, print design, collage, fashion, iconic style, unquestionable elegance. Now develops amazing hand-bleached artisanal clothing
TURNING ITS ARCADEMY INTO REALITY
Mikio Sakabe, JapanFinalist, ITS 2006 – Fashion The grey formality of a three-dimensional metropolitan landscape on the outside. A bi-dimensional colorful explosion of manga fantasy on the inside. He created Coconogacco fashion school in Tokyo with former ITS finalist Yoshikazu Yamagata. A school by ITS finalists, producing countless ITS finalists…
Walls coming down, dreams coming true
Tearing down a wall, such a powerful symbol. Of expanding horizons, of a fresh start, of erasing barriers and borders. Of inclusivity. ITS Arcademy is finally coming to life, bringing new life to these spaces!
Scouting Tour memories
Hogeschool Antwerpen interview list from our 2008 scouting travels. Beautiful handwriting of Art professor Yvonne de Cock, our notes on each name. Glenn Martens, founder of Y/3 Project and Creative Director of Diesel, is on the list.
THE ARK OF CREATIVITY
Liam Evans, UKFinalist, ITS 2009 – Fashion Still remember when he arrived from the UK for ITS. Italy became his home, he has worked at Diesel ever since. Even modeled for ITS once, in 2010, for Niels Peeraer’s collection.
Treasures of ITS Arcademy
2002 portfolio by Fabrizio Talia. A memory of lost love, from a talented mind fighting to preserve fashion’s true legacy
ITS ARCADEMY. TO AMAZE.
Hiroaki Kanai, JapanFinalist, ITS 2006 – Fashion Hiroaki Kanai, a collection stimulating the limits in people’s minds in order to reach their pure self in a spiritual journey. He’s been a senior designer for All Saints, recently passed in Arc’teryx technical gear.
Treasures of ITS Arcademy
Oscar Abades Lopez paid a tribute Freya Stark, one of the first women to travel on their own, in this portfolio: one f the most beautiful in our archive