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Masataka Hosoo, innovator and president of HOSOO, a Kyoto-based traditional kimono textile maker, is bringing Nishijin-ori weaving techniques and textiles to the forefront of the design and fashion scenes worldwide. TLmag sat down with him to talk about HOSOO Studies: an ongoing R&D project that aims to create a modern perspective surrounding the relationship between human beings and textiles since ancient times.

With a focus on rare materials and a certain savoir-faire, the Paris based duo Garnier & Linker created the Diatomée Vases. The inspiration was formed by light-absorbing molecules, indeed, the vases gently illuminate a host of colors and veins.

Each reflecting on their own interpretation of their medium of choice, crystal, eight distinct crafts(wo)men present the results of their residency-time at Cristallerie Saint-Louis with Fondation d’enterprise Hermès.

Recently Galerie Nathalie Obadia presented Miss Rankin by Benoît Maire’s, whose practice is at the crossroads between philosophy and art.