Strategies for Future Ready Brands (A Design Perspective)
CONVERSATION
Hideaki Shikama: World of Discordance
“It is the designer’s role to create new
bridges between global cultures.”
CONVERSATION, ART
Interview with Nana Mandl & Herbert De Colle
Nana Mandl (b. 1991) and Herbert De Colle (b. 1978) are artists based in Vienna. Nana Mandl combines digital and analog worlds through collages, embroidery and textile manipulation, offering a tactile contrast to fast-paced digital imagery. Herbert De Colle references countercultural movements flattened by pop culture into labor-intensive public installations with renewed vigor. We visited their respective studios during Vienna Art Week and continued the conversation over email.
CONVERSATION, ART
Interview with Nana Mandl & Herbert De Colle
Nana Mandl (b. 1991) and Herbert De Colle (b. 1978) are artists based in Vienna. Nana Mandl combines digital and analog worlds through collages, embroidery and textile manipulation, offering a tactile contrast to fast-paced digital imagery. Herbert De Colle references countercultural movements flattened by pop culture into labor-intensive public installations with renewed vigor. We visited their respective studios during Vienna Art Week and continued the conversation over email.
CONVERSATION
KIKYO’s Infinite Charm
Sandra, accessory designer of the coquettishly whimsical Singaporean brand KIKYO, chats with Le Fool about comfort jewellry, SHUSHU/TONG, old magazines, coloured tights, the iconic Blair Waldorf, and seeing friends and family as the ultimate influencers. “Their lifestyle could be anything: indoor, outdoor, small or large group of friends, party or no party, makeup no makeup, introvert or extrovert. I’d love them to be content with their lives. :)”
By Miu Xia
01.17.2025
RUNWAY
Making Masculinity Cool Again
Koji Kamiya confidently builds his streetwear brand one transportation vehicle at a time
03.27.2025
RUNWAY
HENGDI WANG’s Shanghai Fashion Week Debut Imagines the Future Post-AI
Wang doesn’t hold all the answers, but the growing space the tech industry consumes, including the rapidly unsustainable takeover of artificial intelligence into our lives, is without question.
By Miu Xia
02.12.2025