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Fashion

Spring/Summer 2016 Fashion Week directions: Part 1

LS:N Global examines the design directions that defined the season.

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Fashion

Bauhaus Boom

Bauhaus is hard to characterise – put simply, it was an art school. But more than an art school it was a philosophy for artists who were searching for meaning in a time of uncertainty between the World Wars. Now, in a post-recessionary era of fluctuation, Bauhaus is back.

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Design

Bauhaus Dessau

For fans of architecture and design, it doesn’t get bigger than Bauhaus. The German design school launched the careers of design greats Joseph and Anni Albers, Herbert Bayer and Marcel Breuer, and with them one of the most important design movements of the 20th century.

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Travel & Hospitality

Bauhaus living: Museum opens old accommodation

Dessau-Rosslau, Germany – The Bauhaus design movement is one of the most prominent of the 20th century. Now fans can spend a night in former dormitories at the Bauhaus School at Dessau and imagine what it was like to be a student there, learning about the power of simplicity and geometry in the 1920s.

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Culture & Media

Hue me: 1960s colour theory book goes digital

US – Bauhaus artist and academic Josef Alber’s textbook Interaction of Color was first published in 1963 and has long been considered a colour theory bible for designers and artists. Now, to celebrate its 50th anniversary, New York design firm Potion, in collaboration with The Josef & Anni Albers Foundation and Yale University Press, have brought…