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Portofino, Italy's pearl: Swide mini-guide
In Liguria there is a place you will never forget if you visit, sheltered in the Tigullio Gulf, dotted with colourful houses and cradled by the sweet sound of the waves. Want to go? Here is what not miss.
Accentuating Colors in Home Décor
If you have seen any of the Spring 2011 fashions, you know that you need to say goodbye to your light pastels from years past and say hello to bright, hot, fearless colors.
Achieving a Light and Airy Room with Heavy Patterns
Interiors are being influenced by today’s tech-savvy graphic designers. More and more, graphic patterns are showing up in bedrooms and living rooms.
A tantalizing summer tan
James Read is the expert behind the newly launched tanning expert website: www.thetantalist.com. He has kindly given us some advice plus revealed the perfect summer tan kit.
Good morning and Good night
How you start and end a day is everything. Swide looks at some of the newest gadgets for your home that will keep you smiling from sunrise to sunset.
Culture whores: there's a red-light district in my museum
Just opened in London is an exhibition that the National Gallery hopes will move it into the contemporary: clever strategy or just whoring itself out?
Have a (beach)ball this summer
You know you need a summer holiday when even light fixtures look like beach balls. Conveniently however we've found a collection of beach ball lamps so we don't need to feel like desperate people anymore.
Test drive a prototype
Milan design week 2009 kicks off officially tomorrow. Swide intends to be out there (in the rain) finding the curious and the quirky. We kick off today with Italian bike producer Orco who are offering design-goers the opportunity to try out their new prototypes.
Red light design
Amsterdam’s famous red light district docks in Milan and move from the banks of the Dutch canals to the banks of Milan’s Naviglio Grande during Milan's Design Week that runs from April 22-27 2009. Swide gets a preview.
Your Search Results (9 articles found)
At 27, Dolce&Gabbana have achieved an impressive status, client base and cult following. The brand’s capacity to take the artistic traditions and aesthetic of Italy and make them their own is unsurpassable and highly romantic to fashion lovers. Their idiosyncratic designs, ironic take on classic dress and the brand’s emblematic items have all contributed in making Dolce&Gabbana a household name. For this instalment of our archive lead considerations of what makes up the Dolce&Gabbana DNA we concentrate on maybe one of the strongest statement the designers have made over the years: the corset.
When I was a child, my parents used to take me to a little village, where we would have almond “granita” and collect fresh water form a little drinking fountain, afterwards. This little place is called Scopello and it was time for me to return to my childhood and explore as an adult.
The scenario is…you are only in London for 24hrs. This doesn’t have to mean being stuck in your hotel wanting but not knowing what to do. Enlightened travellers continually ask the question - What would a Londoner do? Have no fear Luxury London is here…
There’s no need to go far afield to exotic locations to find adventure. In recent years adventures have been rediscovering urban winders right on our very doorsteps. Urban Exploration, known also as Urbex or UE, is an (often illegal) activity that explores unseen or unknown sights in the urban environment.
It appears that Ivan Olita’s scouting has led him straight to New York City’s very own scout, a movie location scout to be exact. Nick Carr’s job means that he gets to explore every nook and cranny that NYC has to offer, allowing him to discover the hidden details that many wouldn’t see. Ivan Investigates…
Whilst collaborating with Swide for The Matt Silk Collection SS12 video, Luca Finotti gave us the chance to get him in front of the camera for an exclusive interview. Whether it’s talking about his love affair with the camera, his views on what ‘ugly is’ or how he keeps himself sane, the up and coming fashion director was as natural in front of the camera as he is behind it.
The Cannes Film Festival is the epitome of European high glamour on the French Riviera. Sun, surf and…suits. Swide catches three stars who put their best foot forward in Dolce&Gabbana. Gerard Butler, Mathew McConaughey and Zac Efron got suited up to face the onslaught of press photographers that infest every event at Cannes.
Kylie Minogue has had a very very good week indeed. Sparkling brighter than ever at the Cannes Film Festival premier of ‘Holy Motors’, wearing Dolce&Gabbana, and then causing explosive reaction throughout the internet when her new single and video ‘Timebomb’ was dropped today.