Liberatum will hold it’s first Hong Kong International Festival & Summit from 27th-29th April 2012. Liberatum Hong Kong will bring together international cultural icons, creative leaders and acclaimed artistic minds to Hong Kong to connect them with their counterparts in Asia through an original and captivating programme. Liberatum aims to celebrate contemporary Hong Kong culture and the modern face of the city. After the great success of Liberatum festivals in   Read More ...

Claudio Parentela is an Italian jack of all trades, illustrator, painter, photographer, cartoonist, and journalist who has been active in the underground scene. His work has been featured in tons of magazines, comics and publications and exhibited in galleries around the world. I especially love his whimsical pop art montage collection. Greatest Inspirations or Influences?  My life inspires me to create work. Being an artist is wonderful work since I   Read More ...

Phantosmia -all but the smell Dillon Gallery exhibited scent sculptures developed by Christophe Laudamiel that express key moments in his perfumery life declaring scent is it’s own form of art.  The installation featured seven independent microcosms ( tents), each representing a specific olfactory trip: At Your Own Risk, Fear, Fragile, The Last Virgin, The Monkey and the Banana, Remembrance of Things Lost and my favorite- The Whip and The Orchid   Read More ...

|HOLST + LEE| is a New York City based fashion collaboration between designers Natalie Holst and Rochelle Lee. Stemming from the South, both moved North to cultivate their life-long backgrounds in Art, Fashion, and Culture. The two met and flourished while working in the hub of New York’s nightlife. Upon meeting, they soon discovered they shared a creative passion, through which a strong friendship and unique artistic outlet was formed. Drawing   Read More ...

I really enjoyed  Myra Gallerie’s exhibition during Art Basel titled  ” Comunist Dictator Visiting Miami” by artist Pete Kirill ( 1974), who is based in Miami. Kirill is a graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he studied fine art and design. In 2000, Pete began collaborating with the Cuban music group, Sin Palabras in Havana, where he spent the next several years participating in cultural endeavors and gaining a unique   Read More ...

In love with the playful feminine collection with original artwork and print of Brooklyn based designer Margarita Saplala. The designer was born in Manila, Philippines, before moving to Chicago with her family at the age of 2, where she ultimately studied fashion design at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. After working as a freelance designer in New York for larger corporations such as Banana Republic, Gap, Guess   Read More ...

“Running Through Museums” ( out on Feb 13th) by The Burlinson|Whitten Trio can be considered a watershed moment in music — both for its insignificance as well as it’s artistry. For sampling the 13 handcrafted songs could lead you to discover something both pleasurable and thought-provoking within their disparate grooves.  The lyrics are also not your standard pop fare, with allusions to Kerouac, Gandhi, and Nietzsche.  Will it change the   Read More ...

Nomad Chloe Garcia Ponce was born in Mexico, but grew up in Geneva and Paris, since her father was the Mexican ambassador to these countries. The family then moved to N.Y because her father was appointed the Mexican ambassador to the UN. Chloe attended NYU, studying painting and intaglio printing, French, Italian and Latin American Literature. She later worked at Sotheby’s in the Latin American department, then moved into fashion   Read More ...

I talked to organizational expert Justin Klosky, founder of  O.C.D. Experience, a lifestyle company that brings order and simplicity through a variety of services and practiced discipline. Justin’s simplistic guidance empowers his clients to gain control of their surroundings while creating a seamless and efficient lifestyle. I asked him to give us some tips after watching a segment he did on the Anderson Cooper show. He is also co founder of   Read More ...

  Had I gone somewhere warm and exotic for New Years, I would’ve surely packed  a bunch of cool, gypset style Valdez accessories! I absolutely love the brand created by Gabriela Goldbaum who graduated from Istituto Marangoni in Milan for Fashion Design. She later  moved to New York and interned for designers Zac Posen and Carlos Campos. Gabriela has always been a fan of Ecuadorian crafts so she began exploring all   Read More ...