Get ready for a department store peep show. IBM’s only dedicated fashion division, based in Milan, has launched a prototype “multisensory cabin” for shoppers that’s reminiscent of a coin-operated viewing machine equipped with a projector. About 10 fashionistas can gather in the small, dark box to see what’s behind the latest spring fashions. Wearing fold-up [...]
Mooo-velus, darling: 100 life-sized cows, each hand decorated by an artist, are grazing around Italy’s fashion capital. This one is by Thomas Berra (title: “There’s Confusion in the Meadow”) and makes its stance at Arco della Pace near Sempione park. Billed as the world’s largest public art event, the cattle started meandering in Zurich in [...]
A skeleton nearly 80 feet long reminds tourists and passersby of their mortality as they snap pictures of the Duomo or eat gelato. The installation is part of the city’s art fair, MiArt; the leg bone is connected to the hip bone in the courtyard of Palazzo Reale. Artist Gino De Dominicis, obsessed with his [...]
