Agatha Ruiz de la Prada

Agatha Ruiz de la Prada began her professional career in 1981 with a fashion show of her first collection in Madrid, in the new Design Center: LOCAL. Her stunning dresses were only sold in her store in Madrid. She was already exhibiting her clothes, hand-painted designs  in prestigious galleries in Madrid and Barcelona.

Agatha's electrique, colorful, soft, silly taste, is careful in her time: it explores the styles, shapes, materials and colors with a generosity and an unparalleled inventiveness. She also creates fashion accessories, perfumes, jewelry, shoes, toys, stationery, books, linens, home textiles, furniture, and even wine bottle lables ... Spain began to be coloured by Agatha.

Agatha is passionate about contemporary art and avant-garde artistic expression, it applies to her modern taste in fashion, but also by creating or working in many art events:

In 1998, she created an installation "Wedding Dress tiling for the IVAM (Valencian Institute of Modern Art).

The exhibition Homage to Chillida, a collection of dresses on the themes of the great Basque sculptor was on display at the National Museum Reina Sofia in Madrid in 1997 and the Würth Museum in Germany in 1999.

The exhibition "Arte e / o Moda" at the Milan Triennale in 2005, she took fashion to museums in the Design Biennial in Liege in 2006 and with "Color, dibujos y trajes" to the Foundation of La Caixa Barcelona in 2007.

Today, Agatha is an icon for using vivid colours and pure, geometric forms and an entire symbolic language consisting of hearts, clouds and flowers. She has created a unique identity that distinguishes her from many other designers.

 

Julieta Venegas & Gustavo Santaolalla - Algun Dia

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'The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed.... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitment is in the doing.'

                            - Garson Kanin

When a Muss becomes a Work of Art

Painting by Jackson Pollock, an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement.

Damien Hirst eccentric Art

"For the Love of God"

British artist Damien Hirst's human skull encrusted with 8,601 diamonds.

The artwork named “For the Love of God” was unveiled four years ago at London’s White Cube gallery and later sold to an anonymous investment group.

The skull fetched $100 million, but it was a private transaction and the fact that Hirst was part of the group of investors who bought it raised questions about its true value.

Encased in a layer of platinum and covered with diamonds, the skull has been exhibited around the world.

Slim invested 800 million dollars to build "Plaza Carso"

Mexican businessman Carlos Slim, possessor of one of the three mayor fortunes in the world, erected a satellite city of the Mexican capital with an investment of 800 million USD which will house 430 apartments, a shopping centre and a corporate building.

The real estate director of Grupo Carso, Alfonso Salem Slim, said the project includes development of 430 apartment units in three towers and a shopping centre, which will house the main group's stores: Sears, Sanborn, Mixup, and the Inbursa Bank.

At the site, located in the north side of Mexico City, a corporate building was built-up for some of the companies of Grupe Carso, a space fo the Museum Soumaya, a space that will house the collection of Jumex,  a first-class theater, and some 9,000 parking spaces.

According to the company, Plaza Carso was built over an area of 54,000 square meters of land and erected a whole is more than 500,000 square meters of construction.

The Mexican entrepreneur owns a conglomerate of companies in different industries led by telecoms giant Telmex.

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'Three hundred million hermits. That's the idea of the American Dream.'

 - Paolo Soleri

Woop woop

This one is for you, Eric :]

Be@rbrick!

Bearbrick is a collectible toy designed and produced by the Japanese company MediCom Toy Incorporated. The first figure was released 27 May 2001 as a free gift to visitors of the World Character Convention 12 in Tokyo. Bearbrick has been released in several different sizes and made in a variety of materials, including wood, felt and glow-in-the-dark plastic.

Bearbrick series include 18 figures in 10 different themes, which are constant from series to series:

Basic, Jellybean, Pattern, Flag, Horror, SiFi, Cute , Animal, Artist (Double).

Since its launch on the Japanese market, bearbrick has been one of the favourite items for animated figurine collectors around Japan and most importantly, around the world.
Otaku (おたく / オタク) is a Japanese term used to refer to people with obsessive interests, particularly anime, manda, and video games. This is quite a huge movement in Japan, but thanks to stores like Project 1/6, the necessitate is met. International collectors count with the internet to adquire their most precious tresures, or the many toy stores around the world.

Many contemporary artists and designers from around the world have designed figures.
Such examples, include H.R. Giger, Karl Lagerfeld, Vivienne Westwood, Fendi,  etc.