Gardening (Terrariums)

Twig

These in-a-glass work are created by Michelle Inciarrano and Katy Maslow from Twig.


Each terrarium contains a mini-ecosystem mimicking a landscape/scenery with interesting scenario. These tiny worlds are formed using miniature mosses and succulents and often little miniature figurines/props are added to bring out the theme/story.

http://twigterrariums.com/

Fashion Illustration

Michael Sanderson

He is a New York based fashion illustrator who is famous for his series of work with Burkman Bros' collections. He has his own self-produced magazine entitled Birche magazine. With Birche, a fully illustrated online publication, Michael is able to embrace his signature sense of aesthetics while encouraging others to do the same.

http://birche-mag.blogspot.com/

Fashion Design (Men's Shoes)

Mark McNairy

He (born March 8, 1971 in North Carolina) is an American fashion designer who was the former creative director for the Ivy Leage inspired clothing company J. Press. Currently, he has his own collection line simply known as Mark McNairy New Amsterdam. Under this label, he has an impressive collection of men’s shoes which are suavely designed with quirky touch.

http://markmcnairy.com/

Chinese Painting

Wu Guanzhong (吴冠中)

Wu Guanzhong (August 29, 1919 – June 25, 2010) is a contemporary Chinese painter widely recognized as the father of modern Chinese painting. Wu had painted various aspects of China, including much of its architecture, plants, animals, people, as well as many of its landscapes and waterscapes in a style reminiscent of the impressionist painters of the early 1900s. He was also a writer on contemporary Chinese art.

Current Exhibition
Seeing the Kite Again

又见风筝：吴冠中捐赠作品展
Runs through 12 November 2012
Singapore Art Museum

'This exhibition, entitled Seeing the Kite Again, is inspired by the late master Wu Guanzhong’s metaphor of a kite and how it expresses the connection between an artist, his life and the people around him. By bridging Chinese and Western aesthetics, Wu blazed the trail for the modernisation of Chinese art. In 2008, the internationally acclaimed artist donated his largest gift of 113 important works to the National Heritage Board. Selected paintings from the donation has been presented since 2009 by the National Art Gallery, Singapore. The current exhibition showcases some of Wu’s most outstanding works produced from 1960s to 2000s in the oil and ink medium.'

Wood Sculptures

The Duramen Series by Bonsoir Paris

The Duramen Series, designed by French duo Remy Clemente and Morgan Maccari of Bonsoir Paris, consists of  wooden sculptures that allow the mind to visualize an objects form that has been twisted from its original skeleton. Each piece, in the shape of a picture frame, was transformed to a point where they couldn’t properly function and almost unrecognizable. The choice of noble materials (Oak, Fir, Wenge, Pear, Linden) and the quest for finesse, enables them – with the DURAMEN series – to position themselves on the razor’s edge between two opposites, that of the deformed and that of the elegant, instinctive and thoughtful.

Illustration

Katie Scott

She illustrates plants, creatures with scientific and anatomical precision. Some of her projects explored biological hybridisation with fantastical anatomy and Haeckel-esque curiosity.

http://katie-scott.tumblr.com/

Fashion/Personality

Iris Apfel

She (born August 29, 1921) is an American interior designer and fashion icon who has studied art history at New York University and attended art school at the University of Wisconsin. In 1948, she married Carl Apfel. Two years later they launched the textile firm Old World Weavers and ran it until they retired in 1992. During this time, Iris Apfel took part in several design restoration projects, including work at the White House for nine presidents: Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Reagan, and Clinton.

In 2005, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City premiered an exhibition about Apfel titled Rara Avis (Rare Bird): The Irreverent Iris Apfel. The exhibit's success prompted a traveling version of the exhibit, which included stops at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida, the Nassau County Museum in Nassau County, New York, and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.

Here is a quotation from our fashion Icon regarding accessories : “For me the key to personal style lies in accessories. My friends tell me that my oversized glasses and my pairs of bracelets have become my unwritten signature. I have amassed an enormous ‘collection’ of bags, belts, bangles and beads without which I would be lost. One can change the entire look of an outfit by substituting one accessory for another. I love objects from different worlds, different eras, combined my way. Never uptight, achieving – hopefully – a kind of throwaway chic.” Iris Apfel.

Apfel still consults and lectures about style and other fashion topics.