Escama Blog: Keeping Tabs on Fashion Trends & Trendsetters – Page 17 – Escama Studio

Mar 04, 2014

Carnaval - Ala das Baianas

The 'Wing of Bahia' is considered one of the most important of the samba schools. Made of up ladies dressed in clothes reminiscent of old aunties from Bahia, the Wing of Bahia was introduced in the parade in the 1930s...

Mar 01, 2014

Welcome to the Sambadrome

It's Saturday night in Rio de Janeiro and Carnival is already in full swing. The annual Sambadrome spectacle begins tomorrow. What is Sambadrome? It's the annual Carnival competition of Rio's top samba dance crews. Costumes, floats, synchronized dancing, music, drumming,...

Jan 15, 2014

Where to Recycle Textiles in San Francisco

San Franciscans are big on recycling. Blue bins for recyclables, green compost bins for food scraps, brown bins for garbage destined for landfill. Still, according to the Department of the City and County of San Francisco, 4,500 pounds of textiles...

Jan 04, 2014

Brazil Recycled Art: Studio Swine's Mobile Foundry

Here is a design story that recently caught our attention. A London-based design studio called Studio Swine relocated to Brazil for several months and created housewares from discarded and recycled materials. One of the collections called 'Can City' involved creating...

Nov 25, 2013

Angel Chang's Fashion: 1,000 Years in the Making

In her young career as a fashion designer, Angel Chang has collaborated with top fashion houses using high tech materials to create futuristic fashion collections. It's interesting to see that over the past couple years she has gone very deep...