“Beauty may be attractive, but ugliness is more fun,” said a New York Times critic after reading Umberto Eco’s book ‘On Ugliness’. Creative director Javier Lourenço agrees wholeheartedly. His website, The UncoolHunter, turns its back on the alluring and the beautiful in favour of the freakish, the pretentious, the cheap and the ridiculous.

The art of knitting is experiencing a renaissance. Where once associated only with grey-haired grandmothers and nightmarish visions of lumpy Christmas sweaters, it is now women under the age of 35 who are the craft’s fastest-growing market in the West. However, although firmly established in creative circles and as a popular pastime in Europe and the US, is the knitting phenomenon yet to hit Argentina?

‘El Buen Orden’ is gloriously chaotic. Contrary to the logical implications of its ironically chosen name (which literally translates as ‘The good order’), exploring this delightful San Telmo vintage store is an exercise entirely devoid of any method, structure or pattern. Crammed full of antiquated treasures, the shop is a trove of all that is kitsch, quirky and novel (and admittedly in many cases, utterly unnecessary).

Buenos Aires has a knack for blending the old with the new, and so do the city’s people. Argentine designer Aidana Baldassarre takes the concept a step further by creating masterpieces out of the city’s discarded materials. For seven years Baldassarre has been making wearable art out of recycled and reused materials to display at fashion shows and galleries, proving that no material should be thrown away.