Right in time for Valentine's Day Dodo presents 100% Amore in the favourite colour of all girls. The heart-shaped solitaire comes in rose, fuchsia and flamingo-pink and you can choose between a ring with one or 14 little hearts. Fitting earrings and choker are also available. You better be quick if you just fell in love with the jewelry because last time the 100% Amore collection was introduced it was sold out pretty soon.
For fall/winter 2012 Burberry Prorsum presents us 'The Gentlemen', a sharp collection you can easily imagine a modern Sherlock Holmes wearing. Christopher Bailey created a perfect mix of traditional British style with modern influences and showed fitted, tailored suits, various trench coats and bomber jackets and tapered trousers. The suits were either buttoned up for a classic look completed with shirt and tie or worn unbuttoned with sweaters that came with discreet yet eye-catching graphic prints. There's no Burberry Prorsum collection without outstanding outwear and the brands heart and key piece the trench coat was presented in its classic form as well as some oversized ones. Aside from the trench coats there were also double-breasted, fitted wool coats which are simply perfect for 'The Gentlemen' and bomber jackets that also came in cropped versions. Bailey showed colour blocking in a more subtle way in form of geometrical shapes and stripes on sweaters and the bottom of some coats. Other sweaters and shirts came with beaded owls and foxes and animal prints. The looks were accessorized with umbrellas that have animal head handles, brogues, lace-up derby shoes, cases, holdalls, flat caps, college stripe and polka dot neck ties. As usual you can order the collection instantly on Burberry.com
0039 Italy wishes all love birds a 'Buon San Valentino'. Right in time for the 14th February the label presents a selection of romantic, dreamy styles from their spring/summer 2012 collection for the perfect Valentine's date.
Another new Twitter find of mine is Spoken Heart Couture a label that was founded in 2010 in New York City. I think their collection of hand printed Tees rocks and they also have some really cool jewelry pieces - everything inspired by dreams, love and rock 'n' roll. For more visit shcouture.com
I discovered Welsh artist Badge via Twitter and as I have thing for art that others might find disturbing I decided to feature some of Badge's work on The Good, The Bad and The Divine. According to the artist himself his work is a mix of his own memories, experiences and fears together with visions from his nightmares, images culled from popular culture, music, literature and his current obsessions, theories and ideas. Badge has always had trouble sleeping and nightmares plagued him when he was a child. Insomnia has led to an inability to tell dream and reality apart. As he got older the nightmares stopped but the insomnia didn't and he finds himself constantly thinking and unable to switch off. His work is driven by a compulsion to draw and an attempt to recreate the contents of his head and try to make sense of it. Anatomy and fear are two of his biggest inspirations and his fascination with them manifests itself in the vast majority of his work.
With his work Badge is currently exploring the urban legend of dolls being able to come to life at night, an irrational fear that played a large role in his childhood nightmares, aided by the popularity of films like 'Child's Play' and his own over active imagination. Looking back as an adult he began to apply science and logic to these fears and discovered the theory about Barbie's. It's been determined that due to Barbie's disproportionate figure if she were real she would die instantly, so he began to investigate this idea by transferring a human skeleton onto a Barbie and sure enough he struggled with the proportions. It kickstarted a series of 'doll autopsies' using medical science to quell his childhood fear of dolls and also to examine to ideas of beauty, childhood hope/fears, mortality, death and life that we project onto dolls.
The images you'll find below are from a series called 'Down at the bottom of the garden'. Badge photographed the dolls on a sunny day wandering through a garden, it was a nod to films like 'Stepford Wives' and 'The Virgin Suicides' where everything is not as it seems under that perfect facade. If you like to see more of Badge's work then visit his page badgemakesart.co.uk or his blog badgemakesart.blogspot.com.
032c WORKSHOP / Joerg Koch presents "Never Gonna Give You Up", a selection of portraits from photographer Alasdair McLellan's "Lads" series (2001-2011). Born in the north of England in 1974, McLellan studied photography at the University of Nottingham. Today, he’s based in London, but his hometown of Doncaster is never far behind in his work. McLellan’s portraits of young male locals are infused with the strange pallor and virility of the region – a region whose contrasts are mirrored in the “Lads’” closely but roughly cropped hair, or their immediate yet sensuous gazes. Appropriately, McLellan counts his fellow northerner Morrissey among his major influences: both emerged from a background of an English realism as outspoken as it is full of longing. As a photographer whose work is so deeply imbued in his regional roots, McLellan also found formative inspiration in the work of Bruce Weber, who hails from a similarly industrial area on the other side of the Atlantic. Growing up in the late 80s, McLellan envisioned his boyhood friends featured in a magazine in the same iconic way he saw in Weber’s photography in titles like Sky, The Face and Interview. “I wanted to take the people I knew and cast them in the media I was exposed to.” McLellan is a veteran contributor to 032c, where he has published both fashion editorials and portrait series – often provocatively blurring the line between the two. His work has meanwhile appeared in campaigns for brands such as Giorgio Armani, Calvin Klein, Supreme, and publications such as i-D, Arena Homme +, multiple international editions of Vogue, and The New York Times.
032c Workshop / Joerg Koch is an exhibition space located in Brunnenstraße 9 in Berlin. Centered around an eight-meter-long vitrine designed by Konstantin Grcic, its programming features several exhibition series, exploring the idea of the archive, the auteur, or the unseen. "Never Gonna Give You Up" will open on January 12th and end on February 20th, 2012.
King Peter Vodka and Maria Reyes teamed up for an exclusive video titled 'Cinèma'. The provocative video has been inspired by the 1920's, the time of the Charleston dance, and shows the Spanish singer/model Maria Reyes singing, dancing and acting - a mix of choreographies and sexy attitudes. The video speaks about love, the love that everybody has seen on the big screen productions of black and white movies. Love in every aspect, fun, free and sexual. 'Cinèma' has been composed by Emmanuelle Lehma, a musician and artist that has worked with Carlos Jean, Rosario Flores and Nawja Nimri and was produced by NewAttitude Productions. King Peter Vodka is a very exclusive vodka which is distilled five times to ensure its flavour and scent will be conserved. Its raw material comes from Dankowskie gold rye which can only be cultivated in plains in Poland.
ActuallySHOP is a new online store based in Singapore which opened today. After 6 years of making the scene in Singapore the concept store ACTUALLY decided to open an online store to make sure their customers can shop in their favourite store 24/7 from wherever they are internationally. ACTUALLY supports international and Asian designers and they also have an online mag actuallyMAG.com for our personal reading pleasure.
It's only a month and a few more days until Valentine's Day and for this occasion the house of Yves Saint Laurent introduced a special edition of its iconic Arty Ring. The gold model is decorated with a cabochon in fuchsia glass and a delicate 'Love' engraving. For more visit ysl.com
NOA NOA's neue Spring Collection 2011 ist online! Weiterlesen ...
Unser neuer Online-Shop hat eröffnet und wir möchten Dich herzlich einladen, nach neuen Styles zu stöbern... www.wunderhübsch.com
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Hier geht's zur neuen Noa Noa Autumn Kollektion
Wunderschön leichte Stoffe in pudrigen Pastellfarben zeigt Noa Noa in der französisch inspirierten High Summer Kollektion und versetzt uns in das Gefühl, uns im romantischen Sommerurlaub in Südfrankreich zu befinden…
Würdet ihr jetzt auch gern in Südfrankreich sein? Dann bitte hier entlang.
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A new Blog is born! Vor kurzem ist Sandra mit Ihrem Blog in die Blogger-Szene gestartet - nicht nur, dass sie uns täglich mit Fashionthemen versorgt, Sandra macht das Ganze auch noch auf Englisch und zieht somit auch schon das erste Interesse aus Übersee auf sich. Sandra ist 25 und kommt aus dem Süden der Republik - Stuttgart nennt sie ihr Zuhause und ihre Einstellung zum deutschen Modemarkt deckt sich nicht nur mit unserer, sondern diese Einstellung von Sandra motiviert uns sehr, mit unserem Projekt weiter voran zu treiben. |
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| Als einen unserer ersten ShopScouts möchten wir heute den Fashionblog Allet-ohne-Schminke vorstellen. Hinter dem Fashionblog agieren Annika und Camilla aus Berlin. Camilla ist 25 und Annika 22, beide kommen aus Berlin und helfen uns schon seit den ersten Stunden, unser Projekt Danish Daughters in die Tat umzusetzen. Erleichternd kommt hinzu, dass Annika's familiäre Wurzeln bis nach Dänemark reichen und sie eine liebe Oma hat, welche neben der dänischen Mode immer wieder ein Grund ist nach Dänemark zu fahren. Camilla hat das Mode-Gen von ihren weiblichen Familienmitgliedern eingepflanzt bekommen und verfügt aufgrund ihres beruflichen Backgrounds über ein ausgezeichtes Gespür für visuelle Medien. Spezialität und Highlight der beiden, sind die berühmt berüchtigten Shoppingtouren quer durch Europa. Immer dabei ihre Handy's mit Videofunktion und ausreichend Speicherkarten. So ausgestattet, drehen die beiden verdeckt die Hotspots in den verschiedenen Städten, nehmen Modetrends auf und berichten regelmäßig in ihrem Fashionblog über die "in&outs". Diese kleinen Berichte sind eine herrlich erfrischende Art, Stadt, Leute und natürlich auch ihren Geschmack für Mode kennenzulernen. Mehr hier http://allet-ohne-schminke.blog.de |
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Hinter Vio verbirgt sich Violetta - aber die Kurzform ist ihr lieber! Vio ist 27 und kommt aus Duisburg und komplettiert somit unsere ShopScout-Aktivitäten von der fünfzehntgrößten Stadt Deutschlands aus. Das finden wir schon deshalb erwähnenswert, da das Ruhrgebiet neben den großen Metropolen wie Berlin, Hamburg, München oder Köln oftmals stiefmütterlich behandelt wird. Daher freuen wir uns umso mehr, mit Vio einen Local Hero an Bord zu haben und hoffentlich viel mehr über die Region sowie ihre Shopping und Lifestyle Szene zu erfahren. Wenn Vio nicht studiert, dann arbeitet sie nebenbei in einem Plattenladen - neben Mode, ihre zweite Leidenschaft - und berichtet darüber regelmäßig in Ihrem Blog. Seit einigen Jahren fährt sie mit Ihrem Freund Richtung Dänemark und deckt sich dort mit angesagten, dänischen Marken ein, die es teilweise noch nicht in Deutschland gibt - Vio, das werden wir doch ändern! Dort hat sie auch unser Label Modström für sich entdeckt und wir sind uns sicher, sie wird auf einer der nächsten Reisen noch mehr "Schätze" finden. In Ihrem Blog haben wir die Chance, mehr über Vio und ihre Leidenschaften für Mode und Musik zu erfahren. Mehr hier http://www.kickupthefire.net/ |