Archive for Octubre, 2011

Paris FW: Flash Trends — Mirror Nails

31 Octubre, 2011
By Tamara Martin
Paris FW: Flash Trends — Mirror Nails

In only three days, during last Paris Fashion Week, I saw them everywhere: on boys and girls, on hands and feet, with a bling-bling style or with a more underground one. The mirror-effect nails, in gold, silver or dégradé like these one, where all around. Obviously, I had to bring a photo, otherwise nobody...
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Safari Disco Club: Yelle & Jean Paul Lespagnard

29 Octubre, 2011
By Tamara Martin
Safari Disco Club: Yelle & Jean Paul Lespagnard

French singer Yelle is well known for her sweet catchy and danceable electro-pop, but also for wearing creations by designers as appropriate to her musical mood as Jean Charles de Castelbajac or Jeremy Scott. Today this video came to my mind, including two songs of her latest album Safari Disco Club released in the beginning...
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Jewels & Knits

28 Octubre, 2011
By Tamara Martin
Jewels & Knits

And in the position number two of always-effective combinations: thick knits and statement jewelry. To put into practice this weekend. ———- Y en el puesto número dos de combinaciones que nunca fallan: punto grueso y joyería contundente. A poner en práctica este fin de semana. Picture by Masha Mel Tweet This PostRelated Posts:Thick Knits and...
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German Press Days

28 Octubre, 2011
By Tamara Martin
German Press Days

During yesterday and today are taking place in Berlin the German Press Days, in the same building where Premium tradeshow takes place, too. National brands like Michalsky, Freitag, Juliaandben, Liebeskind Berlin o Reality Studio, among many others, are present there showing their collections for next summer. ———- Durante ayer y hoy se celebran en Berlín...
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A Kind of Guise

28 Octubre, 2011
By Tamara Martin
A Kind of Guise

A Kind of Guise is a brand created in Munich, a couple of years ago, that designs clothes for a natural and relaxed man who likes to look good using classics and not falling into stridencies; the combination of warmth and comfort results in high-quality leather accessories, cozy sweaters for winter and casual shirts...
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Baby’s on Fire

27 Octubre, 2011
By Tamara Martin
Baby’s on Fire

Australian label Stylestalker manages to give a new twist, season after season, to their desirable and attractive romanticism, shown in fluid silhouettes and ethereal fabrics. This time, their last collection Baby’s on Fire includes pastel shades and subtle prints. Delicate and discreet, like a pleasant silent purring. ———- La marca australiana Stylestalker consigue renovar, temporada tras...
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Montse Liarte Pops Up in Room Shop

27 Octubre, 2011
By Tamara Martin
Montse Liarte Pops Up in Room Shop

After the presentation of her first series of books, designer Montse Liarte settles down now in the store Room in Barcelona with a pop-up store that will last till Saturday. Three days to discover on first-hand Fractal, her proposal for this winter, to try her accessories under the name of Fly Limited Edition and,...
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Coveting Now: Green Leopard Scarf

26 Octubre, 2011
By Tamara Martin
Coveting Now: Green Leopard Scarf

I still can’t get over that mint green obsession. This leopard scarf is the latest victim joining my soon-to-buy list. ———- Aún no he podido superar la obsesión por el verde menta. Este foulard de leopardo es la más reciente incorporación a mi lista de futuras adquisiciones. Pic: Nimue Smit and Imaam by Petrovsky & Ramone. Glamour...
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Little Number — BOY

26 Octubre, 2011
By Andrés Aguilar
Little Number — BOY

I’ve been reminiscing about that feeling that you always get when you fly back into Barcelona and look out at the view through the window of the plane and see all the places you think you recognise. I have to say that the places I never forget are all of the big landmarks, that...
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Roberto Piqueras in Primitive Gallery

26 Octubre, 2011
By Tamara Martin
Roberto Piqueras in Primitive Gallery

The collections by Barcelona designer Roberto Piqueras grow in audacity and boldness season after season; colours and prints invade all his -unisex, in many occasions- garments inspired by sportswear, in a battle to death with discretion. That is why if I were in London I wouldn’t miss tomorrow, from 6 p.m. the presentation of...
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Voo Store

25 Octubre, 2011
By Tamara Martin
Voo Store

Voo store in Berlin is kind of hidden -in one of those so-typical courtyards in the German capital- in the number 24 in Oranienstrasse. When I discovered it the other day, visiting the pop-up store Primitive London had installed there, I couldn’t believe I had been missing that amazing spot for so long. The...
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I need to live more (so I can explain more things)

25 Octubre, 2011
By Tamara Martin
I need to live more (so I can explain more things)

I need to live more, so I can explain more things is one of the projects by Iñaki Álvarez, a Barcelona-based artist that builds visual poems from two images that may seem to have nothing in common at first sight but which, through an ingenious conceptual exercise reveal they were actually ideal partners, much...
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Absolut(ely)

24 Octubre, 2011
By Tamara Martin
Absolut(ely)

Absolut Mode Society has been running for its first month already and today Absolut Network looks back to how started this project I’m lucky enough to be part of -together with other Spanish bloggers- and which I talked to you about some weeks ago. Remember you can read me there too, once a month, and...
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Anna October – Pleat and Knit

24 Octubre, 2011
By Tamara Martin
Anna October – Pleat and Knit

In her collection for this winter Anna October keeps working on her always amazing and varied study of textures, mixing different tricot techniques in one garment. Also by adding kind of unexpected colour combinations where tradition -in camel, black or burgundy- meets the freshness of electric blue, lemon yellow or bright turquoise giving, Anna...
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Hits me like a Rock

22 Octubre, 2011
By Tamara Martin
Hits me like a Rock

Despite the cold weather we are still lucky enough to have pretty sunny days, so it is only a matter of wrapping up well with a good coat and going out to enjoy them as you should. Hits me like a rock, the latest single by Brazilian band Cansei de Ser Sexy -from their...
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From Russia with Love

21 Octubre, 2011
By Tamara Martin
From Russia with Love

Texan supermodel Jerry Hall in the Red Square in Moscow, portrayed by Norman Parkinson for Vogue in 1976, only fuels even more my longing for discovering Russia. ———- La supermodelo tejana Jerry Hall en la Plaza Roja de Moscú, retratada por Norman Parkinson para Vogue en 1976, solo aviva aún más mis ansias de conocer Rusia. Tweet...
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The Breed

21 Octubre, 2011
By Tamara Martin
The Breed

Daniel Schröder captures in a delightful way the most initiation pureness and minimal in The Breed, his latest amish inspired editorial for Sleeek Magazine which includes garments by, among others, the big leaders in the ‘less is more’: Raf Simons, Jil Sander, Acne y Céline. A lot of black with touches of grey, bottle green...
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Fashion, according to Suzy Menkes

20 Octubre, 2011
By Tamara Martin
Fashion, according to Suzy Menkes

Last month, Alex Fury had an interview for SHOWstudio with Suzy Menkes, one of the most charismatic and respected fashion editors in the whole fashion scene. The interview turned out to be -as expected- really interesting and it gives a glimpse of Menke’s vision about the world she works and lives in; a vision full...
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A Cold Walk in Thingvellir with Saga Sig

20 Octubre, 2011
By Tamara Martin
A Cold Walk in Thingvellir with Saga Sig

I had these images by Saga Sig, an Icelandic photographer based in London, somewhere in my computer since some months ago and today, totally by chance -and luckily- I have found them again. The pictures, which are part of an amazing editorial Saga lensed for the magazine published by Reykjavik Fashion Festival and in...
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The Perfect Red Mohair Sweater

19 Octubre, 2011
By Tamara Martin
The Perfect Red Mohair Sweater

I have just found out about Petra Collins’ work which, on one hand, I have totally loved and which, on another hand, has reminded me I never found the perfect red mohair sweater Nastassja Kinski was wearing in Paris-Texas and for which I was craving last winter. Ok, now that cold weather is back,...
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