Archive for Diciembre, 2011

Steven Meisel is the one in charge of portraying the flames and car motifs of the latest collection by Prada in its campaign for next Spring/Summer season and, in a burst of literality, he takes Miuccia’s girls -among flowers, lace, pastel colours, pleats and retro mood- to a glamourous road trip to a gas...
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What is it that makes knitwear so poetic? Claudia from Knittaluv needs an average of fifty hours for every sweater she knits. Fifty hours for a garment, exclusively conceived and knitted for you: a real luxury in these times of massive and merciless consumerism. Since those days in which my grandma used to knit...
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Once again Espai Gallery in Barcelona holds a collective exhibition to celebrate the end of the year and the holiday season. Since gathering with friends and family is the expected these days, they have decided to got there first and invited them all this evening to the opening of the exhibition Nadal 2011 ...
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Erlend Øye is still getting away with it, as a member of Kings of Convenience and as the frontman for The Whitest Boy Alive, he is now producing the latest album by a band with a name that is unpronounceable in my vocabulary: Kakkmaddafakka. It consists of some young guys from Bergen that Erlend...
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The presentation of the new bag collection by maison Dior takes us this time to a luxurious mansion in the hills of Los Ángeles. After Paris, New York, Shanghai and London, Lady Dior adventures move now to sunny California where Marion Cotillard, tired of all the frenzy, decides to end her tedious duty and...
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VUU is a New York based collective -although it also includes members from Berlin, Sweden or Finland- that aims to spread the word about the work of different emerging artists. With this purpose they organize this year, for second time in a row, the exhibition VUU II in K&K gallery in Brooklyn, including works...
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Eight artists work around the idea of how complex is actually the reality that surrounds it, for simple it may seems sometimes. Pieces by Ahmed, Alexander Dahmen, Clemens Behr, Dominik Wieschermann, Herr Orm, K 110, Robert Matzke and Sabrina Karakatsanis give shape to Simple is Rare, the exhibition that started last Friday in Neurotitan...
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A new British label joins that relaxed coolness of fluid lines and desirable dresses, long pleated skirts and military-inspired parkas, shirts that turn into flowing capes, subtle transparencies and strategic cut-outs; all these and even more, in the first collection by Three Floor. ———- Una nueva firma británica se suma al cool relajado de líneas fluidas...
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Simple is Rare opens today in Neurotitan Gallery in Berlin; a group exhibition that gathers the works by Clemens Behr, Dominik Wieschermann o Sabrina Karakatsanis, among others and which, through different formats like painting, video-art, photography and illustration, give shape to a giant collective installation. ———- Simple is Rare abre esta tarde en Neurotitan Gallery en...
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Jim Mangan is an American photographer that, after a long professional career in the skateboarding scene decided, instead of chosing, joining both of his passions. This election has recently given place to his latest book named Winter’s Children, which is a beautiful collection of images aiming to show the true spirit of this sport....
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Ok, we are almost ending the year and my fever for green shades hasn’t gone away yet. And my necessity of having a proper bag hasn’t been fulfilled, either. Obviously, the union of these two facts make of this design, by Barcelona-based artisanal brand Lubochka, one of my new ideal candidates. ———- Bueno, a punto de...
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For next summer, French menswear label De Fursac has let itself go with the unstoppable retro flow that seems to invade everything these days and which looks specially flattering in their suits, in particular. With Alain Delon in the 60s’ movie Plein Soleil as stylistic reference, the collection combines garments with a more casual...
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Definitely, if there is an incombustible couple in the fashion industry, it has to be Rodarte sisters, who not only design their own collections but, if necessary, they can also create the attires for the ballet in Black Swan, an special collection for Opening Ceremony or even release a book. Rodarte. Catherine Opie. Alec...
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If the work by Icelandic photographer Saga Sig is, on one hand, exceptionally amazing and, on the other hand, the one by her compatriot designer and illustrator Hildur Yeoman is so, too, what could be the result of the union of these two talents? The answer is named Hamskipti, which means metamorphose in Icelandic,...
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Rob is a twenty-something guy who lives in Brooklyn and who has recently broken up with his girlfriend. Well, it actually has been his girlfriend the one who has broken up with him, that’s why he can’t get used to the idea nor finding his own place on the peculiar -but always exciting- single...
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A carpet with exuberant vegetation, a retro suitcase and a pineapple on the stool of a bar during the first twenty seconds of the video New York-based designer Dana Lee has created to present her new collection, for next summer, leave pretty clear what this is going to be about: we are traveling to...
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With the idea of capturing the most significative daily moments of his Belgian compatriots, photographer Stephan Vanfleteren traveled all over his country portraying people and landscapes; a touching homage that takes shape in the forty images of the exhibition Belgicum which can be visited through next February in Hilaneh von Kories Galerie in Hamburg....
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If not so long ago we were talking in here about the new look book we had just received by Nordics Happy Socks and we just mentioned how well they manage to refresh themselves every time, what we just got now testifies each and every single of our previous words. Irreverent photographer Terry Richardson...
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My mind tends to disperse sometimes. No, lots of times, I must state. I try to find some remedy, try not to get lost in ramblings but, every day I go to bed thinking that tomorrow I will lose time no more. Always tomorrow, but, what should I say? I have only achieved to...
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After graduating in the Superior School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg, Lucie Saint-Leu decided to settled down in Hyères to create her own jewelry label four years ago. Her pendants and earrings, which normally take shape through little motifs that vary according to the mood of the collection -in the latest one it’s all...
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