I wish I had know A Kind of Guise when I was living in Munich. Really… why didn’t that happen before? I have the feeling this German menswear label is one of those that a girl can easily borrow pieces from, too. Wouldn’t you, my dear ladies’ readers, love to get your man one...
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I began the week, without really knowing why, listening to some of my favourite songs by Buena Vista Social Club, and they’re quite a few, to be sincere. Thanks to the documentary Win Wenders released, in the late 90s’, I discovered the story behind this iconic Cuban band, although some...
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Munich-based brand A Kind of Guise opens on Thursday in Frankfurt a temporary boutique at Azita store (Münzgasse, 10) in which its summer collection A Few Days in Beirut will be available. On that same evening the brand will also introduce its latest project The Coloured Edition Bag, the perfect option to add a...
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The Kilim Project by Munich-based brand A Kind of Guise appears after a trip to the Middle East a couple of years ago in which they decided to gather traditional carpets from the Persian Gulf area. Now, after managing to get more than fifty of them -some even come from the beginning of the 19th...
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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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Designer Uta Koloczek has recently added some new designs to her already adorable collection of chihuahuas and other porcelain puppies. I can’t stop loving them. Considering all the movement in here, this might be the closer I can get to having a pet.
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La diseñadora Uta Koloczek ha añadido nuevos modelos a su ya...
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Now that our luggage is half-unpacked and that the new apartment still feels too new this seems the right moment to look back on the third volume of this, our chaptered life, in the city that, in my opinion, has better represented German tradition to date.
Munich is over, and so are the old...
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The touristic walks around Munich a couple of weeks ago took me to discover Nymphenburg Palace, built in mid 17th Century as the summer residence for the rulers of Baviera at that time, a little bit along the lines of well-known Sans Souci in Potsdam, near to Berlin.
The palace -surrounded by amazingly huge gardens,...
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My brother’s visit last week encouraged me to walk camera-in-hand all around Munich like a real beginner tourist. It is not that Munich is not nice enough to have taken my camera out before, actually it is a beautiful city, it is only that with so many city changes one loses the necessity of taking...
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Visual Diaries / Girls is a group exhibition, curated by Argentinian photographer Florencia Serrot whose work can also be found in the show.
Together with her, another ten artists from different countries -from England to China, from Finland to Mexico- all of them women, give shape to these visual diaries exhibited till next Saturday...
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“My trick consists in avoiding all tricks (…) The modern picture is, in almost every case, the result of cutting.”
M. Munkácsi
From being a reporter specialized in action sports in his native Hungary to becoming the official photographer of Harper’s Bazaar in New York, -including some time as a contributor for the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung...
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With the journey to Barcelona, the move to Munich and the desperate search of a new apartment (solved!) everything has been kind of messy in here lately, so now that everything seems to start falling into place again I would like to show you a little preview of some Spring pictures we took in...
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The ballroom of the Hotel Intercontinental in Paris where Talbot Runhof’s show took place was so stunning I had to take some pictures because I knew I wouldn’t have enough words to describe it. An atmosphere of 50’s glamour could be felt in the whole collection; lady-like cocktail dresses in chocolate brown, black and...
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