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Lots -lots- of years ago, it came into my hands a video about Naomi Campbell’s career; yes, it was so detailed it even talked about her bright incursions in other fields beside the modelling one; read, the literally and the musical ones. I saw it, I saw it more than once, I must confess,...
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With a new edition of the -recently renamed- Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Madrid about to start in a few hours, Estel Vilaseca from “it fashion and colleague in the project Absolut Mode Society shares with us a very especial interview with the designers of three of the most promising shows of this season. In...
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The mix of earrings Lindsey Wixson’s wearing, in the latest editorial by Will Davidson for Muse magazine, makes my most teenage need of piercing my whole ear come to life again. It never happened -and, very probably, it never will- but, even today, sometimes, I am still a big fan of things like this. ———- La...
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I may have heard to fast to Lana del Rey’s songs or maybe the thing is that the video by Yoann Lemoine does real good to Born to Die, new single from the homonym album by the latest musical sensation because, the very first time I heard it I didn’t pay that much attention...
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It it not that my repertory of gifts is specially wide, to be sincere, although if there is one I display the most is the opportunity one. Oh, yes! What a big gift, this one of mine! The one that lets me spend four months in Berlin enduring eternal rains and that, on the...
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I hate waits, uncertainty and undefined departure dates. Let’s not talk about undefined destinations, of course. It may be because of that I suddenly felt so moved by the first image of the next campaign by Danish brand Rascals’; the staring look, the restrained sigh, looking through the fence watching planes take off. And...
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When you get used to the good things -yes, those ones that are so easy to get used to- you may forget how good they are. After a month without even seeing the sun in Berlin, coming back to Barcelona and enjoying another month of sun makes me worry about our next destination. Now...
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Photographer Deborah Turbeville is the one in charge of, not only portraying the last campaign by Valentino for next summer but also of recreating that new universe that, thanks to Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli, aims to refresh and rejuvenate the iconic Italian house. Since the ones who had been in charge...
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Dutch model Kim Noorda is the new face of the Resort’11 collection by Australian label Ellery. After studying Fashion Design in Perth, taking some courses in Central Saint Martins and being part of the editorial team of the amazing magazine Russh for the last four years, Kym Ellery has managed to make out of...
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The end of 2011 was quite hectic, to be sincere; as a tradition, when the year is about to end I always have the dizzy feeling that the days rush without control and that, suddenly, the last weeks of the years pass in the wink of an eye, to leave no doubts: time flies....
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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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With only four days left to leave Berlin and going back to Barcelona for the Christmas holidays, the beautiful editorial The Full Brazillian, by Angelo Pennetta with Raquel Zimmermann -for T Style- drinking coconut water in the heavenly beaches of Fernando de Noronha in Brazil, reminded me today that I am a step closer...
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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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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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Sometimes, with the overdose of stimulus one can receive on the internet, it can seem difficult to find something that stands out enough as to catch your attention longer than thirty seconds. You know, some days I have this feeling, sometimes it feels I have seen everything already somewhere before. There are also days...
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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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