The first time I knew I was going to ride a horse, with the emotion typical of my eight-years-old, I pictured myself, the night before, riding through green pastures and endless fields. Reality was a close premise in which a tired pony walked in circles while I digested my own frustration on its back....
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Oukan71 is a concept-store that opened its doors recently in Kronenstrasse, 71, in Berlin, mixing vanguardist design with zen decoration. You can read my article about the opening of the shop for Absolut Mode Society in here.
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Oukan71 es una concept-store que abrió recientemente en el número 71 de Kronenstrasse, en Berlín y que...
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The apparently simple and clean shapes by Italian designer Roberta Furlanetto actually hide an intricate job of pleats and tucks, of cute ruffles and subtle asymmetries; the surprise factor on the side of a dress can include a pleating contrasting with the -only at first sight- austere pattern, like a floor-lenght evening gown can...
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Last night was the evening of the British Fashion Awards, you know, these prizes that recognize the work of the most prominent talents of the British fashion scene: ok, I don’t really know how necessary that explanation was, given the clarifying name of the awards themselves.
These prizes, which awarded yesterday Victoria Beckham as best Designer...
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Once again, italian brand Prada presents its winter collection with an amazing look-book named Real Fantasies AW 11 which, escaping from digitalization and vanguardist technologies, chooses to realize a photomontage in a more artisanal and intuitive way.
Resorting to traditional and literal cut and paste, the production takes shape through collages and cutouts, creating...
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If I have some unresolved matter on this life, it must be learning how to knit; well, I sure may have more matters than this one but, today, let’s focus on the knitting thing. When I studied, one could learn the techniques in the school, experiment and also knit, although the process always...
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The plasticity with which Nina Nolte -this artist born in El Salvador but based in Germany at the moment- portrays her aquatic scenes is almost alive and it is just this quality of almost-but-not-really what makes them even more intriguing; what are the lives of the women portrayed in her series The best is...
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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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The good thing about the omnipresence of internet is that, wherever you are, there’s no reason for you to miss this consumerist US fever after Thanksgiving Day, named Black Friday and which represents amazing pre-Christmas discounts that the rest of the world was missing before the cybernetic revolution.
Lingerie brand Oysho is offering, only...
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I don’t really get such intriguing emails that often, like the one that included the video and campaign from Odyssey Collection, the latest proposal by Nordic jewellery brand Bjørg. Despite the characteristic suggestive esoteric mood surrounding their creations, either for their tendency to the imaginery of the most classical witchcraft sometimes or, other times,...
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Today we woke up with one of those ugly stories we don’t like to receive at all; Anna and Macarena, the designers behind Barcelona-based label El Delgado Buil, have just announced the end of the brand.
The clearance sale in their shop last August already raised some suspicions and although I, honestly, harbored hopes that they...
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So in the mood for something as bold as the silver Eternal ring with quartz by übercool Australian jewellery brand Maniamania…
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Estoy muy de humor para algo tan contundente como el anillo Eternal, en plata y cuarzo, de la marca übercool de joyería australiana Maniamania….
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From the silky pink dress with little dots, to the wide-leg trouser in nude shades, including the pale pink blazer and the knitted and printed silk sweater, American designer Derek Lam takes now his exquisite minimal to his second line 10 Crosby.
Inspired by the effortless cool of the fashionistas he finds around in his...
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If there is something hard for me to find, it’s sunglasses. It is not that I am that kind of person that refuses to wear anything on her head, not at all. I am quite a fan of sunglasses, hats and other decorative gadgets, actually; the thing is that nature seems not to have...
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Inspiration comes from a Scandinavian romance, a nostalgic Nordic dream displayed in pastel shades with touches of cyan, ochre, mint green and black.
With delicate silks and ruffles, Fair Isle prints, trousers embroidered with paillettes, their already signature cut-out dresses, garments in fur and leather and prints with flowers or checks, among others, Rodarte sisters...
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Standing out among all the stands in a tradeshow like Bread & Butter is not an easy duty, actually, but there they were by 2008, among jeans, T-shirts and other stuff, with their socks. A white space with a cardboard box pretending to be a washing machine and a string with hanging socks from...
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During the last edition of Cibeles Madrid Fashion Week I had the chance of talking to Elena Martín, the designer behind Martin Lamothe, so she could tell me at first hand what her new collection for next summer, Pop Up the Volume! was about.
You can now read my full interview with her in...
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Russian model Anna Selezneva is the protagonist in the new images of Étoile, the second line by designer Isabel Marant, turned into the epitome of Parisian coolness in the last years.
With a proposal rich in ethnic-bohemian prints, feminine dresses and miniskirts, paired with more casual garments, Isabel displays once again an irresistible collection...
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It is already dark after 4 p.m, streets are covered with fog and cold air freezes your face; this week, all of a sudden, temperatures have drop with a crash in here and now we enjoy minimums below zero that proof what we had here till now was any other thing except real winter....
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This winter collection by About Arianne is named under the poetic title of A Swedish Love Story, maybe because this is the first collection in which their designs for girls are accompanied by some designs for boys, following the same guidelines; in natural leather, black or burgundy, simple lines give way to the quality...
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