There’s no point in denying it… The swimming pool scenes by Nina Nolte the other day made me want to run away from this wintry Germany to any other place in the world where I could have a proper dip under a brilliant sun by this time of the year. That’s the way it...
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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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Next holiday season is just around the corner and, suddenly, everything is decorated with lights and festive ornaments so, today, we decided to get all dressed up in here too, with a little dose of bling-bling coming from Anja Rubik portrait by Ezra Petronio for the winter issue of Self Service.
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Las próximas vacaciones están...
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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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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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Are uncertain times the ones that have contributed to the apparition of this dark and esoteric-like trend that reigns editorials, campaigns and stuff like that? Is the lack of faith in more tangible things what drags one to lay his expectations in some more ancestral beliefs? I wonder.
If, imaginably, the editorial Forever Dark, with...
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Sofie Olejnik is a young photographer who lives in a city in North Germany and who belongs to that new and recent wave of girls who photograph girls, joining forces to redefine new feminities escaping from stereotypes. Sofie takes pictures as beautiful as these ones and, besides, she also sells them here.
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Sofie Olejnik es...
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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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The exhibition of Polaroid images by German photographer Helmut Newton, which is taking place since last June in the foundation named after him, here in Berlin, has just been extended till May next year.
The editorial house Taschen, besides, has just released an amazing book compiling all these images which you can buy here. Christmas...
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Because sea doesn’t necessarily need to be only a summer thing, photographer Manolo Campion portrays in Driftwood, his latest editorial for Gravure magazine, model Naty Chabanenko turned into an enchanting winter mermaid with messy hair-waves and dramatic eyeliner.
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Porque el mar no tiene porqué ser solo para el verano, el fotógrafo Manolo Campion retrata...
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A year after the presentation of his first Girlzine, photographer Ramiro E comes back again with the second issue of his personal fanzine, named this time The Cherry Love Issue and which presentation will take place this evening in Mutt Gallery in Barcelona.
Inspired by La Gauche Divine movement, which appeared in Barcelona during the 60s’...
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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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The first major retrospective in France about North-American photographer Diane Arbus gathers in the space Jeu de Paume -till next February- more than two hundred of her works, among which can be found her most representative images and also some of the unseen ones.
Her portraits, in occasions labelled as anthropological studies and never...
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Between witches’ Sabbath and demoniac possession fights model Sheila Márquez in Forever Dark, the latest editorial by Michael Donovan for Vision China magazine in which, using fringes, chiffons, leather and dramatic evening gowns he manages to give shape to this dark and mysterious story.
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Entre el akelarre y la posesión demoníaca se debate la...
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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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Simplicity was made for Sundays.
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La sencillez se inventó para los domingos.
*Pics: Aline Weber by Camilla Akrans for Numéro November 2011 issue.
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“Hedi Slimane has created a new and fresh visual language for youth today (…) His black-and-white images capture the essential expression of the emerging art, fashion, and music scenes around the world.” MOCA Director, Jeffrey Deitch.
Moca Pacific Design Center in L.A. gathers from tomorrow all the fascination photographer Hedi Slimane feels for American West...
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