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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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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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.
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Bueno, a punto de...
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This weekend takes place in Barcelona (Pl. dels Àngels 5-6) a new edition of El Festivalet, a craft fair with handmade products in which you can find from the amazing bijoux by Après-Ski or Elena Cruz to miniature mosses by The Clorofilas, delicate garments by Sietedelonce, mini bags by Dumbo and embroidered pieces by Bylina...
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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 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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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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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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Raasta is the first brand created by Indian designer Kavita Parmar who would, after that, create also Suzie Wong and her most recent professional adventure named IOU Project, all of them gathered under the name of Maison Raasta.
A couple of years ago Kavita opened Raasta – The Seed, her first shop in which...
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There might be something like a changing factor in lace, something that, just in the exact moment it feels we should start calling it a day, mutes and transforms itself into something fresh and attractive. Again.
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Hay algo siempre cambiante en el tema del encaje, algo que, justo cuando parece que la cosa ya...
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Belgian designer Bruno Pieters is the last one joining collaborations with Swedish store Weekday which, in previous occasions, has counted for their alliances on people like Peter Jensen, Carin Wester or Stine Goya.
Now is the turn of Pieter’s timeless minimal, of his clean shapes and exquisite clerical silhouettes; now it’s time for subtle and...
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Based in Barcelona, artist Marcela Gutiérrez is one of those multidisciplinary figures that gathers in her curriculum a little bit of architecture, a little bit of graphic, some more of fashion and, above all, a lot of talent.
After having published her illustrations in magazines like Harper’s Bazaar or having contributed to brans like...
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“Minimum portions of one reality: routines. Sometimes conscious, sometimes unconscious, but routines after all.”
Barcelona-based brand name:, created by designers Irene Sabaté and Clara Aspachs, presents now their winter collection under the name of Routines from which they already gave us a hint when they invited me to spend an evening talking to them in...
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During yesterday and today are taking place in Berlin the German Press Days, in the same building where Premium tradeshow takes place, too. National brands like Michalsky, Freitag, Juliaandben, Liebeskind Berlin o Reality Studio, among many others, are present there showing their collections for next summer.
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Durante ayer y hoy se celebran en Berlín...
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After the presentation of her first series of books, designer Montse Liarte settles down now in the store Room in Barcelona with a pop-up store that will last till Saturday. Three days to discover on first-hand Fractal, her proposal for this winter, to try her accessories under the name of Fly Limited Edition and,...
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I still can’t get over that mint green obsession. This leopard scarf is the latest victim joining my soon-to-buy list.
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Aún no he podido superar la obsesión por el verde menta. Este foulard de leopardo es la más reciente incorporación a mi lista de futuras adquisiciones.
Pic: Nimue Smit and Imaam by Petrovsky & Ramone. Glamour...
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Voo store in Berlin is kind of hidden -in one of those so-typical courtyards in the German capital- in the number 24 in Oranienstrasse. When I discovered it the other day, visiting the pop-up store Primitive London had installed there, I couldn’t believe I had been missing that amazing spot for so long.
The...
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I need to live more, so I can explain more things is one of the projects by Iñaki Álvarez, a Barcelona-based artist that builds visual poems from two images that may seem to have nothing in common at first sight but which, through an ingenious conceptual exercise reveal they were actually ideal partners, much...
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In the Chapter I of “Combinations that never fail to impress me”, today: black & metal.
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En el primer capítulo de “Combinaciones que siempre aciertan conmigo”, hoy: negro y metal.
Pics: Nasty Gal
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