Sometimes I feel I must be the worst trends blogger ever so, in a new delivery of my truest sincerity here comes another chapter of ‘How do I love boycotting my own trends research, myself’: I have to confess that, even though it was named America’s hippest hipster neighborhood last year by Forbes I...
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It is impossible not to be in love with Ojai. In our short but great getaway last month not only we enjoyed this Californian little town and the nature surrounding it but we also discovered -besides the coolest motel- what I consider the most amazing used-book store I have ever seen to date.
Bart’s Books...
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Among hordes of tourists, baywatchers, surfers, wonderskaters and the rest of the miscellaneous amalgam, Mollusk Shop is the place to find the perfect souvenir when visiting Venice Beach. You can read my article about this amazing surf shop in Absolut Mode Society.
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Entre hordas de turistas, baywatchers, surferos, prodigios en monopatín y demás amalgama variopinta, Mollusk...
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While, on the other side of the Atlantic some of you might be preparing to go to any music festival (don’t miss our special Primavera Sound, which starts today in Barcelona) in here we will have to content ourselves by officially starting the beach season. Ok, well, we won’t complain…
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Mientras por el otro lado del...
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‘Rewilding’ is a new study about gender roles and androgyny but it also is a beautiful portrait of contemporary femininity in the shape of a book by American photographer Cass Bird who travelled, during the summers of 2009 and 2010, with a group of different women to Sassafrass, Tennessee to portray them. Bird will...
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Jim Mangan is an American photographer that, after a long professional career in the skateboarding scene decided, instead of chosing, joining both of his passions. This election has recently given place to his latest book named Winter’s Children, which is a beautiful collection of images aiming to show the true spirit of this sport....
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Definitely, if there is an incombustible couple in the fashion industry, it has to be Rodarte sisters, who not only design their own collections but, if necessary, they can also create the attires for the ballet in Black Swan, an special collection for Opening Ceremony or even release a book.
Rodarte. Catherine Opie. Alec...
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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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Dior Couture by Patrick Demarchelier includes, as its own name shows, a hundred couture gowns by maison Dior lensed by French photographer, combination that makes of this book a treasure like no other and which will be released on December, 6th, although it can be already pre-ordered here.
The publication, with texts by Ingrid Sischy,...
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How many times have you found yourself so amazed with Swedish photographer Lina Scheynius‘ work that you would have given anything to take it home with you? Sincerely, it happens to me anytime I discover some of her images.
Her fashion editorials are full of emotional notes that go way further than the simple commercial...
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Un-Titled Project is a biannual publication, in the shape of a book, founded by photographer Dennis Golonka and, each new edition, created by a collective of artists that gathers the very best among acclaimed professionals and the most promising people among the emergent scene in photography, arts or illustration.
The amazing editorial by Guy...
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Only a designer -and all the ones around him/her, actively contributing to carry out the project- knows the real work behind a show that, after months of everlasting days and sleepless nights, goes away lasting no more than a few minutes.
Designer Montse Liarte, who has already shown her creations several times in 080 Barcelona...
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Dane Beesley is a photographer from Brisbane that, for the last ten years, has been taking photographs of the most outstanding bands in the international music scene, from The Kills to Yeah Yeah Yeahs, including also names like Cat Power or Mogwai. Now he has selected some of these images, compiled during the...
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By 2007, between chats and glasses of wine, Stefan Brüggemann portrayed one evening her friend Isabella Blow in her house, while she showed him the already mythical acquisitions she made at the Alexander McQueen graduation show.
The images of that spontaneous session are compiled now in the book Isabella Blow by Stefan Brüggemann published...
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Hey, these things happen sometimes, really; being in New York and having no plan for this evening… Don’t panic! From 6 to 10 p.m. you can go to Studio XXI to meet photographer Neil Krug and his wife, the model Joni Harbeck, so they can tell you in person about the creation process of...
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From a little town in Texas to being discovered by an agent in Saint Tropez and then start moving among the most exclusive elite including the likes of Andy Warhol, Grace Jones, Helmut Newton. Model and muse, from her engagement with Bryan Ferry to becoming the mother of Mick Jagger’s four children. The American...
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How big is difference between talking about “those gloves with all the fingers together” and talking about mittens? Not to mention those T-shirts “that have a diagonal seam like this (please kindly accompany “like this” with the pertinent emphatic hand gesture) on the shoulder” and which real name is as easy as a two-syllable...
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Lauren Dukoff mainly portrays artists and musicians; from Lady Gaga to Devendra Banhart, including Natasha Khan from Bat For Lashes, Charlotte Gainsbourg or Adele, all of them can be found among the photographed ones. Under the name of Family, Lauren has recently compiled a series of images where the portrayed ones pose for her lens in...
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The umpteenth incursion into the golden blonde privacy comes now in the shape of a book. As if a totally exposed life had not been enough and after the exhaustive examination of her last photo shoot, analyzed in detail trying to discover in her languid and absent expression some premonitory signals of the imminent...
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Hace algunos años, por estas fechas, estuve de vacaciones en la Costa Azul. La parada en Saint-Tropez fue obligada, pero tan breve y fugaz que sigue pendiente volver en un futuro próximo y cenar en una de sus callejuelas, de ese bohemio híperdeluxe tan contradictorio (todo sea dicho), a la luz...
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