Posts Tagged ‘ Coolhunting ’

Ezequiel Bertho, from Venezuelan band Algodón Egipcio will be tomorrow at 7 p.m. at MUTT Gallery in Barcelona to present El Mejor Lugar, the first single coming out of the split he has recorded with El Faro, band from the Canary Islands. To start preparing the atmosphere here you have Los Temas Turbios, the...
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It previously took place in Paris, Milan, Tokyo and Mexico, but last week it arrived to Barcelona the first edition of the festival A Shaded View on Fashion Film celebrated in this city, together with the shows of 080 Barcelona Fashion. The event, created and organized by Diane Pernet, aims to promote the audiovisual form...
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Porque nos gusta vivir así, al límite, recibimos ahora mismo quince invitaciones dobles para el Cibelespacio de la Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week que se está celebrando estos días en Madrid. ¿Quieres asistir? Solo tienes que dejar un comentario en esta entrada y nos podremos en contacto contigo ¡para enviártelas volando! Pic via Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid...
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Having the chance of seeing one of Miriam Ponsa’s shows always seems specially interesting to me for several reasons, different, but complementary all of them. I really like her work because she seems a really authentic and sincere designer, adjectives I attribute to her because of her work, which is the only thing...
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Wool checked fabrics, denim with patches, thick knits and Vichy check; everything is possible in the latest collection by Brain & Beast -label created by designer Ángel Vilda- shown last week in 080 Barcelona Fashion. I’m taking the bandana printed shirt, though. Oh, yeah! ———- Lanería a cuadros, denim con parches, punto grueso y cuadro vichy;...
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When it comes to talking about the recently shown collection by Montse Liarte in the latest 080 Barcelona Fashion we’d better take a walk through backstage thanks to these beautiful images by Mireia Rodríguez. The fragility of a natural roses facing the hardness of the desert rose is the starting point of Liarte’s proposal for...
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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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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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Catalan guerilla guys, these guys make up a band that came into my soul at the end of the autumn, and have become a reference point when talking about the homegrown music scene. With their angelic faces, eyes that could leave you breathless and echoes that could cause you to hallucinate, I think that...
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Dance, Womantree swing your imaginary body in impossible millimeters of moments. (…) Close your eyes, do not blame them, only feel how the wind caresses your body in the fall. ———- Baila mujer árbol, columpia tu cuerpo imaginario en milimétricos segundos imposibles. (…) Cierra los ojos, no los culpes, sólo siente como el viento acaricia tu cuerpo al caer. Pics & Poem (fragment) by: Sebastián Portillo Tweet This Post
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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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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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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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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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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. ———- Bueno, a punto de...
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For next summer, French menswear label De Fursac has let itself go with the unstoppable retro flow that seems to invade everything these days and which looks specially flattering in their suits, in particular. With Alain Delon in the 60s’ movie Plein Soleil as stylistic reference, the collection combines garments with a more casual...
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If the work by Icelandic photographer Saga Sig is, on one hand, exceptionally amazing and, on the other hand, the one by her compatriot designer and illustrator Hildur Yeoman is so, too, what could be the result of the union of these two talents? The answer is named Hamskipti, which means metamorphose in Icelandic,...
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Rob is a twenty-something guy who lives in Brooklyn and who has recently broken up with his girlfriend. Well, it actually has been his girlfriend the one who has broken up with him, that’s why he can’t get used to the idea nor finding his own place on the peculiar -but always exciting- single...
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A carpet with exuberant vegetation, a retro suitcase and a pineapple on the stool of a bar during the first twenty seconds of the video New York-based designer Dana Lee has created to present her new collection, for next summer, leave pretty clear what this is going to be about: we are traveling to...
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