I think I still haven’t seen any summer without sailor stripes. At first, I tried to be kind of reluctant but then, year after year, I started accepting them and even recognizing them as a signal of the beginning of summer.
So if you are as impatient as I am and also want to...
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Till next May, 5th you can find in New York (22D Howard Street) the new pop-up store of Silent, the second line by Croatian designer Damir Doma.
Doma redesigns once again for next summer his wrapping ethnic silhouettes of fluid lines in black and white with touches of mint green and bold prints imitating thick...
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Josh Farria is a self-taught photographer that found his vocation when moving from New Orleans to California six years ago, after the hurricane Katrina. Since then, Farria has been learning on his own, by trial and error, portraying his own friends very in the mood of that 90s’ raw realism leaded by Nan Goldin....
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Ripped jeans, boho-print bag, flower crowns and gladiator sandals. There’s actually nothing else you may need to spend Spring Break in Venice Beach.
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Tejanos rotos, bolso con estampado boho, coronas de flores y sandalias de gladiador. En realidad, no se necesita mucho más para pasar unos días de Spring Break en Venice Beach.
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Visiting the new shop StudioStore in Born neighborhood (C/Comerç, 17) in Barcelona is one of the activities I have just added to my list of to-do things whenever I come back home. Whenever.
This new space, opened last January, occupies the privileged extension of 300m², laid out in two floors of an antique period...
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In a faster-than-light visit to the space of young talents in the latest edition of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Madrid, during last January, I had the chance of meeting Lucía Vergara in person, the designer of Barcelona-based jewelry label Après Ski, confirming she herself is as adorable as the pieces she designs.
Her new collection, named...
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Selling Sex is the name of the new exhibition organized by SHOWstudio that can be visited till next June, 1st in London (1-9 Bruton Place).
Considering that most of the images consumed today are created by masculine minds, the show tips the balance in favor of the other side and explores the vision and...
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There are times I can write about bands that don’t need any introduction. The Rapture, so famous since the release of their album Echoes in 2003, have become one of those bands of worship for me. Loyally, for many years, I have used them as a way to lift my mood, make me feel...
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At last, sun is shinning again in California as it is supposed to and although all the students enjoying their Spring Break have managed to achieve what seemed kind of impossible -made out of Venice Beach an even more impassable place-, with all the hormones fluttering around, the air these days smells like holidays,...
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Inspired by the Art Decó movement during the 20’s and 30’s, designer Tim Van Steenbergen -who graduated in the Amberes Royal Academy of Fine Arts- has given shape to his latest summer collection: serene, elegant and impeccable.
The contrast among the matt-glossy textures of the fabrics, the introduction of bold shades of red, blue...
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The first time I heard about Berta Pfirsich must have been almost a couple of years ago. I had just arrived to Berlin and thanks to the -always amazing- social networks we ended up being connected without really knowing each other in person; although, maybe somehow, we were kind of linked by that axis...
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Ana Tichy and Alberto Alto inaugurate today in Barcelona their new shop/studio space open to everybody from 8:00 p.m. (C/Encarnació, 24 Semi-bassement).
Ana is the designer behind the label Pinc by Ana Tichy and Alberto, graphic artist and author of ‘El libro de los engendros’, also contributes to Ana’s collections helping with the graphic mood....
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Sometimes, when I find myself too exposed to dozens of esthetic stimulus brought back from the past, in a kind of short period of time, I surprise myself pronouncing the horrific sentence: They don’t make things like they used to, anymore… And then I wonder how right I am. Maybe it is because of...
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After a kind-of-weird week, here comes the sun again and now, it looks like spring again. Nothing more perfect for today that a summer printed flowing dress, like this one from Carocora’s summer collection. Really, per-fect.
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Tras una semana un poco rara, ha vuelto a salir el sol y ahora, de nuevo, ya parece primavera....
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It is also spring at Irene and Clara’s studio already and the two designers present now their last Spring/Summer 12 collection for name: in which they also want to introduce the “Guarantee of Origin” concept meaning that, from their early beginnings name: designs and develops 100% of its production processes in Barcelona, aiming to help...
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Jean-Paul Lespagnard travels this time to Scotland to find inspiration for his Fall/Winter 12/13 collection, which is also the third one he officially presents during Paris Fashion Week.
If for his previous show the Belgian designer wrapped us in a sporty-chic mood with parallel references to basketball and the 20s’, his most recent proposal...
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The images by Adriano Sodré, -a Portuguese photographer from Porto- full of intimacy and femininity, represent that cozy and slow awakening so necessary on Monday mornings. If taking off on a Monday is so hard for you as it is for -almost- the rest of human beings, we recommend you a visit to his delightful portfolio.
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To be sincere, when we were about to leave Berlin I already had the feeling that, maybe, we wouldn’t come back for a while; maybe because of that I started to feel that kind of nostalgia that made me take my camera with me during the last three days I spent there. You can...
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Created by Beth Lamure by the end of last year, Simply Vintageous is a vintage garments and accessories pop-up store that was supposed to last only for a month. Due to its great success you can still go these days to 8270 in Melrose Avenue -L.A.- to get one of its amazing pieces.
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Designer Ana Locking explores in Under Beauty -her collection for this Spring/Summer 12 season- the darkness that lies underneath beauty; the imperfect, the grotesque that appears just on the edge of the abyss of the sublime.
Her interpretation of the dark side of perfection results -in the jewelry scene- in statement thorn necklaces in...
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