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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We are preparing something very nice with Curium coming soon in IT Hunter but until that arrives I encourage you to go and enjoy their Private Sale this weekend. Visit the studio, meet the designers and why not, leave the place with a new splendid Curium hanging from your shoulder! You can see some...
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We do love spreading the news about people who do beautiful things with their own hands that is why we are so happy that Lucía Vergara, the designer behind handmade jewelry brand Après Ski, has presented Twilight, her new collection. Just a couple of weeks ago she held the official launch of this new...
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The other day one of my music-loving friends asked me which places I’d take Kevin Parker, leader of the band Tame Impala, if I were his guide during Primavera Sound. It was pretty clear that he wanted to test my knowledge of the city after living in Barcelona...
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I think the first time I saw something from Juniper Ridge might have been last year when I arrived to L.A. Some incense sticks on the supermarket caught my attention because the whole package and graphic image was too cool to be just ordinary incense sticks. Handmade drawings...
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Yes, trust me, sometimes in L.A. you do need a thick knit sweater, some other times you even need a scarf and sometimes -just a few times- you even need both of them together! The funny thing is, since this is an extraordinary phenomenon that only happens in rare occasions and never more than -I...
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Ojai Rancho Inn must be, by far, one of the coolest motels I have ever stayed in. A very relaxed, cozy and warm atmosphere wraps this motel, composed of little wooden cabins, in which we spent two nights when we went to Ojai for the weekend.
It is located within a walking distance from...
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I am of the opinion that a good pair of Converse are not really worth much unless you have demonstrated that they have been used at least a bit, and this is the reason I always give as to why they have become a symbol of the best concerts, and are presumably the most...
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To be sincere, I never considered this a fashion blog, actually. Not exclusively a fashion blog, I mean. When I first opened it almost five years ago it was no other thing than a place where to share the things that inspired me. By that time I was both working...
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The new printed scarves collection by SuTurno for this Spring/Summer 13 is named Blondell after actress Joan Blondell and gets inspiration from Elsa Schiaparelli’s surrealism, glamour in the 30s’ and the spectacular rising in lipstick purchases after the crash in 1929. You can visit their online shop in here.
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La nueva colección de pañuelos estampados...
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The nice thing about starting following a brand from the very beginning is that you get to appreciate its evolution as it has been my case with Scandinavian jewelry brand Bjørg. Since the very first moment I discovered their pieces, always wrapped in a dark an esoteric aura, by the year 2009 I became...
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There it goes, to the top of our wish-list, the new Jasper Travel purse by Acne. We love it because it irresistibly smells like Spring and because the word ‘travel’ is included in its name. The union of these two factors together is also commonly known as pure perfection. You can buy it online,...
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Last January 29th, the Hotel Berns hosted the Max Factor award which this year went to the designer Ana Hernández.
The idea behind this collection was the teenager psyche refusing the concept of adulthood. This notion led to an interesting use of forms that combined the 90’s minimalism, with sharp tailoring and the occasional volume.
The...
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Italian designer Paolo Coppolella showed last October, during the sixteenth edition of the International Fashion Show of Chinese city Ningbo, his most recent collection .Zero S/S 13, a proposal with a very graphic mood in black and white, mostly, including flashes of red and also some stripes and dots motifs.
From images by Elena...
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German designer Isabell de Hillerin recently showed her new collection A/W 13/14 during the latest edition of Berlin Fashion Week.
Her designs, in a color palette ranging from deep navy blue to black, with some flashes of dusty pale mauve, is named ‘quiet’ and gets inspiration from the fragments preserved on deep ice. Discreet...
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Mercedes and Elena are two sisters based in Madrid that last year founded Zubi, a brand that creates printed bags following a very romantic and fond of traveling idea, just as we like it.
Each of their pieces is a little remnant of their own trips, a portion of memory captured for eternity in a...
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Created in 2008 by Farah Malik and Dana Arbib, A Peace Treaty gets inspiration from hand-crafting cultures in Middle East, Africa, Asia and South America with the intention of bringing together their passion for fashion with the desire to increase awareness of ancient techniques and traditions. To that end, each season they travel to different...
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Only a few days ago my friend Tatel from Trendycrew commented on the entry about Rubenimichi’s exhibition in Barcelona that I am (being here) more in Barcelona than her (being there). It sounded kind of funny because it is actually true, somehow. Even eager to discover all the new and interesting stuff -which is a...
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If I have to be sincere, Silver Lake is not one of the handiest neighborhoods for me. For reasons like this I normally need a good excuse to get into the car and cross the city during a time frame that can oscillate between forty and ninety minutes; yes, my dear friends, traffic in...
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Not long before showing his latest Haute Couture collection for maison Dior, Belgian designer Raf Simons also showed in Paris Menswear Fashion Week his fourth collaboration with bag and accessories brand Eastpak.
In this collection, Simons has revisited Daypack, one of the brand’s classics, giving it a haute couture twist by using shinny silk jacquard...
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