Steven Meisel is the one in charge of portraying the flames and car motifs of the latest collection by Prada in its campaign for next Spring/Summer season and, in a burst of literality, he takes Miuccia’s girls -among flowers, lace, pastel colours, pleats and retro mood- to a glamourous road trip to a gas...
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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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With only four days left to leave Berlin and going back to Barcelona for the Christmas holidays, the beautiful editorial The Full Brazillian, by Angelo Pennetta with Raquel Zimmermann -for T Style- drinking coconut water in the heavenly beaches of Fernando de Noronha in Brazil, reminded me today that I am a step closer...
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The presentation of the new bag collection by maison Dior takes us this time to a luxurious mansion in the hills of Los Ángeles. After Paris, New York, Shanghai and London, Lady Dior adventures move now to sunny California where Marion Cotillard, tired of all the frenzy, decides to end her tedious duty and...
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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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A new British label joins that relaxed coolness of fluid lines and desirable dresses, long pleated skirts and military-inspired parkas, shirts that turn into flowing capes, subtle transparencies and strategic cut-outs; all these and even more, in the first collection by Three Floor.
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Una nueva firma británica se suma al cool relajado de líneas fluidas...
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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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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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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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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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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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If not so long ago we were talking in here about the new look book we had just received by Nordics Happy Socks and we just mentioned how well they manage to refresh themselves every time, what we just got now testifies each and every single of our previous words.
Irreverent photographer Terry Richardson...
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After graduating in the Superior School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg, Lucie Saint-Leu decided to settled down in Hyères to create her own jewelry label four years ago. Her pendants and earrings, which normally take shape through little motifs that vary according to the mood of the collection -in the latest one it’s all...
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Comme en un Enfant is the new single coming from the latest album by Yelle, named Safari Disco Club and about which we were talking in here not so long ago. If the one in charge of the styling in the previous video was ironic and funny Belgian designer Jean Paul Lespagnard, the stylings...
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It is not that cold outside these days, but now it rains on and off and it is so dark it actually feels like dusk at 2 p.m. Let’s keep it simple this weekend in lace and denim, let’s stick to another of those combinations that never fail.
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Ya no hace tanto frío fuera,...
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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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The first time I knew I was going to ride a horse, with the emotion typical of my eight-years-old, I pictured myself, the night before, riding through green pastures and endless fields. Reality was a close premise in which a tired pony walked in circles while I digested my own frustration on its back....
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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 apparently simple and clean shapes by Italian designer Roberta Furlanetto actually hide an intricate job of pleats and tucks, of cute ruffles and subtle asymmetries; the surprise factor on the side of a dress can include a pleating contrasting with the -only at first sight- austere pattern, like a floor-lenght evening gown can...
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There’s no point in denying it… The swimming pool scenes by Nina Nolte the other day made me want to run away from this wintry Germany to any other place in the world where I could have a proper dip under a brilliant sun by this time of the year. That’s the way it...
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