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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Venice Bazaar is a pop up store that took place this weekend in The Sacred Door in Venice gathering the creations of some local artists such as jewelry designers Sophie Monet, Earthling Jewelry, Carrie Hoffman or All for the Mountain by Carly Margolis or furniture designer Matthew Morgan from Personhood, all wrapped up with...
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My visit to Barcelona was -as it usually is- shorter than I would have liked. Fortunately, and before I was aware of everything I had to do before I had to leave again, I could attend the opening of Ivori, a new shop in Born neighborhood.
This small and cozy space gathers creations of...
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It is not that I am going to complain, actually, about stuff like eternal beach and sunshine weather or about the 10ºC temperature difference between L.A. and Berlin right now: no, no, no. It is not that. It is just that, sometimes, I miss this amazing city that is the capital of Germany: Sundays...
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Camper has decided to start this winter with a big thing and I can’t blame them, considering their store in Paris is celebrating its twentieth anniversary. Twenty years supplying footwear in the city of light and love deserves a great homage so they decided to name their new collection LOVE.
The brand is well-known,...
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I know BOO since two years ago when my friend Eider Corral installed, as part of one of their collections, her ceramic soldiers New Salvation Army. An achievement that, for me, ended up being a real new discovery, and which has since then become a temple to my most subtle extravagances.
The store, which used...
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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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This Friday, September 7th, shoe label About Arianne opens the doors of its shop-studio at C/Esquirol nº5 in Barcelona. The perfect chance for trying on and getting one of her amazing shoes! By now, I am already adding it to the list of places I have to visit when I go to Barcelona next Xmas.
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Este viernes...
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This store called Firefly in Abbot Kinney Blvd. -in Venice- is my latest big discovery about shopping in L.A. It is not only that you want to buy everything you find there, it is that, actually you want to stay there to live. Read my article about Firefly in Absolut Mode Society.
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La tienda Firefly...
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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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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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Creada por...
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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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Raasta is the first brand created by Indian designer Kavita Parmar who would, after that, create also Suzie Wong and her most recent professional adventure named IOU Project, all of them gathered under the name of Maison Raasta.
A couple of years ago Kavita opened Raasta – The Seed, her first shop in which...
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Belgian designer Bruno Pieters is the last one joining collaborations with Swedish store Weekday which, in previous occasions, has counted for their alliances on people like Peter Jensen, Carin Wester or Stine Goya.
Now is the turn of Pieter’s timeless minimal, of his clean shapes and exquisite clerical silhouettes; now it’s time for subtle and...
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Voo store in Berlin is kind of hidden -in one of those so-typical courtyards in the German capital- in the number 24 in Oranienstrasse. When I discovered it the other day, visiting the pop-up store Primitive London had installed there, I couldn’t believe I had been missing that amazing spot for so long.
The...
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Friday evening was quite hectic in Berlin, to be sincere; after Stroke art fair and my brief visit to Voo to see the installation by Primitive London on its last day, the following not-to-miss appointment was in EastBerlin Store where designer Patrick Mohr -whose work I discovered last year during Berlin Fashion Week- presented...
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Primitive London is a London-based collective that works closely with artists and designers: it is also a shop and an art gallery created by Lui Nemeth and Andrew Green who, during last week, created a pop-up installation in Voo store in Kreuzberg, Berlin.
Lui comes from Tokyo and Andrew from Australia although, after living...
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In fact, I had no intention at all of talking about Merci when I got into the shop the other day on my way to Ann Demeulemeester’s show. Mainly because, sometimes, I have the feeling everybody knows this kind of stuff and I don’t like to be repetitive and also because, since it became...
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Tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. you can not miss the opening of the first name: space in Barcelona. Clara Aspachs and Irene Sabaté open the doors of the atelier/shop that will be their new house from now on in C/Palma de Sant Just, 12, so just go and celebrate with them!
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Mañana mismo, a partir de las...
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This well-known must-visit concept store in Paris named Colette has created, in collaboration with Chanel, an ephemeral boutique for the Fashion Week that will be open till next March 10th so if you happen to be around these days and have not seen it yet, you still have time to go and have a...
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