Wednesday, February 14, 2007

This lady seems to be very fashionable

I scrolled through stockholm streetsyle - which I do quite often actually - and noticed this woman more than once. I could only find these two pictures, but she's in all the fashionable swedish events and always looks fabulous! Maybe I should try and wear some glasses?

Credit: stockholmstreetstyle.feber.se

aftershock magazine

Via Diane Pernet I discoverd aftershock magazine today. Very simple website - which I love - and profound content. Very well done. I'm looking forward to number two! Esp. the second article called Revolt into Style: Images of West German "Terrorism" from 1968 to 1977 is very up-to-date, since the discussion about releasing the "terrorists" from prison after more than 20 years is going on in Germany these days.

Credit: afterschockmagazine

the ultimate babydoll

I've bought this H&M dress last friday. My brother - whom I met in Frankfurt - frowned, my father - whom I met on saturday - asked me if I was pregnant and didn't tell him.

Actually I had Gucci Westman's styling on NYC fashion week backstage (can't remember which show it was, do you?) in mind when I bought the dress. I love to wear it and already wore it twice and even my boyfriend likes it, can you imagine!? Today I wore the dress with black Hunter rubber boots since it's raining non stop for about a week now (as much as I love my wellies, I'm longing for my flats or suede boots...)! Besides the rubber boots I kept it simple, as usual. Black tights, a black blouse (buttoned up) and a long black cardigan. The coat is by stefanel.

Credit: style.com

Have you ever been to St.Georgen? I have!

Yesterday. My documentation is now online. I've also worked on the documentation of some other exhibitions I've seen this year . Please have a look at my exhibition archive, now linked to f&art. My "real" website will also be online soon. There you'll find information about what I do when I'm not online - besides, eating, sleeping and shopping ;-)

St. Georgen is a little town somewhere in the middle of nowhere (Blackforest in the south of Germany). I got there by train and it took hours but the countryside was quite impressive! The Graesslin family got wealthy by manufacturing clockdevices. In the 80s the four children Bärbel, Thomas, Sabine and Carola started to continue the art collection their parents had started, but with a much more contemporary approach. They're all somehow connected to the artworld. Bärbel Grässlin runs a gallery in Frankfurt. Sabine Grässlin is the owner of the restaurant Kippys, named after Martin Kippenberger who used to live in St. Georgen for quite some time. Carola Grässlin is the director of the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden.

Although they're quite international, the collection never left St. Georgen as a whole. They've built an exhibition hall and use vacant shops to exhibit their treasures. Please have a closer look at their website.

Thomas Grässlin (who wears suspenders!) and his very Pradaesque (bag, boots, coat and scarf (miumiu)) wive guided us through St. Georgen which was very very interessting although it rained all the time (I wore my Hunters!).

Please visit my deocumentation here.

Happy Valentine

...and happy birthday to my boyfriend's mother.
Actually he's still asleep so I don't know what I'll get. I bought a book and flowers (I prefer tulips to roses!) this morning and found an antler hanging on the wall when I returned from St. Georgen yesterday evening. Kind of strange isn't it? I buy the flowers he's hunting the deer? Actually he bought it on ebay - the antler!

London Fashion week part 01

Since beeing up to date in the art AND in the fashion world is a fulltime job (and I have lots of other things to do) I'm always a little bit late with my comments on the new collections. I hope you don't mind, if you're even interessted!? You'll find the really interessting behind-the-scene stuff on style bubble anyway.
Well...

Duro Olowu
Some of you already knwo that my mother's from Nigeria and so is Duro Olowu and that's why his prints instantly reminded me of those huge traditional dresses my mother has in her wardrobe and which fascinated me since my childhood. I love seeing african inspired fashion on the runways. February's German Vogue had an editorial called African Art featuring some really nice clothes for spring and summer. Please give me more stuff like that.

Erdem
I didn't like the whole collection that much, but I somehow felt attracted to this coat.










Peter Jensen

Nothing I would actually wear but fun to look at. I would be totally impressed if a women wearing a piece of the Peter Jensen aw 07 collection would cross my way. Guess I would be impressed if she'd wear anything of Peter Jensen. I love him, but I somehow wouldn't wear him (the same with Yohji Yamamoto!).

Todd Lynn
Boyish and somehow too boyisch for me to wear. But I loved this two pieces and especially the leather jacket!
MORE.




Topshop

When is a topshop going to open in Germany? Maybe Hamburg or Berlin that would be very nice. Please? Woa and I loved the belts!!! MORE.



part 2 will come later this day!

Credit:
style.com and scannes from Vogue Deutsch

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

NYC Fashion week part 05

Although London Fashion week has already started I still have something to say about NYC's.

Lela Rose
Lela Rose "caught the current mood for sportswear, cutting glorified sweatshirts in cashmere and tossing in menswear fabrics for an extra edge". Very lovely!

Réyes

José Ramón Réyes' collection is very much 80s and sportswear inspired. I pretty much love that. Not to mention that the 80s are part of my (master) thesis. MORE.


Sari Gueron

Very unspectacular and that's what I love about it! Sari Gueron just prefers to make the kind of cool, unstudied clothes that girls clamor to wear. MORE.


United Bamboo

Thuy Pham and Miho Aoki were thinking about architecture...
Well I wasn't but I liked some of their pieces anyway. MORE





Calvin Klein
This is worth a video! I very much loved the dresses and the minimalistic make up. Clean cuts, huge collars, no colours, just different shades of grey, well fitted dresses, oversized coats and ponytails. Brilliant!

That's all for this season. Please keep in mind that this is always a personal selection by things I would wear and buy, so no professional or critical view at all! Alle the other lovely pieces are shown on style.com. Enjoy!
Let's see what's going on in London...

Credit: style.com