look of the day

The dress on the left hand side caught my eye. I loved most of the parts of the current Marni collection anyway. The Sartorialist once more proved he has a good eye for sleek, stylish, sophisticated style...

Credit: The Sartorialist

Rise of the amateur fashion editor

Just found this article via copenhagen streetstyle. It somehow matches perfectly the "fashion bloggers not allowed to fashion week"-discussion. It's all about beeing afraid of change, isn't it?

"(The fashion industry) can get so insular [...]. They're only interested in how it looks on a magazine page, not how it looks on the people. But the most important thing is the people: how they're wearing it and who they're wearing." [...]

Streetstylebloggers vs. Fashion industry!?
Read the whole article here.

Pic: Mary Scherpe of stil in berlin at work. photo taken by moi.

bfw 07 ::: premium

premium celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. The Station (there's a nice little video showing the whole space in their website link: premium tv!) shows about 700 international women's and men's collections as well as accessories and shoes.

Each season premium invites high representatives of the international fashion industry to discuss current themes and trends. This time it was dedicated to the theme "Fashion and Ethic". I wasn't there this time, but modabot was. The video isn't uploaded yet, but please check the the site from time to time...



Premium recognized three up-and-coming talents with the Young Designer's award. This prize is awarded twice a year and offers a stand at premium. The winners for the Spring/Summer Season 2008 were Dean Penn/Denmark (Womenswear), Vincent Schoepfer/France (Menswear) and Chronicles of Never/Australia (Accessories). Really nice stuff - the websites are definitely worth a visit!!!



One of my personal favourites was c'est tout from Berlin. Unfortunately they haven't got neither their ss08 nor their fw07/08 collection online. So you'll have to believe me that their designs are really very nice. It's Katja Furhmann - one of the two designers - on the photo wearing one of their styles. C'est formidable! Please download their presskit (pdf) here.



Last but not least Chie Mihara shoes. OMG. I love them so much and they even go up to size 42 (well not all of them but at least some...). I'll definitely post more about them later, promise. Definitely something to remeber!!!

no bloggers at san francisco fashion week

Jennine - The Coveted - will not be attending San Francisco Fashion week. The organisers do not issue passes to bloggers.

That's kind of narrow minded isn't it? I don't think that bloggers should automatically be called "press" or "journalists" (citizen journalism might be the right term) but that shoudn't exclude the possibility of bloggers beeing journalists. The increasing influence of bloggers and the high quality a lot of them reach is a fact that established media can't get around - web2.0 - the machine is us/ing us!

IMG seemed to have done their homework. Last October they handed out 40 official press passes to bloggers. They took their time to sort out parts of the huge amount of fashion related blogs to invite some of the better established like manolo's shoe blog, go fug yourself and fashion addict diary (these are the good ones - well I shoudn't complain, but among the chosen ones are also blogs I wouldn't want to have on my fashion show - hey it's not always only about the readership rate - I hope they'll refine their selection criteria soon).

Tricia of bits and bobbins says:

"SF fashion week's interest is to protect their established network, and any intrusion upon their network by other types of voices (who might be divergent) is threatening.

one of the great things about blogging these days is that it allows for intelligent, diverse voices...who are not connected directly to the industry machine. many people who blog are telling it how they see it, how it really is...and the people, the readers are LISTENING, and can relate. it is refreshing to read dispatches from the grassroots, rather than being force-fed by corporations and industries who are protecting their own interests.

the main objective of this event and the fashion industry anywhere is to make MONEY. the "accredited journalists, buyers, and stylists" are being PAID to move product, whether or not it's aesthetically pleasing. nevermind if it's interesting, or innovative...it's not the point. what is TRULY interesting and innovative doesn't produce as many dollars. and they don't have enough dollars to bother with "bloggers". [...]

And also really important:

"the thing is...they can't control you or what you say in your blog, because you're not part of the "accredited members" of their network. they can't trust you to move what they WANT you to move." [...]

I totally agree with high fashion girl:

"Determination of which bloggers would be easy. You could determine it by content, traffic, and writing ability. I mean, allowing 5 top area bloggers wouldn't have been a big deal. I really think their decision reflects censorship of New Media." [...]

Uhuh San Franciso Fashion week screwed up this time. Well, let's wait and see what will happen next season ;-) and stay tuned. I'm curious how Jennine's - the coveted - fashion week thriller continues... Good luck dear ♥

Kunstakademie Stuttgart Sommerausstellung 2007

I'm back home and brought some nice pictures for you. I've been to the Rundgang of the Kunstakademie in Stuttgart a couple of hours ago, which opend yesterday and will be open until Monday. Please download the floorplan (pdf) here



In my opinion student's exhibition are always kind of problematic. Although many of the students might have had good ideas, they often aren't capable of transforming them into actual communicating products, pictures, installations, photographs, whatever. Well you might say now, that they are there to learn, but in most of the cases I'm not sure if they'll ever learn it. So, what I'm trying to say is that Rundgang exhibitions can be very exhausting since you'll always have to deal with loads of crapp before finding a diamond.



Besides art (sculpture and painting) you can also study architecture, industrial design and graphic design at the Stuttgart academy. My friend Carolin Jörg - I exhibited her work at my flur gallery recently - also studied there.



I'm really sorry for the bad quality pictures. I urgently need a new camera but somehow can't afford one right now ;-( Pictures will be better in future, I promise!

on the road...again

I'm off for the weekend. I'll be in Stuttgart to visit some friends and to visit the "Rundgang" at Stuttgart Art academy. On our way we'll make a quick stopover at Metzingen to shop for some Hugo Boss stuff at their outlet.


Nice photo huh? more

If you could...

I find a lot of stuff to write about on myspace. There I also found out about if you could...:

"'If you could' is an annual publication set up by designers Will Hudson and Alex Bec. Aiming to showcase the best in design and illustration, contributions are welcomed from both established and up and coming artists on the theme, If you could do anything tomorrow, what would it be? Each publication is launched alongside an exhibition, showing every single contribution received, meaning nobody's work goes unseen." [...]

Doesn't it sound fantastic? I wish I could haven been there for the launch of the 2nd edition at 5th of July at exposure gallery (Little Portland Street, W1 - London I suppose!?). See photos of the book launch here. The exhbibition is still on until 27th July - be quick. Or buy the book here.



Prints of all the images from issue 2 are now available to buy until 30th of July. For further information click here



See them all here
Visit ifyoucould on myspace

Credit: ifyoucould.co.uk