One of my best afternoons from fashion week was spent (as usual) in Nina's apartment previewing her new collection for Family Affairs and munching on fall cookies. I'm quite excited about the fall pieces she just listed on her site, but the spring ones I saw are making me wish winter was already over and done with. The collection is full of vintage novelty prints and nautical-inspired pieces. They're the sort of clothes you want to wear while vacationing in Capri (it could happen!). I'm coveting the red and blue ensemble I tried on as well as the little striped shorts that will be perfect for the hot endless days of summer. As always, Nina was a pleasure to just sit and chat with.
*The video is made from a series of photographs & edited in iMovie.
This I-just-stepped-out-of-a-swimming pool-hairdo isn't anything new. Every season there is at least one designer that chooses slicked back hair for his models, we've seen it any other editorial, on the red carpet and on a 14 year old Kate Moss in the 1990s. Though it seems that it has never made it to the streets. I've never seen anyone wear a ton of gel in their hair like this on their way to work. The reason might be that if you do it too often your hair will probably start to fall out at the front and you'll end up with a mullet. But disregarding all that I thought I'd give it a try; it involved lots of combing and lots, lots of gel but the result was well worth it. I will defenitely be doing this slick coif more often.
Remember this post about the lovely photographer Valentina Vos and her book? That day I interviewed her for a series of interviews I do for Dutch website fashionscene.nl. The video series is called Werkplek (Workplace) and is about the desks, kitchentables, design areas where inspiring people in fashion work.
Looking at ones workplace you can tell what inspires them, what kind of person they are, what their aesthetic is. Is the workplace clinically clean or cluttered with ripped out pages of Vogue? In this particular episode photographer Valentina Vos shows us her workplace and bits of her appartment.
*The rest of the interviews ánd English translations will follow shortly.
As we speak I'm running out the door (with too much equipment in my bags) to do the next interview with a fashion editor of an online magazine. Stay tuned!
My friend Linda Erkens, founder and head designer of the label Land gifted me this fantastic dress. Being the perfectionist that she is, she wanted to take in a cm here and there. On the footage that was taped almost a month ago we were having a conversation about fits. I said that as a consumer I would have bought this dress anyway, you go into a store, you find your size, it fits more or less and you buy it. But she as the designer sees that half a cm could be taken in here and there. My thought would just be 'Yes! they still have my size!' Linda's partner at Land Guido Rijkse then added that that is the essence of a good designer; the garment should be so well designed that is always fits.
And at Land it does.
Soon the Land online shop will open its digital doors. It will be a place where you will find more garments like these which are all about fit and basic constructions and are not bounded to time.
What you´ll need: a pair of nude sheer tights (or whichever color you like) a pair of black opaque tights a fabric marker or permanent marker
Laying them down or stretching them out won't work. To be able to draw on your pantyhose the easiest thing is to do it while wearing them! Wear a pair of opaque black tights underneath so that you won't be sketching on your legs. I used a fabric marker that I found at a toystore for a few Euros but a regular permanent marker works just as good. Other drawings Possibilities with this DIY are endless, with it you can draw anything on your pantyhopse. I still get questions about a post I did one and a half year ago about a pair of nude tights on which I had not only drawn a backseem but also a front seem and some knee pieces. Finally, the tutorial is here!
The men are walking towards something, it seems that perhaps they are going to meet eachother and so suggests the anticipation building music. After they walk through a concrete landscape of perfect lines, shadows geometrical shapes their paths finally cross accompanied by a delicate piano tone. That was it. An unexpected anti-climax-climax that delivers me goosebumps every time I watch this.
This being said, I must now share the vulgar materialistic feelings that this video also evoked; I need that mono grey ensemble + shoes and bags.
Phillip Lim: Weavers The Designer Shares A New Menswear Film
A portrait of the urban man on the move, today's film Weavers, was conceived by the designer as a follow-up to his fall 3.1 Phillip Lim menswear show. “It’s just three strangers going about their day,” he says. “They cross paths, and feel a kindred spirit because of the way they dress.” The short was shot in Palm Springs by San Francisco-based photographer and filmmaker Andrew Paynter, and its title is a nod both to the artisanal tapestry and rug-making techniques Lim drew upon for his collection, as well as the elusive nature of the models pictured threading in and out of shadows. “We’re always trying to get a mental picture of the man we’re designing for,” he says. “But he’s a little bit of a mystery; we only get glances. This film is our attempt to capture that experience of seeing someone in snatches.” We asked New York-based Lim to demystify his urban summer essentials. Video and words from NOWNESS.com
Bloglovin and Aussie hairproducts are giving bloggers the opportunity to share their hair routines with the world through their website. They also asked me to contribute by showing how I style my hair. Click to see the hair tutorials of the other bloggers I like hair to look a bit neglected. You could say that Kate Moss, Debbie Harry and Mary Kate Olsen are my hair-idols.My hair is very thin and fragile, therefor I only wash it 3x a week. I do not mind frizzy hair at all.
*Very rude of me to have forgotten to include the music credits: Side Dish by Psapp
One of my best afternoons from fashion week was spent (as usual) in Nina's apartment previewing her new collection for Family Affairs and munching on fall cookies. I'm quite excited about the fall pieces she just listed on her site, but the spring ones I saw are making me wish winter was already over and done with. The collection is full of vintage novelty prints and nautical-inspired pieces. They're the sort of clothes you want to wear while vacationing in Capri (it could happen!). I'm coveting the red and blue ensemble I tried on as well as the little striped shorts that will be perfect for the hot endless days of summer. As always, Nina was a pleasure to just sit and chat with.
