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When inspiration is called Mats Gustafson

November 12, 2012

I have a soft spot for this fashion “illustrateur” – I’m fan since I’ve seen in my teens his “Découpage” serie done for an Italian Vogue if I well remember, in the 90’s. Years after, I  still love his style: pure, light lines and breathtaking beauty. He shows the designer and their pieces or outfits in a very creative way – he’s catching the mood and designer’s reflexion, not just pieces of cloth. So I decided today it’s Mats Gustafson…

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Little black jacket, Chanel & Paris

November 11, 2012

The little black jacket – one of Chanel’s iconic pieces. The perfect subject for us & Code Noir Style. Watching the result of Karl Lagerfeld and Carine Roitfeld collaboration, it gave another meaning to this classic piece of cloth. Sarah Jessica Parker, Vanessa Paradis, Laeticia Casta, Romain Duris, Kirsten Dunst, Kanye West, Yoko Ono or Claudia Schiffer, Olivier Theysken or Anna Wintour – many and so different personalities got creative under Karl’s mastered eye. Lagerfeld redesigned the famous jacket, making…

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State of Grace

November 11, 2012

“I don’t want to dress up a picture with just my face. “ Grace Kelly Happy Birthday to a lady who was and still is an icon & style example for many of us. Will add two trailers of movies I adore with her and are among my favourite ones, To Catch a Thief and The Rear Window. To Catch a Thief – movie trailer The Rear Window – movie original trailer Photos courtesy to: http://www.eftekasat.net http://frenchfrosting.blogspot.ro http://mikeb63.blogspot.ro – Official…

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“I wear my Ego” – the audio piece of jewelry

November 4, 2012

“Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.” I always loved peacocks, but never thought I’m going to be one some day. “Ego”, “jewelry”, “peacock”, “mask” – these were the words frosting on a sunny autumn morning as well as many other words while talking with master of words Ioana Baldea Constantinescu. Starting from her idea about a certain need today to show the ego like a peacock’s tail and run after…

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Who’s Dree Hemingway?

October 3, 2012

She turned more fashionable heads around than The Wintour at Carven’s show last week at Parisian Fashion Week. She’s blond, blue eyed and the daughter of actress Mariel Hemigway and Stephen Crisman, and yes, the great-grand daughter of author Ernest Hemigway. At only 24, Dree moves fast – her fashion debut show was in 2009 for Givenchy, followed by Calvin Klein, Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld, House of Holland or Rue du Mail. Since, world of fashion is embrassing her: editorials for…

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Yayoi Kusama & Vuitton in London — high fashion or kitsch?

September 1, 2012

Louis Vuitton and Yayoi Kusama – it takes all kinds of opinions to make a world: collectable items, high fashion or kitsch ? Yayoi Kusama is 83 years old this year. Her winter through to early summer exhibition toured major museums in selected european capitals such as the Pompidou centre in Paris, the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, and the Tate Modern in London. Currently showing at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, they have all been…

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The surprise at Lady Gaga’s concert was… The Darkness

August 19, 2012

Lady Gaga’s concert in Bucharest raised a gamut of reactions, some positive, some negative, some focused more on details, i.e when in the middle of the concert she announced that she had to vomit, and apologised for disappearing backstage. This ‘detail’ became headline in the next day’s newspapers, with Gaga being more criticised on how ‘disgusting’ she is then on the quality of her show or performance. As Léon Zitrone’s say goes: ‘good or bad, just let them talk about…

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Yayoi Kusama & Louis Vuitton – the dot ruls the world

July 14, 2012

The japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, the Queen of dots, is today 83 years old. Art, fashion, cinema or literature, Yayoi explored a large kind of (experimental) art between 1958 and 1973, while living in New York. Considered immediately as avantgardiste, she was a forerunner for pop and environmental art. Her work is strongly visual and always invited the public to experience intense visual emotions. Later she decided to return to Japan. Her saying “I painted boredom, which is more important…

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When the sun meets Thierry Lasry & Garrett Leight at Colette

June 27, 2012

Numero 1 is the name of the mini collection of sunglasses created by Thierry Lasry & Garrett Leight, two eyewear designers, heirs of well-known eyewear companies –  French Thierry is the son of  Harry Lary‘s people while LA Venice beach borned Garrett is Oliver People‘s co-founders son, Larry Leight and Cindy Leight. “Because as much as I love music I wasn’t given the god given talent to create it and as much as I’d like to be a famous actor…

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Good night, Lady Summer…

May 19, 2012

“But I like to know that someone is stronger than I am. I want to be able to know that if I get tired, somebody is there to hold up the fort. I like knowing that I can’t pick a refrigerator alone. God did not make me strong enough to do that.” Donna Summer 1948 – 2012 ** Donna Summer My baby understands ** Michael Jackson & Donna Summer Donna Summer & producer Giorgio Moroder

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Autor 007 — contemporary jewelry fair in Bucarest

May 15, 2012

The spring version of Autor, at its 7th edition,  got again that own warm & special ambiance. Beside new entries as Contemporist, a concept of online design sale and several new designers (among others Statement Jewelry By Ioana Enache),  it was a pleasure to see the new collections of Carla Szabo, Alis Lalu, Maria Filipescu, Lady Magpie, Andra Lupu, Mihaela Zvinca or Bianca Pop – to mention just few of them. Note: a special corner was dedicated to discover the…

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