OMFG! Perfection. Daphne and Mariacarla by Mert&Marcus for LOVE

Happy Halloween everyone!

This year, we are once again looking to the public to decide on the winner of the Brtish Style Award brought to you by Vodafone at this year’s British Fashion Awards.
The award, which was won by Alexa Chung in 2010, is presented to the individual who most embodies the spirit of London and is an international ambassador for London as a leading creative fashion capital.
Vote online NOW for any of the nominees or propose your own. You will be entered into a prize draw to win a pair of tickets to the British Fashion Awards ceremony. Closing date for votes is 9th November at midnight.
Winners will be announced at the event on Monday 28th November at the Savoy Theatre, recognising the most influential people in fashion today and celebrating the reputation and development of British fashion.

VOTE HERE

Another portuguese birdie.

Birds by Lidija Kolovrat @ Lisbon Fashion Week

Mo saique&Joansu @ Hoxton Square 2.11.11

Do you know Mike Perry?

I first heard about Mike Perry back in 2009, when I found book with his works in V&A Museum (of course!) 

As a designer and artist working in a variety of mediums, including—but not limited to—books, magazines, newspapers, clothing, drawing, painting, and illustration, Mike Perry is compelled by the ways in which the hand-drawn informs and deepens contemporary visual culture. Perry works regularly for a number of editorial and commercial clients including Apple, The New York Times, Dwell, Target, Urban Outfitters, eMusic, and Nike. In 2004, he was chosen as one of Step magazine’s 30 under 30, and, in 2007, as a “Groundbreaking Illustrator” by Computer Arts Projects. In 2008, he received Print magazine’s New Visual Artist award and the ADC Young Guns 6. His work has been exhibited around the world including the 2 recent, solo shows in Tokyo, Japan, We are the Infinity of Each Other and B Gallery and Color, Shapes and Infinity at Public Image 3d Gallery. In addition to his commercial, non-profit, and art work, Perry has also published extensively. His first book, Hand Job, published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2006, focuses specifically on the relevance and beauty of hand-drawn type in the digital age. Over and Over: A Catalog of Hand-drawn Patterns (Fall 2008), explores the similarly nuanced texture, humor, and elegance of illustrative patterns. A third book, entitled Pulled: A Catalog of Screen Printing, was released in March 2011. His self-published magazine, Untitled, explores a variety of themes both playful and lofty. The most recent issue, Untitled 5 was released Summer 2010.Most days, Perry can be found working away in his Brooklyn-based studio, ceaselessly mixing colors, pulling prints, building sculptures and exercising his belief in the transformative power of making things. 

http://mikeperrystudio.com/

Photos and txt via http://www.mikeperrystudio.com/

Back to Lisbon...

Are you in Berlin? Check F95, Fashion Store in new location @ Potsdamer Platz ////////////////////////////////////////////

F95, the Berlin designer store renowned for fashion, accessories and lifestyle products, is celebrating its grand reopening at the new STATION Berlin location, right by Potsdamer Platz. With more space, more design, and unique interior architecture, the new store gives shopping a whole new dimension.  F95 – THE FASHION STORE will showcase fashion from the world’s most sought-after designers, creative collections from up-and-coming talent and many other things that make life more beautiful at its new location on Luckenwalder Straße in Berlin. Founded in 2005, F95 has since become one of the top locations in Berlin for fashion, accessories and lifestyle products for the premium market segment. The store grew out of PREMIUM, an international fashion trade fair that takes place biannually on the same location at STATION Berlin. The innovative concept for the F95 shop carries those ideas further, breaking up conventional product lines and offering unusual combinations of brands instead. This allows a design-attuned clientele to get everything they need to create their own style at one location. F95 places established designers next to the avant-garde, accessories next to denims, and progressive sportswear next to off-beat jewellery. Exclusive cosmetics, perfumes, music, magazines and home accessories complement the range. A new addition is velo couture®, which looks at the bicycle itself, as well as cycling apparel and accessories, from a fashion perspective. The culture of cycling has long become an established part of urban lifestyle, with the bicycle seen as a design object and status symbol. velo couture® at F95 emphasises the fashion dimension to cycling.  The store is home to brands with a long tradition from Germany and abroad as well as being a launch pad for young, ambitious design. It is a laboratory and showcase for future strategies for shop design and product lines. F95 is not only aimed at design-conscious consumers. The store also sees itself primarily as a continuation of the trade fair by other means and will act as a forum and source of inspiration for the industry the year round. Numerous events – including brand launches, shopping specials, presentations, talks, book signings and exhibitions – underscore this part of the store’s character.  F95’s new location, a former post office, still exudes flashes of its past charm, with spacious interiors and spectacular design from the internationally recognised interior architect Heiner Albaum. Like the store itself, Albaum combines a wide range of materials and objects, many of which have a unique history: carpets from the famous Schlosshotel Gerhus in Grunewald, baroque chairs upholstered in damask, trolleys from a long-disused Czech lightbulb factory and bronze statues by Wilhelm Moser. The resulting “postmodern disarray” (Albaum) sets the frame and scene for the fashion store’s outstanding fashion and accessories.  The F95 Grand Opening on the 13th of October was celebrated well into the late evening hours. The numerous guests included business partners, designers and representatives of the brands, representatives of the press and long-standing, regular customers of the store. Many familiar faces including actress Nadine Warmuth, actor Hendrik Borgmann, designers such as Michael Michalsky (Michalsky), Carl Tillessen (Firma), Leyla Piedayesh (Lala Berlin), Livia Ximénez-Carrillo and Christine Pluess (mongrels in common), Germany’s Next Top Model Fiona Erdman etc followed the invitation by PREMIUM founders Anita Tillmann and Norbert Tilllmann to celebrate the opening of F95 The Fashion Store at its new location. 

Adidas at Lisbon Fashion Week

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh how I loved this show! Not only because of this oldschool kinda gangsta looks but because of the atmosphere! Adidas had a great idea to use portuguese celebrities instead of models. At first, when I saw that tiny guy with huge tummy, I was like: what?! but then realized these were ppl from TV, actors, comedians, singers etc. Didn't know any of them, but public's reactions were so amazing, that after few minutes I was acting like I know all of them! Wa really awesome, more party shows like that, please! 
Adidas, integrated in "adidas is all in" campaign, presented their Spring/Summer 2012 collections including: Denim & Blue Collection, the Originals line by Jeremy Scott and the Originals line by David Beckham in collaboration with James Bond. The Blue Collections paid tribute to the Trefoil 40th anniversary, giving a revivalist tone that promises to bring updated the most iconic adidas brand models. The denim jeans line presented new models, colors and design.
The duo David Beckham/James Bond prepared a very clean and casual line, reflecting personality and tyle of Beckham. Jeremy Scott on the other hand was inspired by american pop culture, urban jungle with western style and the iconic adidas silhouettes. 
Love Love Love !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FRIDAY LATE: The Postmodern Look @ V&A //28.10.11

My favourite Museum ever is organising amazing event next Friday, hav a look at the programme and make sure u attend! I'm especially excited about wearing my "1980s finest" hahaha 

This month's Friday Late celebrates our Postmodernism: Style & Subversion 1970-1990 exhibition...
Come dressed up in your 1980s finest to take part in free workshops, activities and discussions. See a gig by Maria & The Mirrors, watch a live drag performance by Joey Arias, take part in our mix tape amnesty, or simply pose for the cameras as the V&A goes all postmodern. As a wise woman once said, 'Don't just stand there, let's get to it. Strike a pose, there's nothing to it’
All events are free and places designated on a first come, first served basis, unless stated otherwise.
Filming and photography will be taking place at this event.


More info and programme here

Peter Jensen celebrates 10 years of his work @ V&A's Fashion in Motion

Just got an email, that Peter Jensen is going to show at Fashion in Motion in Victoria and Albert Museum. So happy, that I will have a chance to work at this show, not only because I have great memories from the Yohji Yamamoto show, but also because Peter Jensen is a great and very interesting designer and hope I will have a chance to meet him personally (am I asking for too much?)
Make sure you get your tickets asap, because as I remember they are always gone pretty fast. You don;t have to pay, just book them via V&A website. Hope to see you all at Peter's show!
Have a look at previous show in V&A with Yohji Yamamoto here




Tickets available here

Details at Aleksandar Protic @ Lisbon Fashion Week

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-Beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments iwll be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die."
                                     // in "Blade Runner", Ridley Scott,