After watching the rescue of a kite surfer in an accident on the ferry, Spanier and i finally made it to Copenhagen. Again - just exciting to step into town. Great atmosphere, fantastically beautiful people and the perspective to have some great -mostly private - days in Denmark’s capital. Missions: Tomorrow, wedding from Louise and Julien, sunday, some sightseeing and a visit of Louisiana. Monday:prowling around with Spanier and maaayyybeeee…..getting rid of him for few hours to do some shopping
Have a nice weekend too.

Photo by Spanier

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“Nice” is such an unappreciative attribute when there could be “experimental”, “groundbreaking”, “inspirational”, “progressive”, “creative” or at least the little “special”.

Floral-prints in multiple sizes, of course, some blasting colors and for Mrs. Honest Man the black-and-white vector-graphics look with some uni basics and flattering dresses. Well, even the obligatory neon icing on the cake didn´t save Marimekko from just being nice and I had to leave kind of sad with keeping all the exciting attributes locked in my showbag. Anyway, there still was a highlight - the short haired mademoiselle walking as an eye-catcher with some blond runway-darlings.
After the show, I was running into this now really smart dressed attention getter - it´s Nora, represented by Brand Model Management from Helsinki.

Picture 1+ 2 via copenhagenfashionweek.tv

Refering: “The Girl from Copenhagen“

I have to admit – imagining to spend TWO days with FIVE woman wasn´t always causing ecstatic surge of emotions to me during the last days. But, things always seem to happen when you least expect them: each one´s an edgily pearl and instead of getting involved in stupid-prissy-girl-things we enjoyed a great day in Copenhagen with some heated debates, interesting talks and hilarious jokes and stories. And so, after a brief walk through Copenhagen, we came up with posing some ridiculous poses for this kind of amazingly common group-photos you´ll find in every photo-album. This version of group-arrangement is called “girls boarding school class arranged on stairs”. If you´d like to see the version: “quartet with foresight” check here.Fromleft to right: Lisa from La Lila, Tessa from Knicken, Lea from Lea Loves, me from the Zoo, Mahret from fartguide and Mary from Pudri/Stil in Berlin.

Invited to Copenhagen Fashion Week in the scope of the launch of  twoforfashion, i arrived yesterday in Denmark´s capital, already catched up with Mahret, Mary, Lisa, Lea and Tessa - some German bloggers who also are in town-, and will now start to have a short walk through the town before it goes to the Marimekko show. Queen Diane, Facehunter and the Hope Hope girls have already been out and about the town and it´s fashion spectacles. Check out.

Press release:
CIRCLECULTURE GALLERY IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE FIRST SOLO EXHIBITION OF BERLIN-BASED STREET ARTIST XOOOOX: “MOLOTOV HIGH HEELS”.
OPENING: JULY 17TH 2008, 7PM, EXHIBITION: JULY 18TH UNTIL SEPTEMBER 10TH 2008

XOOOOX has been a prolific graffiti artist since the mid 1990ʼs. Early experiments with collage gradually evolved into the artistʼs signature stencil work, typically life-size figures or appropriated designer logos found predominately on the streets of Berlin and in Paris, Milan, Vienna, New York…
The exhibition will include emblematic stencil work by xoooox, as well as new collage and sculpture made from common materials such as cardboard, flea market furniture, found objects and discarded fashion magazines. A large-scale, public work, will accompany the exhibition.
XOOOOX manipulates immediately recognizable logos of upscale brands like Coco Chanel, re-contextualizing these elitist class signifiers within the inherently egalitarian space of the urban public sphere, while commenting on the visual power of branding in general. Life-sized stencils of females, conspicuously posed and styled as models often are, depict the icons of fashionʼs cult of worship and recall the work of street art legends such as Blek le Rat, Misstick and Banksy, functioning as both traditional figurative studies and ironic representations of societyʼs obsession with the superficial. Although XOOOOXʼs stenciled images are inspired by the fashion spreads seen in magazines such as Vogue and avant-garde publications like Purple, this work is not a deconstruction of couture culture. On the contrary, each stencil, created painstakingly by hand, pays homage to the art form that is couture fashion, while criticizing the massmerchandising and advertising campaigns of global retail chains. Citing Pop Art, DADA and, of course, graffiti as major influences, the artist states, “You can use the power of fashion like a personal weapon. It can act like a shield, or it can destroy you.”

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
»Inoperable Poster Show« Vienna, 2007
»Finders Keepers« Milan, 2006
»Hollywood The Remix« New York, 2005
www.xoooox.com

For further information please contact the gallery.
Circleculture Gallery, Gipsstrasse 11, 10119 Berlin Mitte, Germany
berlin@circleculture-gallery.com, www.circleculture-gallery.com