Don´t worry, What´s Wrong With The Zoo isn´t going porn - instead, I have a look towards south. To Munich, Germany. In the midst of the Glockenbachviertel, the AMEN Store doesn´t only hawk unique mirroring but also cares about the good style.
With brands such as Wasted German Youth, Wood Wood alife, surface 2 air, Dave Dennis, dfa, Kid Robot and selected sneakers from Nike to Puma, the AMEN store brings great brands into the neighborhood. The police controls - the mirror and the super-beautiful salesgirls arouse suspicion of illegal prostitution - doesn´t do any harm to the great styles that are sold and provides at least some funny topics of conversation in the introspective, proper Munich. The mirror - of course, it´s an artwork by Paul “Wasted German Youth” Snowden and the photo - again, a shot taken by my favorite street photographer Spanier. Thanks for the permission to use it on my blog. On this note, my dearest readership, I wish you a blithe week with exciting fashion finds and breathtaking mirror images.

Store: AMEN Store, Munich. Mirror: Paul Snowden. Photo: Spanier

Dearest readership, my near and dear one - my night was long! And beautiful!
And yes, because of fervor and passion. NoNoNo, not what you thing..tsstsstss…
It have been the four big “L” that gave me that restlessness.

La Lila and Lea Loves.

Coming home from a concert in the middle of the night, I ” just wanted to check my Emails”.
But when I read the comments from La Lila and Lea Loves, two passionate fashion bloggers from germany, it was time to read, watch, read and watch. (The girls both write in German, so dear foreign readers, use Babelfish to read the texts, but anyway, the pictures are also worth to watch.)

La Lila´s Blog is one I constantly read because she´s also living in Hamburg. She has a taste for fashion and music and it´s pretty interesting to know about her live, the events she visits and the fashion tips she is giving. The girl is into the know and besides that, she seems very sympathetic. That she wrote a very smart “Blogwatch” post about What´s Wrong With The Zoo touched me. We all know that sometimes it´s hard to know if what you write, what you select and what you photograph is interesting or bores people away. So…La Lila, I thank you soooooo much!

Lea Loves. was the big unknown for me and turned into the surprise of the night. Like La Lila, she´s into all kind of things, young creative woman are: fashion, style, music, films, art and life.
Because of the smart writing and the well chosen themes, time goes by very fast by reading her blog.

So, my dearest readership, my dear and near one - now you understand, why it was worth to get only a little amount of sleep. The four big “L”´s just rulez!

For more check out La Lila and Lea Loves.

The story of lassy fair - narrated by Norbert Julian Kober
„You are a storyteller? Fine. You know, my jewelry is also telling stories” said Sabine Zechner at our first meeting in a bar in Munich. For any length of time I had been keeping track on her on that evening. That bonny woman, short red hair, giggling jaunty laugh. I desperately searched for a reason to accost her. The reason shouldn´t be silly and I started to give her compliments for her necklace and pendant. Above dark jersey she was wearing a fine metal ring with small rings and leaves. “Is there a happy end in your stories?” I asked gawkily . “No, I don´t make a point of happy endings”, she hesitated, “but the beginning of the story should be happy”. My fingers were shaking, when I slipped the money for two glasses of wine to the waiter.

This was the beginning.
Much later I experienced that she designed that extraordinary jewelry herself. That the two dogs in the lassy fair logo are her dogs and that she was “laissez-faire” in life and in love. Liberal, noble, free, urbane, only in bond to her heart and full of great stories”.

…mmmhhh sounds like a love story, doesn´t it?

Well, Munich based designer Sabine Zechner makes it easy for all us to fall in love with the cut-out narrative jewelry.
No matter if it´s the sleeping beauty or Hansel and Gretel, the two king´s childs or the golden goose - the lassy fair pieces are affectionate, unique and ravishing.
You wanna get one of these wearable narratives by lassy fair? No problem. Check out Hokohoko, Musthave and Shopwindoz.
Photos from lassy fair

Hair. Photographs by Herlinde Koelbl. March 15th-June 25th in Munich, Museum Villa Stuck.
Photo credits: Herlinde Koelbl/Villa Stuck

The grandmaster of graphic and editorial design is always worth to visit: Scott King solo exhibition ”Marxist Disco (cancelled)”. From February 23th-Apri 13th in Munich, Kunstverein München.
“Scott King trained as a graphic designer. He worked as Art Director of i-D magazine and went on to become Creative Director of Sleazenation, for which he was awarded ‘Best Cover’ and ‘Best Designed Feature of the Year’ prizes. King occasionally produces work under the banner ‘CRASH!’ with writer and historian Matt Worley. Although King still accepts some graphic design commissions, he now works primarily as an artist. He has exhibited widely in London, New York and European galleries including the ICA, Cubitt, KW Berlin, Portikus and White Columns.” Scott King biography

Photo Credits: Scott King

Imagine, you´re standing in the metro, the guy behind you levels his mobile phone to the back of your T-Shirt and thereupon you get a chit with his number. Uuuhhh! Either, you´re one of that 5% of extraordinary stunning human beings that just have to be THERE to bring people in ecstasy OR you´re wearing a T-Shirt by Emma Cott.
Due to innovative technology it is possible to encode information that have been compressed in two-dimensional Barcodes (called mobile codes) with a simple photo mobile phone.
In Japan - it´s already all the range. Soon in Munich too. The Munic Label Emma Cott is new, fresh and technically ahead. In the own online-shop T-Shirts with coded Messages are sold for an acceptable price and everyone is invited to submit new Messages that could be coded and printed on T-Shirts.
Although I have absolutely NO desire to transmit coded messages to the outside world, and although Messages like „You are next”, „love me”, and “I love BCN” are THE disincentive to me, the basic idea seems worth mentioning. With intelligent and creative Slogans - I guess it would be a funny gimmick.

Photo credits: Emma Cott