Long time no see, DavidDavid. (more…)

Dear Maria Francesca Pepe, today it is the forth time, i talk about your work. Two years ago, it was “Paradoxa”, your first collection that caught my eye and made me immediately fall in love with your ability to transform unusual shapes and heavy-weighting volumes into wearable jewelry. Then there was “Mucha”, modeled by Alice Dellal. You experimented with materials such as calf, iguana, caiman and sheep skin and oversized shapes that were supplemented by some more filigree details and pieces. This was pretty refreshing.And then, it happend, that you started to mix  fashion design and jewelry making in “Art Brut”. This was the point were i got lost.

Like i already wrote, wether it were the shots, or the fashion – i didn`t get the uniquesness of your collection.  But thankfully, this changed with your fantastic “Les fabulous C” collection. Back on the track i just praised  – the fashion and the jewels, the way how you brought them together and my joy to be able again to dream about wearing Maria Francesca Pepe. Curiously and full of expectations, i landed on your website again to find “Bathing Beauties”. A collection of dresses, jewelry and shoes for summer 2010. While watching your fashion film, i dreamt away to old Hollywood, became a diva, standing on a pool. In one of my bejewelled hands a cigarette, in the other a glass of champaign. Hair well done, head held high and warm summer breeze caressing my soft flowing silk dress. BUT THEN – SHOCK. (more…)

Female warriors in film and female warriors in fashion have one big thing in common: they are uber-sexy. The big difference: the better the fashion, the less cheap is the interpretation of warrior outfits but the worse the film the tighter and transparent they become. WORD.

Inspired by Kate Beckinsale in Underworld, Tina Turner in Mad Max and Jane Fonda in Barbarella the former Burberry designer Samantha Cole created pieces for the female warrior avant-garde.
Cheap-chic is far, intelligent sex appeal close. (more…)

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If you feel like a “special requests” fashionista or a secret human hair fetishist you might be obsessed with those human hair accessories by Bitching & Junkfood. It`s Highly-aesthetic recycling fashion with human benefits. ..but..way too much for me. (more…)

If we do the Craig Lawrenceish way, in 2010, we will meet up in ruffled pop-pom catsuits, silver dominatrix see through costumes and over-yarned fairy dresses to celebrate the fantastic handmade knitted and crafted fashion universe of the young London-based designer. In his third collection, Craig Lawrence, a Central Saint Martin`s graduate, explores volumes and knits in a silver-red mix. Great match and obviously, fun to wear. (more…)

I can´t tell you how this picture (below) of Christian Neumann and Virginia Ferreira, the heads behind UK-based label  Belle Sauvage, makes my heart jump. Eight years ago, Christian, three other friends and i moved in an old house in a tiny Swabian village to spend one year together while studying.

Besides being interested in fashion as in other design-related disciplines, we spent our time on artsy fartsy things and new media design stuff and left one year later to go abroad.
If somebody would have told us, that eight years later, Christian is doing a fashion show during London Fashion Week with this girl he met in Buenos Aires, and that i will have a fashion blog writing about their label that went to zero to super-boost…we probably might have called this person a damn fool. (more…)

Back in the day there was no better way of impressing your crush than with a mix tape of all your favourite songs to woo them over. Now that tape players are virtually extinct, you might think that mix tapes have become a thing of the past, well think again! Yes lazy oaf brings you the up to date version in the form of a Mix Tape USB memory stick gift pack. With a 128MB USB stick, you can create your own unique mix tape. (more…)