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A Shirt by Restless Janosch for Strellson Design Garage. The...

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:32:00 +0100

A Shirt by Restless Janosch for Strellson Design Garage.

The Strellson flagship store in Düsseldorf invites you to design your own t-shirt. The ambitious and creative store team has build the Design Garage, an in-store-studio containing two creative desks and plenty of colours of textile paint, stencils, two sewing machines, yarns and more applications. Calling for your creativity, some friends and I could not resist. We spent a good and very entertaining hour in the store. My design (pictured above) is based on the typical motives of switzerland: the cross, mountain and deer. The holy image of the mountaineer as spirit of it’s natural habitat reflects my understanding of the perfect arrangement of life and environment. The shield frame and banner marked with the swiss cross emphasize traditional values and sustainable quality.

My hopes are high to being one of the three who may be awarded a trip to Zurich and Strellson headquarter in Kreuzlingen. The design competition is open until this Saturday, February 18th. If you dare to challenge my design: hurry up. You don’t need a concept like mine, just be a bit creative and let your inspiration turn into a visual result, with or without the use of stencils and many colours or advanced sewing skills (which I don’t have either).

Strellson Flagship Store
Im Breidenbacher Hof
Königsallee 11
40212 Düsseldorf

Opening hours Monday to Friday from 10 to 20h.

http://www.strellson.com

Image © Janosch Bösche (Taken with instagram)

He kept his word. Bruno Pieters launched the revolutionary...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:11:50 +0100

He kept his word. Bruno Pieters launched the revolutionary fashion concept label. Consequentially, nomen est omen. honest by is the name of the label and website, where he launched his new project. The colour squares are not the symbol of unclear resolutions, they stand for a pixel, the smallest piece of an image, providing detailed insights about suppliers, production, and all costs and markups included. Going even further, he does not only share all information but is also choses young and emerging designers to collaborate and benefit through collaboration.

My greatest congratulations and admiration. May more follow your lead, De heer Pieters!

P.S.: The choice of colour is yours to decide for your website experience.
Image via honestby.com

A poodle. The catwalk presentation of fashion by Susanne...

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:44:19 +0100

A poodle. The catwalk presentation of fashion by Susanne Bisovski marks the final of Fashion Net Event day in Düsseldorf. The Austrian designers work is an homage to traditional tailoring from the alps. Mixing elements of the 50’s, the designs honour the female figure. Mixing materials wool, felt, silk, and sequin results to the modern traditional, urban proof pieces. A little kitch making us happy. (Taken with instagram)

Pim Sukhahuta explains how she started and deceloped her fashion...

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:47:41 +0100

Pim Sukhahuta explains how she started and deceloped her fashion label from Thailand. After her graduation from Parsons, she opened an own shop and founded her own label Stretsis. After ten years, Stretsis is sold around the world and employs 60 people. (Taken with instagram)

Lena Grossmüller and Isabell Braun analyzed fashion journalism...

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:00:58 +0100

Lena Grossmüller and Isabell Braun analyzed fashion journalism between print and blog in depth. On top the duo curated An exhibition at renown NRW-Forum. (Taken with instagram)

Marcus Luft (Fashion Editor, Gala Germany) describes the path...

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:38:03 +0100

Marcus Luft (Fashion Editor, Gala Germany) describes the path from runway to streetstyle, the links between designer label, media and consumers. A journalistic (and justified) sidekick reflexting the growing significance of blogging: Are all published opinions equally trustworthy being aware of their rolesponsibility (influence) on various levels? The effects of online judgement on creative and production planning. Brands accelerate distribution from catwalk to customers closet in six weeks as partial paradigm change of sales analysis.

At Education Center by Fashion Net Düsseldorf e.V.

(Taken with Instagram at Cube Studios)

Claudia Carillon speaks about the potential of a fashion film...

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:39:46 +0100

Claudia Carillon speaks about the potential of a fashion film compared to a catwalk presentation. Every young designer can produce and spread a video to their current and future audiences, esp. desired clients. Every young designer MUST DO A FASHION VIDEO PRESENTATION (Taken with instagram)

Protein bread for dinner (low carb). Didn’t know this...

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:50:53 +0100

Protein bread for dinner (low carb). Didn’t know this existed. But still not paleo! (Taken with instagram)

The ‘transparent editorial office’ at...

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:21:50 +0100

The ‘transparent editorial office’ at #frontrowrevolution #symposium #fashion #journalism (Taken with Instagram at NRW-Forum)

With the weekend coming up, it is time to retreat from the weeks...

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:27:42 +0100

With the weekend coming up, it is time to retreat from the weeks challenges and let our mind strive and focus on things that are not only duty- and useful but also desirable.
Inspired by the snow that is falling all over Germany I prefer not to stick out too much and hide with this plain shield, enjoying the last days of the winter 2011-2012

image via ln-cc

A feast of a musik video. The boldly lavish pack consumes and...

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:30:05 +0100

A feast of a musik video. The boldly lavish pack consumes and reminisces earlier days with a subtle note of criticism (bold song title). Play may be of less significance when inacceptable, direct your focus on the textiles, visioned and made by the mind extraordinaire kimberit und KOMMENT. Production by edged showroom, that recently presented experimental labels in cooperation with FIER Management.

The Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble feat. Emika - Pretend

A little bird told me, that the dear Romina Karamanea, london...

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:45:05 +0100

A little bird told me, that the dear Romina Karamanea, london based greek designer of a special kind, is on the shortlist of the panel of lookk.com, the London based online shop and fashion network.

Not to neglect the fact that the panels presidency is in the hands of Susie Bubble and Manish Arora.

I cross my fingers and wish you, Romina, all the best.

http://www.rominakaramanea.com/
http://lookk.com

The first Audi A2 was not a great success, mostly because it...

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:02:02 +0100

The first Audi A2 was not a great success, mostly because it didn’t fit (missed to redirect) Audi’s future design identity, and was therefore eliminated from the product range. The gap it left between A1 and A3 is now being filled with the new and packed with revolutionary approaches as the A2 concept. This concept is based on electric technology, all in motion, communication, and control conceptualization.

Aren’t they all unique? For my last trip to Paris at the...

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:00:00 +0100

Aren’t they all unique?

For my last trip to Paris at the end of November, I chose AIR FRANCE (did you watch their lightness of flying / l’envol by Air France film?). The service was fine, the usual gimmicks and on board food, despite a confused look by the stewardess when we ordered a second beverage. I just received the welcome note and membership card to FLYING BLUE, the mileage programme of AIR FRANCE - KLM, promising a unique programme. I wonder, what is unique as it simply allows me to collect miles for rewards, redeem them for upgrades, goodies and whatsoever, just like my other programmes do, too. Please do me a favor: Either don’t give me a word for something that you cannot hold or specify what you are talking about. Just to help me identify/ commit myself with you, because that is what you are trying to seduce me to, right?

(Taken with Instagram at Restless Space)

LIGANOVA, a brand retail company has understood the relevance of...

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:00:05 +0100

Liga Studio

Liga Studio preview

LIGANOVA, a brand retail company has understood the relevance of the crossmedial brand communication and expanded its activities to publishing. Liga Studios is their take on lifestyle topics, brand news and people that influence and enrich our time.

http://www.ligastudios.com/

(Images via Liga Studio website)

Hitting news stands, magazine shops and concept stores in...

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:28:18 +0100

Hitting news stands, magazine shops and concept stores in Germany today.

visualschnitzel:

Making-Of: INTERVIEW Germany No.1
Video: Jean Demery

Summe meiner Teile Premier party with The Mighty Oaks live...

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:03:41 +0100

Summe meiner Teile Premier party with The Mighty Oaks live (Taken with Instagram at Kino International)

The folks of Modasuite are working on an second project: Frank...

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:56:49 +0100

The folks of Modasuite are working on an second project: Frank & Oak. Check out their pre-launch website and enroll to be among the first to discover their new and cool threads, all under $50 (refer link).

OZON Magazine Banned in Texas!

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:48:41 +0100

ozonlive: Today we received this prohibition for OZON International in Texas!

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:00:00 +0100