Beyond Dress Codes - the Catalogue shooting

Screen shots from the backstage video Filep Motwary created a few days ago.

The "Beyond Dress Codes" exhibition (read the post from the opening night) may have ended here in Athens but now it's the time to tour around the world. Before landing in Thessaloniki and Moscow, the creative team gathered all the clothes and photographed them for the creation of a special catalogue.

Watch the full backstage video here.

Not your common Streetstyle

Today I received "The common People Gallery" which is published by Notos Galleries and I was actually anticipating to see it, as it's the very first (correct me if I'm wrong) Greek Streetstyle-like album ever published. All people photographed live in Thessaloniki and after a first look I'm impressed by the styling and the photography made by Kostas Amiridis.

The only thing I wish it was different is the book's "styling" as it resembles a little bit TOO much to this book. Anyway, the purpose is actually good so don't get this wrong and reject it as all profits will go for charity (ELEPAP Thessaloniki)! The 34 personalities featured have all a unique style and I was happy to recognize among them fellow Thessaloniki-based Fashion Blogger Elena Paschaleri- she is holding the red bag (visit her blog here).

Find The Common People Gallery in notosgalleries-Thessaloniki and soon in all the other notosgalleries stores.

4fashionshake II / Romina Karamanea

Romina Karamanea is well known for sure, maybe that's why she was chosen to close the 4fashionshake II event after all. The Greek born-but based in London, designer appeared on screen and talked a little bit about this collection, about the fact that a friend persuaded her to start creating clothes and about this collection that is based on earth and it would be presented in different colored parts. First we saw "the grey collection" full of cracked-appearing delicate clothes then the models came dressed in blue, green and fire red toned creations!

We all agreed that this was the most ethereal collection of Romina. There were people that liked it and people who preferred her previous more "powerful" lines. My personal opinion is that I would love to own the baggy blue pants or the blue dress as pictured in the forth set of pictures.

collage made by soho symposium. if used please credit

4fashionshake II / Schmidttakahashi

To be honest I hadn't heard of Schmidttakahashi before I read about them at Ozon's 4fashionshake II program... So I wasn't expecting something radical when I sat and the the video of the designer started. Well, this show was one of the most influential shows I've ever seen, not because of the construction of the clothes, the shapes or the fabrics but because of the the philosophy behind this brand!

The last "sort-of" diagram explains the way the designers work. Instead of creating brand new garments they used old-vintage ones that they combined in order to create something completely different and modern. "For instance the coupling of a classical trench coat and a down jacket resulted in outerwear of completely novel form. The silk shirt was transformed into a summer dress with an addition of the knitted belt, formerly part of a sweater."

This brand is eco 100% and as they continue saying at their site "According to our understanding of sustainability, it’s not just about raw material by itself, but also how we treat the raw material. Tropical woods have been in danger for a long time, but we don’t argue against using them to make musical instruments. These use are considered reasonable and economical as the final products would last for hundreds of years. We see materials such as silk in a same way like this tropical wood. If we use them respectfully to enhance the quality so that the products last longer, it will save energy and waste less in a long run."

Impressed! Learn more about Schmidttakahashi here

p.s. more from 4fashionshake II event tomorrow!

Touch the sky

This post is more "pop" than usual! I did this collage a couple of days ago and it basically captures the MANY things in my mind this period... Two of them are, a certain trip I and this blog is about to take in a couple of months (be patient) and the second is the new movie Kanye West made! Can't decide if I like it or not!

Anyways... I basically fell in love with this jacket as I took a look at the Julia Bergovich look book the other day and I had to share it with you somehow! The photographer was Mara Desypris (a well-known Greek model/photographer) and this image in particular is so retro that I immediately loved it!


pic source: todayandtomorrow.net, julia bergovich fb page

Chloé Fall 1981

I couldn't believe my eyes when I spotted these images online! They are taken from a Chloé Fall 1981 campaign, the photographer was Jim Greenberg and I have no more clues about the model!

Almost 30 years later, don't you think that these clothes could be easily worn today? Maxi skirts and shirts with tight collars... Color the last outfit beige and you've got Chloé Fall 2010!

source: styleregistry livejournal

Lanvin, Love, H&M

Today is officially the "Lanvin for H&M" posts day! We started our morning with the press release and the complete set of lookbook, campaign, package and still life pictures and the frenzy continued for hours as each and every site and blog reported their favorite pieces of the collection!

To be true with you, I wasn't expecting any other such collaboration of the past as much I was expecting this one, merely because I wasn't a great fan of the previous collaborating designers... (well ok I wish I had invested in a Comme des Garçons/H&M dotted shirt back then)

But, Alber Elbaz is a person I admire for ages (imagine that I even had his picture in the "people I would like to meet" section of my teenage MySpace page)... So, I knew that he would come up with something great! The "Lanvin for H&M" collection is full of all the things that scream Lanvin! The puffs, the volume, the colors, the sequins, the sparkles and...the necklaces!

And the Preview Day - organized earlier today at the H&M showroom - was just what I wanted for finishing my working day! I got to see all the clothes and accessories, touch the fabrics and feel the spirit! I have to admit that it's a quite impressive step for H&M and what Alber said about the "democratic luxury" is true...BUT ladies please don't get out of your minds that we are still talking of H&M and not of a designers' pure collection when you line up outside H&M on 23rd November!

After all Alber wouldn't approve of a packed store! Right?