Frankfurt: Villa Kennedy

February 3, 2014February 2, 2015 | Design & Culture by Ed

Villa Kennedy, one of the Rocco Forte hotels, is located in a quiet Frankfurt neighbourhood surrounded with beautiful old buildings and parks. The hotel is kept in Colonial, a bit artistic way- full of wood and modern sculptures, it makes you feel like at home… Or even better! And, no wonder, the Villa is full of John Kennedy canvas photographs, making it feel pretty American. The restaurant is great with it’s Italian cuisine, and rooms are comfortable (and the balconies are really big!). This is certainly a lovely place.

Kenyan Cool

January 30, 2014 | Design & Culture by Ed

Karen Walker did the most outstanding campaign of SS14 campaigns. The Visible Collection was inspired and styled by Kenyan artisans. What’s best, the eyewear is presented not on typical models, but on local, Kenyan people who really know how to wear these glasses… Matched with braids, African jewellery and colourful attitude, the collection’s sale will go on Kenyan fundaution that will help improve the schools and things needed there. I simply can’t get enough of this.

Jean-Francois Lepage

January 5, 2014July 29, 2014 | Design & Culture by Ed

Jean Francois Lepage looks for unbalanced in his photographs. So he reworks his negatives with a knife to create strange images that can now be seen in Inside the mirror exhibition in Galerie Made, Paris. Jean-François Lepage does fashion photography on the razor’s edge. His images, with their bare compositions – solitary figures, no accessories, immersed in an endless lunar landscape or a vast, almost empty white house – express a brand of minimalism seldom seen in fashion photography. They are strangely motionless, as if suspended in a time and space where women are beings possessed by dreams, living in a world where the photographer, the model and the viewer’s imagination project and come together.

Paris: BOOKMARC

January 4, 2014 | Design & Culture by Ed

If you are a book maniac and you are visiting Paris soon, then this place is for you! BOKMARC is a fashion/photography bookstore, that belong to Marc Jacobs. This little, cozy store is located next to the Marc by Marc Jacobs for men and women and few steps from Marc Jacobs main line. In BOOKMARC you will find rare books by Guy Bourdin, Andy Warhol; magazines like Candy; collector edition t-shirts by Kate Moss X Playboy X Marc Jacobs X Mert + Marcus. For me it’s a heaven I AM A FASHION BOOK MANIAC. In other words, I recommend this place for every bookworm.

Paris: Alaia at Le Galliera

January 2, 2014 | Design & Culture by Ed

Alaia is one of the most important fashion visionaires in the history. His body dresses, great craftmanship, beauty of the fabrics and fairy-tale creations are beloved by the biggest fashionistas, models, curators, journalists and others. Azzedine Alaia is so previledged, that he can show his collections whenever he wants. And 2013 was his year. Firstly, he opened a new flagship store in Paris. And then, monsieur A.A. got a great exhibition in Musee Galliera. In this museum, you can see the most important and out of this world gowns made out of metal, coats with crocodile tails and sea-shells on bustiers. After seeing it all, I am still amazed about how this man changed the fashion world, making young designers inspired by him. And I recomend you, to go there too. And fast because the exhibition closes on January 26!