Pink Blush!

August 28, 2013January 6, 2015 | Design & Culture by Ed

Who said that pink was only for Barbie dolls? For sure not the designers for Autumn-Winter 2013! This season was a pure pink colour explosion. From Miu Miu polka dot coats to Simone Rocha super cute pastel dresses, the runways were flowing with pink. But it wasn’t about just one shade of pink- there was the soft bluch (Dior), candyfloss (Roksanda Ilincic), pastel gingham (Prada), fierce fuchsia (Dries Van Noten) and many more types of pink prints, fabrics and furs. In other words, pink made a suprise appearance throughout the shows. So banich the black and bury the beige in your wardrobe! From now on girls, pink got words to say to the fashion world! (THE PICTURE ABOVE: MIU MIU)

1. ACNE STUDIOS bag, MIU MIU coat on Cara Delevgne in Vogue UK, 2. GILES, 3. DRIES VAN NOTEN, 4. SONIA RYKIEL and DIOR HAUTE COUTURE, 5. ROKSNADA ILINCIC, 6. PRADA and SIMONE ROCHA, 7. LANVIN, 8. JONATHAN SAUNDERS, 9. ACNE STUDIOS and RODARTE and TOPSHOP UNIQUE, 10. TOPSHOP UNIQUE, 11. DIOR and PRADA, 12. JOHN ROCHA and CARVEN and SIMONE ROCHA, 13. CARVEN

Xiao Li of The Marshmallows!

July 13, 2013July 13, 2013 | Design & Culture by Ed

Xiao Li, a Chinese designer of RCA FASHION London is one of the most exciting designer of the year! Her amazing, over large costumes in a marshmalow colour palet are very precised and made in with high technology. Plump pastel silicone garments moulded from knitwear feature in this collection by Royal College of Art graduate Xiao Li. And this knitwear doesn’t look like a simple now, made by a grandma. It’s, I would say, looking like if it was blew up or something.
“Traditional knitwear is more soft and shapeless,” Li told Dezeen. “I wanted to find out a new way to present knitwear and was influenced by Modern architecture and 60s Balenciaga.”
It all sounds pretty sophisticated, but these mind blowing fabrics are very wearable and easy. “I wanted to make sure my collection is innovative but still wearable,” she said. And my fav look is the one with the pink dress with organza bottom- looks stunning. And the boots… Plastic rules!

Zurich: Flowers, MDL, Trois Pmmes, Architecture, Italian Food and more…

December 28, 2012December 29, 2012 | Design & Culture by Ed

Today there was a shiny day in Zurich and for sure the flower shop next to the hotel had a new collection of roses.

Then we went to Trois Pommes Studio for Alaia, and then to Looq, where I really fell in love with the bison leather bag.

But the discovery of the day was MDL a modern shop with cool casual pieces of unknown designers. I reall liked the amount of scarves there: every colour and print was there!

For lunch we chose a very nice Italian Restaurant called Cantinetta Antinori. I ate some delicious buffalo mozarella with parma ham and spaghetti with veal. Yummy! And here are pics of architecture and river of Zurich.

And in the English Bookshop I bought this:

A great book of bloggers! I truly recomend this!
For dinner we chose Hummer Bar, a lobster restaurant. However we didn’t order a lobster. But we chose salmon with blinis, tourbot, plat of seafood, sole and oysters. Ok, in one word: horrible! Dont try to go there! Oysters were unfresh, turbot was from freezing machine, plat of seafood wasn’t a seafood plat. Sorry, but this the worst fish restaurant in whole Switzerland. But the day was still wonderful! 😀