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Sometimes everything depends on the right timing. Marie Antoinette would have probably bit on her own tongue if she would have known that her cake fantasies would have brought a headless future for herself. On my side, I am wondering if writing about decadent little delicious cakes is the right thing to do in a week in which everybody else is blogging about homeless people and the hard winter. Anyhow, I discovered a little cake shop that I just want to share with you. So get more information after the jump, eat cake and then give your old clothes to homeless people.
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by Claudio
on February 1st, 2012
in Cafés, Places
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We really want to say thanks to Who’s Next Paris to let us experience these amazing 5 days in Paris. We finally had the chance to check out Paris Fashion Week, see the shows of our fav Bernhard Willhelm as well as Walter van Beirendonck and Damir Doma, dance at the fabulous Flash Cocotte party, meet some great young designers at the Who’s Next fair and browse through giant vintage mountains. All things we just loved. We also had some really weird and funny experience. We saw a crazy and very entertaining catwalk fashion musical at Who’s Next, we met some giant vampire drag queens at Place de la Concorde and found a little hotel with an antique harp in the attic. So beautiful and strange! See all impressions of our lovely trip after the jump.
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by Claudio
on January 28th, 2012
in Fashion
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What a crazy night! Two vampiresque Drag Queens glamoured us in front of Place de la Concorde and brought us to an unsual place. Fantasy creatures and fashion people came together Saturday night in Paris to celebrate Flash Cocotte, a special irregular party night. For us snobby Berliners, the music would probably make us attempt suicide. But we tried to let go and have fun as much as we can. With higher alcohol consumption our French got so bad that we could not understand a single word anymore. Kisses were collected instead. And who would say no to French kissing, huh? See our party impressions and animations after the jump on 2 pages.
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by Claudio
on January 26th, 2012
in Party
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Most Fashion trade shows are normally not very concerned with sustainability. The way the Who’s Next Paris handled this topic was surprisingly creative: They invited the vintage store chain Hippy Market to host several sale booths all over the grounds of the fair. You could compare this store chain with Made In Berlin.
On these little Vintage islands that were embedded into the exhibition you could discover unusual and selected vintage pearls from Paris to moderate prices. I was actually so fascinated by this discovery that I spend half my day hunting from one booth to the other to find some vintage souvenirs from Paris. The philosophy of Hippy Market is exactly like my oppinion of the second-hand gold: Vintage is not only fashion with a history but also a good and affordable alternative to green fashion. See our favorite finds and some impressions after the jump.
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by Claudio
on January 24th, 2012
in Fashion
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misericordia
The FAME exhibition of Who’s Next Paris that we visited on our third day in Paris is dedicated to luxury trends and high class products. The chic Parisian label 85/86 has a quite artistic approach to fashion. Deconstructing the typical superficial sterotype is an upcoming thing for small luxury labels. The young graduate designers Alena Kudera Johnson, Ruth Green, Victoria Spruce and Lyudmilla Lane represented the right mix of avant-garde and theatricality which is also looking to become a big fashion trend in the next two years.
A more relaxed approach to luxury is delivered by the casual label Misericordia. But as hard as I try to have this super elite taste, my heart simply beats higher when I see a funny print, a glossy shoe and sparkle and glitter and lots of colour. French label Manoush and Danish label Charlotte Sparre make me happy with Madonnas, folky colorsplashes and funny icebear prints.
There was also an exhibition featuring Austrian fashion designers with very cool stuff from AND_I and cool glasses by Andy Wolf. We also made some more jewellery discovery today at the Premiere Class which is sharing the same hall. Check out tatty devine for cool jewellery animals. See my impressions after the jump.
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by Claudio
on January 23rd, 2012
in Fashion
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Bleans Je Vovis
After seeing jaw-dropping fashion shows yesterday surrounded by all the fabulous people Paris has to offer, walking around over the urbanwear exhibition Mr. Brown at the Who’s Next Paris today was quite relaxing. I encountered one label I was totally fond of and made me want to meet more young designers. The unisex clothes at the little both of Bleans Je Vovis had the right mix of cool and chic that made me want everything of it 
Frank was a fan of the cheaky, sexy and casual aesthetic of French street label Elevenparis. Overall we liked the playfull attempt of some labels to inspire the visitors with the funniest installations and we liked listening to the bands playing during the day.
More impressions of the giant urban and menswear trade show Mr. Brown after jump.
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by Claudio
on January 23rd, 2012
in Fashion
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We are often following the hypes of people we like. We follow the recommendations of our friends and enjoy things they like to do because in the end everything can be good and bad depending of your perspective. I heard so many beautiful stories of Nicolas Jaar concerts of people I trust blindly in their taste of music that I wanted to go in any case to the concert he was giving on Monday at Berghain. In the end I was a little disapointed. Not because it was bad, but just because it couldn’t measure up with the hype my friends build around it. For people who are less susceptible as I am I recommend definetly to check out one of his concerts for example tonight at Berghain.
by Claudio
on January 18th, 2012
in Music
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Daniel Josefsohn
Feeling attraction to an artist because of his work is kind of weird. After a while you can’t really say if the love you feel is bringing you to the point of not being objective anymore about the art itself. Nevertheless being in love with Mr. Pollesch, one of the most amazing theater directors on earth, has never let me doubt my taste in theater (and men). I was always struck down by lightning before, during and after every piece that I saw and I enjoyed them as other people would enjoy sex or drugs. So, is it relevant what the source of your pleasure is? Or is the pleasure itself the key element in our decisions of consumption. Now I can attend to my pleasures even digitally through Pollesch’s Blog.
If you can you should check out his new piece Kill Your Darlings, premiering on Wednesday at Volksbühne and promissing a lot of intelectual mindsex. Dates and details after the jump.
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by Claudio
on January 17th, 2012
in People, Theatre
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Nancy Zhang
I know so many people working in fashion that I am positively engaged when I meet a biomechanic or any sort of person working outside the vanity industry. Nevertheless i realized that just a few people I know working for fashion surprise and inspire me everytime I meet them by the way they dress. This shortlist that I made in anticipation of Fashion Week is just based on my everyday life. There are wonderful people out there I might not know, or I just don’t meet on a regular basis. But these five handsome individuals, are the eyecandy of every party or event I go. They are kind of my fashion heroes. That’s why I wanted to dedicate them this post. Find out who they are after the jump.
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by Claudio
on January 16th, 2012
in Fashion, People
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There are probably many vintage hunters and antique specialists among our readers who are able to hunt down the best bargains and the most special objects in any normal fleamarket. But some of you are perhaps also fed up from all the fleamarket culture and want to go to some special shop for once in a while. To get a real interior inspiration I think Friedrichslust can give you as much pleasure as the Wunderkammer in Kreuzberg can. The little shop hidden in a backyard near White Trash has so many special items and furniture that you might not be able to shop anything in the end. Because you just don’t want to take anything away from this magical shop. The cherry on top of it are the sculptures of pan called forest gods. They seem like mystical guards of this wonderful place. Do you know any other cool and mystical interior shops in Berlin? Tell us in the comments! Enjoy more pictures , the address and the opening times after the jump.
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by Claudio
on January 6th, 2012
in Mitte, Shops
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