zaterdag 21 mei 2011

Bamboo Bicycle

This bike is green and looks really cool! It's made of bamboo and so it's also very strong... want to read more? Check out this New York Times article.


A subtle braid

Just the perfect summer look... loose a bit messy hair do with a braid ... very subtle, fun and a bit sexy :)






vrijdag 20 mei 2011

Clean Cut & Classic



Daria Werbowy shot by Mario Testino for VOGUE US

A man and his tattoo

Thing is, I really would like to have a tattoo - probably an entire sleeve, my right arm - but just not every day and I probably would want to change it every couple of weeks :) so I don't have one. But there is something about certain men and their tattoo... it can be so sexy...




Hotel Viura, Spain

Just very cool hotel in the Spanish rioja country.... sounds like the perfect getaway!


The Hotel Viura was designed as a series of whimsically superimposed concrete cubes, one on top of the other, that seem to rurge forcefully from the centre of the earth, punctuated by French windows that flood the rooms with views of the relaxing scenery. The interior is linked to the exterior landscape in such a wonderful architectural design.


The name of Viura was taken since it was the most widely planted white grape variety in Rioja. Rioja Alavesa is a wine region in Spain, where the Hotel Viura located. The Hotel Viura which was designed by the Spanish design firm Designhouses is a mix of the old world charms of Spanish wineries and ultramodern architecture. The hotel is built in the middle of the traditional village, and has wonderful terraces on the top floor with panoramic views of the San Andrés Church, built between 1538 and 1728, and of all the mountains of the Sierra de Cantabria. 



Situated in Villabuena de Álava in the Rioja Alavesa, Viura is perfect as a base for discovering La Rioja. Only 20 minutes away from Logroño and from Haro and 10 minutes from such emblematic wine cellars as Ysios and Marqués de Riscal. 





Countdown has started

.... 2 more days .... 


"I wish that when they asked us: What is surfing? 
I would have said it's a spiritual activity, 
and not just a sport, 
 because that's what put us on the wrong track..."

NAT YOUNG 1966 World Surfing Champion

My other bag...


maandag 16 mei 2011

Someone like you

Adele performing one of her most beautiful songs
at the Brit Awards 2011 

"Someone Like You"

donderdag 5 mei 2011

Why I love Adele


”I love food and hate exercise. 
I don’t have time to work out… 
I don’t want to be on the cover of Playboy or Vogue. 
I want to be on the cover of Rolling Stone or Q. 
I’m not a trend-setter… 
I’m a singer… 
I’d rather weigh a ton and make an amazing album, 
then look like Nicole Richie and do a shit album. 
My aim in life is never to be skinny.”
~Adele Adkins~

woensdag 4 mei 2011

Vogue Paris

I loved the last couple of issues of the french Vogue (ever since Emmanuelle Alt is in charge) so much that I am actually thinking of getting a subscription ...









dinsdag 3 mei 2011

OPI - Spring Summer 2011 Texas Collection

When people come over to my home and open my fridge ... first thing they notice is my OPI collection :) hahaha it's always funny as they can't believe their eyes ;)

Sasha Pivovarova for Sure Korea magazine March 2011

OPI has got some great colour for this spring, it's their new Texas Collection.

Just click on this picture to watch the colours and wonderful names in a proper size

How to wear your jeans?

How to wear your jeans this summer, for me it's one of three: Flare, boyfriend or ..... cropped skinny jeans with high heels. Wanted to show what's my inspiration for the last trend.

Balmain SS 2011
Emmanuelle Alt
Emmanuelle Alt

Picture by: The Sartorialist

Picture by: The Sartorialist

zondag 1 mei 2011

Scott Schuman - The Sartorialist

You probably know, if you visit my blog regularly, that I am a fan of the Scott Schuman's (The Sartorialist)  work. This fashion photographer has a special eye for catching the latest en future trends. So I was really pleased to read his interview with Matthew Schneier for Style.com.
Style.com catches up with the New York-based photographer in anticipation of his “An Evening With the Sartorialist” to chat about some of the recent developments in his world. A selection of answers is seen below while the whole article can be seen here.


Fiat is presenting “An Evening With the Sartorialist” tonight. What’ll we see there?
Just, like, a mini presentation of images that highlight Italian style. Fiat called me because, you know, I have a particular fondness for Italian style. It’s more about craftsmanship and fit and beauty than it is necessarily, you know, over-the-top wildness. So we printed photographs—we actually printed them probably about four times larger than the ones I usually print. They’re 30″ x 40″, so they’re pretty good-sized prints—beautiful Italian style at its best.

The landscape has changed so much since you started taking street-style photos.
There’s definitely a lot of people doing it. I don’t do it particularly as competition, but there’s definitely a lot of people doing it now and I think it’s great; I think it makes a great historical document at this moment. In the past, there were people like [Jacques-Henri] Lartigue, who shot street style in Paris in the 1910’s, 20’s and 30’s. Pretty much I think he was shooting the very high end. He came from a very rich family and he was shooting the very dramatic, high end of fashion. And people like the Séeberger brothers did the same thing—shooting the very high end, people going to the racetracks and all that. Bill Cunningham really was one of the first to start shooting on the street, everyday people, from some dressed at a very high level to some dressed at a very interesting level of less expensive clothes. But I think a lot of times he tended to go to the more dramatic.

Now I think the next step of that evolution is people shooting everything, from the overly dramatic to the very subtle to the very trendy. The technology gives us the ability to make a great document of this time.



Now all it takes is a digital camera for anyone to become a blogger—even if her only subject is herself.
I’m not really a fan of personal style blogs—you know, the ones [on which] these girls just shoot their outfits and all this stuff. I haven’t seen one that I really like or that draws my attention every day. The good and bad of that is that most these girls only have a limited wardrobe; they don’t have many clothes to shoot and I don’t think most of them have come up with looks that are that interesting, that draw me.

However, I do think that it will leave a great social document for 100 years from now. A lot of these girls are just everyday girls from cities all over America and all over the world, and it will be great to be able to look back and say, “Wow, this is how real girls were kind of into that thing, dressed at that time.” And then maybe historically they’ll be able to pull out similarities. It seems like every girl, everywhere in the world, has a pair of denim cutoff shorts…but I don’t think it’s so much of a contemporary thing but what it will mean historically.




But then in terms of this immediacy, do you feel you are changing the moment? Do you find that people are dressing for you or dressing for these photographers in a different way than maybe they were?
Maybe only at the fashion shows. That’s why I don’t feel like a lot of these sites are competition because a lot of them are just fashion show photographers that go to the shows and shoot there, and nothing happens again and they just run those shots out over the next couple of months until the next shows. And there I think it’s changed a little bit, but I’ve never really been shooting just the big editors. When I started shooting Giovanna [Battaglia] and Anna Dello Russo, nobody really knew who they were, so to me they were just editors like anyone else. And I still push harder to find more unknown people, the girls in the second row, in the third row, and the girls helping dress the shows, behind the scenes. When I was up in Harlem for Easter, those three or four people I shot up there had no idea who I was. So it only changes things in a very small part of what I shoot. I was just down in Savannah, Georgia, and in Atlanta. Garance [Doré] and I purposely try to go out of our way to get different places to shoot where we don’t really care if people know who we are. It’s really about just trying to find something new to shoot.



Are there other street-style photographers whose work you like? That you’re interested in?
I think Tommy [Ton] does a great job. I really respect how he’s been able to evolve what he does; he took a big step and took a different format, but I’ve been watching how his work has evolved. Before, he was shooting just very much details of the clothing and the product, and he started to slowly have more faces, more of the people, so I like how he created his own thing but it continues to evolve. I think Mr. Newton does some great stuff. Of course, Garance—she’s a whole different thing. I like the Face Hunter, he just keeps doing his thing; he’s been doing it now for a long, long time. He’s treading in that fashion world but he’s also just in his own thing and I like that he hasn’t really changed. He’s just doing his thing. So it gets more of a respect of people who are really into it and haven’t let the other things affect them. I see Yvan [Rodic] and Tommy, I see a lot of those guys all the time and I like how they keep doing it. The ones that I think really have risen to the top are the ones who are doing it the same way with the same passion from day one, when none of us knew if we’d ever make any money at this or be able to do it as a living. I think those guys are all doing it for the same reason as they were from the first day, and you can see it in the consistency of the work.
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