Girls need space
Trends and obsessions piss me off so badly. Especially in fashion, where they seem even more superficial than in other fields. Mild superficiality is easier to accept. But generally accepting and unequivocally adhering to trends in fashion is somehow ridiculous: a specific pattern, a certain type of skirt, wearing this color bag with those shoes,...
Rolling Words. A Smokable Songbook
What do we have here? A rapper – Snoop Doog this time – launching a book. But: How the hell are we going to get people to buy a book filled with nonsensical Snoop Dogg lyrics that only have value when coming out of his mouth? Simple. We make every page a rolling paper. P&O’s...
Wearing a suit is a man business
Its time to move to the field. One hell of a soccer team and one hell of a coach: Barcelona and its inteligentia Joseph Guardiola. I remember first seeing him on tv about one year ago when Barca was playing against God knows who and suddenly I had a real reason to look at that...
The Girl who would be Queen
Ladies and Gents well within the drinking age, let’s talk about girls posing as women. As Carine said, her more than usually controversial last French Vogue, the one edited with the help of god-like fashion designer Tom Ford, included some rouchy images. Aside from this fetishistic geriatric fashion spread (absolutely gorgeous), the issue also included...
The Model as Homo-Excellens
Helmut Newton and the models of the 80s reflected the infatuation with fitness and instilled the ideal woman as having broad shoulders and muscular legs. Looking at a quick, digestible collection of Helmut Newtons best, I’m a bit in awe of how fierce these women looked. They were muscular, self-assured and above all, women, not...
I am woman, watch me fluster
Let me just state here and now, for all eternity to bear witness: there are a few things that cramp my style: ‘urban jungle’ designer collections, ‘fun and flirty’ dresses and ‘cute and quirky’ girls. The first one is just a relic of the ’80s, when urbanites were the epitome of coolness, broad shoulders were...