Happy b-day Twiggy!!!

The National Portrait Gallery in London plays tribute to Twiggy, the British model who marked the arrival of the teenage revolution, encapsulating the spirit of 60s in London.

Leslie Hornby, Twiggy's real name, was considered the first top model ever, reaching international notoriety in 1966 when the Daily Express considered her The Face of 1966.

The display 'A life in photographs' opens on Saturday 19 September until 23 March 2010 and counts with iconic portraits of Twiggy in the early days of her carreer as a model.

Twiggy
by Barry Lategan, 1966
© Barry Lategan
Twiggy
by Solve Sundsbo, November 2008
© Solve Sundsbo / Art + Commence

Lagerfeld's Ballets Russes costumes

To celebrate my birthday and my passion for dance, I have decided to dedicate today's post to the beautiful work of Karl Lagerfeld who devised a collection of stunning light and fluffy haute couture costumes for the English National Ballet, that this season celebrates the centenary of Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The history of maison Chanel has always been closely linked to ballet through Coco's friendship with Diaghilev.

Lagerfeld's designes for the principal dancer Elena Glurdjidze in 'The Dying Swan' continue a tradition begun by Chanel. The tutu designed by Lagerfeld was made of 2500 ostrich and a variety of other bird feathers.

During the fitting session, Elena Glurdjidze dedicated an exclusive of 'The Dying Swam' to Lagerfeld, at the famous 31 rue Cambon store in Paris. Watch below the footage recorded by the designer himself.

The short of it

I was reading the fashion supplement in the Financial Times that this week has dedicated a huge article on the size of the Brazilian bikinis at the beaches of Ipanema and that in my opinion really didn't interest me at all (I really don't care the amount of lycra used to cover or uncovered Brazilian bums)!

What really struck me was the article just below... many of my male friends complain about how difficult it is for them to innovate with their outfits, a task many times frustrating and ungrateful. It's true that a lot has been done in regards to colour, tailoring, accessories for men thanks to the work and vision of great designers who opened the door to this fearsom universe so unkown and unexplored. Still, one clothing item remains a taboo after all these years: the city shorts!

In the opinion of many men, shorts are synonym of holidays, weekends with families and friends or even tourists. Gladly not for fashion designers Comme des Garçons, Giorgio Armani and Louis Vuitton, who see the well tailored city shorts the next summer's trend that is there to stay.

It will depend entirely on men if this trend is restricted to the catwalks or if it jumps to the high street... the first step has already been taken.

Photo by Graham Turner (The Guardian)

Alice in Wonderland trailer released

Yes, great expectation!!!! We have to wait until 2010 but the preview already makes us drool!!!!

Click on the link below to watch the preview:

VIDEO: Alice In Wonderland Trailer Released RadarOnline.com

Picture Me

Ole Schell and Sara Ziff... a documentary on fashion's backstage, it's routine, it's ups and downs - a model's life just as it is...

Picture Me Trailer

Sunday

The Banzai Studio boys are definitelly this blog's must watch!

Litorina train, 8mm, nostalgia - a total Sunday programme. This video makes me travel in time and it brings me back to beautiful childhood memories...

Sv Express

A day in London

In London with a mobile phone camera that sucks... but it was worth shooting after all!

The beach...

Heat, heat, heat...
by Martine Roch

São Paulo

Unmissable... if Mahoma doesn't go to the mountain, then the mountain will go to Mahoma.

Galeria Miscelanea (Barcelona)
Exhibition São Paulo

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Women are Heroes

French photographer and grafitti artist JR spent a month at favela Providência in Rio de Janeiro portraying women and children for his project Women. These ladies live in a zone of conflict and most of them suffered the painful loss of a loved one as a result of the violence.

The project wants to underline the pivotal role of these women and to highlight their dignity by photographying them in their daily lives and posting them on the walls of their community.

Below are some photos of the Providência project as well as a video of the same project carried out in Africa.

Women are Heroes
www.womenareheroes.be

TRAILER " WOMEN ARE HEROES"
by JR

The Big Fabric Bag fever

They are simple, colorful, easy and look fab with any summer outfit. At the beach, at the park, weekend trip, a day in the office - the BFB (Big Fabric Bag) is THE item.

My favorite models this summer are...

Love by Accessorize
http://www.monsoon.co.uk/icat/accessorize

Multicolored by Comptoir des Cotonniers
http://www.comptoirdescotonniers.com/

Beach scene by Paul Smith
www.paulsmith.co.uk

Barcelona amb Nico

Barcelona by day, by night, on foot and by bike...

Kenzo poppies celebrate summer

Kenzo keeps inovating following its concept of bringing nature into the urban space. In order to celebrate the summer, the Japanese brand invited French dance company Les Passagers to perform a vertical show in Plaza Felipe II.

The poppy flower - the brand's fetish symbol - will be the star of the event on 26 June. This is not the first time Kenzo chooses Madrid to stage an action for its poppy inspired fragance Flower by Kenzo. Last year, the brand installed a field of 80.000 paper poppies in front of Reina Sofia Museum (image below).

Flower by Kenzo
http://www.kenzoparfums.com/
Fotos: Flickr

Pretty Ballerinas summer edition

It's not a secret (especially if you know me well) that I am crazy for ballerinas... but for the hot summer days in Barcelona nothing like flat sandals or Havaianas. So you can imagine my surprise when I found out that my favorite brand of ballerinas launched a special summer edition of the Lilly collection available in many colors such as fucsia, green, red, gold, silver, white....

If you are somewhere in the south hemisphere you can shop online for the winter collection - simply fabulous... this blog recommends!

Pretty Ballerinas
www.prettyballerinas.com

Brazilian Vice hits the streets of Sao Paulo

Canadian Vice, a free-sheet publication distributed in funky places, and best known for its controversial content and its strong, attractive artwork will be launched in Brazil in June.

Brazilian Vice will be distributed in nightclubs, art galleries, trendy shops and around the skate scene haunts of São Paulo only (at least for now).

Vice No. 0 counts with Vice reporters and editors from around the world, who visited Brazil solely for this purpose.

The Brazilian Issue -http://www.viceland.com/int/v16n5/htdocs/index.php?country=us ...and Vice in Brazil - http://www.viceland.com/br/

Art dolls by Dina Ladina

I was in Portugal for a week, traveling with my 'made in Brazil' friends and in one of my gallery hunting afternoons in Porto, I had the chance of meeting the girls from Aguas Furtadas (lovely by the way!). They had such great collection of work by young talented Portuguese designers and artists that no need to say that my friends L, P and J had to push me literally out of the gallery.

Some of the most fabulous art dolls they had were the hand made ones by Dina Ladina. I uploaded some photos of her work below that I kindly borrowed from her personal crafts blog, but you can find more images in her Flickr photostream, where she has lots of pics of her beautiful work.

Enjoy it :-)

Porto

The streets of Porto...

Photos by Vane

Gisele Bündchen: The charmed life of the mega-model

Our 'querissíma' super top-model Gisele receives a dedicated feature in the British daily The Independent. The article is all superlatives, but well, what isn't in the mega-model's life?

For the original article, click here.

First selling exhibition of work by Cecil Beaton in over 25 years

The british gallery Chris Beetles, in collaboration with Sotheby's, announces an exhibition of photographer, painter, illustrator, writer and Oscar-winning designer of sets and costumes Cecil Beaton (1904 - 1980).

Beaton the photographer cultivated a genius for staging compelling scenes. An extensive list of movie stars, artists and members of the Royal Family were portraited by him, amongst them Buster Keaton, Marlene Dietrich, Pablo Picasso, Edith Sitwell, Truman Capotte, Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe.

The show in London combines 64 vintage and modern prints, the latter produced from original negatives drawn from Sotheby’s unique archive.

Accompanying the exhibition will be a 92 page, fully illustrated catalogue containing a foreword by Mario Testino. It is available from the gallery at 10 pounds.

Cecil Beaton selling exhibition
Beetles Gallery, London
22 April to 16 May 2009
www.chrisbeetles.com

Marilyn Monroe, New York, 1956