watch that!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaOn1e6sLEc

design ethos.

I design clothes that are elegant but sexy and with straight lines but in a sporty style with colors but not too many patterns. My clothes should make people feel comfortable. Comfortable with what they are wearing because it’s not too extravagant but extravagant enough to make you feel special and unique. It’s not about what people think of you it’s how you think of yourself. And I want people to feel like themselves in my clothes because if they are comfortable with themselves they show confidence. And that’s exactly what I want them to feel like. Confident.

realitystudio

I really love this collection. Its simple but still very delicate. Sporty but elegant. Love love love it.

AW0910 Collection `ATANARJUAT´Reality Studios AW0910 Collection is inspired by the Inuit film `Atanarjuat - The legend of the fast Runner´, a strange and memorable movie that comes to us from the Canadian Arctic. It is one bright movie, all dazzling expanses of ice and snow and sea and sky; the ghostly interiors of igloos by daylight and by firelight, it's like swimming in illuminated milk. Furthermore, it eventually delivers a compelling human story that's both mythic and realistic.
Reality StudioVirchowstr. 110249 Berlin GermanyT +49 (0)30 558 713 42
www.realitystudio.de

streetstyle

What is street style? People with a certain style? Street art? I concentrated on the ‘accessories’ of the street.. everything that styles the street… signs, bins, the pavemnent and so on. So here you can see some pictures of that.

BREAD&BUTTER BERLIN BERLIN BERLIN

In july I went to the bread and butter in berlin. It was great. It took place in an old Airport (Berlin-tempelhof). It was seperated into different sections like jeans and streetwear. Every brand had there own stand and outside there were concerts and other fun activities. Unfortunatly you can't buy the tickets. So you either have to own a shop, or you have to know somebody who owns a shop or you have to know somebody who owns a brand or works at a brand... So its all about connections! Luckily my brother knows a guy who is working at evisu and thats how I got in there!

There is another bread and butter in january from the 20th to the 22nd. So if you know someone who can get tickets for it then get them and go down to berlin!

East side gallery re-opening

The Berlin Wall East Side Gallery is a 1.3km-long section of the wall near the center of Berlin. Approximately 106 paintings by artists from all over the world cover this memorial for freedom and make it the largest open air gallery in the world. In the last year the wall has been repainted by the original artists. And today was the reopening. When I am honest I have to say that I liked the old wall more because now it just looks so clean and neat and I hate those black lines inbetween the pictures but maybe I just have to get used to it again.

Helmut Newton - Museum für Fotografie

Yesterday I went to see the Helmut Newton Sumo exhibtion. And it was great. In one room there were all the pages of the Sumo book and there were so many reat photographs. then there was another room with pictures of three photographers which were his assistants and these pictures were great aswell. and there was another room with pictures of his wife June Newton and another room about hemut newtons life story. I love how experimental he is and how he always knows what he is doing and that he had the courage to take pictures like that.

Museum für FotografieThu 4 June 2009 - Sun 31 January 2010
Helmut Newton: Sumo
With SUMO, the Helmut Newton Foundation presents what might just be the most spectacular and expensive photography book project ever. Ten years ago, publisher Benedikt Taschen persuaded Helmut Newton to agree to produce a gigantic book with a print run of 10,000 copies, all signed by the photographer. Accompanied by a custom-made book holder by Philippe Starck, the book found its way into the homes of well-heeled buyers.
Now, for the first time, its 394 photographs will go on display to mark the 10th anniversary of a photography publication that today is a much sought-after collector's item. To accompany this presentation, Taschen will publish a smaller and revised version of the book for the regular book market.In addition to SUMO, Mark Arbeit, George Holz and Just Loomis will be presented at the Helmut Newton Foundation with their photography under the title "Three boys from Pasadena". In the late 70s, they were students at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California and later became assistants of Helmut Newton.

Homegrown-exhibition-manchester

I went to the homegrown- the story of uk hip hop exhibition in the urbis museum in manchester. I absolutely loved the exhibition. It was a good mixture between reading and videos and music and I learned a lot about uk hip hop.

HomeGrown: The Story of UK Hip Hop is the first major exhibition to chronicle, in depth, the development of the UK Hip Hop scene. Looking back over three decades, the exhibition tells the story of how a generation of youth took the spirit of the Bronx block party and fused it with their own uniquely British influences. In doing so it shows how a US subculture featuring art, politics, rhyme, dance and music was adopted, adapted and embraced to create a powerful, complex, cultural force, this side of theAtlantic. Working with the UK's most influential figures in Hip Hop the exhibition brings together the rare, remarkable and irreplaceable in Hip Hop photography, music, film and fashion from the best private collections.

http://www.urbis.org.uk/

travel 7 stops/ self portrait

Travel 7 stops/ self portrait
I’m coming from Berlin but at the moment I am studying in Birmingham. For me it is always quite hard and emotional to go back and forth but still I know that it’s good for my career and for the life experience.
So in these pictures you can see me hitchhiking from Berlin to Birmingham. The first stop is Hannover, the second stop is Düsseldorf, then Bruxelles, Calais, Dover, London and then finally Birmingham. So the long way on the road is very hard and that actually explains how emotionally hard it is for me.
My friend Pia took the pictures. She wants to study Photography after finishing school.

Ikon gallery

Because I am still in Berlin I am not gonna be able to go to the Ikon gallery before tuesday...
But here is the link..http://www.ikon-gallery.co.uk/.. for first!

50 of one thing. BerlinBackyards.

In most of the parts in Berlin people aren’t living in their own houses most of them are living in apartments except for parts like Zehlendorf or Wannsee . Most of those houses have got a backyards. In a lot of theatre plays, movies and books major scenes and conversations are happening in the backyards of Berlin. That’s why I chose to look at them and took 50 pictures of backyards in Kreuzberg the part of Berlin where I live. The song Is from a musician called Peter Fox who is living in Kreuzberg aswell.

Interview with Linda Eilers, founder of Linkle Stitch'n bitch Nähcafé

What is the idea behind your shop?

--It is a sewingcafe, it works like an internetcafe but instead of computers we have sewing machines. People can come in and get started for 5 euro per hour even if they have never sewed before they can come here to learn it. But the can also come If they have only got little problems like broken zips or if they don’t know how to sew in sleeves and things like that. We have also got a lot of special machines which people haven’t got at home. And you can also do sewing courses here.

What kind of courses?

--Most of them are general sewing courses that means that everyone has got their own project going on and everyone works in their own level and tempo and I am helping them.

What ist he most normal thing that people sew?

Bags and skirts!

What kind of people are coming here?

--All kinds of people. From 7 year old girls to grandmas with their grandchildren but most of them are women between 25 and 35.

What kind of fabrics do they use?

--Very different fabrics! I would say I’ve had everything here.. leather, jersey, cotton, cord yes I would say everything really...

Are there also fashionstudents who come here and want to learn more?

--Most of them aren’t coming here to learn more they are coming here to use the special machines which they haven’t got at home like overlock and coverock machines.

What do people think about your idea?

--There are more and more people coming who want to do the courses and lots of them are just coming to get help when they are stuck.

When did you found the linkle stitch `n bitch nähcafe?

--5. September 2006

And since then it got better and better?

--YES!

Linkle stitch’n bitch Nähcafé
wrangelstrasse 80
10997 Berlin
Linkle@linkle.de
http://www.linkle.de/
opening times:
Tuesday- Friday: 1pm – 10pm
Saturday: 1pm- 8pm
Sunday: on arrangement.