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leather around my neck

nele — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:55:52 +0000

Scarf by Firma. Outershell leather, lining cashmere.
Beautie!

Show Your Skills

nele — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:22:58 +0000

For its 10th birthday the online shop YOOX set up an exciting initiative collaborating with the over-popular network Facebook and the iconic fashion magazine i-D.

This three colossus decided to give YOU the opportunity to become involved in the styling concept for a fashion editorial of one of the best magazines in the world.

Simple and funny, you just have to choose the styles you like on Yoox, post them on Facebook and wait for response! We like this freestyle way of sharing points of view, giving YOU the opportunity to show your skills. There are 3 days left for submissions.

May The Best (Wo)Men Win

nele — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:39:21 +0000

At the moment Blue & Joy are creating an archive of cool world cup puppets.
Watch them all after the jump.

FSM # 2 Launch

nele — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:50:00 +0000

Last Friday saw the launch of our NOW AVAILABLE PAUL SMITH COLLABORATION ISSUE, FSM #2 at the infamous Bar 25.

After a lovely trip on the Spree on Captain Jan Sputnik’s boat the team arrived to set up a small exhibition of pages of the brand new mag with the help of Uli Weber, who shot the Alexis fashion editorial for the current issue. Helping hands everywhere and then a nice dinner.

The line up was inimitable, starting the evening with some funky tunes by Johnny Hitmann. Already everybody dancing with the incredible live performance of Onyx Ashanti and to keep on rocking all night long with Sasse and the Degustibus DJ Team (Batongo, Rubini, Toondra) in their fantastic outfits.

The night was a blast, go ahead and take a look yourself.

Berlin Jammers in action next to our beloved Shehannibal.

Degustibus DJ Team & Family.

Our lovely Hoola Hoop mates.

Onyx Ashanti in the house.

DJ Toondra.

Golden Charly Boxing Beautie.

Family.

Some glam among the sport.

Warming chill out fire.

photography: Marina Rosso

BIG THANKS TO BAR 25 TEAM!

BIG THANKS TO ALL ARTISTS!

BIG THANKS TO EVERYBODY WHO CAME ALONG!

AND OUR SEPCIAL THANKS TO BACKROOM ENTERTAINMENT!

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Life, Blood, Passion

nele — Mon, 31 May 2010 22:56:34 +0000

Earlier this year some images of the spring summer collection of new label Garland Coo captured my attention. Intriguingly dark, tribal and mysterious beauty harmonizing in a contrasting context of archaic, elementary power and refined luxury.

The creative duo of fashion designer Jasmin Isabel Eckerle and artist Marcel Singer picked me up on a corner, still muddy of snow, a few weeks later. Her appearance is diva like; very sharp, very black cloth, on very high heels; perfect make up and hair styling with a 50ies influence. On a first glance he seems to almost drawn in the realm of her shades. In a soft tone with strong southern German accent they accompanied me into the complex world of Garland Coo.

They describe their collection as “as an analogy of their cultural and natural heritage.“ Deep rooted in south German culture their native landscape, the Black Forest, is the origin and endless source of inspiration. The concept of Freigeist and the stylistic icons of Heimat are taken into an actual society, breaking the expected trash, to procure their absolute values such as honesty, reliability and reason.

To call the avant-garde collection a result would ignore the completeness of their profound artistic and social research, which is didactic, surprising and wonderful.

Spiritual studio.

Force of nature. Forest decline after hurricane Lothar in 1999.

Savage sclerosis of fabrics – buried silk to be taken out after.

Hardened fabrics.

Symbol Capricorn.
Furs lent by hunters, not processed.

Symbol Bollen (woollen pompoms), black for married women, red for unmarried women.

Black forrest cake.

I am very intrigued by the next steps of this duo, may their passion to create persist.

Nausea & Happyness – Innen Stadt Außen

nele — Thu, 27 May 2010 12:55:37 +0000

Olafur Elaisson´s first solo exhibition in Berlin `Innen Stadt Außen´ attracted me since it first has been announced. The long lines in front of the Martin Gropius Bau during the last weeks kept me from going earlier.
The artist grew up in Iceland and studied at Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademie. In 1994 he moved to Berlin, since 2006 he teaches at UDK. He explores human perception, inviting us to inspect how our actions influence on so called reality. As curator Daniel Birnbaum explains, “to a certain extent you produce the work, but in turn you as a person are produced by the environments the artist constructs.” It doesn’t seem to be coincidence that we meet at Kottbusser Tor to experience the trip until getting to the exhibition.
Eliasson´s work unites photography, sculpture, installation and film; he makes use of light, shadow, colour, fog and reflexion. The slow construction of this show gets us into a world of mental and physical emotions, stipulating all our senses: compass to the cities pavement passing contorted specula into multicoloured jumping jack projections of us.
A big model of hundreds of pieces made of paper, wood metal and fabric, filming screened on some, a little bird in that cosmos. Preparation to fall into the huge announcement of the “outside”, which is inside, under the day lightened roof. Shivers down the spine.
In between the Kottbusser Tor mirror van filming – a queasy feeling. Another look – nausea.
A view outside the window into a field of whispering grass.
Relieving circulations of white pureness and spectra next to the excitingly attractive dark sister of sparklers and Tesla.
Final climax in a closed space, diving into the tunnel of colours, becoming part of the spectrum, from red into green, from blue to yellow, one step back all white, two steps forward slightly lilac. We jump trough the first parts of the exhibit again and back into the city where other bits and pieces pop up temporary and link everything into the big picture.
Happiness in our hearts and smiling faces.

Until August 9th @ Martin Gropius Bau // Niederkirchnerstraße 7 // 10963 Berlin

think outside the box

nele — Tue, 11 May 2010 12:13:51 +0000

• Reduction of approximately 29 million plastic bags;
• Reduction of water and energy use by 25%;
• Reduction of CO2 emissions by 25%;
• Reduction of paper use by 75%;
• Reduction of cardboard use by 65%.

Found @ Usefashion.

Black Cat, White Flower

nele — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:47:16 +0000

Die Katze is a moving story about a girl lost in a lonely life in a big city. She transforms into a black cat to be noticed, the girl disappears. At We ain´t got no flowers you can download the text and watch the corresponding video, take the time, it´s worth it!
Stickers of the cat are all over town (I have already seen some in Hamburg several weeks ago). Go find yours and exchange the black cat into a white flower at the flower pop up store at Soto between today 6pm and tomorrow night. There will be 4000 flowers plus story for sale.
Beautiful!

Glowing In The Dark

nele — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:05:38 +0000

A pretty pair of shoes glowing in the dark. Completely conceiveable by the hand of extraordinary shoe and accessorie brand Lincolns New York but reality sounds different, “… I digitally manipulated the image! They are ostrich burial and goat skins.”

Watch out for the new collection.

Accurate Splish Splash

nele — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:51:32 +0000

Niki Pilkington belongs to the group of people I call Free Style. Her point of views are strongly displayed in her way of working and – of course- the results. She is not afraid of new tasks, of the tough process of trial and error but gives fulltime dedication to creative challenges. She is the kind of girl that “shies away from her favourite technique (felt tip drawing) to improve others.” Not without a reason the 23 years young illustrators pieces generated some roll of drums back at FSM headquarters/offices and already has been nominated for several English awards during the past years.

Her unique style is yet diverse. I am a special fan of her Biro drawings, their clean easiness reminds me of day dreaming back in high school but better. Niki adjusts technique to topic and happily leaves her “comfort zone (paper!!) … to improve or develop her illustrations through the way of display.“ Projects like Scale Series and Projections interfere with urban environment. What is eye candy to the spectator is nourishment to the artist. As Niki explains “it’s vital to keep adapting what she does to where she is, because she doesn’t want her work to become stale. She doesn’t want people to visit her website and be like ‘that’s pretty much the same but with a different face’.“

FSM asked Niki to explain her actual favourite project:

“Archetypal Welsh is a series of illustrations, based on Wales and the Welsh language. I’ve recently moved from central London where I was based for nearly four years, back to my studio in a very rural part of North Wales. The move has made me realise the vast diversity between the two places, and it’s inspired me to start playing around with the things I see and hear everyday now. I spent so long illustrating the people I saw in London, so why not do something similar here, but focus it around my own heritage and upbringing? Being a Welsh speaker, it was important to me that I focused on the language itself as well as the people, because it is one that is dying out – so this was my own attempt to try to bring some of it alive for a little while.”

For issue two we commissioned Niki for the drawings of our new contributor section. Watch out for some accurate pencil pieces completed with delightful colour splish splash.
FSM