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Saturday May 15th, 2010
Carmen Kass is overexposed in Self Service Spring/Summer 2010 issue
Overexposed? That’s certainly the way that the Carmen Kass fan club would love to see the super idolised Estonian top model. Taking that term literally, photographer and editor in chief of Self Service Ezra Petronio has captured Ms. Kass through an indifferent light in this set of rather provocative photographs for the magazine’s Spring/Summer 2010 issue. Styled by the ingenious Suzanne Koller, the star of the editorial is seen dressed in the season’s hottest and rawest utilitarian pieces from Alexander Wang, A.P.C., Chloé, Céline, Balmain, Emilio Pucci to Hermès. Polaroids perfect!
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Tags: A.P.C., Alexander Wang, Balmain, British designer Hannah MacGibbon, British designer Phoebe Philo, Carmen Kass, Chanel, Chloé, Emilio Pucci, Estonian Model, Ezra Petronio, French Designer Christophe Decarnin for Balmain, French luxury house Céline, Hermès, Junko Yamazaki, Lucia Pica, Norwegian designer Peter Dundas, Sabrina Marshall, Sebastien Richard, Suzanne Koller
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Ready-to-wear, S/S10, Self Service, Womenswear 
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Friday April 16th, 2010
Danish model Adrian Bosch in Balmain Fall/Winter 2010 Lookbook
Balmain! Balmain! Balmain! It drives me insane! With Kristian Akergren, Richie Cotterell, Tristan Knights and last but not least, Adrian Bosch as the cast for its Fall 2010 lookbook, I am falling super hot over my heels. Rugged and raw, designer Christophe Decarnin shows us how unbelievably edgy yet powerfully sophisticated the Balmain man is. Infusing a fresh wave of nautical influences into the collection and mixing it with an invigorating grunge element, we certainly sense a fresh breeze bracing the Balmain look. Hell yeah! It’s not that hard to see that Balmain’s Fall guy is an all around cool guy!
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Tags: Adrian Melgaard Bosch, Balmain, Danish Models, French Designer Christophe Decarnin for Balmain, Karim Sadli
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F/W10, Lookbook, Menswear, Ready-to-wear
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Thursday February 25th, 2010
Piercing eyes penetrate through our souls.
Even though the hottest ticket in town (a.k.a sales) is no longer valid at Lane Crawford, we are lured to step into the sweet-scented department store to discover the new season’s entrancing enticements up close and personal, while attempting to meet the ever so impeccable Ms. Sarah Rutson serendipitously and intimately for the trillionth time. The first and foremost origin of this forbidden temptation is none other than a sneak peek of the drop dead sexy Spring/Summer 2010 Ad campaign, entitled “The Portfolio”.
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Tags: 3.1 Phillip Lim, Ad Campaigns, Alexander McQueen, Alexander Wang, American Model, Angelo Pennetta, Balmain, Catalog, Chloé, Dree Hemingway, Emilio Pucci, Ernest Hemingway, Francesca Burns, Giuseppe Zanotti, Givenchy, Helmut Lang, Hervé Léger, Hervé Léger by Max Azria, James Pecis, Lane Crawford, Lanvin, Luisa via Roma, net-a-porter, Proenza Schouler, rag & bone, Sally Branka, Stella McCartney
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Hong Kong, Ready-to-wear, S/S10, Womenswear
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Wednesday October 28th, 2009
Balmain Zipper ankle booties and PVC leggings from Browns Fashion
On the streets: so many people abuse leggings nowadays and there are so many fakes of Balmain’s zipper ankle booties on the street. It kind of makes me angry, but I guess that only means that Balmain is super mega it. Nonetheless, I don’t think I can shop in a cheap regular store no more. Refinement is the key!
@ Céline: Céline’s beautiful coat is beyond charming.
@ Isabel Marant: With all those checked outfits running wild in the barn-like decorated store, is the collection too country chic for me?
@ GF Ferré: The current display window is just sad. Ferré is so much better than that.
@ Subway station: stunned to see guy dude with two huge bags of Zegna and thought surely, he is not buying something this expensive as a gift. Oh la la! Maybe he’s not that macho afterall.
Tags: Balmain, Ermenegildo Zegna, French luxury house Céline, GF Ferré, Gianfranco Ferré, Isabel Marant, leggings
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F/W09, Hong Kong, Menswear, Ready-to-wear, Shoes, Womenswear
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Saturday October 24th, 2009
Riding in car with Hanne
@ Tsim Sha Tsui:
- @ Miss Sixty: Collection looks very in trend with today; and in that way, everything seemed a little safe. Nonetheless, for women, we spotted a fierce jumpsuit with animalia print, black jacket with lavish fur sleeve – very Givenchy in appearance indeed – and a crazy graffiti bubble dress; for men, we liked the tie dye jumpers. It’s very cool!
- @ Energie: Energie has power popeye Tees. 100% mighty cool!
- @ Vivienne Westwood: Be outstanding and have wild fun wearing her leopard print multi-color-stripped dress!
- @ Moussy: The Tees are so nice to touch. You just don’t want to stop touching it. Anyway, they also have some pants with a print that looks very much like Alexander McQueen’s signature dogtooth print. It’s a good alternative, but Moussy’ll never be the same as McQueen.
- @ Y-3: Trompe l´oeil seems to be an ‘it’ thing in fashion these days. Y-3 also has Tees with those lively prints.
- @ Lane Crawford: In love with green framed sunnies from Gucci and Prada.
- @ Joyce: Love the beautiful cut in Damir Doma’s collection. It instantly makes me want to be a man!
- @ Y’s Yohji Yamamoto: Sales staff at Y’s Yohji Yamamoto looked so super bored. *yawn yawn yawn*
- @ Missoni. Saw a huge billboard with Hanne’s face. It made me feel like I was cruising freely with her away from the great flood of people and in the beautiful country side[1]. Oh… It makes me want their catalog/lookbook so badly, but they probably don’t have one for customers.
- @ Dsquared: An instore event attracted lots of very important fashion people and a handful of wannabes hanging instore and outside sipping bubbly champagne and enjoying the high life. Spotted woman wearing Givenchy open toe bootie and Balmain power pagoda shoulder jacket. She looked like a fashion victim.
Endnote:
[1] The campaign was shot at Floyd Bennett Airfield in Brooklyn, as revealed by Supreme Blog.
Tags: Ad Campaigns, Alexander McQueen, Balmain, Belgian Models, Damir Doma, Dsquared, Energie, Givenchy, Gucci, Hanne Gaby Odiele, Joyce Boutique, Lane Crawford, Miss Sixty, Missoni, Moussy, Prada, Ryan McGinley, Vanessa Reid, Vivienne Westwood, Y's Yohji Yamamoto, Y-3
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Monday October 19th, 2009
Swedish model Julia Hafstrom created a Storm in Marios Schwab
@ Joyce:
-Brilliant Brits – Mary Katrantzou and Marios Schwab – bedazzled Joyce with their all bubbling creativity. Mario Schwab’s red Swarovski jewel encrusted dress (as worn by Swedish model Julia Hafström on Dazed and Confused’s August 2009 cover) is in particular captivating in real life!
-Hot items to watch out for include:
Tags: Alexander Wang, Balmain, Christian Dior, Dazed & Confused, Joyce Boutique, Julia Hafström, Marios Schwab, Mary Katrantzou, Styled by Nicola Formichetti, Swarovski, Swedish Models, Terry Tsiolis
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Saturday October 10th, 2009
Top 3 pairs from MrsH.se
Embraced and loved by celebrities all over the world, Balmain is one of the hottest label this Fall/Winter. However, reality check! Not everybody has that much dough to spare in their bank account. Well… Let alone battling against invincible celebrities to purchase those lovely objects of desire. Well… I took the liberty to check out mrsh.se’s shoe collection and found these super three pairs that will help you combat these gloomy grey days at a lower budget. Now, let us shoe away!
SEK denotes the Swedish krona, the currency used in Sweden.
Tags: Alexander Wang, Balmain, Jil Sander, mrsh.se
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F/W09, Ready-to-wear, Shoes, Womenswear
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Friday July 10th, 2009
Lily Donaldson is the Face of Joop!
I know Lily’s fans are just going to hate me, but I have to say it: I hate it! I hate it! I just hate it! This season’s faces (Lily Donaldson and Sean O’pry) with all their respective mega status and perfect looks just turn me off. There is nothing I hate more than looking at over-the-top beautiful people. Thank god, they only have 4 images in the lookbook – all of the rest are glorious runway images. Juhu!
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Tags: Alyona Osmanova, American Model, Balmain, Belarusian Models, Czech Models, Dirk Schönberger, English Models, Eugene Souleiman, Italian Model, Jil Sander, Joe McKenna, Joop, Kasia Struss, Lily Donaldson, Linda Vojtova, Lisa Butler, Mariacarla Boscono, Natasha Polevshchikova, Natasha Poly, Photography by Inez & Vinoodh, Polish model, Russian Model, Sean O'pry, Tanya Dziahileva, Ukrainian Models, Vlada Roslyakova
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Berlin, Eyewear, F/W09, Lookbook, Menswear, Ready-to-wear, Runway looks, Womenswear
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Sunday March 8th, 2009
From the Chessboard straight to the runway: Kass rules are here!
Estonia is a little Baltic country with a population of approximately 1,3 million [2007 statistics]. With a percentage of 68.8% being Estonian, this equates to approximately 920,000. Supposedly half of the population is female and that 1% of that number has the right looks and the right body shape and height to be a model (I heard the percentage is actually higher) and 10% of that is in the age range of 15-25 and another 5% of that has authorisation from their parents to be models and that 20% of that has the appropriate persistance, diligence and attitude to become runway sensations, this corresponds to just 4.6 Estonian girls. Rounding this up, the final number is circa 5, which I find is roughly the correct number of true blue successful Estonian models: Anett Griffel, Carmen Kass, Hedvig Marie Maigre, Karmen Pedaru and Tiiu Kuik.
Hence, Estonian models are, in a way, a rare species in the modelling industry.
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Tags: Balmain, Carmen Kass, Estonian Model, French Designer Christophe Decarnin for Balmain, Isabel Marant, Michael Kors, Versace
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Friday November 14th, 2008
Russian model Natasha Polevshchikova in Balmain
Is it possible to play baseball in Balmain dress then go to disco directly afterwards? Yes!
Tags: Balmain, French Designer Christophe Decarnin for Balmain, Natasha Polevshchikova, Natasha Poly, Russian Model
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Paris, Ready-to-wear, S/S09, Womenswear, Yulya Xays
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