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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Friday March 20th, 2009
Erin Wasson, Raquel Zimmermann and Anna Selezneva in Isabel Marant
When I first heard of the label “Isabel Marant”, it was out of delight from a Slovenien friend, who has just purchased an exquisite skirt at an enchanting discounted price online. While I was thinking on the lines of “WTF is this?”, I hid my primitive and obnoxious doubts next to the bread crumbs and dirt on the keyboard and replied in the tones of absolute jealousy. It worked. Really!
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Tags: American Model, Anja Rubik, Anna Selezneva, Belarusian Models, Brazilian Models, Danish Models, Dewi Driegen, Dutch models, Erin Wasson, Estonian Model, Freja Beha Erichsen, Isabel Marant, Karmen Pedaru, Marina Linchuk, Natasha Polevshchikova, Natasha Poly, Polish model, Raquel Zimmermann, Russian Model, Snejana Onopka, Ukrainian Models
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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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