Zen of Fashion

“You look like a radioactive tampon.” — Sam Rockwell as Sam Bell in Moon (2009)
Anyone who’ve been to Moon’s Sundance screening in 2009 might remember the strange yellow suit writer/director Duncan Jones entered the stage in. And if you’ve seen his film Moon, wheather at Sundance or at home, you quite surely remember that Sam […]

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The leggings trend has its first specialist: Costume Dept. from Los Angeles. Every time an upstart label manages to talk a celebrity into promoting a style (ex Black Eyed Peas Fergie wore CD’s “piano lesson“, via), it only takes minutes until blogs, shops and magazines have it on their radar. The lucky one this time- […]

From New York to Tokyo to provincial Germany: the classy Gucci Sofia pumps with tortoise shell heel are everywhere! In case you need to spend a little bit of your spare money, head over to Gucci and buy yourself a pair, fairly priced at $610.
Done so, you can get in line with Kristen Steweart, who […]

1. BCBG Max Azria
These gold leggings rock! (via, more)
2.  Christian Lacroix

We especially like the left one, the one Tilda Swinton chose for her appearance at the 2009 Cesar Film Awards.  (via)
3.  Behnaz Sarafpour

Look out for the clean lines of Behnaz Sarafpour, the upper left is just gorgeous! (via)
4. Preen by Thornton Bergazzi
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Mattel, maker of the classic Barbie doll, celebreated the style-icon’s 50th birthday/ 50th anniversary with a celebrity-studded runway fashion show. As part of the Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week, on February 14th, the event took place in the Bryant Park Tent. Both, a birthday party and kick-off event for an upcoming fashion brand (According […]

Hussein Chalayan is surely one of the most promising and innovative young fashion designers in the business. His runway shows overflow with ideas, edgy new concepts and an aire of techno-savvy contemporary designs.
Chalayan was a strong and very early adopter of the wet look leggings trend (if not creating it altogether) in his 2007 Automn/Winter […]

A recent discovery is LF Markey, the UK fashion label founded by Louise Markey centering around the ideas of “minimalism, bold colours and shapes, comfort and natural fibres, understated luxury, high-quality manufacture”.
Go and check out the SS09 catwalk collection or visit their homepage lfmarkey.com for the complete picture.

One of the fixed dates right at the start of a new year is the cpd in Düsseldorf, the”International Trade Fair for Womenswear & Accessoires” by the Igedo Company. So if you are in Germany: still some hours left to get an immediate glimps at the trends for Spring/Summer 2009.
If you can’t attend personally, the […]

Following our regular parole of “…is the color”, the next rising star is strong blue, or cobal blue or royal. Rolling in from Fall 2008 Fashion Week, blue is everywhere. Eva is digging it and this striking color has popped up on all the runways (i.e. Stella McCartney) and surely will be big. Okay, it’s […]