“Eye candy for the style hungry”, Yvan Rodic’s page facehunter.blogspot.comScott Schuman’s thesartorialist.blogspot.com

lesmads.de - a German fashion and street-style blog, backed by Burda

Further glamcanyon.blogspot.com and stilinberlin.blogspot.com or the portals ilikemystyle.net, styleclicker.net and thecoolhunter.net.

Besides rebabbling the sources everyone else mentions, this Norwegian party/fashion blog gives some insight into northern fashion trends.

Some may remember this name from a clever marketing coup earlier this year, introducing the Plein-brand to a wider audience with a segment feature in the opening episode of Germany’s Next Topmodel Cycle 3. So it wasn’t exactly a surprise to meet some known faces from this popular TV franchise again on the red carpet. Among the attendants were Lena Gercke, Hana Nitsche, Janina Delia Schmidt, Christina Leibold, Janina-Katharina Küpper, designer duo Johnny Talbot & Adrian Runhof, Marcel Ostertag, Stefan Eckert, Barbara Engel (formerly Herzsprung) and various starlets from the German fashion and TV scene.

This year, BUNTE and Hubert Burda Media celebrate 60 years of BUNTE magazine and issued the tenth New Faces Award, who has been split up into categories recently, to award new faces from the film (awarded in April this year in Berlin) and the fashion worlds. Each trophy means 10,000 EUROs for the winner in cash.

Further guests included: Kostja Ullmann, Janine Reinhard, Marcus Schenkenberg, Stefan Effenberg, Celia Gräfin von Bismarck, Gabriele Strehle, Susanne Asbrand-Eickhoff, Nazan Eckes, Sonja Kirchberger, Aleksandra Bechtel, Tasha de Vasconcelos, Mola Adebisi, Ilka Essmüller, Alexandra Polzin and many more.

Award segment photo gallery

Aftershow-Party photo gallery

Comme des Garçons’ founder and head designer Rei Kawakubo will create this autumn’s guest designer collection at H&M. Rei Kawakubo, famous and admired for her creativity and artistry, will design a women’s and a men’s collection, with some pieces for children too. Accessories and an exclusive unisex fragrance will also be included in the collection.

“I have always been interested in the balance between creation and business. It is a dilemma, although for me creation has always been the first priority. It is a fascinating challenge to work with H&M since it is a chance to take the dilemma to its extreme, and try to solve it”, says Rei Kawakubo, Comme des Garçons.

“Rei Kawakubo has been at the top of our wish list for a long time and we are thrilled that she has chosen to collaborate with us. We have tremendous respect for Kawakubo’s fashion philosophy of questioning fashion’s ingrained patterns, and admire her artistic approach to design. We are particularly excited that the collection will be launched in Japan, Kawakubo’s native country, at the same time as the launch of our new store there”, explains Margareta van den Bosch, creative advisor, H&M.

The world launch of the collection will be at the opening of H&M’s second store in Tokyo, Japan, in the beginning of November. Launch date for other H&M markets will be a few days later.

Comme des Garçons Ltd was established in 1973 as a company based on creativity and originality. Always pushing the frontiers of design and never accepting the status quo, Comme des Garcons now produces 14 different brands and employs nearly 700 people, with shops in over 25 countries.

H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB (H&M) was established in Sweden in 1947 and is synonymous with affordable as well as up-to-date and high quality fashion. H&M has a wide product range that is divided into a number of different concepts for women, men, teenagers, children and cosmetics. The company’s clothing collections are created by its own designers, pattern makers and buyers. H&M has around 68,000 employees and over 1,500 H&M-stores in 28 countries. For further information visit www.hm.com.

She mentions a nylon Prada bag as her alltime favourite. A benchmark following “It-Bags” couldn’t reach, like the Fendi Baguette Bag or Bottega Veneta’s woven napa bags. Currently she has an eye on a Jil Sander clutch…

Dr. Angelika Taschen, though not related to Benedict Taschen, works at Taschen, an art book publischer based in Cologne and Los Angeles. With a background in musical, she now oversees various lines of richly illustrated art books about variing topics.

Read some of her books:

Bamboo Style: Exteriors, Interiors, Details (Icons)

Living in Bali (Taschen’s Lifestyle)

Inside Africa South & West

Recently, the company also added jewelry to their line of for-rent products, offering brands like Tiffany & Co. or Chanel.

As usual, a good idea as this one from Seattle, can’t be out for long without clones popping up all around. In Germany alone two startups are recycling the idea: Luxusbabe and RunAwayBag.  We’ll see if this model will be the YouTube of Fashion…

The bags with the three lion logo and the signature carabiner hook made quite an impact among circles of hip urban girls and trendy women of all ages.  They were recognizable, a bit obscure and with tags ranging from US$20 - US$200 modestly priced.

Recently, the bags have begun to lose their early-adopter appeal a bit. The bags are becoming more of a mainstream accessoire. Nevertheless, the company is still going strong in terms of sales, restlessly introducing new colours, materials and shapes.

The current line of bags is adopting the signatures of the nu rave movement, that makes them a good match for the clothing styles of labels such as me&you or Obey Clothing. We’ll see if this self-nicheing will stop the brand’s demise towards mainstream or if the management will do the trick and establish GGL as a major brand in the industry.

Links:

George Gina & Lucy

me&you

Obey Clothing