Whitest Boy Alive - Burning

Aaro Murphy, Foto Session No. 1

Gilles Rigoulet, METRO, 1977

The question is what was there first: The elderly woman or the monster-lamp? 

Rigoulet did not know and we won't solve the mystery either.

But the picture is just great. 

Anna Ostrom

ANNA OSTROM

A few weeks ago I went to the London Fashion & Art Event, an exhibition organised by Loulou Bontemps to promote a few of London's upcoming designers and artists. 

Situated in the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the exhibitors managed to create a friendly, familiar atmosphere with champagne reception and models presenting clothes of young talented designers.

Anna Ostrom was one of the designers I found most impressing: Anna is still studying Jewellery Design in Birmingham but presented an in my opinion outstandingly appealing collection of bracelets, earrings and necklaces. The collection's name "Urban Jungle" was inspired by big cities and their manifoldness. "London is animalistic," Anna says when asked about her inspiration. "We are all animals living in cities. That's why I am inspired by buildings and not really by nature. It's just in my blood. I'm definitely a city girl", she concludes. And an innovative one as well: Some of her rings are made out of three pieces that can all be worn separately (and if you lose one part of the ring you still have two other ones, really clever). 

Well done, Anna. I hope to stumble across your future boutique soon!

'Atlas Hands' Official Video (HD) - Benjamin Francis Leftwich

FASHION WEEK SS'11: MARC BY MARC JACOBS

Marc Jacobs...everybody loves his work. I do, too! He is a crazy guy, but a genius. Do you know what I love most? The long skirts you see everywhere right now! Don't expect your boyfriend to like them, but isn't it great to see another length again, after all these years of miniskirts? Even if you don't like your legs you can start wearing long skirts now (especially good for Christmas time when you eat too many cookies anyways).

I also think it brings back another side of sexiness: The one of hidden sexappeal. And isn't it just way more exciting to discover a person's body when you don't know what lies underneath?

People, this is real 80's Style! I have seen this guy a couple of times before and just needed to take a picture of him. Do you see the pink socks? Thank god there are still creative people out there who are trying not to look like everyone else.

The Charleston

Lisa Fonssagrives for Vogue, 1939, by Erwin Blumenfeld

Ok, seriously: Would you be brave (or silly) enough to risk your life for a fashion advertisement?? 

I don't think I could have posed up there, on the EIFFEL TOWER, hundreds of metres above the ground.One step to her right and GOODBYE, life!  However, Lisa Fonssagrives, a famous Swedish model during the 30's and 40's, survived, and with her one of the most impressive fashion pics I've ever seen. Everything about this picture is perfect: Her posture, her dress and the way it plays with the wind, the construction lines of the Eiffel Tower. You think you can almost hear the dress flagging, don't you?

Lisa became an icon, leading the way to the "supermodel-era". The shot was published in VOGUE in 1939 and is still being copied by hundreds of photographers today.