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HAUTE HAUSWARTSKOST (THE CONCIERGE DANDY)
the scene: outside Convention Center, Brasilia
Happy 50th bday Brasilia! To mark the occasion, I’m going to post a special selection of images I took of the Brazilian capital during Capital Fashion Week. As much as I love the curvy Niemeyer and Costa spaceship beauties, let’s take a trip beyond the architectural clichés.
Let’s kick off with what is one of my all time favourite looks, sported by an Argentinian fashion editor. How shall I call this: Dali meets German concierge? Anyway, it’s brilliant. I think you can, with effort and money, achieve the effortless sophistication of a Sartorialist model. But to think up a look like this, it takes the mind and guts of a fashion genius.
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Published 2010-04-13 06:49:55 in MODEL CITIZENS
IN THE MOOD FOR NUDE
Despite the massive popularity of Mr Ryan McGinley, nude photography isn’t my cup of tea. The colour of nude however, is an entirely different cup of tea. It’s all around us, it’s very it and such a hit on the people wearing it. It so says spring has sprung. Wearing nude has the same effect as a dash of blush on your cheeks.
When my friend bought this amazing nude blazer last Saturday at Kimandra Vintage sale & afternoon tea party, I just couldn’t resist all this nudity any longer.
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Published 2010-04-01 21:57:01 in MODEL CITIZENS
APBRRRRRIL SNOW
Isn’t it shocking, we’re forced to step out of the door in knit stocking? Apbrrrril 1st brought back snow, but nobody was quite getting the joke.
Here’s another one I don’t get: When I asked this young face model for her picture after a fashion show she told me she was so honoroured because in her native smalltown, she has to fight for her look everyday. Don’t let them fool you. Dress your way, and always remember: the last laugh’s on you.
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Published 2010-03-16 20:13:19 in MODEL CITIZENS
SAGA!
the scene: backstage, Freemasons Hall, London
Best magic moment so far in 2010: meeting my photographer icon Saga.
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Published 2010-03-12 12:27:57 in MODEL CITIZENS
TOP OF THE TOPS
In fashion tense I’m already in Spring 2012, blame a long, long fashion week season. What looks are hot right NOW? I reality checked the Breton top tops the shops both in London and Zurich.
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Published 2010-03-10 10:37:29 in MODEL CITIZENS
PARTISAN
A member of London’s rising Robin Hood brigade.
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Published 2010-03-05 11:49:02 in MODEL CITIZENS
THE GOLDEN BOY WHO FELL TO EARTH
the scene: Swiss Music Awards 2010, Schiffbau, Zurich
This golden boy is quite possibly one of the most impossibly beautiful creatures ever to have fallen to earth – and it speaks Schwiizerdüütsch, Swiss German. It landed straight in Ke$ha’s troupe of golden dancers, landing itself the co-choreo’s job.
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Published 2010-03-04 14:31:56 in MODEL CITIZENS
THE DANDY AND THE BARON
the scene: Swiss Music Awards 2010, Schiffbau, Zurich
The Award for Outstanding Achievement went to Boris Blank and Dieter Meier of Yello. Very deservedly so, I’d say. You’re looking at the original Zurich style icons. Ever since the duo first conquered international dance floors in the eighties with hits like You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess or Viscious Games, their signature flamboyant bourgeois attire has become the uniform of choice for every self-respecting Zurich man. Styles are a-changing, the dilemma always is: Dandy Meier or Baron Blank? So hard to choose.
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Dandy Meier (left) and Baron Blank (right)
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Published 2010-03-03 13:31:37 in MODEL CITIZENS
RED VELVET FACTOR
the scene: Swiss Music Awards 2010, Schiffbau, Zurich
Ok, Swiss Music Awards, it’s not the Brit Awards. Because Swiss music’s rather like Swiss fashion: pocket versions of international mainstream numbers, usually released at least two years too late. Add our national obsession to roll out the red carpet for even the most provincial event. So instead of Lady GaGa in Lee McQueen, we got Ke$ha bringing in that missing international superstar factor. Regrettably in something looking dangerously NYC, Canal Street.
Still, Hollywood factor wasn’t completely absent on the red carpet in the mixed zone where us media people had the opportunity to fire off questions and cameras at award winners and life acts. This was mainly down to Carlos Leal, a Swiss music legend and the actor who played the croupier in James Bond film Casino Royale. Switzerland’s answer to Jude Law wore a moustache and a velvet dinner jacket in burgundy red with a deep v-neck in slate which helped the eye focusing on his chest hair. That’s a tricky look to carry off, but Leal mastered it with great bravura, staying safely on the Tom Ford side of italianate.
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Leal also had enough style to answer each of the many pressing questions from my journalist colleagues with stoic patience and sweet charm. As I was waiting for a particularly ardent female journo to finish her radio interview for my take of Carlos (for another project) I discovered a true style sensation: his wrist scarf. Now that’s something I haven’t come across before. Which leaves me with plenty of ooh ahh and the fine words: first seen at Swiss Music Awards 2010.
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Published 2010-02-04 20:46:02 in MODEL CITIZENS
KETCH YOU UP LATER
Where to take international fashion friends for a drink in Zurich? Especially, if it’s a Friday, happy hour, winter. Your friend has just arrived from Tokyo and is bound to fly on to Sao Paulo in 5 hours time. Which helps you remember you and your style icon friend happened to party at legendary Copacabana Palace last season in Rio.
The usual suspects, like Dolder Grand (too far away), Odeon (too packed), and Kronenhalle bar (too old gentlemens’ bar – literally) were out of the question. We shared a glass of white wine at Rio bar, for obvious reasons (though the bar is more Zurich than Rio, I have to say).
In the end, we ended up at Longstreet bar, as we always do with international star guests. Because they always, always love the former strip joint in the heart of red light district. It’s been around for a while, but personally, I still find Longstreet one of the best places to start the night and experience that slightly seedy, rustic chic that’s so Zurich. Plus the red chintz was the perfect backdrop for Misha’s look.
For the shoot, we chose the gents. Henry VIII meets Tokyo Ketch Up. Yep, toilet shoots are most definitely always the best.
And Misha in Rio:
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