1.
I’m not good at subtlety. If you’re not going to be discreet and quiet, then just go all the way and have the balls to shave off your eyebrows, bleach your hair, and put on some big bracelets.

2.
Working out is modern couture. No outfit is going to make you look or feel as good as having a fit body. Buy less clothing and go to the gym instead.

3.
I’ve lived in Paris for six years, and I’m sorry to say that the Ugly American syndrome still exists. Sometimes you just want to say “Stop destroying the landscape with your outfit.” Still, from a design standpoint, I’m tempted to redo the fanny pack. I look at it as a challenge—it’s something to react against.

4.
When a suit gets middle-of-the-road it kind of loses me—it has to be sharp and classic and almost forties.

5.
Hair and shoes say it all. Everything in between is forgivable as long as you keep it simple. Trying to talk with your clothes is passive-aggressive.

Antwerp based make-up artist that evolved professionally next to Martin Margiela and the ‘Antwerp six’ fashion designers.

Together with the photographer (and husband) Ronald Stoops, she managed to deconstruct the ‘glamorized’ image of the women, building instead a new perspective of a strong, edgy and radical chic, that I personally adore.

Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough of Proenza Schouler and the twisted film aesthetics of the indie director Harmony Korine are meeting again this season. Their Fall ‘11 collection inspired by a visit in the SouthWest is illustrated quite eccentrically by Korine in the ‘Snowballs’ film, which is said to be set in a ‘Crystal Meth Trailer Park’. See here the movie.

Personally, I found “Act da Fool,” the film created for the previous AW collection, way more meaningful and conceptual.

As I find myself in this limbo nowadays, with all sort of changes, relocation, packing, I am stuck with tons of luggage containing pieces of my life. This made me think about the crazy habit that we people have of always manipulating the space around us and how we constantly end up taking for granted all the objects thoroughly gathered during the years.

I feel like the missing character that inhabitats one of Annee Hardy’s claustophobic rooms. Probably this would be the moment in my life where I could have the best understanding of her unusual interior spaces.

But my moment of glory had only two minutes, as she is currently exhibiting at Federica Schiavo Gallery in Rome until mid September and I am arriving there one week after….

Emerging young artist on the Bucharest scene that is enjoying a freelance career as a Makeup Artist in the past years.

Her understanding of the creative process was largely influenced by training in architecture and photography and by the the love for fashion and interest in human aesthetics.

Her flawless-skin approach to make-up or edgy and avant-garde work speaks volumes of her passion and creativity.

Permanently intrigued by the facial landscape she is always proving her versatillity through inovative techniques and products like:

* tea make-up 

* acrylic make-up 

* lipstick make-up 

She fancyes experimenting with textures, colors, shapes and positive emotions.

Beauty, Fashion, Runway, TV, Advertising and Bridal are all well represented in Diana’s profile.

Have a glimpse of her delicious world at: http://www.dianaionescu.com/

You can see the post on Lost At E Minor here

I recently found out about the Desire is war exhibition that occurred in July at Bruckenthal Museum, Sibiu / RO reading it on Diane Pernet’s blog, A shaded view on fashion.

It was curated by Dragos Olea and Anca Mihulet and it was a ‘statement-exhibition and form of cultural activism that aims to provoke a debate around a certain kind of desire that quite often ignites intense bitter conflicts, even “wars” within families, groups of friends, neighbors, at school, at work or at home: the yearning for same sex persons.’

* photos by Stefan Jammer

But then I remembered that she actually saw personally another exhibition curated by Anca Mihulet, but some time ago, in 2009, when she was visiting Romania as part of a research trip, courtesy of the Romanian Institute of Culture.

Wakefield Meadows Exhibition / December 2009 @ Pavilion Unicredit, BUC / RO