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Dallas Shaw Sneak Peek

A new website, exciting projects... Dallas Shaw has become an artist in demand. Most recently she redesigned the DKNY look! Congratulations!

Check out her pretty blog DilliyDallas for her daily inspiration too!

Have an Amazing Weekend!

Wishing you a beautiful weekend!

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Christina Lopera - Disturbed Beauty!

A touch of beauty and just enough of a disturbed sensation made me featured Christina Lopera's illustrations and dolls, as suggested by Krasi Genova. I have to admit dolls scare me more than clowns! How about you?

Images from ChristinaLopera.com

Beauty for the New Year

After the stunning visuals in Avatar yesterday I am feeling that I need to surround myself with beauty, create beautiful things and meet more people who do the same. Amongst the "recovering" economy, and freezing weather this might feel like an escape, but why not? It's so easy. So I bring you bewitching illustrations from Hannah Haein Lee. Enjoy! I hope they make your day a touch more delightful, even if it's just visual.

 

Hannah Haein Lee is a recent Fashion design graduate from Parsons and you can see more of her work at haeinlee.com

Happy New Year!!!

All the best for the new year!!! Looking forward to new adventures and meeting new people!

Bergdorf Goodman Holiday Windows '09 - III

This display from the Bergdorf Goodman Holiday windows features some of my favorite dizzifying endless staircases in warm deep tones of brown wood. So mystical. I want to live in a house like that.

Notice how the wooden doll is "playing" a staircase "instrument"! Brilliant

I love the miniature dressed up dolls.
All photos by BobbinTalk

One Night to Live

One of the reasons I love NYC so much is that you can do it all, and you can do it all in one night! This Saturday was one of those fun crazy nights when you just keep going and going and going and how I managed to smoothly go from a high brow gallery opening through a Cat Empire concert to a drag queen filled Bowie Ball in one outfit, I'll never know. But here we go, I'll cram it all in one post, and I promise there is emerging fashion involved, as in students making outfits for a fashion show!
First stop: Axelle Gallery for the opening of HollisDunlap and sculptor Jivko Jelazkov.

Act Two, The Cat Empire at the Nokia Theatre. Had too much fun to take any photos, so just see their website and music at CatEmpire.com. Never heard a more diverse band in my life. I'm talking from reggae to jazz to Cuban sounds and yeahp some Eastern Europe chalga ( Yeah I said for those of you who know what that is) but in a good way!
And last but not least, how can any of these guys can be least, the Bowie Ball at Le Poisson Rouge, Deryck Todd's fabulous production. And I do mean fabulous, feather boas, drag queens and glittery, one-armed outfits included!

 

See the full flickr album {HERE} and I'm warning you before you start looking through it, it's not for everyone! There is more than bare midriffs and I did edit the real racy stuff.

Pattern Takes It All

Yes it does! Thanks to Fay!

Shot at Parsons by AnetaG for BobbinTalk. Fay already had it all on, all I had to do is point and shoot, literally!

Jeanne-Claude and Christo - Gates NYC

Just a small tribute to Jeanne-Claude who died today! Her death was not unexpected, she's been suffering for a few weeks, but nevertheless painful! The art duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude are famous for wrapping the Pont Neuf in Paris and the Reichstag in Berlin and The Gates installation in NYC with of over 7,000 saffron-colored gates in Central Park. There is a wonderful article in the NYTimes, {HERE}

I've been lucky enough to meet them a few times in New York and Italy and to know some of their relatives, {Christo is a fellow Bulgarian}. Their dedication to the arts and their projects was unmeasurable and sometimes overwhelming. They used to fly in separate planes, making sure that at least one of them would survive in case of a plane crush and would continue the projects.

The bright saffron color brightened Central Park like nothing else will ever again! 

 

This particular project: The Gates in NYC was one of my favorites, because I could experience it on a daily basis.
 

Photos from mine and my friend Iliya Ricketts archives.
You can see more at my Flickr album {HERE}
Vlado, I'm thinking of you!

Leitmotiv - Menswear

This is so rare, but true with Leitmotiv, menswear that is actually more fun than the womenswear collection from the same label. Not much more to say here than ENJOY! It is making my Saturday morning brighter and more fun. Unfortunately the weather in NYC is pretty gloomy, but I'll make the best of it with friends. How about you? Would you see your boyfriend or husband wear any of these fun prints, or are they too much? Would you buy any of these pieces?