Going right up on my list of beauty inspirations: the easy, elegant ponytails worn by the models at yesterday's Kaviar Gauche show.
If you're wondering what goes through my mind when I see a fashion show, sometimes it's as complicated as: Aaaaaahhhhh! Which was what I thought when I saw the serious earrings at Malaika Raiss yesterday, made by Sabrina Dehoff and rocked here by Katrin Thormann. The thought that you might not be able to wear them for more than five minutes only occured to [...] 
Black, olive, grey and a touch of nude – Sara Strand does easy dressing so well. 
It's entirely possible that it's because it started snowing again – again! – in Berlin today, and that it feels like this weather has been going on since the beginning of bloody time, but I'm loving the idea of putting a little sparkle into daytime dressing right now, like Lina here did with her cool green trousers. And, heavens, what a luminous face [...] 
You know it's fashion week when you don't read the papers online in the morning, but browse the collections on style.com for breakfast instead. Newsflash: I just lost my heart to this camel coat from Dries Van Noten! (Have a look at the rest of the collection, too. I'm swooning).
There's an almost inflationary use of the description "classic" in fashion, [...] My book Stilvoll is out now.
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