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Category Archive: street style

new frames

By Marlene | Published: 5. June 2013
It's funny. I wear my glasses almost every day, but I don't really think about what they look like most of the time. A matter of habit I guess. My glasses are a utility item, not just practical but necessary. After five years with the same frames, I've decided I need new ones. I've been wearing a RayBan Wayfarer until now and I'm looking for something similar [...]

la gamine

By Marlene | Published: 20. May 2013
This is the haircut every woman has in mind when she picks up the courage to walk into a hairdresser to say: Make me look like Jean Seberg in „Breathless”, please. I know it's the look I wanted when I wore my hair short. Except that my friend Nora pulls the style off in a way I never quite mastered. She's not from Paris, but she might as well be. Her [...]
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the transitional jacket

By Marlene | Published: 11. May 2013
"Übergangsjacke" – now there's a word that will almost instantly kill my desire to shop. The expression sounds better in English, yet the image I have of transitional jackets is of something practical, possibly rainproof, likely dull. I should say: had that image. Because Saviana and her college jacket from French brand Gat Rimon changed my perception [...]

inspiration: daytime sparkle

By Marlene | Published: 29. March 2013
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 [...]