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Tag Archive: Berlin fashion week

inspiration: last days of summer

By Marlene | Published: 16. September 2014
Selecting outfits is very easy for me at the moment. They only have to pass one test: are they resistant to baby spit? No wonder I’m drinking up all the streetstyle pictures from the shows like an It girl after a champagne drought. My first click every morning, as Arlo is drooling on the shoulder of the same-as-yesterday-grey-sweatshirt, is Sandra’s blog [...]

fashion week detail: copper

By Marlene | Published: 22. January 2013
Once I've fallen in love with an idea, I can't help but see anything else. I've been fantasising about a copper lampshade lately. And when I saw the new Mongrels in Common collection I must've looked like a magpie in a jewellery store. Copper! More copper! The belt? The coat with the studded collar? How about everything. Although perhaps the most beautiful [...]

fashion week finale: vladimir karaleev

By Marlene | Published: 20. January 2013
Right now I'm exactly where I want to be after four days of fashion: on my couch, in my jogging bottoms, eating Rittersport and watching the football. So instead of the usual Sunday programme of "a week in fashion", I'm switching over to hibernation for the day. But I'll leave you with another one of my highlights. Fashion week saved its best for (almost) [...]

fashion week discovery: bags by PB 0110 ( )

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I will always be partial to the James Castle bags, of course. But here's a new brand that caught my eye at the SEEK fair: PB 0110 ( ). The PB stands for Philipp Bree, the brand's founder and formerly CEO of Bree. 0110 is his birthday. The brackets are open to interpretation. The bags and accessories are made from natural leather and were designed by three [...]