Just a quick outfit from one of my preferred stores, the Norse Store. I didn’t think it was possible, but Nike comes up with some nice Air Max colourways. The last year has been really disappointing.
Philipp

To be honest, I didn’t know Dana Lee before I read about her current collection on Slam-X-Hype. I really like the simplistic style in combination with the heritage touch and the look of the pictures. I’m not really sure about if it’s the 90′s, 80′s or 70′s that I feel here. A kind of soulglow. Any idea on where to get her stuff in Europe?
Philipp
More after the jump.

It’s time for a new wishlist from “Topshop“. Can’t wait to wear colors again!

More after the jump.

Elin Kling is the most well known blogger/fashion-editor in Sweden. With her blog “Style by Kling” she showed her really strong sense of style and love for scandinavian design. But she is way more than just a blogger, she is a fashion icon in sweden. After having lived in Stockholm I would say that every fashion interested person in Sweden knows her because of her huge media coverage and deep knowledge about it. No wonder that H&M picked her for the first collabo with a blogger. I’m not sure if I still would call her a “blogger” because of all the stuff that she does, but the collection looks fantastic. The silver suit and clutch are outstanding. The bad point is: it’s only available in Sweden :(
On her new website you will find “behind the scene” material and her new blog.
All collection items after the jump.

Wow, how stunning! I have never heard anything about Shao Yen Chen before. I love the video, I love the collection and I love the pictures. Everything that I could find out are the infos on the webpage. Shao Yen Chen is a Taiwanese born fashion designer and a Central Saint Martins MA graduate. He currently lives and works in London. See more images after the jump.

via YES PLEASE MADEMOISELLE

Engineered Garments, a nice label that I discovered via Hypebeast a while ago. Usually I’m not really into suits and stuff but the combination of the urban backyard location, choice of model and styling just made me change my attitude towards suits. Simple, plain and classic but still kind of edgy.
Philipp

During the stress about our new design, we totally forgot the blog birthday. I can’t believe it. The blog is really 2 years old now. We started with some pictures and graphics, just stuff that influences our daily life. It’s still like that but in a more worked out way, I would say. Our blog is still our private playground where we do and write about stuff that we honestly like. The last few months we did a lot of shootings for our blog on a really “low end” level. But it was fun to do it and we hopefully will be able to continue doing this the upcoming months. It’s a lot of work and we hope that you like it. We recently observed that a lot of blogs that started about the same time as we did are disappearing from the scene. I totally understand it since we often ask ourselves “why do we blog? is it really worth it? does someone really read the texts?,…..?” We are both online people by heart and we do believe in the future of it. So let’s step into the next year of blogging. Thank you for following and sharing your love with us.
Best,
Nikita, Philipp and Sevda

I have been looking for a nice bag to replace my bagpack when visting clients. Feels kind of wrong taking the backpack-style to meetings. ;-) There are a few nice messenger-bags like the ones from Incase and Alkr out there, but somehow I need something more “classic”. These bags by Ally Capellinomight be just the ones I have been looking for. More pictures after the jump
Philipp

So good that we have a “Monki Store” in Hamburg. I always find something there. During sale time it so nice to shop there! In Stockholm it was one of my favorite stores during sale. You can buy a bag full of stuff and never pay more than 100 EUR. This dress was 15 EUR!

(Coat – Cheap Monday, Dress – Monki, Jacket – Stine Goya for Weekday, Scarf – Monki, Ring – Weekday)

What do my winter blinded eyes see at “Topshop” this morning? The first preview of the SS2011 collection. Color everywhere! I’m totally in love. A color kick like this in the morning wakes me up and make me hope for an early spring. Especially the hair colors and the moodboard. I’m a bit surprised because it looks so typical 60′s and 70′s american and Topshop is famous for it’s british look. But who cares. ;) Fuck, and we are stuck in the middle of winter. I wanna wear everything of it, right now!!!!

This time the wishlist is a bit different. You will find my favorite outfits for New Year’s eve from “Urban Outfitters“, “Topshop” and “Asos“. I love the t.b.a. dress from “Urban Outfitters” and I don’t know what pair the shoes I like most. Ahhhh, I like all of the outfits and it would be hard too choose if I had to.

Just a few weeks ago, I wrote about “April77” from France. Now they did it again. A nice lookbook and great video. Jethro Cave & Sophie Willing are looking adorable as a couple. See the collection on the “April77 Website“.

We had a really crazy year this year. If I’m looking back it was one of the wildest in my life. Because so much happend we splitted the 2010 overview in three parts. Here we go with the first 4 months. Let’s start with the most important things in these months. We moved the 3rd time in Stockholm into one of our favorite areas in Stockholm, Södermalm. On a little hill we found our new home and we certainly loved it. In Feburary we were at the Stockholm Fashion Week. It’s a pretty small Fashion Week but with some amazing brands like Minimarket, Acne, Odeur, Cheap Monday, ….I totaly fell in love with the Minimarket shoes and I still have an eye on them. Winter was hard and dark. I can’t remember a day without freezing. ;) So we decided to fly to L.A. What a amazing city. I really want to live there! The whole way of life is totaly what I’m looking for. It was completely different then all the clichees that you have in mind when you are thinking about L.A. L.A. I’m coming back. In the beginning of march, as we were in L.A. my job asked me, if I could go to NYC, because the location of a shooting was changed. Yes of course, I could go to New York! That wasn’t my first time there, so I know some good places to go. It’s allways nice to be there and I had a great time. I got to spend some extra days there because of the volcano. ;) But of course we also did spend some days back in good old Hamburg.

Let’s finish this little down under excursion with “Ruby” from New Zealand. Nice patterns and colour mixes, adorale details and easy to wear. What else do we need?

Kimberley of ANC
(Jacket – Skirt – Top – H&M Trend Spring 2011)

It’s almost impossible to think about neon in a good way if you grew up in the 80′s. Everyone had an item in neon. Personally I had a neon yellow raincoat and my best friend a neon pink one. I was allways jealous about her’s because I liked her coat so much more than mine. Nowadays I never thought about wearing neon again until I saw the gougeous collection of “TV“. They are using the colors in a brillant way and it’s like a red line trough the whole collection and you see it almost in every style, even if it is just a little detail. Now I’m starting to think that my yellow raincoat was boring, cause this collection is the shit. ;)

Hust! Ups! Two retailers and two versions of one and the same jacket in the same week ;) But I have to say that the one from H&M (right one) is in a really nice quality and not just a jersey fake baseball jacket from Topshop.
Dann bleibt ja nur noch eine Frage offen: Wer hat das Orginal designt? ;)

I think you can compare Swedish fashion with the fashion from Australia. The fashion from both countries has clean cuts, great colors and lives from there young interpretation of seen stuff. That’s the reason why I love fashion from those contries. If you have taken a look at the last wishlishes you saw some stuff from “Shakuhachi” from Australia. As I looked trough their lookbook I was getting wild. So crazy. They have a really huge collection with more than 50 styles and I liked almost everything. The transparent fabrics and the gourgeous colors are great and they are doing shoes aswell. How is that possible? Have a look on your own. Really impressive.

Ok now I’m feeling better after screaming my wanderlust away. ;) If I would go, perhaps I would choose the States for my holidays again. One of my favorite stores is “LF Stores“. You will find it in L.A., NYC and Miami. They are known for a good selection of edgy street and designer wear as well as for their nice lookbooks. The latest is online since yesterday and I’m a bit sad about the fact that they don’t have an online-store. Perhaps that’s better for me so I can save my money for a flight. ;) More after the jump.

You might know “Kimberley of ANC” from a former shooting in summer. She is a really gorgeous girl and easy to work with. So we went down to a famous hairdresser salon here on St. Pauli. I love the Elvis interior. ;) It totally fits with some of the “H&M Spring Collection” items.
(Skirt, Shirt, Jacket, Shoes – H&M)
More photos after the jump.

One of our friends, blogger colleague and designer “Anna Wegelin” aka “Das Lachsbrötchen” had her final examination yesterday. So Katha, Philipp and I went their to see her great collection for next year. I’m sorry to says that you have to wait until next year to see it. It’s really colorful and totaly Anna like. Meanwhile you should keep an eye on Philipp Reining who is a part of “Fashion & Fame” at “Pro7″ that will start in january! Great to have so talented people in town! We wish you all the best for your future!