OSTBLOCK OPENS BORDERS

labels which will take a part on "ostblock opens borders" project at kreislauf4+5.

adam&eve



affolter/debeaufort



ex abrupto( she will present only her hut collection)



peter müller



van bery



bitten stetter

SOME MINOR WORDS OF WISDOM

Because you know, a small little set of of lovehandles is just fore the better.
More to love baby!



And now it's time for me to take a short break from everything; work like hell for a couple of days and also try to figure some things out. I'll be back soon with this promised tutorial and I might get on with some tags I've received too. Have fun until then ok!

COMING SOON

this year ostblock will take a part of kreislauf 4+5 with the project" ostblock opens borders".
next to ostblock collections we will present some labels from lausanne & zürich + special guest.
more info about each label coming soon.

TODAY'S DESSERT : ICECREAM

This time I dressed like strawberry icecream and raspberry sorbet. Or like a big fluffy pastry with lots of jam and frosting, cream and meringues.

Ok, I didn't actually dress with dessert on my mind but I did come to think of that afterwards. (Even though I've had dessert on my mind a lot lately. Don't know what it is but I've developed a huge sweet tooth lately). And It's nice to sometimes dress like an overdose of sugar (even though I cut it down a bit with black accessories). Then I went out and did our best show ever! After which I had one of the, um, craziest night ever. And managed to loose my newly thrifted belt (how the hell is that possible) and a whole bag of my stage make up, buuh.

Dress - Vivien of Holloway,Cardigan - GinaTricot, Shoes - O.I.S, Seamed Stockings - H&M, Belt - now gone :(

STRIPES - DOTS - CANDY

It seems spring is the time when I dress inspired by candy.

But as said before, I don't even like candy that much, other than to look at it. I'd much rather have an apple.
(Or chocolate. Lot's of it. That's not candy you know. Chocolate has a category of it's own!)


Skirt - My Mother's old, Leather Jacket - My One and Only...
the rest is old stuff

DEER AS CUPCAKES

I have been awarded by Parapluie with this cute cupcake-y award. Thanks!

PRINT OF THE DAY

Andy Warhol. Six Bags in a Frame 1958.

HOW ALL GIRLS SHOULD SPEND THEIR SUNDAYS

Photo by Taina Kerttula.

PS. Next Saturday it's time for Club Wanted IV! Togheter with Sally Vanilla we will do our craziest spectacle ever; an odyssey in to the prairie: The Good, The Bad and The Pretty! So if you're around Hell-sinki see you there ok!

I'M NOT SAD, JUST THINKING (BUT SOMETIMES THAT'S THE SAME THING)

You know that 90 % of the time you come to my blog the first thing you'll see is me and my face. Ha! Me me me me me. Well, it's my blog of course. But if you think about it, it's a little...funny. Especially since I talk about my blog as concerning things I like. So then it would seem I like myself quite a lot. But then again I do like myself, most of the time at least. And you should too you know. Like yourself. Narcissism ahoy!



Well enough on the blogsistential crisis and back to business. And since I had nice colours on me today, here's even more pictures! (wohoo.)



(Some years ago I considered brown stocking to be too grannylike, but nowadays they've even beaten the black ones for me.)

Tara Starlet dress, old H&M jakcet, quite new ModCloth shoes and a newly thrifted bag.

MAYBE?

maybe i should buy this coat by aleksandra wisniewska and i will not feel blue anymore.
i mean it can help. or?

I'M FEELING BLUE

yes, yes.... but i should be happy.
tomorrow and on saturday we will have a funny presentation of ss09 collections at ostblock... and good russian vodka.



we will show clothes from labels:

SURPRISE

happy coincidence...
on saturday sanja grcic( i already wrote about her) will bring some clothes from her new collection and also some pieces from m*faganel ss09 collection to ostblock.
about m*faganel i didn't write anything till now. so, i will do it soon.
but at the monent ... here are some pictures of SS09 collection

THE MASTERFUL LINE OF GRUAU

I'm continuing on my very un-chronological and no-logic-whatsoever series of featuring my favorite fashion illustrators. (Previously mentioned are Erté and Ohgushi.)

Today it's time for perhaps the greatest of them all; Renée Gruau!

I've always admired the 'less is more' when it comes to illustration (that is, if you know your way around the paper and pencil) and Gruau is a true master in the use of negative space, somewhat continuing the japonisme-inspired style of Touluse-Lautrec. Gruau was also a master with his use of color and patterns, but most of all, his trademark line - strong and simple but total perfection.

RenéeGruau (1909-2004) was a French-Italian artist and illustrator who worked mainly in Europe but also in New York. He did numerous high style magazine covers, ads and haute couture illustrations for such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Flair, Balenciaga, Givenchy, Dior... He also did posters for The Moulin Rouge and Lido for years. At some point he even did some fashion design himself.

Gruau worked with Dior from the fifties until the late eighties, even at times when fashion photography and digital art had already taken over. Images above from the sixtes.



Obviously an inspiration for the iPod ads?


Great work of pattern and space from the sixties.



I had a hard time picking out images for this post leaving a lot unshown here, so be a darling and go google up images by Gruau! Do it! Now!

NEW FACES OF OSTBLOCK SS09 LOOKBOOK

presentation of ostblock ss09 lookbook will be on this friday (april 17th) and saturday (april 18th) at ostblock.
it is still a secret who are new faces of the lookbook. but only till friday... so, you should come around and yes, you are more then welcome.
hope to see you.

THIS IS ONE OF THOSE POSTS WITH NO HEADLINE

I can't really help it but, whenever I wear my hair like this, tucked in to my beret, I walk around feeling like I'm in an old movie. (Preferably a French one).

(Dress - Wings by vadumsrum, Shoes - Bullboxer)

BRIGITTE SWITZERLAND

in new brigitte magazine it is an article about swiss fashion blogs. next to hopehope, toujours, kimandra, playlust is also ostblog.
so, if you are interested what we say about our blogs, fashion trends & fashion highlights, absolutes "no-go"... just buy the brigitte in a nearest kiosk.





i took pictures from hopehope. i hope it is ok.... sorry marisa but my scanner is not working.

DID YOU KNOW...

...that once you can roll your hair right and do a proper pin curl, you can manage any hairdo you want (well, almost).

Roll your curls in different direction, twist and turn them around to try out different styles and results. The trick is not only to roll it right, but also to learn how to fasten the bobby pin in such a way that it does not miss-shape or flatten the roll, and without showing too much. Bobby pins are easier to hide in dark hair, but you can also learn to cover them in blond hair like mine. The thicker the hair, the easier to hide since there is more to stick it in, but I suppose thinner hair has the advantage of fewer pins since it is lighter. How well you hair turns out also depends on it's level of cleanness or how fly or heavy it is, but in the end it's all about one thing: practice makes master!

In the picture above is, apart from a giant arm of mine, also my 30's inspired "faking short hair" -do, which always gets a lot of appreciation. If you have long hair like me here's a simple descriptive drawing and a quick tutorial of how I did it (if you already have short hair just roll the hair around your face inwards -step 1,2, 3 and 6- and curl the rest in the back with a curling iron or so):


1.Sleek your hair in the front/your bangs and fasten it to the side (in this example to the left). My bags are so long for the moment they need only one pin to stay in place.
2. Take a sling of hair from the top left and roll it inwards towards your face and place it so that it covers the pin which you fastened your bangs with. If you have shorter bangs and needed more pins, never mind - but then you can place some decorative pins to hold the front hair instead. Try pulling your hair slightly downwards between the pins to create the image of finger waved hair (you can of course do this with longer bags too).
3. Take the a little hair from the back togehter with the hair hanging on the side, roll it in the same direction as the previous curl and fasten it just beneath, leaving the roll 'hanging' on the ear.
4. Roll the hair under the ear inwards and fasten it just above the hair line in the neck, so that half of the curl 'hangs' in the neck.
5. Roll the rest of your hair in the back the same way (I make four more curls) going from the left to the right
6. Roll the hair on the right side of you face inwards in one roll (which will be in the opposite direction of all the other rolls you've made) and fasten it just above the ear.
7.Finish off with a high-shine spray.

PS. the promised tutorial of this 'do is coming up soon :)

TALKA

talka is an ancient latvian word, which describes collective volunteer working for the good of society & environment
and
talka is a store/gallery in berlin sells objects of latvian art and fashion.
at the moment you can find works by ketas gütmane, leva veite, arta vanaga, simona veilande & others.








all pictures from myspace.com/talkaberlin.