30 August 2010

While typing this post I erased a few lines and started anew because it seems to have no point. And since that is no new news, I’ll tell you exactly what’s on my mind.
I’m so happy for Brussels – it finally has a fashion scene which is growing, developing and setting its own style cornerstones. I’m glad to become a fashion observer in my own city. I’m very excited about the great breakthrough of many style blogs which now define the latest fashion trends and are now places of inspiration rather than derision.
I started writing about my personal style and about fashion in general when I lived quite faraway from ‘civilization’ – in Kortrijk, out of love to someone with who I spent two and a half years of a happy relationship. His sister hated me so much that she threw scandals in our house, and I just felt like I’m the weirdo from another planet. I felt misunderstood – and misunderstanding is by far my biggest fear. Well, in my spare time from being a weirdo I was also a cool girl at all rock shows and a girlfriend of that skinny singer from a hardcore band – trust me, there’s nothing better to do in k-town. Oh yeah, the band is still there up to this day – the Creatures Like Us blend with Penguins Know Why, called Räpe Blossoms. I still believe it’s a fucked up name for a band…if you want to sound Scandi go for Fück MIDI or something like that, it will at least quote a Scandi wonder-band Casiokids, and sound pretty heavy too…well, that’s none of my business I guess.
Well, rewind once again, at one of those gigs I met my personal devil from the far-faraway Portland, a man who’s very heart is possessed by music that no one else can get near it, or at least I can’t, and that’s a shame. He’ll come back to Europe again and again, previously with 31 Knots, lately with Menomena and soon with Tu Fawning, and again we’ll be drinking coffee just to avoid talking about what happened between us.
While living in Kortrijk I got a cat, she’s still here with me - my pretty furry baby.
Those two things and a ticket to Cologne – soon after I was out of k-town for good.
But I can’t deny that having shared two and a half years of my life with someone, I treasure the acquaintance. I can’t pronounce him an enemy whatever he does. He was once to do an interview for the publication that I was working on, refusing to finish it because it would be published in my unknown magazine. Strangely enough he sent me the finished interview upon finding out that I were to do a collaboration magazine with one very famous stylist. Me looser, you rock star? My magazine not good enough for that Crocodiles interview? I wouldn’t take it all personally if he weren’t to kindly explain to me that he knows me way too well and that I’ll never get anywhere with my ambitions. That’s a very interesting theory, I must say.
So strange to sit here and think about the beginning of this blog at the beginning of another blog project.
You know where to go for that very fashion fanzine preview!

29 August 2010

new home is nowhere

new home is now here

looking for 873,290,884 images

Change of heart. Change of URL.
I’ve been giving so much attention to the Tumblr appendix of this blog that a constant search for images that speak for themselves has become of my primary concern. So bookmark nowhere/now here while it is still an open and everchanging space. I’m not sure what will follow, may be I will turn it into a daily journal of moods and impressions, may be I will focus once again on good quality writing and publish it all on my new clean-looking blog. But for now, lacking inspiration in words, I comb through the world wide web for images that can represent the off-mood of the day/hour/season/year. The images are not mine, unless stated otherwise, but you are free to reblog them without any obligation to cite the source. If you have a Tumblr account you can even discuss the posts, ask me questions and interact much more than the Blogger will ever let you. And in my opinion, the Tumblr’s greatest achievement is the ease of mobile blogging – I have tested the live blogging at the Antwerp Fashion Academy show this year, and I’m pretty happy with the result, naturally you’ll see more of it. And lastly, the title refers to nothing in particular – just some vague mathematical characters . The URL? Well, “nowhere” with a space placed correctly in the middle becomes “now here” – a set of letters with a dual purpose.

23 August 2010

red...

...or dead

Grinderman - "Heathen Child"

Zeitgeist of the year to come…it can’t be anything else but Grinderman. The more you watch this video the less the world makes sense. That’s OK.

bxl to a'pen roundtrip

After the announcement of the Sandrina Fasoli store opening, re-opening of Hunting&Collecting with their chalet-inspired interiors, what could be better?
Brussels has more to offer. A brand new concept store is opening in September. It will occupy the former Comme des Garçons space…that’s all I can tell you without a decent press release.
Since when are bloggers working with press releases? Aren’t we supposed to sniff out the latest fashion news?
Well, here’s another info-bulk, this time around concerning Antwerp.
Atelier Solarshop brings us the second version of the Pop-Up store. If you may remember the first one, some names are recurrent, but there’s plenty to look forward to: Hui-Hui, Jan-Jan Van Essche, Saskia&Stefan Diez, Slow and Steady Wins the Race… The Solarshoppers are organising a launch party on the 31st of August beginning at 17h, so bring your friends.
Pop-up will be open from 1st September, 11am to 19pm, Monday to Saturday.

Secondly there’s the good old RA that keeps on churning out an opening after an opening and an event after an event that I cannot keep up with. On the 4th of September they team up with my beloved Labels Inc. – Belgium’s best designer consignment store, to create a vintage corner at RA13 with the best selection of designer pieces. Expect big names. Naturally with a reception.

15 August 2010

nowhere/now here

I feel the summer slowly dying – rain, gloom and fresh air that is so tasty to breath. I love autumn because it’s a quiet time of the year, and most of all these days I feel quiet, which means I’m perfectly ready for the upcoming season.
My 26th birthday is pretty soon, and I’m planning a round-trip to London with my mom. And just may be it’s a little bit sad since I’ve been already packing my bags for a definitive move to London, but at the same time my new job here in Brussels is the one thing that makes me quiet and calm. Next week I have the Ann Demeulemeester window display to create! Pretty obviously I’m a happy bunny, and a trip to London will be well deserved.
Of course, I’m making wishlists. I want my autumn to be as dark as I like it.










Complex Geometries, Ann Demeulemeester, Topshop, Arielle De Pinto, All Saints
And lastly, my Tumblr image library is now at nowhere/now_here.

leave me as you found me

unicorns



10 August 2010

Sandrina Fasoli flagship store


Some of the best news for August! Place Brugmann 22 shall become the first boutique of the highly acclaimed Brussels-based brand Sandrina Fasoli.
September has a busy agenda too, so watch out!

08 August 2010

dear deer

How many Topshop horror stories do I have to publish on this blog?
So it is just another routine order. It comes so badly packaged that the item is broken. It costs less than the postage fee I must pay to return it, and even if I were to claim the money back I end up losing a few pounds…
What else is there to do than to ask my dad to fix it, and luckily he’s got the basic equipment because his very first profession was an electrician. Armed with a soldering iron we spent about an hour trying to put the deer skull back in place. It worked, but shame on you Topshop!

03 August 2010

in mood for dark drama





dress, sleeveless jacket, claw rings Weekday
images from Kingdom of Style, Bjork.com