Latest eBay obsession, 70s biker magazines like In The Wind, Iron Horse and Easyriders. Hell’s Angels, hair and Harleys. Not sold on the unicorns and butterflies for girls, skulls and eagles for the boys rules mind…

Not much time to be blogging! The gallery space is beautiful, and we are very happy with the layout! We are here showing, among others, works by Elisabeth Llach, Duane PItre, Jeanne-Salomé Rochat and HENRY DELETRA HANNA. Alongside, we have Dan Sinnes tattooing here as well. The whole thing is really impressive. Happy


More to come.

Johann and I shot a fashion story in Zürich today and we got to meet Anne (stylist intern) and Sandra (model).
I thought their tattoos were nice…

Anne:

Sandra:

Maybe this unexpected mix of classic (pedantic?), but high-quality writing, cheap stock, neutral design, obvious celebrity covering, conservative views, luxury advertising and systematic excellence of the (regularly unexpectedly provocative) photography… In my opinion half (ok, maybe a third) of the most memorable fashion series last year were published in W. And if you don’t agree… maybe, you’re right. In any case, last issue is worth buying. With Madonna on the cover, which comes as a relief after the Pitt/jolie overdose. Now what was I saying? Oh, Steven Klein manages to drain out of Madonna the very last drops of substance she has to offer… Chapeau. Same for the story shot by Juergen Teller very severely reminds of the infamous F/W 2001 Sisley Campaign shot by Terry Richardson, but—let’s admit it—totally successfully. The Craig McDean story is nice too in the middle of the post-Lang snapshots. Worth buying, definitely.

Some people tell it, some people live it.
These ones live it.
And have beautiful and poetic tattoos.
And a blog too…

Today I feel I’ve posted more blogs about blogs than usually…
(Maybe it’s true.)

usually, I am not into re-posting. Maybe it is an ego thing like: “I only show what/who I discovered, not what/who I WISH I did… But I am an introspective and consensual person (sometimes… within myself, you know? OK, shut up!) and when some things are so bigger than me, I can’t do anything but give in to re-posting. Here, some black tulips as photographed by Miguel Villalobos, initially posted by Diane Pernet on ASVOF.

Photography usually is a pale reflection of reality (whatever “reality” is), transposed through an imperfect means. But some people manage to make things look better than they do in reality. To them I say thank you.

Has blogging (finally) made it to a trendy thing? Or is it simply its easy and obvious (and cheap) form that eventually imposed itself as a potential and dignified communication means for opinion leaders in these times of financial uncertainty? Three blogs worth checking: Hedi Slimane’s, formerly known as Work In Progress—Petronio Associates, the editors of Self Service and a brand new one: Purple Diary, by Olivier Zahm

Hedi’s page is an “incontournable” and has been around for a while. But unfortunately doen’t fully play the game of blogging (no RSS, no comments). It is entitled “diary”. Fair enough, Hedi maybe has other (better?) things to do than blogging. Pertonio’s page is interesting. Business-orientated and not very regularly updated. Too bad it’d have been an interesting thing to be able to really follow the “work in progress”. On a personal note, I think a bit unfair that PA never gets credited when pple speak about the new (and highly successful) YSL campaign. It might be my graphic designer mind but I can tell there is a lot of them in it as well… Anyway… To come to the last: Purple Diary, it’s more of the same, but obviously, one never gets bored of scrutinizing the Parisian hall of fame with its curly (rarefied) hair and it’s unsteady stillettos…