November 26th, 2010
For all those who love fashion and photography as much as I do, here’s another tip: There is a David Drebin exhibition starting at Camera Work tomorrow. The Opening starts at 11h. Between 14h and 17h the is going to be a book signing, where you have the oportunity to meet the photographer in person.
David Drebin is an internationally successful comercial and fashion photographer. He has shoot commercials for customers such as American Express, Davidoff, Mercedes, MTV, Nike, and Sony. His fashion photographes have been published in magazines like Elle, GQ, Marie Claire, New York Times, Rolling Stone, Travel and Leisure, and Vanity Fair.
The canadian photograoher got a voyeuristic, glamorous and slightly kitschy Style. His pictures are very colourfull and sometimes almost seem unreal. Like in a fashion Barbie plastic world. They mostly show beautifull, rich people in front of a metropolitan backround.
He has also portrait a huge amount of celebrities such as Charlize Theron, Emily Blunt and Catherine Malandrino.
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Tags: American Express, Camera Work, Catherine Malandrino, Charlize Theron, David Drebin, Davidoff, elle, Emily Blunt, GQ, Marie Claire, Mercedes, MTV, New York Times, Nike, Rolling Stone, Sony, Travel and Leisure, Vanity Fair
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November 23rd, 2010
Last week I accidently stumbled into an exhibition opening of Ailine Linefeld. Ailine is a young and talented photographer who lives and works in Berlin. You might think: “Well, yet another Berlin based photographer.” But somehow her unadorned pictures got something that touches you. Maybe it’s because Ailine often tends to photograph her friends that you immediately feel like you get to know that person you are looking at in her pictures. Many of the photos seem like incidentally taken. They reflect a dreamily and intimate atmosphere.
www.ailineliefeld.com
Tags: Ailine Liefeld, Berlin, exhibiton, Photography
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November 12th, 2010
GRETCHEN’s popularity is increasing constantly. We thank you all for your support and loyalty! After we could welcome our 2000th Facebook fan at the 1th of October, we are now heading towards number 4000. Whoever is going to be our 4000th fan will get a GRETCHEN purse as a gift. So be part of the game and join us!
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October 14th, 2010
Everybody who loves fashion knows how important Italy is for the fashion industry. Ecspecially when it comes to high quality leather bags, Italian craftsmanship has always been known as one of the best in the world. All the more we are very proud to pubish that GRETCHEN’s design and quality has been acknowledged by the Italian handbag industry on Milan Fashion Week.
Tags: craftsmanship, Gretchen, handbag, Innovation Award, Italy, Milan Fashion Week
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September 19th, 2010
I am a big fan of vintage movies and photographs. Women just had an elegance and gracefullness you can hardly find nowadays. They were surrounded by some kind of mysticim. I think photographers and filmmakers must have had a totally different view on femineity than they have today.
In October a new photo collection called “Women Then” will be published by Rizzoli. The book shows rarely-seen images taken between 1954 and 1969 by Jerry Schatzberg, who was both photgrapher and film-maker. The collection contains a mixture of fashion photography, portraits and snapshots of fair and beautiful women like Nico, Faye Dunaway (in her better times), Edie Sedgwick, Sharon Tate, and Catherine Deneuve.
Schatzbergs work has been published in magazines like Vogue, Glamour, and Life in the 1960s.
Tags: Catherine Deneuve, Edie Sedgwick, Faye Dunaway, Glamour, Jerry Schatzberg, Nico, Photography, Sharon Tate, Vogue
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September 19th, 2010
As it is said internet is our future. Shopping online is a great opportunity to find and buy beautiful things without spending much time at overcrowded shopping streets. The virtual mall makes it possible to shop while sitting on your couch with a cup of tea or a glass of wine. No surprize online shops get more and more important. While you could always get our gorgeous handbags on our own online shop, now there is also an assortment of GRETCHEN bags available at yoox.com.
Tags: accessories, bag, Gretchen, online shop, Yoox
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September 13th, 2010
„What‘s so striking about black and white photography is how it really helps a sense of reality to come through.“
© Peter Lindbergh, Natalia Vodianova
Fiction and reality, beauty and melancholy, strength and fragility – those are properties world class photographer Peter Lindbergh wants to combine in his comprehensive work of almost exclusively black-and-white photographed fashion pictures. Of course – as it is fashion photography – he is predominantly shooting women of extraordinary beauty, but at the same time, he brings his pictures into being something more than just beautiful. He always creates some kind of melancholy as if the models just ponder on the deeper sense behind the superficiality and randomness of fashion.
During his impressive and long-lasting career the German photographer worked with international superstars such as Sharon Stone, Madonna, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz, Naomi Campbell, Jeanne Moreau, Penélope Cruz, Catherine Deneuve and Uma Thurman for magazines like Vogue, Vanity Fair, Marie Claire, Harper`s Bazaar, The New Yorker and Rolling Stone.
On the 25th of September C/O Berlin, International Forum For Visual Dialogues, starts the exhibition „Films and Photographes“ which will show a selection of more than 200 examples of his work. On the occation of the exhibition the arist will hold a lecture at 15 h. Pre-selling started today at the entrance of C/O Berlin. It is recomended to get your tickets as soon as possible, as large demand is exspected. The exhibitions opening will take place the day before at 19 h. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Art, Berlin, Catherine Deneuve, CO Berlin, Harper`s Bazaar, Jeanne Moreau, Linda Evangelista, Madonna, Marie Claire, Naomi Campbell, Natalia Vodianova, New Yorker, Penélope Cruz, Peter Lindbergh, Photography, Rolling Stone, Sharon Stone, Tatjana Patitz, Uma Thurman, Vanity Fair, Vogue
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September 10th, 2010
Lately I have allready told you about the exhibition “Nudes” at the photo gallery Camera Work. Last weekend they opened their next exhibition “Face/project”. It shows more than 30 works of the photographers Tina Berning and Michelangelo Di Battista. In their collaboration the artists blur the boundaries between fashion photography, drawing, and painting.
At the opening on Saturday people could enjoy the art work inside and have a little drink and chat underneath the parasols in the beautiful court of the building. I just love openings at Camera Work. They are always very classy.
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Tags: Berlin, Michelangelo Di Battista, Photography, Tina Berning
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August 25th, 2010
Although I am a winter fan it is always a bit sad when summer draws to a close. But still there is not least one thing that keeps me happy: The thought of the new F/W collection. In the summertime it is great to run around barefoot and wear sundresses, but winter clothes somehow are more classy.
Of course GRETCHEN bags are exactly the right accessory to complete your elegant winter look. We sure had some fun at the shooting for the F/W 2010 collection. Here are some exclusive behind the scenes pictures to prove:
Tags: F/W collection, Gretchen, Shooting
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August 24th, 2010
When it comes to nude photography there is always a thin line between art and porn. When I was a teenager I used to draw and paint a lot, as art was my main subject at school. So my mother bought me a Playboy photo collection that I could exercise myself in nude drawing without having to convince friends to pose for me.
When I look through this book there are many pornlike pictures I would rather not see. But there are also some really beautiful and classy pictures you can definitely call art.
A couple of days ago I went to one of my favourite photo galleries in Berlin Camera Work in Charlottenburg. At the moment the gallery shows nude photographs from over 40 photographers including amazing artists like Richard Avedon, David Drebin, Horst P. Horst, Russell James, Annie Leibovitz, Man Ray, Ralph Mecke, Helmut Newton and many more.
If you want to see this exibition, you’ll have to hurry: It only runs until Saturday. The next exibition starts on the 4th of September and is about portrait photography. Camera work is always worth a visit as they have quite a large collection of very good photographs and the exibitions are always free.
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Tags: Albert Watson, André Kertész, Annie Leibovitz, Aram Dikiciyan, Ausstellung, Berlin, Bert Stern, Bettina Rheims, Bill Brandt, Blaise Reutersward, Bruce Weber, Camera Work, David Drebin, Diane Arbus, Duane Michals, Edmund Kesting, Edward Steichen, Edward Weston, Erwin Blumenfeld, Esther Haase, Frantisek Drtikol, Gjon Mili, Guido Argentini, Harry Callahan, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, Horst P. Horst, Jeanloup Sieff, Josef Breitenbach, Josef Sudek, Kenro Izu, Larry Sultan, Lillian Bassman, Lucien Clergue, Man Ray, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Michel Comte, Nadav Kander, Paul Outerbridge, Ralph Gibson, Ralph Mecke, Rankin, Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Rudolf Koppitz, Russell James, Sarah Moon, Sven Marquardt, Thomas Ruff, Victor Novatzki, Werner Bischof, Wingate Paine
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