Month: September 2009

more black and blue than purple: Olivier Zahm

such a ladies man you are… grrrr!
and your poor girlfriend…
and by the way who posts a picture of themselves like this on their blog?

there is something about french cheese i learned when i lived in paris… just cause it stinks it doesn’t mean it’s good. as much as olivier aspires to be like serge, zahm is more in line with the late belmondo and aged delon than anywhere near gainsbourg. but one can always keep trying. as terry advised me once, “rock out with your cock out”. now just for the record, we have nothing against purple the magazine, we do like it, we have the very first issues when it was in a smaller format and not plastered with nudies.  in terms of publication we even like the more recent ones, but some things have to be said about a man in a position of power who uses it shamelessly… which by the way brings to mind, that short italian prime minister, is that berlusconi? by dd

CATEGORIES: fashion, musings

how to iron your own shirt: japanese style from garra




i have always ironed my own shirts. i find it to be better than yoga, its meditative and very rewarding. i like to think no place irons my shirts as well as i do. its an art and there’s always more to learn. here’s a video on garra, with a super stripped-down streamlined iron and flat japan style iron table. go to http://www.garra.jp click on “ironing skills” on the left hand list at the bottom. unfortunately the rest of the site is not so great. enjoy! by dd

CATEGORIES: fashion, rules of style

yves saint laurent again! villa mabrouka – tangier




we said that we would be done with yves’ but it seems that it’s a never ending posting.
so last but not least, here is the tangier villa of misters saint laurent and bergé…
less crowded and hot than marrakesh, with a direct view on the gibraltar detroit, tangier is definetly the ultimate place to be for the warm african summers… images let you imagine what it could have been… photos by the great ivan terestchenko by pp’

CATEGORIES: musings, photography

“made like a gun, goes like a bullet”




my first decent couple of bucks is going to be directly invested in a royal enfield! i’m dreaming of it at night since my father told me once that the motorbike that “O’rence” is riding in lawrence of arabia is this very one.

i love everything about this brand from their history, to their logo, to the look to the end of the story… and what they still produce is still the same than it used to be non-like mini, fiat 500 and so on!

royal enfield was the brand of the enfield cycle company, a british engineering company. notable for producing motorcycles, it also produced bicycles, lawnmowers, stationary engines, and even rifle parts for the royal small arms factory in enfield lock. this legacy of weapons manufacture is reflected in the logo, a cannon, and their motto “made like a gun, goes like a bullet”. it also enabled the use of the brand name royal enfield from 1890. in 1955 enfield of india started assembling bullet motorcycles under licence from UK components, and by 1962 were manufacturing complete bikes. the original Redditch, worcestershire based company dissolved in 1971, but enfield of India, based in chennai, continued, and bought the rights to use the royal enfield name in 1995. royal enfield production continues, and now royal enfield is the oldest motorcycle company in the world still in production and bullet is the longest production run model.[1] by pp’

CATEGORIES: bikes, perfect gift

totally addicted to phoenix

these days, i’m kind of fed up with all music except the new phoenix that is turning almost non-stop here! it’s been a long time since i have heard anything this great. that said, the official video is not so cool, but a young lady took care of re-doing a much more relevant one for this crazy song! judge for yourself! by pp

CATEGORIES: clips, music

POP magazine under dasha zhukova

the cover of the latest POP, launching tomorrow, with 13 year old blogger tavi on the cover
mind you tavi was featured in LOVE magazine already… oooh someone must be pissed

tomorrow is finally the launch-day of the long anticipated first issue of POP under new editor-in-chief dasha zhukova (ex c-model and ex-other half of gazillionaire roman abramovich). filling in katie grands shoes will not be an easy job.dasha zhukova is young and beautiful and has already started a fashion line, opened an art gallery, been appointed editor of pop, and gotten hooked up with a russian oligarch. no wonder people hate her.

a glowing new profile in interview magazine reminds us that there is going to be a lot of loving-her-or-hating-her going around when the first issue of pop with her as editor hits the stands. is she a fierce art and fashion visionary who is a role model for little russian girls? or, is she a horrible money-grubbing slattern who is using her rich boyfriend to finance her hobbies and ride on the coat tails of katie grand?

pop mag itself was originally co-founded in 2000 by ashley heath and editor godess katie grand. pop went trough a lot of drama when in 2008, katie decided to leave, bring with her the creative team to start LOVE magazine instead. well, tomorrow both magazines will be out so let the shelf-battle begin! by kv

CATEGORIES: fashion