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During this whole week I’m going to show you my favourite Resort Collections of 2014 which have been released by designers and fashion houses. Enjoy! K.V.
Lanvin Resort 2014
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“Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.” - Edmund Burke
Photos taken by me. More on www.en.auschwitz.org.
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The plexi-glass cube by K.V.
The theme for our term work was to design and make a sculpture inspired by abstract authors of the twentieth century. My way of thinking is quite minimalistic and rationalistic and I wanted to keep it that way therefore I chose the shape of my work as a cube made of plexi-glass and office pins. I’ve used 15 000 of them and one side of that inner cube took me about 10 hours to make. Cube has six sides! Pretty ridiculous, I know :) But it the beginning I didn’t realize that it would take so much time therefore when I started making it I got a little shock but had to pull myself together and start working. My mum also had to help me with those office pins cause I had to glue them piece by piece and after few hours of making it my arms and back hurt so much that I wasn’t even able to move or walk cause I was sitting all the time. Through this process I was constantly thinking of the day which was a dead line, not because of the time but because of the thought that it would be over finally.
Now when it’s over, even with the speech which we had to give after we finished our works and teachers gave us marks. A/A everyone! Haha … in this case, I wouldn’t except another one. There is going to be one last crazy week where all teachers will have to give us final tests to get all necessary marks and after that the holidays and the time of the rest will finally begin. I have a lot of plants, so for sure I will tell you about them soon here. K.V.
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“If you think you’re attractive, you’re always attractive.”
Jack Nicholson
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Since I’ve read “The diary of Anne Frank” I’ve been quite interested in a period when Jews were taken by Germans to concentration camps and their lives. When me and my mum were in Warsaw she picked up the book, also a diary of a twelve-year-old Czech girl who spent all her teenage years in ghetto for Jews and concentration camp - Birkenau. Through the pages you couldn’t tell that it was written by a young girl, but in her mind she was growing up so much quicker than on the outside … unfortunately, she had to. I remember the scene when it was a few days before the war ended and she had been travelling with her mum about sixteen days with a little food given at the breaks by strangers who saw them packed in wagon. Cause in two days of that travel the guard gave her only 170g of bread, two potatoes and two tablespoons of sugar. The guards wanted to take them to gas but the end came sooner. After all of that she survived and became a well-known painter. You may ask why I’m taking about this here but tomorrow I’m going on a trip to Auschwitz. My mum when she was probably at my age read so much about this age that to this time she hasn’t found the power to go and see the places where it all was happening. I still don’t know how I’m going to react on it but my curiosity makes me go there and find out more about it and to appreciate the time in which I live. I hope I will upload few pics for you here on Sunday. K.V.
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“Impression, sunrise” by Claude Monet, 1873
“Olympia” by Edouard Manet, 1863, oil on canvas
“At the circus Fernando, the rider” by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1881, oil on canvas
“A sunday on La Grande Jatte” by Georges Seurat, 1884/85, oil on canvas
“Portrait of Vincent van Gogh” by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1887, pastel on cardboard
“The potato eaters” by Vincent van Gogh, 1885, oil on canvas
“The starry night” by Vincent van Gogh, 1889, oil on canvas
“Four apples” by Paul Cezanne, 1881, oil on canvas
Through the school we have a subject called history of art where we get to know all the periods from early beginnings to present and one of my all time favourite is impressionism which we are currently learning about. It’s so curious to me that these artists who are now so well world-known were unheralded and lived so poorly but their painting masterpieces were so rich in colours and so different from the way the paintings were made at that time. The word “impressionism” came from the art critic Louis Leroy who derisively used the term “Impressionistic” on Claude Monet’s work which led to call these painters impressionists.
That time for these painters was undoubtedly hard but they started something new what hadn’t appeared before. They influenced modern art. They actually started creating modern art. It wasn’t about the proportions and reality any more but about subjective side of the author and his work and the way how he wanted to express himself, memorize the seeings. K.V.
All the pictures from http://www.wikipaintings.org
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A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
— Annie Leibovitz(Source: photowilf, via blackfridaynight)
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A promised video by Chriselle Lim about how to transform your maxi skirt in 5 different ways and make it even more interesting. K.V.
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maxi skirt - vintage/ jacket - Desigual/ shirt - NYer/ sneakers - Converse/ bag - H&M
After long period of time finally another outfit post for you, guys! It’s been a while since I’ve been out and shot something but the weather is crazy recently and it’s raining all the time. And another reason is that I often went with my sis for 5 minutes long shoots and she didn’t put any effort to it at all to make nice pics so I rather wouldn’t have any outfit posts than ones with bad pics. Cause you actually can’t take a good quality and fancy photos in just 5 minutes. There will be some definitely, but not as many as in the past, I promise.
Another thing which I want to tell you about is that I’ve made my formspring page in celebration of the first anniversary of the blog so if you want to ask me something there’s the way how you can do it. Next week I am going to post here few posts about art and my work which I was making this week and I can’t even imagine that is over now. It was so tiring cause the whole week I was waking up at 5 and went to bed over the midnight but I can tell you that the result was worth all the suffering which I was put through. I will write about it more in another post therefore I don’t want to reveal too much here.
Now, finally onto my look :) I chose the maxi vintage skirt which belonged to my mum when she was younger. I’m short and long skirts (in my case) don’t make me any good so I try avoiding them but I truly felt the desire to wear it that day … I don’t know … just to see how it look like. Followed by my Desigual jacket and borrowed huge H&M handbag from my sis made my look even comfier. I also browsed the web and found a gorgeous video where by having one maxi skirt you can transform it to five different outfits. So easy and different at the same time! The video is going to be posted here tomorrow and I, after long tiring seven day long battle, can’t wait to get some rest and fully enjoy the time of sweet doing nothing. Have fun during the weekend! K.V.
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Today my blog celebrated its own first birthday. I can’t believe that just one year ago - 6/6/2012 I wrote my first post here. The time has flown so quickly and I can clearly say that I’ve changed since than and my style improved and I think I might have found a way/ style - more likely a path which I want to go in the future cause when I look back at my first outfits posts - I can’t force myself to stop laughing - it was just so shitty, guys! Hahah. But we all learn from our previous mistakes and we are still changing and improving our personalities, minds with new opinions, styles and the ways of thinking. I’ve made a few stupid ones in my life which weren’t related to fashion and to this time I regret them but than we are all just people who are not perfect in every aspect of their lives and you just gotta need to learn from your past faults which make you stronger. Because a person who has never made a mistake, never actually lived fully.
K.V.
p.s. I didn’t want to end this birthday post with such thoughts but I never know in advance where my writings let me go so in the end I want to tell you big thanx for following me and sweet comments you write which always make my days and keep me going, photographing and writing more and more posts. Celebrate it as me by eating home-made raspberry muffins with a peanut butter frosting. Yum! Let’s jump into the second year of blogging as sweet as possible :)
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Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama in her studio, 1958
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