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- Outfit of the Day/First Mover

Who hasn’t dreamed of being the first mover in fashion, the one person that all others will copy and follow? In my attempt for once in my life to be the first to do something I changed the colour of my socks around 5 years ago (at least two or tree times in the week). My idea was that the white socks from the 1980s may well resurface and become modern again soon. In the 1980s it was as I remember it impossible to find a young person without white socks. Michael Jackson loved his white socks so much that he kept them on well into the late 1990s and actually into the new millennium. I took off my white socks in the mid-eighties, but I have put my white socks on again. But nothing has happened. So I’m waiting and waiting. But if, or when the white socks will have a renaissance I was the first to move :)
Photo: http://www.michaelhermansen.com/

- Congratulations

Today the American people finally got their welfare reform!

- Hair Styling at Bruuns Bazaar

One of the most respected hair stylists in Denmark, Jesper Buch, gives his thoughts and considerations concerning the hair styling of the Bruuns Bazaar Show during the Copenhagen Fashion Week. (Jesper was yet again responsible for the hairstyling).

The look which was prepared for the show should highlight the beauty in all the different models. It was a challenging task because the models also should have a uniformed or similar look.


Photos: Jesper Buch, right, verifies that everything is ok before Charlotte will be sent out on the runway. Jesper in a work situation.

It is important that the audience participating in a runway show for a clothing label does not focus on the hair. It is and remains the clothes that should be in focus and therefore we must respect the stylist’s ideas and thoughts.

Each time a new model walks out on the runway, the first thing the audience focuses on is the total look, and just after that it should be the clothes.

It is of cause also important that the hair goes with the ideas of the designer group. For us, Bruuns Bazaar is about "the unbearable lightness of life". So when one looks at the customer wearing Bruuns Bazaar she should look beautiful light and elegant. Here is not fought hart to show the inner beauty, it comes naturally.

For these reasons the models' hair was set up in a height level horsetail which highlights the beauty of the neck and jaw lines. But at the same time, it was important that it did not look to much like Sleeping Beauty. Therefore, we decided to try to give an impression that the model herself could had made her hair and yet not! So the hair had the same expression as the clothes they wore, light, elegant and effortless.

Photos: Caroline in the hands of Jespers team, and on the runway.

In a later ad, if it is possible, it could be fun to compare Jesper Buch and Bruuns Bazaar's approach to deal with the hair part of a fashion show with Hair stylist Nina Larsen and another Danish brand, Designers Remix, which seems to have a total different approach to the theme Hair in a fashion show.¨



Further reading:
http://www.cyberbuch.com/
http://www.hairmagazine.dk/script/site/page.asp?artid=1594

Text: Jesper Buch
Photos: http://www.michaelhermansen.com/

- Rie Rasmussen Vs Terry Richardson

This blog is not a news blog, but when the world famous fashion photographer Terry Richardson during the recent fashion week in Paris was confronted and called a coward by the self-conscious Danish supermodel and artist Rie Rasmussen, I think it is worth mentioning here.

Rie Rasmussen accused Terry Richardson for showing young models in a degrading manner in his photos. The confrontation toke place at a fashion event on the 8. Of March this year. According to Rie Rasmussen Terry Richardson ran out of the bar. Next day he rang to Rie Rasmussen's model agency and complained.

Source: Page six (a tabloid news media).

No doubt that Terry Richardson is working on the borderline between fashion and porn. Check out his work on the internet, or in one of his expensive Taschen books available from most major bookstores, or on his website http://www.terryrichardson.com/ and http://www.terrysdiary.com/ You are welcome to leave a message here and tell os your opinion on the phenomenon Terry Richardson!

I haven't photographed T. Richardson, but I might have taken R. Rasmussens photo at a fashion show once, but I'm not sure, and I haven't searched my archive, so no photos in this ad :(

Further reading:

http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2010/03/model_rie_rasmussen_finds_terr.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/12/supermodel-rie-rasmussen_n_496491.html
http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/model_snaps_at_fashion_fotog_P489aSOevwAo35ikoKsRKI

- Outfit of the Day

Notice the new socks:) They are from the Danish  sports- and street ware brand Hummel.  

- Minimarket by Julie Zangenberg

The young extremely talented Danish actress Julie Zangenberg was invited to several shows during the last fashion week in Copenhagen. Here she gives her opinion on the Minimarket show.

The Swedish brand Minimarket's show during Copenhagen Fashion Week, held at City Hall, used minimal effects but still managed to get a powerful expression.

The runway was a white carpet, and the entrance to the runway was indicated by a collection of mikado-like piles. The piles were colour coordinated with the Mini Market's collection, which was held in dusty orange, purple, yellow, green, black, white and pink colours.

(Julie is wearing fur from Munthe plus Simonsen, green silk dress from Acne, boots from Billi Bi and bag from Chanel).

During Copenhagen Fashion week I like to go to shows like Henrik Vibskov, Wood Wood, and now Minimarket where the atmosphere is laid back and playful. Of course, the big brands have their own charm with tighter and bigger shows, goodie bags, champagne and expensive professional models. But Minimarket also managed to show something very viewable.

They had created their own little twisted unique universe containing wild makeup, classic hairstyles, hats, and funky music which spanned from electronic music to soundtracks from the '70s detective series to something that could be from a child TV-jingle. The clothes were a mix between street-style and some more Lady-like look. Kind of Lady with an edge.

Minimarket had updated some old classic designs, such as the trench coat, the tailor made two-piece suit, and the regular white shirt. The Trench coat was shortened and it was made more sculptural and was dyed yellow. The two-piece suit was made in a new material and was matched with yellow tights. The white shirt was decorated with strings of beads.

To experiment with different shapes and colours over the classics is of course not a new phenomenon in the fashion industry, but I still think that the Mini Market did it with style.

The items from the collection that particularly stuck out for me was the coloured tights, the feather filled dress, the jackets, the plateau shoes in fantastic colours and shapes, and the simple lady-like suits such as the tight black dress with yellow tights.

The combination of cool street style and more classical stylish looks worked well most of the time I think. But some styles turned out not so great and looked messy or boring. For example the harem trousers with the orange t-shirt and pearl belt, or the cardigan with print, or the orange skirt and pink tights. However I think, it was a fine show, and a nice little universe they created, and I discovered several items that hopefully will soon find their way into my wardrobe!

Words: Julie Zangenberg ©
Photos: http://www.michaelhermansen.com/

- Outfit of the Day

A sweater from Mads Nørgaard, Levi's 501, blue all star Converse shoes and black socks!

Did I here you say boring? I say classic! Yes and maybe a little safe, I know, but also classic.

Ok, the black socks are not so fancy, and they're from Nike! Didn’t Nike use child labourers? That should be further explored. Maybe I should find some other socks.

In future posts I think I will write about Levi's 501 and All Star Converse’s history. ©

Photo: http://www.michaelhermansen.com/

- Young Blogger

Why not start this blog with a post about a future colleague, or should we perhaps call him a future competitor?

The 15 year old danish blogger Nicklas Skovgaard Pedersen was in the spotlight during the recent Fashion Week in Copenhagen in February. At last, the media and fashion designers in Denmark also discovered the bloggers influence on the industry. There is an ocean of bloggers like Nicklas. Teenagers with a desire to be a part of the fashion world, being seen and being heard.

One of my fellow photographers who were present at the show said, after I told him about the youung blogger: "it's a crazy world we are living in" :)

Nicklas was seen, and perhaps also heard during the Copenhagen Fashion Week. A television team from Danish national television followed him around to several shows, where he sat in the front row and blogged live. Uffe Buchard from Style Counsel, said, however, in morning television this morning that it had only translated into a single show commentary on Nicklas' blog (Louise Amstrup). However, I can tell you that there are a handful of brief commentaries from the shows on Nicklas's new blog (read below). I saw Nicklas at several shows, and talked with him backstage at Bruuns Bazaar, where he also had a chat with Bjorn Bruun. Bruun told Danish television that he had invited Nicklas and other bloggers to allow another view on the fashion industry than what you get from professional fashion journalists, whom Bruun also did not have such high thoughts about.

Nicklas has as far as I can read not such high opinions of Bruuns Collection: http://magazine.trendsales.dk/blogs/my-clothing-blog.aspx It is saleable, and there was indeed a grey draped dress, which caught the attention of the young blogger, but otherwise Nicklas thought that the collection was boring.

Nicklas' blog; http://my-clothing-blog.blogspot.com/  by the way closed to new posts (as mentioned earlier) because Nicklas has been invited to blog at http://www.trendsales.dk/

Nicklas promised to answer some questions I sent to him just after the fashion week in Copenhagen. He has not yet replied. If he ever should, and if I find the answers interesting, I will publish them here! ©

Photos: http://www.michaelhermansen.com/