Street Style Berlin

Berlin is a big city, open minded and sometimes pretty crazy. You can find every look here: business, classy, grungy, puristically, romantically and many more. But the most wanted styles are probably vintage and street. I’ve been to Urban Outfitters (the embodiment of street style!) with a friend of mine and I was shocked. I did really like the dresses and skirts but why should I pay over 100 euros if I can get something by Boss Orange or COS for the same price?  

Nevertheless I was inspired and created my own look: street combined with class. My favorite pieces of this look are probably the high-top wedge sneakers (and yes, they are all imbued by Isabel Marant who designed these shoes for her Spring/Summer collection 2012). I love the perforated material in combination with the golden elements because it makes the look uncomplicated. My  Tommy Hilfiger boyfriend blouse I found at T.k.maxx Berlin Charlottenburg. Jeans fit perfectly to everything and the fake fur vest is the icing on the cake.

 

Berlin ist eine Großstadt, offen und manchmal auch gewöhnungsbedürftig. Was die Looks anbelangt, ist Berlin der Kosmopolit unter den deutschen Städte mit allen Schikanen, die alles erlauben: Ob chic, klassisch, Business, grungy, puristisch oder unkonventionell – das Auge kann sich nicht satt sehen. Am beliebtesten jedoch, scheinen Vintage und Street Style ganz oben auf der Fashion-Liste der BerlinerInnen zu stehen. Mit einer Freundin war ich bei Urban Outfitters (der Inbegriff des Street Styles) und war inspiriert und geschockt zugleich. Letzteres vor allem, aufgrund der hohen Preise, denn obwohl ich die Kleider und Röcke mochte, würde ich mir für das Geld eher etwas bei Boss Orange oder COS kaufen. Inspiriert aber haben mich die Looks für meinen eigenen “Berlin Street Style”. Meine Lieblingsstücke: die High-Top Wedge Sneakers (und ja, sie sind alle Variationen des Grundmodells von Isabel Marant, die diese Schuhe für ihre Frühjahr/Sommer Kollektion 2012 entworfen hat). Ich liebe vor allem das perforierte Material – in Kombination mit den goldenen Elementen macht es den Look unkompliziert. Meine Tommy Hilfiger Boyfriend-Bluse habe ich bei T.k.maxx Berlin Charlottenburg gefunden. Jeans passen nun ja zu allem und meine Fake Fur Weste rundet alles ab. 

Sugarpop meets Sharon Dowsett

 

As I already told you in my first post of the Make-up Show Europe I met the lovely Sharon Dowsett. After her show I waited for her and sat on a row of chairs with a nice swedish beauty blogger.

When Dowsett arrived I became really nervous. She looked fabulous in her black pencil skirt and her gorgeous Chanel jacket.

After my interview she embraced me and gave me cheek kisses.

 

Sugarpop (SP): What has changed concerning the day when you worked with Newton and Lindbergh and today?

Sharon Dowsett (SD): Everything’s digital! Everybody is photographing now – if you are on an interview they come up with iPad screens, digicams, cameras and so on and from every side it’s clicking, It’s not spontaneous anymore. Photographing with a film was more intimate. They were more chemistry between the model and the photographer. Today everything’s too controlled. I really miss the spontaneity. 

SP: Who was your favorite photographer you worked with?

SD: Definitely Nick Knight! He’s a magician. He is passionate and puts lot of money for experimental pictures. But he also takes lots of pictures with digitals such as iPad and iPhone. You can see him running around with wide screens (laughs). And I made my first story with him. It was in the 1980s and in that story I had to make up women in the age between 50 and 100. Nick said: Just forget that they are older women. Just put on pink lip gloss or anything else you might think it could work!” And it really did work. It was great.

Sugarpop meets Spob O’Brien & David Horne by Illamasqua

On the Make-up Europe Show I met Illamasqua’s Head of Professional Development, Spob O’Brien and the Director of the associated School of Make-Up Art, David Horne. As she appeared her lipstick popped up the whole area. Her long hair waves made her look really young and the glasses were more than flashy. 

When I came up with my first question she suddenly apologized. “Oh, I am so sorry that I stare at you but your face – you are so beautiful. With your blue eyes, blond hair. What I could do with your face”, she went into rhapsodies. 

Her partner David Horne was more reticently. The first thing I noticed was his fantastic necklace. I thought that it had been a McQueen but no – a Tatty Devine. 

Sugarpop (SP): What is your beauty trend for autumn/winter 2012/2013?

Spob O’Brien (SOB): Some sense of glamour! Every woman has a different imagination of it but everybody wants to have a little bit glamour in life. We made a research for our customers and noticed that the glamour lied in the 1920s and 40s. First in the 1950s when the movie industry started to become big, the women wanted to have a little bit glamour in their lives, again. At last who doesn’t want to have some glamour in life (laughs)? And for me glamour can be only a piece, a pop of color or if you have lovely nails. 

David Horne (DH): I think nails will get an immense attention in the following seasons. They will be colorful, bright, dark – but definitely remarkable.

 

SP: You already worked for famous movies such as The King’s Speech and Inception. Well, how was it?

SOB: Inception was the most exciting movie where I ever worked. Everything was a secret! The scripts had to be read in one room. Normally everybody gets a script and they can read it everywhere they want to, but here they had to stay in the room so that no media could ever reach only a single word or any idea of that movie. And for me it was a physically challenge because the actors were hanging upside down and I often had to climb up to refresh their make-ups. We made the movie in Canada, in the UK and in Paris. In Paris they had to block the whole street. That was so amazing!

Bye bye & hello

Ex post I owe you my impressions of my trip to Berlin where I started my practice last monday. It was kind of hard to leave my city (especially my family) for months but I was so excited and curious that the tautness had been much stronger than my farewells.
My cute little bunny helped me to bundle my favorite clothes: First of all my new Mango skirt in cream white with glitter threads. Next my lovely mint blouse by Atmosphere with great hole patterns which reminds of the Louis Vuitton spring/summer collection 2012 by Marc Jacobs. If it should be cold I’m gonna wear my cashmere cardigan by Allude. Combined with my high-waisted jeans I won’t freeze. And don’t forget: you can combine nude heels (here by Zara) to everything!
Last but not least I decided for subtle perfumes such as the fresh and flowery Parisienne by Yves Saint Laurent and Especially Escada by Escada.
Currently I love golden jewelry that’s why I only took gold with me. Flowers will break the autumn weather a little bit.
When I finally arrived at the fashion metropolis with my stuff (and a hurting back) the sun went already down…

Here you go.

Natürlich schulde ich euch noch ein paar Impressionen meiner Reise in die Großstadt, in der ich letzten Montag mein Praktikum angetreten habe. Mein Herz schlug schon schwer bei dem Gedanken meine Lieben für ein paar Monate zurück zu lassen, aber die Nervosität und Neugier waren stärker als der Abschied und schließlich bringt mich der ICE zur Not schnell zurück 😉
Mein kleines Kaninchen hat mir beim Packen geholfen: Als erstes wurde der cremeweiße Mango-Rock mit seinen wundervollen Glitzerfäden im Zickzack-Muster in den Koffer geworfen. Als nächstes folgte meine mintfarbene Bluse von Atmosphere, die mit ihrem Lochmuster an die diesjährige Frühling/Sommer Kollektion von Marc Jacobs für Louis Vuitton erinnert. Wenn es doch einmal kalt werden sollte, werde ich meinen Cashmere-Cardigan von Allude tragen, der mich in Kombination mit meiner Taillenjeans warm halten wird. Und nicht zu vergessen: Nude heels passen wirklich zu allem!
Zum Schluss habe ich mir delikate und leichte Düfte für die Reise ausgesucht, denn schwere Nuancen locken den Herbst zu schnell an. 
Da ich momentan von goldenem Schmuck fasziniert bin, habe ich außerdem nur Gold eingepackt. Man beachte die Blumenkette, die contraire zu den derzeitigen Herbst-Acessoires eher zart ist.

Als ich dann endlich mit meinen unzähligen Sachen (und mit schmerzendem Rücken) in der Modemetropole  ankam, neigte sich die Sonne auch schon dem Horizont entgegen. . .

Seht selbst.