Fashion blurb: Headshots by Phil Taylor

Street style photographer extraordinaire Phill Taylor and some of his prized portraits.

BACK&BUSY

Unpublished Karolina Kurkova pictures by Nathanial Goldberg

(c) Fashion Gone Rogue

JOYEUX NOËL

A little piece of Christmastime in Paris: snow-covered Sorbonne. I’m in Canada for the holidays, but the snow here does not even compare to the storm we had a couple of weeks ago. Happy holidays everybody!

Awareness blurb: Women Are Heroes

This blog is dedicated to beautiful things. In our society, this refers mostly to esthetics: beauty, style, photography, gastronomy. But beauty extends to many kinds of women, from varying backgrounds;  women who do not have the luxury of admiring (and profiting) from the finer things in life. When I came across this project by filmmaker JR, I was touched. This documentary, starring women in Brazil, sub-saharan Africa, India and Cambodia, tells their true stories and raises awareness for their impossible condition around the world. They become the subject of the film’s on-site photographer, who reproduces mural-sized images of the women’s smiling, grimacing faces and posts them on walls, churches and busses in their town. What an interesting and heart-warming concept…

If you ask me, it’s one of the most original feminist projects in a long time. Let us not forget, equality is not yet met.

Dailymotion – TRAILER ” WOMEN ARE HEROES” – une…, posted with vodpod

New on Luxirare

Sumptuous, decadent (and frightening?) pastry selection brought to us by Luxirare a brand that combines fashion, design  and food science.

Notice how the tea infusers and S&P shakers look like sterile medical instruments? And not one smudge or imperfection on the mirrors and silverware. Even the graphics on the sweets are impeccable. I love how they play both with minimalism and the very elaborate: from the simple display of the items to the vivid colors and high contrasts they use to make the photos pop.

This is my go-to website when I want to indulge in meticulous expositions of otherwise banal objects and to admire the work of a very talented photographer.

(c) Luxirare

Cute blurb: Fuzzy Madness

Karen Elson by Steven Meisel… and lots of cats.
This was too adorable not to post!

(c) Fashion Gone Rogue

More B to Love :)

Chères mademoiselles,

Have a look-see on billiegirls.ca to read more about my life in Paris!

-In partnership with Billie Boutique in Montréal-

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Spikes and stones.

The perfect thought before bed: an adventure through the Foja mountains of New Guinea.
Here’s my little friend the spike-nose tree frog, a new species discovered this week.

Why the frog? Because I like frogs. And this one looks like Pinocchio.

World Expo Shanghai, 2010

Yes! I had been patiently awaiting the release of more pictures from the Shanghai Wold Expo, 2010 edition, and here they are!
The UK pavilion is  mindblowing, I just want to brush my hand on its spikey surface.

Spain

China

France

U.A.E

(c) Dezeen

Flashback
Expo 67 @ Montréal: USSR pavilion