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Appaloosa is a kind of horse. But it is also the name of a French electronic duo fronted by the beautiful and mysterious Anne-Laure Keib (who happens to be old friends with Chan Marshall aka Cat Power). The band (not the horse) has a new EP out on the Discotexas label. We like it a lot!
I belong to a certain breed of the Homo sapiens – the ‘I-just-want-to-hang-in-the-Maison-Martin-Margiela-store-and-kick-back-in-the-sofa-and-enjoy-myself’! (We’re a rare breed –but I know you are out there!) So when I heard I could now finally unfold my most-inner instincts (… without having shop employees shove me away) – I was short of breath. The dream about living in an avant-garde, color-abandoned-European-intellectual(-ish)-luxury hotel in the oldie-end of Champs Elysee in Paris is now a reality. The creature of mystery (… you know of whom I speak) has created magic in terms of hotel interior décor. Having designed luxury suites and future-fantastic common rooms at La Maison hotel in Paris. The success and admiration of La Maison decoration has said rumors on fire that the Margiela Empire will soon commence designing home-décor (… and thank God for that!) However, until that given day shows its (presumably) beautiful face – we have to book time at La Maison, Paris for a fan-furniture-istic Margiela experience.
Images courtesy of http://www.lamaisonchampselysees.com
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Korallreven was formed because of a dream on the island of Samoa (the best kind of dream). Marcus Joons, one half of the group, was “chillin’ under a coconut tree, got a feeling of how he wanted [to make music that's] Spiritual like the local Samoan Catholic church choirs, hypnotic like the breathtaking tropical nature and” evocative of “a feeling of that you finally had reached ‘the other side’.” Well, he did it. And “As Young As Yesterday” is about the best evidence we can offer. Be quick and take a free download as long as it lasts!
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International fashion blogger @Bryanboy dazzles in the HUGO Sequined Jacket at the Celebrity Shopping Experience with Chloë Sevigny in NYC. The glamorous jacket is available in a limited edition of 250 pieces and you can win two of them! Yay! To find out how, click here.
Speaking of the Celebrity Shopping Experience, I believe I haven’t blogged the video of it yet. So here it is, enjoy!
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Ursa Minor is a group we found out about when they got in touch on the HUGO Tracks twitter feed. And thank goodness they did get in touch! They’re a little like The Knife but with less darkness. “Droplet Affection”, the song we’re streaming here, also reminds us of Chairlift. No matter who they remind us of, though, they are unique unto themselves, and we’re happy to know them… and pleased to introduce them to you.
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The HUGO Sequined Jacket is a masterpiece and limited to 250 pieces, each with a unique number on the inside pocket. This glamorous eye-catcher will outshine any other festive jacket, that’s for sure! Now, watch the video to see the jacket in action!
As a special Holiday bonus, I am raffling off two of the HUGO Sequined Jackets: The jacket with the number 1 in size 50 and the jacket number 250 in size 48. To enter the sweepstake simply write me an e-mail at miss_hugoboss@hugoboss.com with the subject “HUGO Sequined Jacket size 48″ or “HUGO Sequined Jacket size 50″ and include your full name and address. The sweepstake is open until January 3rd, 2012.The following terms and conditions apply. The winner will be drawn by lot on January 4th, 2012. Good luck!
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Keep Shelly In Athens is a relatively new outfit from Greece. No one knows much about them, save that they’re a boy-girl duo making stuttered, melancholy electronic music. What else is really more important than that, though? They’ve got a new EP out on Planet Mu. We’re streaming the title track, “Campus Martius”, here.
Nordic food “culture” – ‘oh, I don’t think so!’ Smoked, salty and pickled-ish food is what comes to mind when thinking about Nordic food “culture”. And as icing on the cake, having been exposed to the amuse-bouches of the Southern flirtatious kitchen – foie gras, crème brulé, sauce béarnaise, tiramisu (… now drooling) – the term “culture” might seem as an extensive stretch when talking about Nordic food! But dear friends – No more! The best restaurant on our dear celestial globe is neither situated in Paris nor Madrid – it’s situated much further north, in the Danish capital, Copenhagen. Le nom (read in a French accent) is NOMA. The restaurant has reinvented Nordic food “culture”, and turned it into Nordic gourmet. Lobster from the Faroe Islands (exotic, right), fresh salmon and wild seaweed from Iceland or even bewildered (…oh yes they are) musk ox from Greenland – just to mention a few of the many delicacies NOMA serves in their 250-years-old-dock-house, located on the fashionable Copenhagen city harbour. NOMA has styled Nordic food from a – ‘oh, I-don’t-think-so’ state, into being the new black of the world of delicate gourmet!
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Mi and L’au are a music-making duo, but they are more than that. They are a pair of deeply in love people – one from Finland, the other from France – who spend their time in an isolated cabin in a Nordic forest. You can hear that love, and that isolation, quite clearly in this, their new track, “If Beauty Is A Crime.” We’re quite pleased to be offering it up for download. It’s quite special.
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Sasha Pivovarova – also known as Sasha P – is not just any regular model. When she was first discovered in her hometown of Moscow, Russia, she was an art student at university. Italian Prada, on the other hand, had other plans with the gorge lady – “give her an exclusive, three-year-contract” – Prada-people said in Italian (I think?) – and so they did, and Sasha P moved to NYC and began her hectic adventure as one of the most sought-after models on the planet. And as icing on her beautiful muffin (… did that sound wrong?) she has now defined a completely new type a beauty. CUDOS. Contracts with the biggest fashion-houses in the world, countless magazine covers – five of these for the prestigious Italian Vogue – is part of her fairytale career. And in this very moment, the Sasha P-lady can be experienced in the current HUGO image campaign, shot in a deserted, icy hotel building in Manhattan, NYC.
… and the art is constantly part of her art-ittude – on and off shoots. She scrambles and scribbles everywhere, and on anything. Not only is she an angle transcended the Earth, she has also made sure that she will be remembered after she flies back home. Her art has been widely exhibited, and even published in French Vogue – and right now Sasha P and Karl Lagerfeld are illustrating a book together – well, just another day at the office.
