A song for the day - "Wheel Of Fortune" Ace Of Base

Thanks to Andreas Lonn for bringing this back ...

Zuerst Ich - Berlin Memories...

Movie stills from the Lotta Skeletrix Fall 06
movie directed by myself, featuring Andreas Lonn,
shot in East Berlin under the artistic direction of Lotta Volkova.

This video was showed at the Fashion East Man show during London Fashion Week,
in February 06,
with the gentle support of Lulu Kennedy.

Introducing new contributor Andreas Lonn

25 year old Swedish shoe designer Andreas Lonn, is based in London where he studied footwear design, his Gothic playful shoe designs combine the inspiration of visionary designers of a by gone era such as Elsa Schiaparelli with the seedy night world of Slimelight and other S&M clubs. Heavy back black suede heels collide with delicate strings of coral or drape with monkey fur, a combination of classic and contemporary, culminating in a Gothic footwear fantasy. Designing with his contemporaries in mind for wearing them, and his longtime friend Lotta Volkova acts as the perfect muse for his towering creations. Andreas finished studying a couple of years ago and since then has gone on to design shoes for and work along side french designer Charles Anastase, a fitting collaboration, who is based in London and is showing during London Fashion week. In his "by Andreas Lonn" posts, Lonn will share with us a selection of news from his own world.

Good News - The return of Polaroid by Andreas Lonn

"Eighteen months after Polaroid Corp. said it was halting sales of its instant film, one of Massachusetts’ most famous products may be coming back to life.
Holdings LLC, the investment group that owns the Polaroid brand, has struck a deal that could put Polaroid film back on retailers’ shelves. PLR, owned in part by Gordon Brothers Group, of Boston, licensed Utah-based Summit Global Group to sell digital cameras under the Polaroid name in June. Now Summit is cleared to resume sales of Polaroid film. At a news conference held yesterday in Hong Kong, Summit’s managing director, Giovanni Tomaselli, said the film will be manufactured by the Impossible Project, an Austrian company which has acquired the former Polaroid factory in the Netherlands. According to The Impossible Project’s website, the company will begin with black-and-white film in early 2010 and will offer a color version later in the year."

source : The Boston Globe

RIP Mimi Weddell - by Andreas Lonn

A legend of extras in films has passed away!

"Mimi Weddell disproved F Scott Fitzgerald's belief that there are no second acts in American lives. From the age of 65 until her death at 94, she at last earned her living the way she had always wanted – as a model with a neat sideline in movie bit parts, listed among New York magazine's 50 most beautiful Manhattanites and the subject of a documentary. Mimi had put in the hard work, and kept up the effort, swinging on the rings at the gym through her 80s even as her spine curved and she shrank six inches in height, willing to the end to stand the whole day at an open audition for a job." source : TheGuardian