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Welcome! Thank you for visiting my weblog. I am Irene, Elisabeth Pouw, a Dutch blogger. As blogger I am connecting my readers with beauty, style, quality and craftsmanship in various subjects like interiordesign, architecture, haute couture, photography, art etc. I created this blog to share my passion for decorating as well as the many other things which inspire me. From time to time I am also highlighting certain interior designers, decorators, architects, stylists, photographers etc. I hope you enjoy your visit. Feel free to give a comment on my blogs. I will react back as soon as possible. Best regards, Irene Pouw from Holland.

09 september 2026

Runway: Chanel F/W 2026-27, seen at Paris Fashion Week


Discover the Chanel F/W 2026-27 RTW collection by Matthieu Blazy presented during Paris Fashion Week 2026. The F/W 2026 collection is Blazy's second RTW collection for the fashion house - a significant moment, as it showcases how Blazy is settling into Chanel and where his vision will take it in the future. "I wish to create a canvas for women to be unapologetically who they are and who they want to be,” Blazy shared in the show notes ...... I also added the Chanel video with the complete collection (16,5 min.), see below. Be Inspired ........

The Blazy Tweed Skirt Suit
Blazy revisited some of the house codes on the runway and specifically doubled down on the Chanel skirt suit. "The suit serves as the central canvas, ready to reflect whoever wears it. Boldly reimagined, it encompasses ribbed knits to classic tweeds and intricate fabrics woven with artificial fibres, lurex and silicone alongside natural gauze," the show notes shared. 
Drop Waists
A running theme on the runway: drop waists. Executed in everything from ankle-length dresses to low-slung miniskirts, the dropped-waist silhouette taps into the 1920s silhouettes that were popular in the early days of the Chanel house (low-rise skirt-trend).



Ornamental Dresses
A signature on Blazy's Chanel runway? Ornamental pieces that are instilled with a sense of joy. On the F/W 2026 runway, this resulted in embellished dresses in shades of celadon, bubblegum pink and sherbet.


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Sources: CHANELWho, What, Wear and Grazia
Photos: courtesy of Chanel

05 september 2026

Runway: Zegna S/S 2027 Menswear

Highlights from the Zegna fashionshow for S/S 2027. Earlier I wrote more blogs about the fashion designer Ermenegildo Zegna, SEE HERE Be Inspired ........ 









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Source: WWD
Photos: courtesy of Zegna

03 september 2026

Interiorstyling: Lovely pink baby bedrooms (Eijffinger 3)

Sweet baby bedrooms in pink colours. Be inspired by the wallpaper collections from Eijffinger for decorating a lovely baby bedroom for your little one. Eijffinger used special photo wallpaper for the walls. Earlier I placed two other blogs with lovely baby wallpaper, see Baby Bedrooms (1) and Baby Bedrooms (2)
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Source: EIJFFINGER

02 september 2026

VINTAGE FASHION - PHOTO LOVE - JEAN PATOU (10)

While surfing this afternoon on internet I found this lovely vintage photo from Jean Patou, haute couture vintage gown, 1957. Earlier I wrote more blogs about Vintage Fashion, SEE HERE Be Inspired ........  
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Photo via Pinterest/Vintage Fashion

01 september 2026

Interior Design: Amazing London House & Garden by Studio MacLean

Be inspired by this amazing London house & garden studio! British interiors firm Studio MacLean designed the renovation of this West London property – which measures 371 square metres – and its garden studio for a family who wanted to update the interiors with timeless finishes. Studio MacLean used monochrome paintwork, oak chevron flooring, cherry wood and marble finishes to overhaul this London house. Love many aspects of this house, like the monochrome palette in white and black, the oak parquet, the kitchen with wood and marble, the black custom-made steel doors as well as black painted radiator and staircase. And last but least the beautiful lighting design.
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Sources: Dezeen and Studio MacLean.

30 augustus 2026

Lighting Design: Woody Endless - Straight by Jason Miller

Would like to share with you today this beautiful lighting design, Woody Endless - Straight by Jason Miller. Jason Miller’s Endless collection takes its inspiration from 1970s Super-graphics. After the reductionist intentions of modernism faded, some architects began to use large-scale graphic elements to define space. Graphic design became architecture; Endless was designed in the same spirit. Cylindrical sections and corner units allow Endless to be custom-configured as an architectural element. This is a repost of my post of 09-11-2014. Be Inspired ....... 
More about the designer:
Jason Miller is a Brooklyn-based designer and the founder of Roll & Hill. Born and raised in Darien, Connecticut, Jason’s suburban upbringing heavily influenced his early, more conceptual pieces — duct-taped chairs and cracked vases, among them — and continues to inform the elegant, historically rich work that has become his signature. Jason received an MFA in painting and spent time in both the art and advertising worlds, but soon realized he preferred making things to documenting them. His designs — like a mirror whose photographic surface recalls a painted landscape — still often reflect those early preoccupations, but each is a functional object, with a kind of beauty and wit. Today, Jason runs both Jason Miller Studio and Roll & Hill from his headquarters in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. 

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Sources: Roll and Hill and Jason Miller Studio
For more Inspiration, see also my PINTEREST account

27 augustus 2026

Stunning line of handmade jewellery by Chao-Hsien Kuo


Enchanting Finland is a stunning line of handmade jewellery made by designer Chao-Hsien Kuo. 
Delicate and ethereal, the collection is inspired by a tall, purple-pink flowing wildflower that grows by the side of the roads in Finland. This blogpost is a repost of my blog of 18-04-2015. Be Inspired ........

The jewellery is a perfect combination of hand-crafted work that’s aided by modern technology. Chao uses anticlastic forming, a way of hammering wood by hand that takes years to master. To further play with the reflection of light on the jewellery, she attached 24K gold foil on top of the silver jewellery. Each piece is unique and can’t be replicated.
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Sources: 
Chao-Hsien Kuo and Design Milk
Photos by iiro muttilainen.