Flashback: Ralph & Russo S/S 2017 Couture, Part 3

Long-time readers know already how much I love the haute couture gowns from fashion designers Ralph & Russo. I am a huge fan of their gorgeous designs! Below you will find flashback photos from their S/S 2017 collection. What a Beauties ..... Always so chique, feminine, elegant and stylish. I wrote earlier more blogs about these fantastic fashion designers, SEE HERE I hope you're inspired!

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Sources: Vogue and Ralph & Russo
Photos courtesy of Ralph & Russo.

Residential: Beauty, Quality & Craftsmanship by Steven Harris Architects

While surfing today I found this stunning and luxurious project called 'Boston House' designed by Steven Harris Architects. What a beauty, quality and craftsmanship! Love everything in this house, like their choices of rich materials as well as the impressive staircase, the beautiful flooring, the walls, the panelling, the gorgeous ceilings, the kitchen, the fantastic marble bathroom, the elegant living room etc. I am completely in love with this house. Be Inspired .....

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Source: Steven Harris Architects LLP

Photos by Scott Frances.

PFW: Highlights from the Sacai fashionshow for F/W 2023 RTW, seen in Paris

 Highlights from the fashionshow from Sacai for their season Fall/Winter 2023 RTW, seen at Paris Fashion Week. Earlier I wrote more fashionblogs, SEE HERE I hope you're inspired!

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Source: VOGUE
Photos: courtesy of Sacai.

Impressive exhibition "Ashes and Snow" by photographer Gregory Colbert (02)

I was touched by the beauty of these extraordinary and fascinating photos from photographer / filmmaker Gregory Colbert. I hope you're inspired! Earlier I wrote another blog about his fantastic work, see BLOG 01.

More about the photographer
Gregory Colbert (born 1960 in Toronto) is a Canadian film-maker and photographer best known as the creator of Ashes and Snow, an exhibition of photographic artworks and films housed in the Nomadic Museum. Colbert sees himself as an apprentice to nature. His works are collaborations between humans and other species that express the poetic sensibilities and imaginations of human and animals. His images offer an inclusive non-hierarchical vision of the natural world, one that depicts an interdependence and symmetry between humanity and the rest of life. In describing his vision, Colbert has said, '"I would define what I do as storytelling … what’s interesting is to have an expression in an orchestra — and I’m just one musician in the orchestra. Unfortunately, as a species we’ve turned our back to the orchestra. I’m all about opening up the orchestra, not just to other humans, but to other species.

Photographer/filmmaker Gregory Colbert is the creator of the exhibition Ashes and Snow, an immersive experience of nature that combines photographic artworks, films and soundscapes, housed in a purpose-built traveling structure called the Nomadic Museum. To date, Ashes and Snow has attracted over 10 million visitors, making it the most attended exhibition by any living artist in history.

Gregory Colbert - Ashes & Snow

Colbert was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1960. He began his career in Paris in 1983 making documentary films on social issues. His first exhibition, Timewaves, opened to wide critical acclaim in 1992 at the Museum of Elysée in Switzerland. For the next ten years, Colbert went off the grid and did not publicly share his art or show any films. He began traveling the world to photograph and film wondrous interactions between animals and humans.

After ten years passed, Colbert returned to present Ashes and Snow at the Arsenale in Venice, Italy, in 2002. With his debut, Photo magazine declared, “A new master is born.” The New York Times, in an article by Alan Riding, stated, “The power of the images comes less from their formal beauty than from the way they envelop the viewer in their mood. . . .They are simply windows to a world in which silence and patience govern time.” Ashes and Snow has been described as "extraordinary" by the Economist and "distinctive . . . monumental in every sense" by the Wall Street Journal. Stern magazine described the photographs as "fascinating" and Vanity Fair named Gregory Colbert in its "Best of the Best."

I think of my life’s work as a celebration of all of nature, an orchestra that plays not the sounds of one musician, the music of one species, but rather an expression of all of nature’s songs. Gregory Colbert.

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Sources: Gregory Colbert, Wikipedia and Tumblr

Decorating Ideas: Inspiring wallpaper designs from Hermès

Would like to share with you today several beautiful wallpaper designs from the French fashionhouse Hermès. Love the chique geometric patterns too. Hope I can inspire you with these designs ........

Jouw huis in een effen kleurtje schilderen is heel makkelijk. Het enige dat je hoeft te doen is de roller over de muur te halen. Behangen is een heel stuk lastiger, zeker als je met patronen te maken hebt. Maar ja, je moet er wat voor over hebben om je huis in Hermès style te brengen. Het Franse modehuis heeft haar nieuwe collectie behang uitgebracht, die geïnspireerd is op hun shawls. Er zitten mooie designs bij! Voor een impressie zie de behangvoorbeelden hieronder.

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Sources: HERMES and Wallpaper Cave