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With regard to the post below, it reminds me of the output of my final year Diploma project. The project titled 'Xtend' also revolved around the concept of the power of social networking. As an output of the project, I had designed a mobile application which allowed you to peep into your friends mobile contacts (Friend of a Friend aka FOAF) to check and match profiles with the kind of peope you were looking for. If you found someone who matched your profile you had to ask your friend for to introduce you to that particular person. This way a human filter would (hopefully) prevent people from contacting people they din't know randomly.

I personally find the topic of Social Networking through mobiles extremely interesting. However I am much more interested in the aspect of how people carry around their identity with their mobile devices. Whether we like it or not... most of us have some sort of digital identities. An email address, a credit card transaction account, an Amazon account or membership to a social networking site, etc, etc, etc. With internet becoming more and more mobile how will this affect our interactions with people?

How will technologies like Wimax affect peoples interaction and stumbling upon other people? Will location based profile matching take off? Will blind dates get a new meaning? Will we be able to make more friends or will we start protecting and hiding ourselves more than before as our digital identities will be traceable and trackable?

Everything about the so called "peep-toes". Today. Once upon a time the peep-toe was a weapon. Hollywood divas back in the 30s like Rita Hayworth and Greta Garbo cut out their normal pumps. They created a sexy foot décolleté to presented their toes. Back then this was a huge scandal.

Todays perfectionist of the peep-toe is Christian Louboutin. Forget Manolos. Here are Louboutins. His shoes are art. And there is only one shoe designer whose footwear is instantly recognisable just from the soles. What makes Christian Louboutin's shoes stand out at first is the glossy nail-varnish red sole that has become his trademark. Right now he is the most famous shoe designer in the world. Everyone wants a pair of his creations. Stars like Nicole Kidman, Gisele Bündchen, Victoria Beckham or Nicole Ritchie are already wearing shoes of the 43-years-old designer from Paris.
"I want to make shoes that are like jewels," Louboutin explains. "Shoes are more than just an accessory; they are an extension of a woman."
All his shoes have the same specific items: they are incredibly sexy and luxurious; fine craftsmanship, quirky designs, with killer high heels.

His peep-toe "Very Privé" for example is like magic for every woman's legs: it makes them longer, it turns them into gazelle-like legs. They will be optically lengthened by 5cm. But the question is: Is it possible that a 12cm high heel is still comfortable to wear. Louboutin answers: "Of course, the heel has to be right in the middle and the foot bed has to be really soft. I got some hints from revue dancers."
www.christianlouboutin.fr

Of course these shoes are nearly unaffordable, especially with our small wallet. But I found a cheaper version which is on top a Louboutin-lookalike, including even the red sole. They are produced by the "Oh Deer! inc." and you can easily purchase a pair for let's say 100 euro instead of the Louboutin price of at least 500 euro.
"oh?DEER! Styles include peep toe pumps, sling backs, wingtip ankle boots, knee-high boots and more in a variety of four-inch cork heels and stacked wooden platforms. All possess the ever-popular red soles. Donna Reed meets ?Desperate Housewives? for a vampy vixen yet demure diva look. Named after Hollywood starlets and characters of yesterday and today, gals can walk in the footsteps of Marilyn and Audrey or experience the feud between Jennifer and Angelina (minus the love affair with Brad Pitt)."
ohdeershoes.com


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My first days with my spy bag are over now. I have to say: It's done a good job in the allday routine so far. But it's not that huge as I thought it would be. The lining is much smaller than the outside suggests. So that's why it's very much ok for my usual stuff, like moleskine, makeup, pens, tabbaco, purse, keys, gum, blistex, stomac pain killers, novel (book), deo, sunglasses, mirror ... But coming to spontanous over night staying kit - that's crossing the line, in more than just one way. But in the end it works for me. And that's the main reason, I guess. And nevertheless it's kind of posh this whole fake snake skin. But Annie Gee says it suits me and I say: Well yeah, it goes with my white hair and my gold jewellery project. Next thing: Blood red lips. Already started.

During some researches on other topics I came across more and more so-called wardrobe projects. For a longer time now I'm also actually thinking of doing something similar. So here a list with some good examples.

#1: Swedish artist Johanni Öst's wardrobe project. She has a pretty nice explanation for doing it: I have lots of clothes I never wear, so I thought I'd make a project of using them. I will go through my wardrobe one garment a day, build a great outfit around it, and take a photo. When I'm finished I'll have a bunch of photos to look at whenever I feel I have nothing to wear. She also has sets on toys and 60s girl calenders.

#2: Karin Öst (Swedish, too) takes a photo nearly every day. Her outfit set contains more than 80 pics. I like her style. She has also sets on self-sewn clothes, fabrics and patterns.

#3: Jek: Personally, I don't like her style that much. But I love her sets. She's creating so many lovely things as toys, felt stuff and a lot of other crafty stuff.

At Flickr there's actually a whole group on this wardrobe thing called "wardrobe remix". It was created by Tricia Royal. And that's her intention in doing so: i believe the best stylists walk the streets, not the photo sets, nor the backstage of the runways. the real innovators are you and me: real, fashionable people, men and women alike. [...] the idea is to see the trends in your own way of styling, what you love best, and how you are seen by others in your everyday duds. it is NOT about rating others or flaming people for their own personal style decisions or looks.

First of all: it's gonna be a long way. Keep this in mind while reading on.
It took me nearly a year to manage the right color and everything. And to start with you really need a very robust hair structure, which I - lucky me - have.

#1: Dye your hair with the strongest blonde dyeing thing you can get in your local drugstore. I can recommand a few: Poly Palette, Nutrisse, Schwarzkopf Blonde (I'll check the numbers and exact names later). There are of course other colorations, like bleaching powder for example, but you can only purchase those in special hairdresser shops. But go for it and have a try. I would be very interessted in it.

#2: If you're not naturally blonde the whole process will last even longer. Yeah and there might be some hat-wearing phasis included. I guaranty for nothing. Someday I read an article about Ashlee Simpson wanting her natural hair color back after she dyed it black in an act of protest because of her sister Jessica. It took her 5 dyeing sessions in a row to get the blonde back. And it was all dirty red in the meantime. So think of that. But my advise is: Don't do 5 sessions in a row. Your hair will be like shit after that. I did it once with 2 sessions and a day between - and that was already a hard thing to cope with for my hair.

#3: With reaching the right lightness it's not enough. It happens that the bleached hair gets an ugly shade of orange or yellow (which also karl described in his comment). But I found a solution for this nasty thing. You have to treat your hair with special shampoo and other styling products. The special thing is it has to be shampoo for white or grey hair. No kidding. It really works. I use "Guhl Révité". The shampoo is purple. That's why it's able to reduce the yellow shade. Kind of a chemical thing, I guess. They - the colors - cancel each other out in some way. I think it's simply because of this complementary color thing. I also used "John Frieda's Sheer Blonde" styling mousse "Star Blonde". But I changed it to some cheaper Schwarzkopf thing. And once a week I use a silver coloration for grey hair.

Update: I finally found the piece of paper where I once wrote down the brand and number of the silver coloration I used. It's: Londa Londeston Easy Colors "Silver Shine" Nr. 89. It'a a easy-to-use mousse coloration, and by the way it's a very cheap one to. You can get it for only € 1,95. You can use it 2-3 times, depending on your hair structure and how many hair you got. It really worked. But be careful with how long you're keeping it in your hair. I once forgot to rinse it out in time and then my hair had quite visible shade of purple. But this was over by the next time I washed my hair again.

Being Abroad : The Sketchbook Challenge

Der erste Jungens-Schnitt ist fertig konstruiert und schön in Illustrator gezeichnet und genormt. Jetzt wird er mit Bahnenstoff getestet. Schönes Ecrù. Andere sagen auch: Beige oder doch eher Crème. Hmm. Weiß nich so recht. Der Stoff ist tendenziell flauschig und haart auch etwas. Der Verdacht liegt nahe, dass es am Ende wie ein Wärme-Thermo-Hemdchen aussieht. Wir werden sehen. Es bleibt spannend. Mit der kleinen Hobbylock Maschine wird hier ruckizucki vernäht, was zusammen gehört. Bild folgt.

Ein T-Shirt ['ti:ʃɶ:t] (engl. shirt: Hemd) oder T-Hemd (seltenere Schreibweise Tee Shirt; dann ohne Bindestrich) ist ein Kleidungsstück mit kurzen Ärmeln, einem runden oder V-förmigen Ausschnitt, ohne Kragen, Taschen oder Knöpfen.

Und ein Konzept gibt es auch. Logisch. Damit kann man dann alles erklären. Super. Wie dieses genau lautet, steht hier auch bald. Und es wird eine super Performance, eine richtige kleine Vorführung am 9. März in der Kunsthalle Harry Graf Kessler geben. Wir nehmen "a work in progress" wörtlich. Kommt alle und kauft alles.

Das Polohemd ist ein Hemd mit geripptem Kragen, kurzen Ärmeln mit ebenfalls gerippten, elastischen Bündchen. Es ist ein Klassiker der Freizeit- und Sportbekleidung, beispielsweise beim Tennis und Golf.

Als Erfinder gilt der erfolgreiche französische Tennisspieler René Lacoste, der seinen Spitznamen "Krokodil" zum Markenzeichen machte und bereits 1933 derartige Hemden entwarf, als die Tennisspieler noch in langärmligen Hemden spielten. Die originalen Polohemden sind aus luftig gewebtem Baumwoll-Pikee gefertigt. Das im Schnitt sehr ähnliche Rugbyshirt ist hingegen aus reissfestem Jerseymaterial geschneidert.

Neben der Verwendung im Sportbereich ist das Polohemd inzwischen auch als Freizeithemd beliebt und anerkannt. Im Gegensatz zum Trainingsanzug oder zur Sporthose gilt das Polohemd als wesentlich seriöser und wird der gepflegten Freizeitbekleidung zugerechnet. In der Volksrepublik China wird das Polohemd seit den Neunzigern sogar während der Arbeitszeit von vielen Angestellten statt eines Anzughemdes getragen.

Andere bekannte Markenhersteller sind Polo Ralph Lauren aus den USA und Fred Perry (ebenfalls Tennisprofi) aus England, Polohemden werden aber mittlerweile für alle bekannten Herrenmodehersteller gefertigt.

Quelle: wikipedia