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Pshycho the new Kitsch – meet the young designer Smaranda Buc

July 20th, 2018 / by Alina Aliman / in: Dazzling stories / No responses

I didn’t choose the headline. The designer did. Because she had a good idea on what’s going to express through her entire collection. I met Smaranda Buc backstage, before the UAD Gala 2018 and she was kind enough (even nervous about the show) to explain me the main lines of the moodboard of her ...

Follow the line: the ZAZ ZUH ZAS striped collection by Ștefan Toma

July 18th, 2018 / by Alina Aliman / in: Dazzling stories / No responses

I love stripes; that is not a secret. And I like shirts a lot. The equation cannot be simpler than that: I couldn’t resist to an entire collection in stripes, especially when they are put on shirts and pants and blazers. Ștefan Toma collection, presented at UAD 2018 Gala, ZAZ ZUH ZAS, was about ...

Feeric Fashion Week starts at Sibiu

July 17th, 2018 / by Alina Aliman / in: Uncategorized / No responses

All fashionistas, all young designers, listen carefully: set on your Google Maps “destination: Sibiu, Romania”. And that is because starting today, 17th of July, until 22nd of July, in Sibiu will take place the 11th edition of Feeric Fashion Week. The complete schedule, on ...

Fashion revolution in Mary Quant exhibition

July 16th, 2018 / by Alina Aliman / in: Exquisite experiences / No responses

She invented the miniskirt. She is the one to thank for the hot pants and tights as a form of street fashion. She is one of the most incredible names in fashion history. Next year, Victoria & Albert Museum will present the first Mary Quant exhibition in 50 years with public call-out to uncover ...

The West Wing: the new generation of designers from Timișoara Fashion School

July 13th, 2018 / by Alina Aliman / in: Cool things / No responses

Shapes that looked like supernatural creatures, bold colours, Asian inspiration, architectural constructions, messages about our chaotic world, dancing performances and a lot of contemporary problems (standardisation, globalisation, violence, identity) transported through the fashion eyes - this ...

My Lady Gaga moment from Alexandru Manuel Pop collection

July 11th, 2018 / by Alina Aliman / in: Dazzling stories / No responses

When you are dressed like Lady Gaga at 10 o’clock in the morning in a hotel lobby and, instead of ironical smiles you get some paparazzi snapshots from editors, journalists and blogger friends… that means, for sure, that something went good with your outfit. And this also means that the clothes ...

Power to the fashion: the new designers from UAD Fashion Design Gala 2018

July 5th, 2018 / by Alina Aliman / in: Cool things / No responses

More daring than ever: this was, from my point of view, the motto of this year UAD Fashion Design Gala 2018. The fashion is more powerful than ever and the clothes can (and, most important, they must) carry over the messages and dreams of the young generation: that was the designers wanted to say. ...

7 lovely summer beach pieces

July 4th, 2018 / by Alina Aliman / in: Cool things / No responses

A summer swimsuit will never be… just a summer swimsuit. New colours, new shapes, new names are on the summer page every year. I will make my daydreaming until holiday a little more productive, and get in on the 7 beach pieces ahead—before they take over my Instagram feed. Ibiza, Santorini, ...

A hallucinant summer: meet the artists at Halucinarium

July 2nd, 2018 / by Alina Aliman / in: Dazzling stories / No responses

A painting exhibition. Some amazing pieces of sculpture and installations. A live moment of artistic drawing by Tara von Neudorf. These were the three elements that linked, at the beginning if the summer, the opening of one of the coolest exhibitions in town, at Halucinarium. Go visit ...

A new dictionary of fashion: Louis Vuitton Men Collection Autumn-Winter 2018/2019

June 28th, 2018 / by Alina Aliman / in: Cool things / No responses

3% is the exact ratio needed to twist a normative object into something special. And that is what Virgil Abloh did for his first collection as artistic director of menswear at Louis Vuitton. He twisted (a bit) the logos, invited models from all over the world, he paved the catwalk with rainbow ...