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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Porcelain garden: interview with the designer of Atelierul de Portelan 

June 27th, 2018 / by Alina Aliman / in: Dazzling stories / No responses

She’s very determined. And focused. And she’s very, very nice and kind, and she talks with such a passion about her work and all the objects that are coming to life from her hands. Mihaela Cherciu, the designer behind Atelierul de Portelan brand, said that it is important to do whatever you ...

“The perfume has to be your best friend”, says David Benedek, founder of BDK Parfums

June 22nd, 2018 / by Alina Aliman / in: Dazzling stories / No responses

He’s young. So young that it is almost hard to believe that he has already made some history in the perfume business. I talked to David Benedek, the founder of BDK Parfums house about the dream of having a perfume library, the new fragrances launched in Romania (where he has some roots) and… ...

Girls talk – Mirela Bucovicean, Molecule-F: about fashion, fears and success

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

When I first found out about Molecule-F, about eight years ago, I thought there is a chance we could have our net-porter made in Romania. I remember, perfectly, the boxes tied with black ribbons in which the products of the Romanian designers went to the customers. As a journalist who started ...

8 things I loved at Romanian Design Week 2018

May 22nd, 2018 / by Alina Aliman / in: Dazzling stories / No responses

8.8 kilometres walking. That was the record for Saturday, when I was trying to see as many exhibitions and events as I could from this 2018 edition of Romanian Design Week 2018. And it wasn’t easy to choose my favourites. Here they are – 7 things I loved; take a closer look! Romanian ...

Step on the dance floor: interview with KAN Brand founders

May 16th, 2018 / by Alina Aliman / in: Dazzling stories / 1 Response

Colourful embroideries, enormous birds on cool T-shirts, latino ruffles and so much energy: Denisa Cucu and Manuela Van Vloten-Sabarez brought us something from Mexican spirit here, in Bucharest, in Molecule-F Concept Store. And that’s because these two amazing and enthusiast girls that founded ...

Taste and feel the exhibition: “The Smell of Red” by Erin Manning

May 14th, 2018 / by Alina Aliman / in: Dazzling stories / No responses

How does an object of art sounds? How does an installation with movement could smell? It is not an error-question. The new exhibition “The Smell of Red” by Erin Manning, at Galateca, will propose for the public an experiment of smell, colour, movement and space. Long linen saris and some ...