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Extreme Anorexic Look

5 Comments 20 October 2010

Fashion magazines – we all know it – love anorexic models. A while ago, I was discussing new potential fashion stories with the editor of a magazine and I proposed focusing on the very subject. “When you cast new models, you are always looking for skinny girls”, I told her. “How about having some fun [...]

Discussion, Portraits and Stories

Choque Cultural

8 Comments 06 October 2010

There is a unique gallery in São Paolo specializing in urban art. The artists it represents paint in the sewers, apply stickers and do tattoos. It’s a big hit. Mariana and Baixo are not people who pass unobserved: thickly tattooed, lobes adorned with heavy jewelry, colorful clothes. If this makes you think they’re eccentric, wait [...]

Portraits and Stories

Odo7, The Aroma Jockey

4 Comments 25 August 2010

Between a business convention in Hong Kong, Isabella Rossellini’s party and a festival in London, he finds the time to work at a fashion show in France and a party in Shanghai or Moscow. The avant-garde performer who invented the trade of AJ (Aroma Jockey) talks about his extraordinary profession. “Many years ago, I used [...]

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Pastry Art

3 Comments 11 August 2010

Do you fancy an SM pastry? Or, maybe, you want to go for the burka-Barbie cake? De Taart van m’n Tante pastry shop is kitsch, outrageous, flamboyant and colorful. Oh, those Amsterdammers… Vanessa Paradis has ordered her son’s birthday cake here, Royal Family members are habitué and so are football players and several celebrities. What’s [...]

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São Paulo

4 Comments 28 July 2010

Gyms, restaurants and even bakeries open 24/7. Bars, clubs and shopping malls always packed. Projects, connections, optimism… Is this the third world? Lula, apparently, is doing a good job or – as some says – he has been lucky. As a matter of fact, the crisis is not that bad in Brazil, poverty is decreasing [...]

Discussion, Portraits and Stories

Problems Are Creative Opportunities

2 Comments 21 July 2010

When I first met design guru Divya Thakur, curious to discover the secret of her huge success, I found out that her recipe was distressingly simple: she sees problems as opportunities. Don’t we all need to learn from her? Divya Thakur It’s called Design Temple, it’s in Mumbai, and in just a few years it [...]