good look hit1: Camila

Usually, where I live, there's not a lot of people that has good sense of style when dressing, people just copy everyone and follow awful trends, it even feels like jail, where everyone wear the same terrible orange jumpsuit. But also, there's a tiny group of people who think when they dress up, they know how to pinpoint cool stuff at stores, how to link it with nowaday's trends, match it cleverly within a whole outfit and look like there's never been an easier thing. Those are rare to find, so this new 'good look hit' section in my blog is destined to show you those who I find to have a quite interesting sense of style.

I'm inaugurating this space with Camila, a lovely, pale-skin, bob haircut rocker, movie connoisseur I've been following on Twitter for a while. I ran into her (and Luis, the guy who took the photos... thanks Luis) last friday on the 8th edition of El Nido Creativo, a design-market in my hometown. She was wearing a Zara cat-printed white dress I fell in love right away after I saw it, brown oxfords and a vintage-like backpack. She has a really nice blog: El Metrónomo de Wagner, a Tumblr account: Afánisis, and of course, a Twitter account: @segismunda.

the originals

So, this is the original art I made for my last DIY t-shirt I showed you here, if you're planning to use it without my concern, you'll probably get arrested by the cops from the Council of Original Art Made by Alejandro; bad joke, I know. I actually made two different designs with two different prints from previous Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci's collections, one from FW'11 and the other from Resort '12. I just hope R-Tisc is not reading this post or I might get sued.

xx,

Alejandro.

I swear this isn't a fake Givenchy

I tend to get really bored with what I wear pretty quickly, so I'm constantly making something to my clothes to make 'em look different. This time I decided to do a some DIYs, most of them with some studs and fabric-dye, hope you like everything and get some inspiration to do your own!. I'll be posting my favorite looks and collections on Menswear SS'13 sometime really soon, so stay tuned!

Tiendo a aburrirme bastante rápido de lo que uso, por eso estoy constantemente haciéndole algo a mi ropa para hacerla lucir deferente. En esta oportunidad me puse a trabajar en unos DIYs que tenía pensados desde hace un tiempo, ¡espero que les gusten y que lo tomen como inspiración para hacer sus propios DIYs!. Pronto estaré subiendo mis colecciones favoritas de Menswear SS'13, so stay tuned!

denim jacket: Levi's

scarf/mascada: Yenny Bastida (venezuelan designer)

black t-shirt/ white t-shirt : Traki (local store)

shorts: C'est Pour Toi

square-print shirt: Pima Cotton (local store)

 grey shirt: Zara Men. (SORRY IT WAS SO WRINKLED!)

Basically I just glued on some studs into some shirts, I dyed some others with fabric-dye and got the white t-shirt printed. I was just having some fun with Photoshop in the last picture, lol.

xx,

Alejandro.

The Breakfast Club appreciation post

"Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. What we did was wrong. But we think you’re crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us… In the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, a princess, and a criminal.  Does that answer your question? 

Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club."
・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・

Simply, one of the best movies of humanity, and one of my favorite movies.

xx,

Alejandro.

Summer wishlist/moodboard

Regardless the day, the season or the weather; it's always appropiate to wear black, white, gold or silver, mixing it up with a the latest trend: flower prints. But also remember: summer is a season of shocking bright colors, so here's a little compilation of photos, I kinda wanted to make a summer moodboard and I got myself making a summer wishlist, whatever, enjoy it.

Sin importar el día, la temporada o el clima; siempre es apropiado usar negro, blanco, dorado o plateado combinándolo con la última tendencia: los estampados florales. También recuerda: el verano es la temporada de los colores brillantes. Acá les dejo una compilación de fotos, tenía ganas de hacer un moodboard pero terminé haciendo algo más parecido a un wishlist bastante personal, no importa, enjoy it.

 

 

Homework.

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A couple of weeks ago I had to an infographic about any subject I like. As you could imagine, I did it about fashion, more specifically about the trends in F/W 2012 runways. When you mix homework and the things you like, it doesn't feel like homework at all. My grade was 30/40 [due to some failures in the headline, fuck it]- Also, way before that assignment, I had to do a movie poster entirely made in CorelDraw. I decided to make a little tribute to David Bowie and I made a Aladdin Sane-inspired movie poster. Ignore the weird nose-job and the pratically inexistant collar-bones, , hope you like it!

Hace unas semanas tuve que hacer un trabajo infográfico acerca de algún tema de mi predilección. Como pueden imaginar lo hice sobre moda, más específicamente sobre las tendencias en las pasarelas Otoño/ Invierno 2012. Cuando mezclas tu tarea con tus gustos, no se siente para nada como tarea. Mi nota fue de 40/40, espero que les guste. De igual manera, mucho antes de ésa asignación, tuve que crear un póster para una película completamente hecho con CorelDraw. Decidí rendirle un pequeño tributo a David Bowie e hice un póster inspirado en Aladdin Sane. Ignoren la mala rinoplastia y la clavícula casi inexistente.

xx,

Alejandro.

Lacoste L!ve + Micah Lidberg

Hoy en día es común ver una gran cantidad de marcas millonarias hiper-conocidas lanzando spin-offs de sus colecciones para llegar hasta un público más joven y amplio en las que incluyen piezas económicamente más accesibles. ¿Ejemplos? Alexander Wang con T by Alexander Wang. Sarah Burton con McQ. Y también, Lacoste, la marca del cocodrilo, con Lacoste L!ve. Esporádicamente, L!ve lanza una colección capsula con artistas de todas partes del mundo para que intervengan en el proceso creativo de sus inconfundibles polos. En esta ocasión el match-up fue con el -increíblemente genial- ilustrador estadounidense Micah Lidberg, que ha trabajado para miles de publicaciones como New York Times Magazine, Cut Magazine y Nylon Magazine.

Acá les dejo la entrevista que Micah tuvo con los chicos de Lacoste: Micah x L!ve

Nowadays it's very common to see a large amount of million-worth hyper-known brands launching collections to catch the attention of bigger and younger public. Examples? Alexander Wang with T by Alexander Wang. Sarah Burton with McQ. And also, Lacoste, remember the croc?, with Lacoste L!ve. Every now and then, L!ve launches a capsule collection with an artist to work on the creative process of their unforgettable polos. This time, the match-up was with the amazing illustrator Micah Lidberg, who's worked with publications such as the NY Times Mag, Cut Mag, and Nylon Mag.

Here's there's the interview Micah had with the people from Lacoste: Micah x L!ve

[+bonus] Meet Micah Lidberg

"This is a little book of drawings that are based on lists of my friends' favorite things."  - Micah Lidberg on "You Melt My Submarine"

Pueden conocer más de Micah Lidberg acá: http://www.micahlidberg.com/

xx,

Alejandro.