December Style Diaries: Embracing sustainable cashmere with a fresh spin on quiet luxury
We’ve talked about sustainable cashmere before. Today we’ll discuss what is sustainable cashmere and how to pull off the Quiet Luxury Look that everyone has been talking about ever since the appearance of Gwyneth Paltrow during a trial last April opposing a man who accused [...]
The Balancing act of Motherhood and Role Modeling
“What kind of mother do you strive to be”? It’s one of the questions I keep asking myself when, and if, I get lost into the daily grind of motherhood: whetherI’ve checked their homework, whether I’ve made them a warm meal, whether I read them a bedtime story, was I on time for her ballet class and did I wash his dirty football socks?
Mode Suisse Captured
A great fashion show is truly unforgettable. Months of preparation and anticipation culminate in a few spectacular minutes that set the tone for a new season of trends and style. I’ve seen the effect and influence that fashion shows have over the audience, I’ve seen the exaltation, the thrill and the tears of joy.
Transforming Antique Kimono Fabrics into Unique Fashionable Pieces
Last week I had the pleasure to attend the Preview of Kazu Huggler latest Tan collection celebrating her 15 years anniversary into fashion design. Besides being an outstanding designer with a penchant for storytelling that connects the two worlds of East & West in a [...]
How Antique Kimono Fabrics turn into Unique Fashionable Pieces
Photography: Christian Schnur Last week I had the pleasure to attend the Preview of Kazu Huggler latest Tan collection celebrating her 15 years anniversary into fashion design. Beside being an outstanding designer with a penchant for story telling that connects the two worlds of East & [...]
Mode Suisse Edition 11
For 6 years now MODE SUISSE has been fostering and promoting Swiss Design Talent in a distinctively understated way. They mix both raw individualism with fashion norm-core, and anti-fashion sentiment with intellectual outspoken fashion. This week Edition 11 presented 10 fashion labels together with HEAD -Genève, showcasing [...]
Sustainably elegant in the spotlight of Swiss Fashion
There comes a time in your life when it is no longer appropriate to literally shout things from the roof tops. Around the age of about three I believe. So what does one do from then on, when one has news that warrants a good roof [...]
What makes mothers successful entrepreneurs
Photography by German Osorio Sometimes you go for a business meeting with the intention to get things done and move on, but things just click and it gets personal—like a first date gone really well. You know, the other person is just so cool and [...]
Aethereal Fashion
Photo credits: aéthérée I was discussing yesterday with a friend how bitter –sweet it can feel to build and grow your business, how challenging sometimes everything might look and how small you might feel in the face of life. She told me that it’s time [...]
Fashion at its heart
Photo Credits: aéthérée - aetheree.ch If you are a fashionista, you most likely love magic and illusion. If you are a fashion designer I am sure you can easily find a job as a magician as well. For me the relation between fashion and magic [...]
Happiness and the act of dressing up
Lisa is wearing Sara Schlumpf Couture Photography by German Osorio Jiménez There is so much clutter and noise in fashion today that it is really hard to hear out your own desires and the basic need to feel more attractive and pretty. Clothes are meant [...]
Frag Frau Freitag (The Agony Aunt)
There is no chance to miss that alabaster skin, accentuated with luscious red lips and red locks in the crowd of pretty women. Kafi Freitag fascinates with her unusual girlish vibrant charm and tangible self-containment. She is definitely not cold or unfriendly, but she is [...]