AVE FEMINA

unique style shoes from slovenia for collectors and experts.

the Ave Femina series of shoes represent precisely what ave femina literally means: a greeting -adoration of woman.

spring/ summer collection

fall/winter collection

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Shoes by Leonora Mark's design studio are devised as opuses rather than dictated by the order of seasonal collections. If fashion industry defines styles of seasonal collections, Leonora Mark creates shoes according to the principles better known in art, with production opuses collected in the artist's portfolio. The production runs continuously throughout the year and the artist divides it according to individual themes; every subject is woven into a story explaining every particular model. Her shoes do not attend to feet merely as a functional solution or a formalistic excess but, rather, as a poetic extension of the body walking upon the carpet of the story according to which the shoes were made.

In the process of creation these shoes are not treated as mere footwear; they are made with ardour – outside as well as inside – just as watchmakers make their masterworks. Materials and segments of these shoes are layered in a manner that suits their form, sensitivity, harmony and exactness. They are made as precise mechanisms and they perform excellent even if not in the role of shoes. They attract when walked in, but also when held in our hands or looked at on a shelf. These shoes are made for the feet as much as for the eye and the hand.

Prime materials are selected according to the stories authenticating the shoes, while the material is occasionally included in the story itself. With an eternal shoe in mind, the materials and execution follow the idea that shoes accumulate their value in time, just as artistic artefacts with their immortal poetics do. These shoes are made manually in all phases of production. They are due to provoke a lasting appeal and therefore we will keep them for life as objects. Leonora Mark's shoes even subvert the maxim that it is merely jewels that pass from one generation to the next.

ME & OSTBLOCK FASHION

is black a colour?

ask a scientist and you will get reply: "black is not a color."

ask an artist and you will get another: "black is a color"

for me.... black is the best colour and i just can't do without it.

i wear top & skirt by poustovit.

THE BEST ASSISTANT

he is everyday working in ostblock and he likes it a lot.

i am happy to have such a good assistant.

and he is also very good model.....

some pics from photoshooting.

NINA DONIS

nina donis by nina neretina & donis poupis is one of the most know russia fashion label.

nina donis was included in the edition " fashion now" published by the british magazine "i-d" and taschen, as one of the 150 best designers in the world.

some pics from SS08 collection.

10%

from now on you can get 10% discount on aleksandra wisniewska SS08 collection at ostblock. 

great offer. don't miss it.

ME & OSTBLOCK FASHION

sometimes i wear male fashion rather than female one.

is there a difference between male & female fashion?? 

who cares.  it is just important to express your self and feel good.

i wear t-shirt, cardigan & trousers by sudaryanto( SS08 male collection). and i feel good!

"fashion makes a statement of an individual and spells ones life."

SHOPS

i wasn't in the mood to write anything. i don't know why.

and then i got a mail from dragos from bucharest and he sent me pics from rozalb de mura shop in bucharest. 

this i had to put on my blog.

the shop is looking great. a combination between realities and illusions.

and not only that the shop looks interesting , also clothes which you can get there....

besides the fabules collection rozalb de mura, the store exhibits carmen secareanu and q.e.d.( berlin) creations as well as kuki constantinescu's jewels.

i think i will spend my next holidays in bucharest. i have to visit this shop.

 

here some more info about the shop

Rozalb de Mura STORE, Bucharest: Reality vs Illusion

The mirage haunting the "Desert city" collection 2008 enflames imagination and ludic spirit at Rozalb de Mura. Reality versus Illusion and their flou and slippery boundaries obsessively mark the interior design solution proposed by Liste Noire.  

At Rozalb de Mura STORE in Bucharest, Romania, Reality affably welcomes you in the first room. Any Romanian is familiar with it. The iconic living-room, aesthetic benchmark multiplied in the copying machine of times. In a project nearing interior design to an anthropological exercise, Liste Noire recreates like in a lab or a museum the prevalent Romanian living room typical of the last decennia.  

The ominous brown veneer perplexingly matches the blue walls and the dark red carpet on the floor. One can barely have space to move around the table dignifiedly installed in the middle of the room. A doubtful light feebly descents from the ceiling. The famous three carnations in a crystal vase, origin unknown. Synthetic lace curtains hang under wide wooden rails. Porcelain trinkets like inoffensive trophies in the china closet. An almost nostalgic ensemble of classics still alive, but surely endangered species in the Ikea-like invasion of the present.

With the second room, we enter the realm of Illusion. A cold, blindingly white light and walls stripped of any detail could be elements in a bad dream of someone lost in the desert. A whitish smoke floods the whole scene in a Lynch-like fog meant to lead astray and confuse. The uniformizing domestic neighbors a strange, fictitious dream.  

But everything is relative, isn't it, and it depends on the perspective for the perception to change dramatically. And from the positive light of a contemporary 21^st century or from the point of view of a visitor who grew up in the trendy chic Western houses, our Romanian living room gets really hallucinating. How else could be the famous identical interiors in the Romanian flats, materialization of a bad dream from a long bygone "golden" era? By comparison, the immaculate and aseptic white in the adjoining room is no other than the clean, purified living style of the modern reality. Minimalist present communicates with the absurd hallucination of the past.

In all this to and fro between realities and illusions, the clothes on the standers are a welcoming presence: objects, materialities and textures that are concrete and touchable. Besides the "Desert city" collection by Rozalb de Mura, the store exhibits Carmen Secareanu and q.e.d. (Berlin) creations as well as Kuki Constantinescu's jewels.

 

Rozalb de Mura STORE
9 – 11, Selari str (Lipscani area), Curtea Sticlarilor, 1st floor, sector 3, Bucharest, ROMANIA
00 4 021 311 62 15 / 00 4 0723 172 850
www.rozalbdemura.ro

 

Program
Tuesday – Saturday: 11:00 - 21:00
Sunday - Monday : Closed

MAGIC SHOES

degree work(estonian academy of arts) from kärt pöldmann.

concept shoes inspired by h.chr. andersen's " the red shoes"& ch. perrault's " cinderella"

PHOTO SHOOTING

already long time ago i promise to show you some photos from patrick.

here are some pics from photo shooting in prague. 

patrick doesn't like to talk about this shooting, becouse they came home without a car and all dresses. everything was stolen. 

and here some photos with clothes from ostblock.

on the first one the model wears blouse by inshade & on the second one she wears dress by benedetti.

FASHIONABLE EURO2008

lately i heard a lot about fashion and football. how this 2 things don't have anything in common.

i don't agree with this.

exclusive for euro2008 at ostblock:

sportwear collection "eks" from poland. the collection is made from vintage sport t-shirts, each piece is unique, very feminin & stylish.

the best choice for fimale football fans. 

"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening."- coco chanel

ARTISTA

artista studio was formed by 6 designers: katalin imre, juli ivan, abel köves, nora ràcz, edina schön & kati stamp in 1993, in budapest.

here are some pics from ss08 collection.