Nothing to wear? Just SPRAY your outfit!

Designing and creating your own outfit was never that simple! Thanks to the Spanish designer Manel Torres you don't have to search for that perfectly fitting top any more. The answer: don't pray just spray! See here how the spray works and get inspired by Torres' collection in this movie: 

Sometimes you ask yourself: Why?!

The first time it's too weird to laugh about it, the second time

you can't stop laughing

And for the other curious people who want to know why, just click

My dress is made in Bangladesh, should I feel guilty?

Does Doutzen know about the working
conditions of the people who produce the
clothes for H&M?

I just posted a tweet to @AsicsAmsterdam to ask them about the working conditions and an endurable wage for people in Colombia who make their products, like my pink running shoes? Mirjam Sterk made me do this. I saw her documentary (at Uitzendinggemist)about Sophea, who works at a garment factory in Colombia, because, since the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh in April this year (which killed more than 1000 workers), I don't dare to buy anything at the H&M or ZARA anymore. 

Okay, to be honest, I bought one long grey dress for a colour festival last summer at the H&M (even when I saw it was 'made in Bangladesh', so the person who made it could be dead!). But I didn't had any 'fashionable' clothes that could get dirty, and - as you may understand - I didn't want to spend too much money on a dress I could probably only wear once (yeah right, I hear myself think right now). But, the dress came - unexpectedly  - CLEAN(!) out the washer... hmmmm, so knowing that people gave their lives while making the dress,... this sounds really ridiculous, but it's the truth... So my idea was, and still is, to make a statement (with that dress). I want to write a question on the dress like: 'This dress is made in Bangladesh, should I feel guilty?'. 

After seeing the documentary I think I should, but that docu is saying only one 'half' of the story. And although that half story is saying a lot abouth the truth, I want to hear the truth and the other half of the story from the big (fat of dirty money?) companies like H&M, Mango, ZARA, Esprit, Asics, Vero Moda etc. What do they know about the working conditions in 'their' fabrics, and do they care about it? And knowing that a country like Colombia is not comparable to a Western, prosperous country like the Netherlands, what are 'good' working conditions and an 'endurable' wage like? And what are the consequences of this improvement?

pfff okay, a lot of questions, but I think this is important to think about. And maybe you are wondering where you can buy a lovely 'Fair' dress? Well, at fairwear you can make your own shopping list with brands that are fair or at least take the necessary steps to get there. Or download the talking dress app. 

Hmmm... a lot of dresses included in this text, but this message is also for the lovely men! 

Ps. I will keep you posted about the possible answer of AsicsAmsterdam. I hope so, because I really like to keep on buying Asics running shoes...

500 Dollar Dreamhouse

Located in the mountains of West Virginia you find the most wonderful house/cabin I’ve ever seen (on screen). This one-of-a-kind glass cabin made of discarded windows is what I see as the realization of today’s tendency of romanticism, back to nature, ecologism, greenism, beardism, consciousism, having-less-is-having-moreism, slow-living and creative-with-less-moneyism.

Check the video below and visit My Modern Met for the story behind... 

Tips for your higher-than-high heels days

How beautiful they might look, the much more confidence they might give you or whatever reason you have to walk on higher-than-high-heels, I still prefer comfort (I think I’m naturally a ‘flats person’) and I only wear – the most comfortable I can find – heels at special occasions. So, especially for those moments, for high-heels-lovers and the ‘naturally heels persons’ (and everybody in between) some tips from the professionals! Like how do you get gracefully out of a car? Or when do you have to buy your shoes/heels? I’ll give you already the answer on the latter from  Sarah Rutson (fashion director at LaneCrawford): “Never buy heels in the morning, do it in the afternoon when your feet have expanded” > that’s a good one, non?!

Goooood Morning!

Did you hear about the 21 year young(!) Ásgeir from Iceland? He won several prices at the Iceland Music Awards, like Album of the Year, Best Newcomer, Public Choice Award etc. and now he is going to take over the rest of the world (I'm already hooked)

Wake up with his new single King and Cross... Hmmm I love it!

Robbie was in town!

Yesterday were the recordings of College Tour with the one and only Robbie fucking Williams  (I'm sorry for fucking, but you'll understand why I am writing that when you see College Tour tonight, 20.25u NTR, NL3) in the Dutch Pop Temple Paradiso and I was one of the 500 lucky bastards/students who could join the show(!)

If you not already do, you'll gonna love him after you have seen the show tonight. Robbie is charming, a gentleman, he has a huge bunch of humour and self-mockery and he has that very sexy little arrogance which - yet - makes him so attractive - even after 39 years and gaining weight for "30 pounds".

Before the interview started, we were told we could ask him any question (but we weren't allowed to take pictures). It seemed that mr. Williams had left his past of alcohol&drugs behind, that he got over it, and that he could speak openly about it now he came into calmer waters (married in 2010 with Ayda Field and became father of daughter Theodora Rose Williams (Teddy) – since 2012), although,  as being a sensitive person, he had to sweep a little tear away during the show.

When the alcohol&drugs topic was brought up, he told that he could not blame his fame to the addictions: “Even if I was a carpenter […] I would have become an alcoholic”. He also never regretted being famous, that’s actually what he always wanted to be, thus in a next life he would do the same. Simultaneously he's kind of afraid that he is not good at anything else, because the only thing he was good at at school were the social activities, “I hope I’m dyslexic”.

Besides the predictable alcohol&drugs topic (and a – desperate/daring? - “can I have a kiss from you”-question), the questions diverge. Williams told about and showed the Elvis Pray he does with his crew before the start of every concert and about a very awkward moment he had when he asked what the green thing was he had in his hand (namely a cucumber), he showed his new tattoo, answered the question if his image of being a sex bomb influences his family life and my question about what his ultimate dream concert would be like, the answer was surprising, but also related to his newest album. Twan Huys (the presenter) showed Robbie’s several performances at Paul de Leeuw and his guest role in Little Britain, something he definitely wants to do more in the future.

This was just a selection of the several funny, touching and honest moments of the show. Go see it tonight, or, if you can’t – for whatever reason – go to uitzendinggemist.

                       Robbie in Little Britain