Mimi Berlin’s Fashion-Fest #7

Posted on 14/02/2017 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Mimi Berlin’s Fashion-Fest #7

Mimi Berlin’s Fashion-Fest #7; Bed Peace Choose Life @ Tetterode.
From left to right: Mimi Berlin and Friends wishing you Love, Peace and Happiness. VUFU&FE (von uns für uns & für euch.) Paraphrasing Eric Koch’s picture of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Bed-In for Peace (Hair Peace Bed Peace) at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel. March 25, 1969. The portrayed are all creative minds from The Netherlands. In daily life they try to make the world a prettier place by creating arts, drama, fashion, and by just being kind in general.

A big huge thanks to you all for your generousity, creativity, kindness, knowledge and time! Rex Dieter, Wilhelmina Bulhof, Petra Kamphuis, Carmen Freudenthal, Machteld Schouten, Peter Pieksma, JW Kaldenbach, Marten Tak, Twan Janssen, Wendelien Daan, Amber Jansen, Pamela Spruyt, Mark van Vorstenbos, Ingrid Blankendaal, Jozef van der Heijden.

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Bed-Week at Mimi Berlin

Posted on 04/01/2017 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Bed-Week at Mimi Berlin

Simply because of the fact that it’s the first week of 2017 we, at Mimi Berlin, decided to spend this week in bed. We understand that not everyone is this privileged; so, if you really need to be outside here are some tips to cosy up on the cold winter streets >>>>>>>>>>

1980s puffer coat from Bill Blass

Duvet Coat by Maison Margiela fall/winter 1999–2000 (Screenshot from The Artist Is Absent: A Short Film On Martin Margiela | by YOOX Group)

attributed to Hiroaki Ohya (大矢寛朗), 1999. But we, at Mimi Berlin aren’t sure about that….

VS Stress, Nina Uchida photographed by Takashi Homma for Gap September 1999

Joo Youn Paek, Pillowig (2005)

louise bourgeois photo by alex van gelder. from his book Mumbling Beauty Louise Bourgeois, 2015

1970s sleeping bag coat by Norma Kamali

‘Peace of history: John Lennon’s ‘Bed Peace’ art will be familiar ifyou’ve watched footage of his and Yoko’s famous under-duvet protestsin the 1960s – this artwork is expected to bring $100,000 The felt-tip pen on foam board art’s provenance goes back to John and Yoko’s seven-day “bed-in for peace” held in 1969.’ (via justcollecting.com)

(images via youtube.com / metmuseum.org / justcollecting.com / archivings.net / @marques_almeida / alarm-magazine.com / stkwo.com/ TripleGemini.etsy/ thamesandhudson.com)

See more about (puffer) coats on this blog

PS
Did you know that Mimi Berlin is working on a photo essay on human life in bed? No? Then visit even the bedtimes are good here!

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CHOOSE LIFE

Posted on 03/01/2017 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Merry christmas from John Lennon and Yoko Ono. A large Christmas peace message reading ‘War Is Over !’ from John Lennon and Yoko Ono on a billboard in New York City. The message, protesting against US involvement in the Vietnam War, (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Katherine Hamnett and Margaret Thatcher in 1984. image credit: associated press)

moda magazine, editorial 1984 credits Oliveiro Toscani

A collector’s item. The original! courtesy of Wilhelmina Bulhof

It’s WHAM! Get your cult item at asos.com/au

George Michael has sadly passed away last year. He became a famous in the 1980s with his band WHAM! At the same time Katherine Hamnett‘s oversized, white slogan t-shirts, the ones with the large block letters, were equally populair. These t-shirts were launched in 1983. We are quite sure that everyone can see the simlarity between the t-shirts and the billboard placed by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1969 “war is over of you want it”. (pictured above on Times Square in New York City but it was simultaneously displayed at Montreal, Toronto, Los Angeles and at six European cities). Both are protesting against ‘unfairness’ in the world.
Well, Just that. Have a happy 2017 Y’all! xoxo

PS
Mimi Berlin isn’t the only one with treasures in the attic: Ms Wilhelmina found an original Hamnett t-shirt on her’s!
More on John and Yoko’s peaceful protest on this blog
See Rex Dieters Mimimotto’s on this blog

(images via yoko ono / youmustcreate.com/ katharinehamnett.com /asos.com/au/ thahanks Rex Dieter, Twan Janssen und Ms Wilhelmina)

If you think we missed some (historical) similar, visually equal, protests, besides picket lines, please let us know! We are interested….!

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Bed-Ins for Peace: Bed Peace

Posted on 02/01/2017 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Bed-Ins for Peace: Bed Peace

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John Lennon and Yoko Ono on their honeymoon, at the first day of their Bed-In for Peace (Hair Peace Bed Peace) in the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel. March 25, 1969. (Photocredits Eric Koch, Spaarnestad via www.gahetna.nl)

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