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Violet Chachki on the Runway at Moschino F/W 2018

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Violet Chachki on the Runway at Moschino F/W 2018

Violet Chachki, the winner of season 7 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, closed the Moschino show on the runway in Milan the other day. Remember; it’s the menswear shows for fall/winter 2018 we’re watching. Ms Chachki wore a black tuxedo, with a ‘twist’. Jeremy Scott,  designer for Moschino, named this garment the “tandem tux” because the tail was fixed to yet another model wearing the same jacket. Our best guess is that it was a female model: Violet looked rather manly. Don’t get us wrong here: we think she is always adorable!

Violet Chachki on the right

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Dutch Designers Re-invent The Chair

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Dutch Designers Re-invent The Chair

What do the Red and Blue chair designed by Gerrit Rietveld in 1918, The Wassily chair, designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925 and the Lounge chair and ottoman designed by Eames in 1959, have in common, except for the fact they are designed in the 20th century? Well, these design icons have all been re-invented by Dutch Designers. Just that.

by Tessa Koot, 2017.
by Marcel Breuer, 1925
by Eames, 1956
by Mal-furniture, 2012
by Maarten Baas, 2010
by Rietveld, 1917

Red and Blue Chair designed by Gerrit Rietveld in 1917. Wassily Chair, designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925 (currently produced by Knoll). Lounge chair and ottoman designed by Eames in 1959. (currently produced by Herman Miller)

There are probably are more examples. Please be so kind to share them with us if you know! Thanks! xoxo Mimi

(other images via: Maarten Baas Tessa Koot Mal-Furniture)

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CHOOSE LIFE

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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
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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Plagiarism in Fashion

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Mixa vs Isabel Marant
(Kieran Oudshoorn/CBC (from book Northern Voices) /Tristan Fewings/Getty Images)

In the News these days; the ongoing story on copying traditional costumes by fashion designers (read; fashion industry). Nothing new about that news we hear you say, this has been done for decades and decades. True! Copying, or being inspired, anything from anywhere is pretty standard in the fashion (and in any other design) industry. (We, at Mimi Berlin file this under; Where Abraham got the mustard; which is a literally translated Dutch proverb meaning that “someone is aware of something”; In our case Mimi Berlin knows and shows. But that’s an other story…..) Continue reading →

Diana Vreeland VS Sarah Jessica Parker

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Diana Vreeland VS Sarah Jessica Parker

Mimi’s Brainbreaker Week; These images are taken 30 years apart. Which one is your favorite?

Ours is the left one!
Left; Diana Vreeland in her home photo by Jonathan Becker in July 21, 1979 for Vanity Fair Magazine (getty images)
Right; Sarah Jessica Parker photographed as Diana Vreeland for Harper’s Bazaar by Peter Lindbergh in March 2009 (via harpersbazaar)

Shocking perfume bottle by Schiaparelli

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Shocking perfume bottle by Schiaparelli

Vintage perfume bottle
1936, patent for a bottle design
1936, patent for a bottle design
Ad from 1937
1936, patent for a bottle design

Elsa Schiapparelli had the perfume bottle for Shoking patented in December 1936. The perfume was launched In1937 and with that also the color shocking pink was invented. The bottle was designed by Léonor Fini and represented a dressmaker dummy following the curves of Mae West, a velvet measuring tape and was decorated with porcelain flowers (inspired by Dalí ‘s paintings of flower-sellers so says wikipedia) The bottle came with a black leather carry-on case lined with fabric in shocking pink.
Needless to say, but we will; Jean Paul Gaultier took the bottle design to the next level; In 1993, he launched his first fragrance for women “JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER” (which is now called “CLASSIQUE”),  in a bottle representing a female torso based on both Madonna and the bottle of Shocking de Schiaparelli. Variations on the JPG Torso Bottles come in maybe millions and were (are?) highly collectable….

visit the Schiaparelli site