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Roller Derby for Girls

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Roller Derby for Girls

Roller Derby is a contact sport played by two teams of five members roller skating in the same direction around a track, they have all kinds of matches whilst doing so. Basically one of the teams needs to be the fastest; the players are very rough with each other in order to accomplish a win. Roller skating marathons became populair in the 1930s, just like the dance marathons. Roller Derby is a sport with a high entertaiment value; the same kind the american wrestling matches have.

The Joriko Roller (in pale pink / red / turquoise) from Acne Studios’ Diner collection 2017
Caption from LIFE. A skillful shoulder block thrown by ‘Fuzzy’ Buchek (left) foils an attempt by Vivian Johnson…George Skadding—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
From Left: Lil ‘ Nitro, Rhumble Bee, Vi-vicious, BrickHouse, Shell Shock, Murderface, Rembrat, StitcHer Up, Serial Kilner, Merslaydes Benz, and Kitty Cataclysm

The black and white image is made at a Roller Derby match in 1948, taken from Time/Life Magazine. (read the article and see more images here at time.com)
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God of the Gym Paul Hunt

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Rocking the balance beam: Paul Hunt, aka Pauletta Huntesque or Pauletta Huntenvova at the Gala ‘Les dieux de la Gym’  (Gods of the Gym) in 1996. (images via Hunts Gymnastics.com)

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A Selfie and a Parachute

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A selfportrait with meaning. Photography by Willi Ruge, 1931.

Dieser Augenblick war entscheidend . . ./This Moment Was Decisive . . .
Ich fotografiere mich beim Absturz mit dem Fallschirm/ from the series I Photograph Myself during a Parachute Jump
(Abbaspour, Mitra, Lee Ann Daffner, and Maria Morris Hambourg.
Object:Photo. Modern Photographs: The Thomas Walther Collection 1909–1949 at The Museum of Modern Art. December 8, 2014. moma.org/objectphoto)
It’s things-from-the-past-you-should-see-week, an educational program at Mimi Berlin.

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Meet Angry John McEnroe

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Arguing with the referee in 1981.Meet Angry John McEnroeYou cannot be serious. A quote from John McEnroe in needlepoint!! (via Myrtle & Eunice)

Classic McEnroe outburst. John McEnroe v Tom Gullikson at Wimbledon in 1981. Umpire was Edward James. Mr McEnroe not only had such an outburst in 1981, no, he had many more; watch them on youtube, it’s fun!

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Resort 2016 Fashion Shows: Looks

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Resort 2016 Fashion Shows: Looks

Black and white (Minimal und Frilly)

Acne Studios Look 1
Sportmax Look 5
Balenciaga Look 3
lanvin Look 31
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Giambattista Valli Look 6
Opening Ceremony Look 14
Derek Lam Crosby Look 2
Cynthia Rowley Look 8

Pastel (Frilly und Minimal)

Antonio Marras Look 19
Ports 1961, Look 19
Theory Look 8
Christopher Kane Look 21

Romantic

Alberta Ferretti, Look 31
Marc Jacobs Look 29
Ohne Titel Look 3
Red Valentino Look 15
Burberry Prorsum Look 11
Bottega Veneta Look 30

Discotheque

Moschino Look 9
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Norma Kamali Look 4
rachel-zoe Look 11
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Clean

Tomas Maier Look 20
Hugo Boss Look 15
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Checks and minimals (Clean und Romantic)

Whistles Look 6
Gucci Look 35
Christian Dior Look 1
Louis Vuitton Look 28
Gucci Look 1

Flowers (Romantic und Clean)

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Chanel
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Decisions, Decisions.
We chose one favorite look from (almost) every designer showing the Resort 2015 season, featured on vogue.com, and tried to incorporate as many brands as possible, choosing one look only.

Why? Sometimes it’s good to test yourself. We think it’s important to see what happens when you approach things differently than you’re used to. So we zoomed in on the runway Looks instead of the complete collections, like we normally do. Funny thing is; this way we come up with only “usual-suspect” trends: boring! We did look at designers we have never seen before, that’s less boring but also very time consuming, and we all know time=money 😉
Conclusion: We will never again let go of our experience and knowledge about fashion trends, brands and designers. The way we spot our trends is the right way and the fun way!

(all images via vogue.com)