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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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)

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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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Smilesfilm

Posted on 24/06/2012 by Mimi Berlin Amsterdam

Smilesfilm

“My ultimate goal in film-making is to make a film which includes a smiling face snap of every single human being in the world”
Yoko Ono 1967.
And here you have it: Smilesfilm 2012.

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Yoko Ono in 2012. We wouldn’t crop the cleavage….

“In August 1968, Yoko Ono directed two films, shot in the same afternoon in the garden of John Lennon’s house ‘Kenwood’ in Weybridge. The first film was called Number 5, but it has also been known as SMILE. It premiered at the Chicago Film Festival in 1968.”

Nowadays #smilesfilm is a worldwide online participatory artwork by Yoko Ono that reflects her pioneering vision of the power of mass participation. Originally conceived in 1967 as a way of connecting people across the world, this 21st century project invites people to upload images of their smiles to Instagram & Twitter, accompanied by the hashtag #smilesfilm.

Using the hashtag, all the smiles are collated by the #smilesfilm website & app, and are then viewable globally and locally on a world map and together as a film.

Come on, dear friends, for the sake of our Sunday activities, let’s all smile!

You can download the smilesfilm app for your Iphone here.

(photo’s and text via smilesfilm.com/)