Icon: Uschi Obermaier

Uschi Obermaier

Uschi Obermaier was an actress, photomodel, protagonist of the 1968 left-wing movement in Germany and is regarded as an iconic sex-symbol of the 1968 generation in Europe. She was born in Munich on September 24th, 1946 and was discovered by TWEN magazine. Thin and petite just like Twiggi, she represented a new type of model. Obermaier moved from Munich to the Berlin-based Kommune 1 after she had become Rainer Langhans' girlfriend. Langhans and Obermaier freely talked to the media about their relationship, becoming symbols of the sexual revolution.
Uschi is considered one of the first and best known German groupies of the 60s (she's had affairs with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones as well as Jimi Hendrix - it even went so far that Keith and Uschi ended up falling really in love and he is said to even have considered leaving his common-law wife Anita Pallenberg for Uschi).
In 1973, Uschi Obermaier fell in love with Dieter Bockhorn, the wealthy owner of a club in Hamburg's Reeperbahn red-light district (she now was in love with two men at the same time, Dieter and Keith, and was always torn between the more personally fulfilling relationship with Dieter and the exciting and very sexual life with Richards). Together, Bockhorn and Obermaier traveled the world in a customized bus, first spending three years in Asia, then going to Mexico and the US for another three years. In an Interview (Galore, Issue 25) Obermaier marked reports that she and Bockhorn had a traditional wedding in every country they traveled in as completely fictitious. They only married once, in India. After ten years their relationship ended abruptly. On New Year's Eve 1983, Dieter Bockhorn died in a motorcycle accident in Mexico. About a week earlier she had met Keith Richards at the beach they were staying at in Baja - the first time since she had eventually left and abandoned him crashed out in a Chicago hotel room 8 years earlier, in 1975, after Bockhorn had called to invite her to join him on his trip to Asia. Richards had come to Mexico to get married to Patti Hansen. Uschi would later say "in that single week in Mexico I have irrevocably lost the two most important men in my life."
By then, Uschi Obermaier had been granted American citizenship. Today, she lives in Topanga Canyon near Los Angeles, working as a jewellery designer.
Her life has been depicted in a biopic called Das Wilde Leben (the english title is Eight Miles High), based on the bestselling book High Times: Mein Wildes Leben, an authorized biography of Obermaier's life, written by Olaf Kraemer, who also wrote the screenplay to Eight Miles High.

The movie, in which German actress Natalia Avelon portrays Uschi, was directed by Achim Bornhak and was released in February 2007.

Sophomore S/S 2009 ad campaign

This are the pics from the look book of Sophomore NYC's ad campaign for their Spring/Summer 2009 collection.

It features It-girls/models Cory Kennedy, Alexandra Richards, Harley Viera Newton and Lizzie Trullie and was shot by Cass Bird.

The ads have a very youthful and playful touch to them which I think is down to the fact that the photographer shot the campaign while the girls were simply hanging about a Manhattan pool, enjoying themselves.

And I enjoy looking at the photos just as much as the models seem to having had a good time together. I hope you do, too.

And I espacially love the pics of my dear Alexandra. So beautiful:

Inspiration: Pinks & Ice

There's a lot of inspiration out there in the world and new inspiration comes with every minute, day and month. And with every season.

I like to capture inspirational things not only with my mind and memory, but also with the camera, because I love to look through my albums and, in this way, "re-discover" the objects I once was - or still am - lusting for, the images that mean something to me just because each of them tells a different and a very unique story on their own. It's a way of expressing yourself and you can turn each of those photographs into something completely new and exciting, even years later.

Now, in deepest winter, I have detected the wonderful little games the icicles play all the time outside, in the garden, in the front of the house, in the woods. And the entity the ice forms is something so beautiful and irrevocably one-of-a-kind, because they're there at the moment for that very instant, for that very day, and If you go outside the next day to have a look at this beauty again you will find that the formation has changed. Some bits have melted away, sunk in and new ones were attached over the night. It's a completely new structure that stands on it's own, like the one the day before did. It's a different, yet even more so vrilliant invention of nature.

Here are a few pictures I took of the icy formation in front of our house this past weekend:

With the cold and snowy weather outside, we had decided to bring some warmth and spring inside, so there's a bunch of pinks on the table. I find flowers very interesting and inspirational, so of course I had to take one or the other photo, playing around with shadows:

Went to the movies with my sis and some friend today and we watched a German comedy which was really quite funny. Afterwards we spent an hour playing pool. Lots of fun tonight!

I'm very tired, so I'm going to bed now. Good Night everyone and sweet dreams!

Calvin Klein - new ad campaign

CALVIN KLEIN'S RACY NEW ADS
A controversial campaign...

By Christine Liu

There has been plenty of juicy gossip surrounding fashion designers this week – from Jason Wu's supposed outing by the New York Times to rumors that Oliver Theyskens might be in the market for a new job. But the steamiest news to come out of the fashion world concerns a certain commercial put out by a prominent jeans company.

While the name Calvin Klein is synonymous with its own unique brand of cool, clean minimalism, it has also taken on connotations of raw and sometimes controversial sensuality. Who could forget the iconic images of Natalia Vodianova on a dark rocky beach, her lips hovering tantalizingly over a half-naked Jamie Dornan? The new commercial and ad campaign, shot by Steven Meisel, features some of this season's hottest young models stretched out on a sofa wearing nothing but the brand's signature denim, with their long limbs entangled indiscriminately and expressions of utter euphoria on their faces.

The grainy quality of the video and the basement-like setting only adds to a sense of voyeurism on the part of the viewer. The commercial has been deemed so risqué, in fact, that it has been banned from even late night television. While Calvin Klein has often come under fire for its provocative images and in-your-face sex appeal, the brand has remained true to its identity as creative pioneer, a pusher of envelopes and a classic American label that is not afraid of challenging America's traditionally conservative social norms.

To watch the full video click here: http://www.wwd.com/video/?vid=9357449001


http://www.thefashionspot.com/front-row/calvin-klein-s-racy-new-ads-1433

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

Last night I went to a nice night out with a friend of mine. We had dinner at an Asian restaurant - Running Sushi! - and afterwards we went to the movies to see The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button which was released here this past Friday.


We both liked the movie a lot! It was very well made in every aspect. Very well directed, shot, the soundtrack was good. It's a dramatic movie, but it's also quite funny and unexpected in a way.


But what struck me most was the actors' performances! Espacially the two leading roles, Benjamin Button and Daisy Fuller, portrayed by Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.


I wouldn't be surprised If Brad got his Oscar for this one! His palying here is awesome and comes across very convincing and believing. Very serious, yet witty.


And Cate was gorgeous, too! Not only did she play wonderful, she looked great, too, with the red hair and gracious dance moves!

I think I'll go see this movie a second time! It's great and I highly recommend it to everyone!

Other than that, we've tons of snow over here. We got even more last night so, this morning we all went outside to build snowmen and to sled. It was lots of fun!