Simply Stunning Couture: Addy Van Den Krommenacker

  Dutch fashion designer Addy van den Krommenacker launches BOSCH BY ADDY, a special Jheronimus Bosch collection, exactly 500 years after the painter’s passing.    The painting, The Garden of Earthly Delights, has always captured the fashion designer van den Krommenacker’s interest.    There are definitely many contradictions found among the masterpieces of Jheronimus Bosch, creating […]

Sergei Polunin: Take Me to Church

        Sergei Polunin was born in Kherson, Ukrainian SSR. From the age of 4 to 8, he trained at a gymnastics academy and then spent another four years at the Kyiv State Choreographic Institute.    His mother Galina Polunina moved with him to Kyiv while his father Vladimir Polunin worked in Portugal to support them.   via:wikipedia   After Polunin […]

True Blue Beautiful: At Home

“…and so many colors I will have seen… the menacing greys and pine greens the soft pink and purples of spring and summer blue and so many others without you.”    ― Sanober Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest     Elegant and airy, this striking living room’s blue velvet sofa adds some serious wow factor.  […]

SULVAM Spring 2017 Collection

SULVAM  SPRING-SUMMER 2017 COLLECTION Review by Kelly Wetherille A former pattern-maker for Yohji Yamamoto, Teppei Fujita sent a slew of chic vagabonds down his spring runway, creating a delicate balance between polished and grungy. While his collection is categorized as men’s wear, he used several female models as well, following a trend that has been common […]

Did Someone Say CAKE?

CHOCOLATE TAHINI CAKE, TWO WAYS   via:The Brick Kitchen   It’s a chocolate tahini cake from Molly Yeh’s new cookbook, Molly on the Range.   It’s a sheet cake that doesn’t even need a stand mixer, all of the ingredients are already in the pantry, and there is no fiddly frosting or cake-leveling or crumb coats or […]

Golden Opulence

“I’d rather have a heart of gold Than all the treasure of the world.”    ― Ana Claudia Antunes, Memoirs of An Amazon       shredded goldddd   “We will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: “You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you […]