Is it me or is it happening?

I believe that yellow is the new pink; in fact I start believing more and more that it will indeed happen. When our followers submit their yellow images for Trend Tablet’s mood board on Pinterest, I see that many people agree with me. I am very happy since I love yellow at this point, even though it is not always easy to wear. I’d like to have a bright yellow coat as we would wear in the 80’s, yet haven't seen anything yet; maybe have to wait some years more…

Soon it will be yellow fever in the garden with narcissus and forsythia and two weeks later with mimosa; all harbingers of spring. Spring brings this irrepressible energy that invites us to spring-clean, throwing out old clothes and objects to make space for new impulses and new colours. Then comes the period of sunflowers and mustard fields and corn; all beautiful colours to landscape our country wardrobes. These yellow flowers and cereals will influence fashion and patterns (and especially men’s fashions) for the seasons to come, they will accumulate different tones of yellow flower colours as if they were new neutrals, further developing our taste for sun and moon!

The fabrics that will carry our yellow further will be canvas, linen and piqué jerseys for polo shirts. As well as colourwovens and patterns, patterns and more patterns.

In this way, the men’s wardrobe becomes sundrenched and happy, witnessing an urgent need within the consumer’s soul to bring optimism in existence.

Let's further pollinate the power of yellow!

To be continued…

Lidewij Edelkoort

Scarves have been man’s best friend forever.

A little bit of fabric to wrap the neck to cover the hair or to decorate the shoulder. a square of textile able to define a brand, to define luxury, to define class.

For this summer, the scarf has become a pattern from Zara to Dolce & Gabbana, it is eveywhere H&M feeling the importance of this product / piece made it the star of their advertising campaign for Summer.

This scarf pattern can be worn easily as a head band or more chic on a dress, a pant or even as a jewelry.

Easy to mix with a rockish outfit that will turn out to be classy and chic when you incorporate the scarf. Bohemian style here we go….

Charlotte Bjorklund

Popelini is a Paris pastry shop exclusively dedicated to the French specialty called choux à la crème - or cream puffs.

Every day, bite-size flavour pastries are freshly made by hand from the finest ingredients.Flavours range from classics to most eccentric ones. A big hit is 'caramel au beurre salé' and ephemeral flavours are proposed every two weeks, now 'peanut butter'.The chou of the day, made with cream, whipped cream and seasonal fruits, allows pleasures related to the moment for instant inspirations and fresh sensations.

Popelini is the name of the Italian chef who came up with the recipe for choux pastry in 1540 at the court of Catherine de Medicis.

Today, Popelini pastry shop is devoted to create a modern twist on this classic french specialty, coating them with dark chocolate, topping them with surprising textures, decorating them with petals or gold leaves...

Meeting our needs for small luxuries and hedonism.

Sophie Carlier

Jeremy Loops is a genius in music performance. He puts together his one man shows creating various sounds, instrumental and vocal, singing, tapping his microphone for a bass beat, blowing in a harmonica, playing a few measures of his guitar etc. He records each sound one after the other in a sequence, through pressing a pedal linked to a digital recording system. He then loops them at will to create the perfect flow of a song.

What is so nice is that the artist demonstrates before the eyes of an amazed audience the whole process of creating the soundtrack; smooth folk background that also invites different artists to join in the performance. A sense of artistic self-sufficiency and musical improvisation.

Emmanuelle Linard

www.jeremyloops.com

I recently travelled to Amsterdam to give a lecture for an architecture firm where we discussed, amongst other things, the important integration of technology in our lives. While on the way to the airport, I was horrified to witness my iPhone check-out for the day; completely crashing and refusing to restart.

What ensued was a series of attempts to resuscitate the tool to its usual workings; yet no amount of manipulation helped and the wheel of death icon kept spiraling on my screen, reminding me with each turn how fragile our existence is now that we rely so heavily upon the digital. I had no address for my meeting, no printout of my ticket, and no access to emails or text messaging, let alone the possibility to call for help..! Miraculously, I used my brain to resolve the situation.

Once I accepted the possibility of losing all the important data on my phone, it dawned on me how liberating it was to be disconnected. Without any digital distractions, I read the newspaper and reflected on upcoming projects, I enjoyed viewing the glistening canals of the Dutch landscape from above, and once arriving at the meeting's venue, I was able to focus on preparing my speech in complete silence. I was observant and in touch, so happy not to be reached.

In an age where the corporate machine tells us how intrinsic technology is for successful business, when social media pressures us to constantly vote and interact, when the unedited Internet is a source used for diluted journalism and medical self-diagnosis, and when email is able to find you anywhere on the planet only to demand an instant response, it seems evident that some people are going to switch off in the same way my iPhone did. 

There is a growing movement against Facebook, for example, with avant-garde members changing their profiles to become incognito or in extreme cases, proudly quitting the social network altogether. Creative people too need to get creative in order to escape email and have more thinking and making time. The Internet will need to be filtered into a new format so that we can access what we really need, and pop-up advertising will need to be shut down.

While my iPhone came back to life when I arrived home late that evening, I couldn't help savour the day's freedom. I decided to mute the sound on my computer that announces new emails, allowing me to focus on things more productively rather than continually check messages and multi-tasking. My iPhone got the same silencing treatment for emails and SMS. Looking for No-Fi rather than Wi-Fi zones may become an enticing new habit! 

Philip Fimmano

This exhibition in MOCA Los Angeles, celebrates the remarkable collaboration between the great fashion designer Rudi Gernreich, his model and muse Peggy Moffitt, and Moffitt's late husband, the photographer William Claxton. The exhibition features selected looks from Moffitt's definitive collection, with films and photographs. 

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