Sartorial…Monday?

I know I’m late…a few weeks and two days late…

I had a wonderful weekend with Bonnie. Friday and Saturday to be exact. We met at her mother’s house on Friday and went into the hills to have a photo shooting. My Outfit for the shooting was quite extravagant so we decided to leave out a few pieces for the actual Saturday Outfit.

I don’t feel 100% well with it but let’s just call it a work in progress. I could imagine wearing a look like this but better…

• Tunic: selfmade (embroidered by my mother)
• Pullover: H&M
• Trousers: H&M
• Kilt: old piece of fabric…
• Shoes: Well…..never mind…..

All pendants from my parents’ shop.

And I had my nails painted….

Sartorial Saturday: At the Hairdresser’s Ball

May I introduce…The metallic, glamophonic, electronic time travel Disco Dandy from the 80s.

It wasn’t actually a ball where I went two weeks ago but the 13th anniversary of the Salon where my hairdresser works now. It is in Frankenberg a very small town far away from me.

My Outfit:

Tuxedo Trousers – H&M

Black T-Shirt – H&M

Metallic Blue Shirt – Selfmade

Brown Leather Biker-Jacket – Vintage 1950s

Metallic Blue Shoes – H&M by Lanvin Winter 2010

Accessories:

Rings, Bracelet and Pendants – My parent’s shop

Sunglasses – NewYorker

Bag – Russian Gasmask Bag

My hair was made by Simon. A friend of Marcel, my hairdresser. Simon ist a hairdresser, too.

I loved this Outfit. It felt wonderful to wear it. It’s a very 80s Outfit but even this decade had its beautiful elements. This Outfit has so many wonderful elements: A lot of jewelery, metallic materials, something selfmade, something vintage and a brand piece…

Sartorial Saturday: Things Must Change

I’m wearing a blue polo shirt and simple Cotton Trousers while typing this post. Something went wrong somewhere, sometime.

There were times when I wouldn’t feel dresses without a 3 piece Suit and a tie.

So things must change. And as Bonnie my dear fairly scary fairy Godmother is suffering from a similar problem we now change things together. We dress well again. Elegant. Extravagant. Fashionable.

We decided to do a weekly Challenge. The Sartorial Saturday. In short Form: We dress well at least once a week and post the pictures on Saturday. On Sartorial Saturday. For more detailed rules of this Project read Bonnie’s first Sartorial Saturday Test Run.

And now….My pictures. Nothing really special but I hope it will get more interesting soon.

Rundown:

red Short Trousers – H&M

red-white stripe-shirt – H&M

stripe scarf – SIX

Shoes – Deichmann

Brooch – Bonnie

all other jewelery – My Parent’s Shop

Returning after the Summer Break

I can’t deny it anymore: Summer is over.

I am actually not that much of a summer person (spring is my time of the year) but on my journey to Hungary I learned to appreciate the sun and now that it is gone I really miss it. I am not yet in the mood for colder weather…I never liked autumn that much.

I wanted to write about my journey directly after my return but then school started again and I had to adapt to all the stress and the getting up early again. I didn’t manage to do anything in the first weeks.

But now everything is more or less  well-ordered again and because I am ill and not at school since monday I finally found the time to write this post.

I have a lot of wonderful pictures from Hungary to show you and a lot more to tell but that will have to wait until the next few posts.

First there is another very important topic to talk about:

Glee’s second season starts in a few hours!!! I am totally excited and so looking forward to seeing the new episodes. it will probably take a little longer until it arrives on the internet and I can watch it here in Germany but I won’t be going to school tomorrow (I’m still a little ill) so I can spend the whole day with checking casttv.com every 5 minutes and freaking out in anticipation.

And in the end I have a first picture from Hungary for you:

I took this photo at the library of the castle at Keszthely, one of the bigger towns in the area.

Leaving for Hungary

I will have to get up again in 3 hours to leave for Hungary. I will go there with my friend Erin and her father. We will get there by car and it will take around 12 hours.

The house we will live in is in a little town at Lake Balaton. I am really looking forward to going swimming almost every day, going horseback riding, visiting some castles and just enjoying the summer together with Erin. As I said before i didn’t travel to a foreign country for a very long time and I am really excited and happy about this journey now.

So in the next 12 days I will not be able to write anything here but when I am back I will have a lot of photos to show you that I made on my journey.

I will also tell you some details about the Veldensteiner Festival where I was last week.

And here because I can’t wait to show you: My new hair colour. Bonnie cut and dyed  my hair the day before we went to the festival.

I am really happy with the way my hair turned out. We will probably do more hair experiments this winter. Bonnie is really good at making new hairstyles so although it will be very experimental I am quite sure that it will be good. I trust in her hairdressing skills.

So now I wish you all a great two weeks. Enjoy the summer! I’ll be back in mid-august

10 Things I Love in July

It’s some time ago that I have written my last 10-things-I-love-list so this one for July is also for the last months.

I will from now on try to draw one Prince for every month’s 10-things-I-love-list. I drew this one already in April but as I said before this is a list for the last months, too.

1. The Producers I saw the 2005 film of this wonderful musical when I was in Marburg in April. It has great show moments, it is just too funny, it says some not so nice truths about Musicals in general, is very cynical and almost a bit politically…well…difficult. In a very funny and cynical  way.
2. Adam Ant also a favourite from my visit to Marburg in April. But I still love his music and his stage/video outfits. Bonnie showed me his song “stand and deliver” on Youtube and I immediately fell in love with this song. his performances and outfits are very inspiring. I love this punky historical chaotic look.
3. Punk it probably started with Adam Ant…and the song “Tere Perestroika” by J.M.K.E. that Bonnie showed me, too. Sometimes even I like some energetic, angry and loud puke-punk^^. I also like it in fashion sometimes. I am planning an Outfit for this autumn that combines Adam-Ant-outfit-elements with punk-elements and an outfit from Alexander McQueen’s autumn/winter pre-collection. The design is the picture in the beginning of this post.
4. Singing I’m not sure if it sounds good or just horrible when I sing but I  really enjoy singing along when I listen to music. I especially like singing musical songs. I would love to be on the stage and have a musical project again and this time maybe even get a small singing part. (I was singing the choir parts in our “Tanz der Vampire” production but I didn’t have a microphone.) I would really like to learn singing.
5. Dancing since a few weeks we don’t have to go to school anymore as our final exams are over. So I went out a bit more often than usual. Now that I am 18 I can also go to all the clubs so I was in some of them. And I danced. In public. With people watching. People that I don’t know. And it was fun. I think I have finally broken down this dancing-in-public-blockade I had for many years. I also love dancing alone in my room when I listen to good music but I did that before. And I like learning choreographys. I learned the choreography of Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” by watching the video a million times and looking up the missing parts in youtube videos of live performances. When I was going out in Frankfurt with three friends from my class and two friends from Aschaffenburg we went to “Your’s” bar where they had a karaoke night and there I sang “Bad Romance” by Lady Gaga. Actually I danced the choreography and so I didn’t always hold the microphone close enough to my mouth so I wasn’t hearable that much but I danced and it was so much fun.
6. Swimming A few weeks ago I went swimming in the lake for the first time this year. The cool water is really nice when it is just too warm outside. And the water in the lake is so much better than in a swimming pool.
7. Summer Nights I love the nights in this time of the year. At days it is just too warm but when the sun goes down it starts to get cooler and the air gets a wonderful smell of…well…sommer nights ^^ Nights always have a certain magic in summer…I just love it.
8. Were the world mine I have already written a complete post about this film because I love it so much. I just couldn’t resist to take it in this list, too. It is something that I really love this month…and probably many months longer.
9. Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” After seeing “Were the World Mine” I just had to read “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. I thought about reading it before but I was just always too lazy. This wonderful film gave me a reason to finally go and buy this book. It was a very good decision to do so. It is a great play and…I love fairies I think it would be great to make costumes for a production of this play. Making the stage design would probably be great too. It is a play where you can be very creative.
10. Traveling I don’t travel very often and I haven’t been in too many countries yet but I would really like to see a little bit more of this world. Next weekend I will go to the “Veldenstein” Festival. It is in Germany and not too far away but it is at least something else than the usual places that I know since years. Today my friend Erin asked me if I wanted to go to Hungary with her for 12 days in the beginning of August. She and her family go to a small holiday house there that belongs to a friend of the family every summer. This year I will be going there with them. I am really happy about that now. I didn’t have “real” holidays since years.

Were the World Mine

I fell in love with this film and I just can’t keep it to myself. It is called “Were the World Mine”.

I heard about this film from someone I met in Marburg when I was there the last time. It sounded great but I didn’t think it was that great until I watched it.

It is about Timothy who is on a boys highschool in a small town in America. He is gay and that’s why he is an outcast at his school. He loves Jonathan who is captain of the rugby team but it seems hopeless. When the literature teacher Ms. Tebbit decides to make a production of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” Timothy is cast as Puck. While he is learning the text the words of his book are changing and they reveal the recipe for “Cupids Love Juice”. With this recipe he gets a flower that makes people fall in love with the first person they see after its juice is sprayed into their eyes. Timothy makes Jonathan fall in love with him and makes the whole (very homophobic) town gay…of course that’s not the end but I want you to watch this film so I won’t tell you everything that happens…

It has musical elements. There are a few songs in the film but not enough to make me call it a musical-film. It is a really heart-warming and sweet love story. It has Shakespeare texts in it (most of the songs are adapted texts from the “Midsummer Night’s Dream”) and the costumes are wonderful. They are really inspiring. I love the idea of a teenage fairy boy in skinny jeans and glittering fairy wings.

Here are my two favourite songs from the film. I just can’t stop listening to them.

…and now go and watch this film!!!

Gala Darlings Courious Tuesday

I heard about Gala Darling from Bonnie. She started answering her Curious Tuesday questions. Two weeks ago there were some really interesting questions and I couldn’t resist to answer them. I saw them quite late and so it didn’t take long until the next questions came and I had to answer these, too. This week there wasn’t any curious Tuesday but here are my answers for the last 2 weeks.

1. What was your first kiss experience? It was a strange situation and I am not really sure if I really can (or want to) count it as my first kiss. I had it with a boy. He was madly in love with a friend of mine. He would have done anything she told him to do and well…she told him to kiss me so he did…and yes there was alcohol involved in this situation.
2. If you could work for — & learn from — anyone, who would it be & why? It really is impossible now but I think it would have been great to work for and learn from Alexander McQueen. I adore his designs and his way of making fashion. He wasn’t just a designer. He was an artist. His collections had a concept and a message. He made fashion quite exactly in the way I would love to make fashion and I would have loved to learn it from him.
3. Have you ever taken a Myers-Briggs test? (If not, do it here, it’s quick & easy!) What was your result? Do you think it was accurate? I havent taken such a test before but I did now. these were my results: 75% introverted / 25% extraverted, 55% sensing / 45% intuitive, 80%feeling / 20%thinking, 73% perceiving / 27% judging. I would say it is quite accurate. Although I always wish to be a little more extraverted but I just am not…
4. What is your favourite thing about your best friend? That would be Bonnie. I really like that almost every time we talk we are developing some new creative projects. I can always talk to her about new ideas and dreams (I have friends that get annoyed when I start talking about these things…). She also always encouraged (and still encourages) me to wear what I want – extravagant clothing – and don’t care about what anyone could think about it. She also looks after me a lot (this whole fairy godmother thing) and she is not scared to say truths I do not want to hear or to make me do things that are good for me that for some reason I am too lazy or scared to do.
5. What makes you happiest? I think it is dreaming. Although dreaming always has something about it that makes me unhappy too. I always know it’s just a dream and not reality…

1. Where do you find inspiration? I think mostly in music. To me a piece of art always starts with a feeling or a mood and music is very good at transmitting feelings and moods. It can of course be anything else that gives you a certain feeling. A special place. A building. A sound. A smell. Or sometimes a finished piece of art by someone else…
2. Have you got any hobbies or interests you’ve let lapse & wish you would take up again? I was interested in architecture a lot a few years ago. I even wanted to become an architect for some time but then I discovered fashion for me…I often thought of beautiful luxurious villas and drew plans for them. I really liked that. It is a bit like daydreaming.
3. One tea party. Ten invitations. Who do you invite? Bonnie, Tarja Turunen, Marie Antoinette, Chris Colfer, Lady Gaga, Alexander McQueen, Oscar Wilde and Dorian Grey, Death the Kid (from Soul Eater) and Sadie (from Sophie Kinsellas Twenties Girl). About the seating arrangements: It would have to be a round table so Kid has perfect symmetry no matter on which place he sits but also because he would have to sit next to Sadie and I have a bit of remorse for doing that. She would drive him crazy…and she would probably wear something asymmetric…poor Kid. From my left side around the table: Chris Colfer, Lady Gaga, Sadie, Death the Kid, Bonnie, Oscar Wilde, Dorian Grey, Tarja Turunen, Marie Antoinette, Alexander McQueen. It would be a great party. Chris Colfer and Lady Gaga would sing a duet of “Bad Romance” then Ms. Gaga would have some cocktails and gossiping with Sadie. Kid would enjoy the symmetry of the round table or maybe talk to Bonnie a little if she would not speak about literature with Oscar Wilde…who would probably start making out with Dorian Grey under the table 5 minutes after the party started. Tarja Turunen, Marie Antoinette, Alexander McQueen and I would talk about fashion, great gowns and the perfect dramatic appearance.
4. Who was your favourite teacher at school & why? My English teacher from the last year. She had a great very british humor and she was a really intelligent, open-minded and honest person. We had English on Thursday afternoons and I was often unmotivated when I went to class after the break but as soon as she started with the class the motivation came back and I enjoyed every minute of a very good English class taught by a very good English teacher.
5. Have you ever been in a long-distance relationship? No I haven’t. I have not been in any kind of relationship yet.

The Ice Prince Project

I am not happy with my wardrobe and my style of clothing at the moment. It has become too simple. I always find it hard to dress well in summer because it is just too warm for many layers of beautiful clothes but I managed to wear special and beautiful Outfits much better in the last years.

I do have a problem with looking like everyone else. I don’t like mainstream clothing. I know that there are a lot of people who say that these days and many of them are just very annoying attention seeking persons who want to wear anti-mainstream for the sake of being anti-mainstream and forget aesthetics or they just start wearing a new style that is worn by many but calls itself individual and anti-mainstream. I call looks in that style individualist-uniform. I often think about the reasons why I want to look different and I also had some discussions about it with a few people. Some of them were really getting aggressive during the conversation (that were people who mostly wear mainstream clothes but are actually not really happy with it). I also started asking myself if I wear what I wear because I want to or because I don’t want to wear mainstream. I found out that in some cases I didn’t like certain things just because they were mainstream. For example knit-wear so I started looking at these things too and found that there are actually some really nice t-shirts and pullover. But I also started getting lazy and I started leaving the house in very simple outfits that I would have never worn just one year ago and I don’t really feel comfortable in them. I realized that I really like extravagant clothes. Not only because they are different but also because I just simply like them. I love sparkling things, I love historic inspired pieces, I love interesting silhouettes and rich decorations and I also love walking around knowing that I wear special clothes, knowing that I am something special and that is as I think what being a prince is about. Feeling like something special, something good, maybe even in a way like something better than others but be careful with that part. Don’t get arrogant. Stay respectful.

So this phase of dressing (relatively) boring this summer was good to lose my “blockades” I don’t hesitate to buy beautiful and maybe even extravagant knit-wear pieces anymore just because they are knit-wear and knit-wear is mainstream. I also look at different materials and find new ways of developing my style and creating new extravagant outfits.

At the moment I am still wearing these “boring” Outfits most of the time but I have plans for this fall/winter. My wardrobe must become more extravagant, more special, more beautiful and more “couture” again. I also want it to have more concept. I want to try to wear only white tones this winter. I want to stage myself as an ice prince. I don’t only have ideas for the colours but also for the forms of the clothes. I have shirts with draped parts on them and capes with big shoulders in mind. All shall be modern but with an inspiration from the past. After all it is going to be a prince’s wardrobe and princes had their best time centuries ago…

I will start sewing for this project as soon as possible. I will start wearing the things I made in December and I will try to wear only them until the end of February… of course I will always write about this very exciting fashion experiment here on this blog, too.

taggedness caused by the hedgefairy

The hedgefairy tagged me. I have to answer her eight questions. She even threatened me. I fear her fairly scary fairy-godmother-superpowers so I answer them:

1. What’s your favourite fairy tale? I’m not really sure about that. When I was younger I liked “The Valiant Little Tailor” very much. Until today I like “Sleeping Beauty” a lot.
2. Have you ever been on stage? Theatrical or musical? I have been on stage a few times and I loved it every time. It started with theatre plays at my kindergarten but in elementary school they didn’t want me in the drama-club (there were too many in the club and I was ill on one of the first meetings so I had to go…my pride was hurt so much that I didn’t even try taking part in the next year). When I was in 6th grade I was taking acting lessons outside the school at a small theatre in Aschaffenburg. We were a group of 3 young teenagers and in one year time we made up our own theatre play by improvising scenes and experimenting with different characters. I played a deceitful countess with an addiction for whipped cream. In 8th grade I was in the school’s drama club. I met Bonnie who is my fairly scary fairy godmother and one of my two best friends there. We played a fantasy parody that was written by me. Then came the “Tanz der Vampire” musical project one year ago. I love being on stage and I haven’t been on one for much too long. (One year is too long…) I would love to play in another musical but unfortunately I have no idea where and how I could take part in another musical project
3. If you could have chosen your own first name, what would it be? I’m not sure. I actually like my first name…although I love the names Jules and Fergus, too. That’s why I use them on the internet. But maybe I would have chosen something longer, more extravagant and mysteriously sounding…I’m not good at finding names I always ask Bonnie to help me when I need one. What name would you give me if you could choose it, Bonnie?
4. Water, fire, earth, air: In which order are they in your person, most present first? I can’t find an answer for this question. I am sure that fire is in first place but I have no idea where the others are…I have never before thought about a question like this.
5. What’s your favourite drink in this hot summer? cooled coffe…most of the time I drink it with ice cream. a lot of calories but very tasty, cool and refreshing thanks to the caffeine.
6. What’s your favourite ice cream flavour? that’s very hard to decide. I think my favourites are “after eight” and “Mozart” ice cream. I have not seen “Mozart” ice cream very often yet. Maybe it’s only this one ice cream parlour here in Aschaffenburg that has it. It’s nougat,chocolate and marzipan or something like that. It’s the ice-cream version of Mozart-pralinés. A few weeks ago I had after eight strawberry and marzipan. They were wonderful together.
7. Three favourite words (any language)? Daisy/s (English). Velvet (English). Alors (French).
8. If you found a treasure chest, what would it contain? lots of shiny things The men’s coat from Chanel’s Paris-Shanghai collection and a lot of the accessories and the jewelery from that collection (especially one of the sequin bags and the asian-food-take-away-box bag); at least a few of the dresses from Alexander McQueen’s “Plato’s Atlantis” collection (just for looking at and worshiping them I wouldn’t wear them) some pieces from the Alexander McQueen men’s collections (so that I have an AMcQ piece that I can wear) some original pieces of clothing from past centuries (especially 16th/17th century Elizabethan, 18th century rococo and 19th century pieces); some really nice shiny and extravagant jewelry. Diamonds, Sapphire, Emerald and Ruby but also other and very exotic gemstones. I would love some really big sparkling colliers, bracelets and brooches but also some more unusual things like jewelry-like armour pieces. And of course some crowns, diadems, sceptres and orbs…You should never ask me questions like that I could go on for hours indulging in decadent fantasys…it would have to be a giant treasure chest.