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The Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote yesterday, that the pope has been voted to be one the 23 best dressed men in the world. That at least claims the US-magazine "Esquire". I have always known that. Thinking of his magnificent prada-loafers and sunglasses. Also the fact that he always wearing white is just a matter of taste and style. He also won the special price for "accessorizer of the year" - yeah - exactly because of his red prada shoes. I told you.
Besides winner of this list was soccer-pro Tom Brady. Others are US-politician Barack Obama, soccer star David Beckham and Bond actor Daniel Craig.
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Die Golden Globes sind jetzt schon Geschichte, doch mit ihnen fängt jetzt nur die Zeit der Awards und großen Empfänge an. Das es eigentlich um Film und Fernsehen geht, vergisst man schnell, wenn man von dem ganzen Rummel überrollt wird, der jedes Jahr um die Roben der Stars gemacht wird. Und immer ist jemand darunter, der schrecklich daneben liegt und bei dem man sich Fragen muss, wurden alle Spiegel verpannt oder der Stylist kurzfristig ausrangiert?
Doch dieses Jahr sahen fast alle irgendwie daneben aus. Eigentlich lockte mir nur eine ein "WOW!" hervor:
Reese Witherspoon. Sie trug ein gelbes Cocktailkleid von Olivier Theyskens für Nina Ricci und dazu ganz entzückende rote Satin-Riehmchen-Pumps mit einer Schleife an der Seite.

Anyone interested in Keira Knightles's Oscar gown? Go for it and get it on ebay.



The current price is GBP 3,901.00 (approximately US $6,981.62). It's a customized Vera Wang dress.

Pope Benedikt is a fashionista. He really likes wearing expensive Prada shoes. He's quite interested in fashion and accessoires.
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Edit #1: Now I read that he's not only wearing Prada shoes but also Gucci sunglasses. It would be a nice thing for research The Fashionable Pope, don't you think? I remember when I was in Rom 2 years ago there was this really narrow alley where you can only find clothing stores for the pope, the cardinals and all the others. Only the finest gowns. I took a photo. I'll have a look for it.

Edit #2: He may never make the best-dressed lists, but Pope Benedict XVI is nothing short of a religious-fashion icon, riding in the Popemobile the Papa Mobil with red Prada loafers under his cassock and Gucci shades. But his penchant for designer wear and a move to ditch the papal tailors who have dressed popes for more than 200 years are causing new wrinkles in the Vatican. Benedict has favored his tailor from his days as cardinal, Alessandro Cattaneo, and the 20-year-old religious-fashion house of Raniero Mancinelli, which has provided the pope with dazzling new vestments (some with shimmering, sequinlike details). At risk of losing the papal-dress contract are the Annibale Gammarelli tailors, who have made papal wear since 1792. But they blundered when Benedict had to make his debut blessing in a cassock that was too short, ending just above his ankles. Subsequent celebratory vestments made by Gammarelli are reported to have made the pope uncomfortable.
Source: msnbc Newsweek

Edit #3: A short list of Benedikts fashion guide.
+ For everyday and travelling: 1.) a white Soutane (= cassock): a long, close-fitting, ankle-length robe. The cassock derives ultimately from the tunic that was formerly worn underneath the toga in classical antiquity. 2.) a white Zingulum (= kind of belt, latin). 3.) a white Pileolus on top (latin = pileus = hat, also Zucchetto, plural zucchetti, Italian for "small gourd"). A small skullcap. It was first adopted for practical reasons — to keep the clergy's tonsured heads warm in cold, damp churches — and has survived as a traditional item of dress. It consists of eight panels sewn together, with a stem at the top. Its name may derive from its resemblance to half of a pumpkin, or from the fact that it covers a larger "pumpkin" (the head).
+ During colder days: 1.) He wears a red coat, the so called Mantello. In winterdays this coat also comes with a ermine fur lining. Is that P.C.? 2.) On his head he's sporting the Camauro (from the Latin camelaucum, from Greek kamelauchion, meaning "camel skin hat"). Papal camauros are of red wool or velvet with white ermine trim. It looks a bit the hat Santa Clause is supposed to wear. Benedikt XVI. wore it last year shortly before christmas and it was quite a laugher. He was the first pope to wear it again since Johannes XXIII (1881-1963).

Edit #4: Well I just found a very good article about the new pope's fashion affectations on washingtonpost.com. It made me understand the rumors and uproars a bit better: Benedict's predecessor, John Paul II, had no use for fancy papal attire. Most often he put on the basic white cassock and white gold-trimmed sash. In winter, however, he enjoyed a crimson wool cloak trimmed in gold braid, at times allowing children to play hide and seek in its deep folds. Yeah that makes sense. All the time reading about this the-pope-wears-prada-issue I was wondering whether there was something about modesty in church and the Catholic/Christian set of beliefs. And something like the voidness of material things, if you come to think of monks living in a monastry, that property is nothing and not important at all. The 78-year-old Benedict lacks John Paul's natural charisma, and the trappings of Vatican splendor may be a way to compensate. But it also sound like Benedikt is a little riot clergyman who has his own head when it comes to fashion and clothing. Have you heard about the sweater mystery? When he came out on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica to give his first blessing minutes after his election April 19, an inappropriate black sweater peeked out from under the cuff of his hurriedly donned white cassock. Apparently there was no heating in the Sistine Chapel where the conclave was held, and the new pope might have needed some woolen comfort.
Another fashion issue in the news recently: papal hemlines.
During Benedict's first public appearances, his cassock was way above the ankle, revealing white socks and bright red footwear. The hem was soon lowered a few inches, although he still prefers a sporty around-the-ankle look instead of having the cassock draped over the shoes. That is why we saw the designer loafers. And I also read somewhere else that he prefers his own tailor who he knows and works with since his old days as a cardinal. So he's not accoutered by the traditional vatican tailor. And his personal tailor kind of made the mistake with the too short hemline. Which is also funny cause it reminds me to some extent of the emancipation of women starting to wear shorter dresses and skirt because it's much more handy and comfortable.

Our interview with the Berlin based magazine "Das Magazin" is out now. I'm still a bit irritated to read something about me.

If you want to read it, go to the "Das Magazin" website. But it's in German.

Yeah, and I already have a few favourites in this text: #1 that I irritated the interview guy with my appearance. Wearing red ball-shaped earrings which looked like cherries saying hello from under my blonde bubikopf hairstyle. Combined with the pink piraty skull & bones on my laptop case.

We will see where this leads me to....

vogue.de schreibt:
Wir wussten es ja schon längst: Kate Moss und Pete Doherty sind wieder ein Paar! Die Schöne und das Biest kommen einfach nicht von einander los, da verzeiht er ihr auch mal den kleinen Flirt mit ihrem Toyboy letztes Jahr in den amerikanischen Rocky Mountains. Weil aber selbst das dem „Babyshambles“-Frontmann verfallene Supermodel seine (fauligen) Zähne nicht so anziehend findet, kriegen Petes Beißerchen jetzt eine Generalüberholung. Finanzier der längst überfälligen Aktion: klar, Kate! Für das neue Gebiss des Lovers legt das Starmodel mal eben 10.000 britische Pfund hin. Wie der „Daily Star“ erfahren haben will, leidet der chronische Trinker, Kettenraucher und vermeintliche Junkie seit Jahren an Halitosis (Zahnfäule). Ein weiterer Grund für den unappetitlichen Zustand von Petes Zähnen: angeblich mangelnde Hygiene. Nach Angaben einer anonymen Quelle, auf die sich die Zeitung beruft, habe der Musiker große Angst vor dem Zahnarztbesuch. Nur aus Angst, seine Angebetete sonst zu verlieren, habe er der Aktion zugestimmt.

First of all: it's gonna be a long way. Keep this in mind while reading on.
It took me nearly a year to manage the right color and everything. And to start with you really need a very robust hair structure, which I - lucky me - have.

#1: Dye your hair with the strongest blonde dyeing thing you can get in your local drugstore. I can recommand a few: Poly Palette, Nutrisse, Schwarzkopf Blonde (I'll check the numbers and exact names later). There are of course other colorations, like bleaching powder for example, but you can only purchase those in special hairdresser shops. But go for it and have a try. I would be very interessted in it.

#2: If you're not naturally blonde the whole process will last even longer. Yeah and there might be some hat-wearing phasis included. I guaranty for nothing. Someday I read an article about Ashlee Simpson wanting her natural hair color back after she dyed it black in an act of protest because of her sister Jessica. It took her 5 dyeing sessions in a row to get the blonde back. And it was all dirty red in the meantime. So think of that. But my advise is: Don't do 5 sessions in a row. Your hair will be like shit after that. I did it once with 2 sessions and a day between - and that was already a hard thing to cope with for my hair.

#3: With reaching the right lightness it's not enough. It happens that the bleached hair gets an ugly shade of orange or yellow (which also karl described in his comment). But I found a solution for this nasty thing. You have to treat your hair with special shampoo and other styling products. The special thing is it has to be shampoo for white or grey hair. No kidding. It really works. I use "Guhl Révité". The shampoo is purple. That's why it's able to reduce the yellow shade. Kind of a chemical thing, I guess. They - the colors - cancel each other out in some way. I think it's simply because of this complementary color thing. I also used "John Frieda's Sheer Blonde" styling mousse "Star Blonde". But I changed it to some cheaper Schwarzkopf thing. And once a week I use a silver coloration for grey hair.

Update: I finally found the piece of paper where I once wrote down the brand and number of the silver coloration I used. It's: Londa Londeston Easy Colors "Silver Shine" Nr. 89. It'a a easy-to-use mousse coloration, and by the way it's a very cheap one to. You can get it for only € 1,95. You can use it 2-3 times, depending on your hair structure and how many hair you got. It really worked. But be careful with how long you're keeping it in your hair. I once forgot to rinse it out in time and then my hair had quite visible shade of purple. But this was over by the next time I washed my hair again.

The Goethe Institut asked me to do a presentation infront of a group of young Asian journalists in May. Seven people coming from South Korea, China, Indonesia and Bhutan. They take part in a scholarship program that contains a 2-months stay in Cologne or Berlin at a local newspaper. During this they will also do a trip to 3 German cities: Bonn, Weimar and Munich.
And while visiting Weimar they also want to get in touch with some current projects or artists who are dealing with, "creating something new out of the traditions of Weimar". >>that's me<< And they also want to take a look at the department of media design.
Well, this will be on May, 30th.
I'll keep you in touch.

My first days with my spy bag are over now. I have to say: It's done a good job in the allday routine so far. But it's not that huge as I thought it would be. The lining is much smaller than the outside suggests. So that's why it's very much ok for my usual stuff, like moleskine, makeup, pens, tabbaco, purse, keys, gum, blistex, stomac pain killers, novel (book), deo, sunglasses, mirror ... But coming to spontanous over night staying kit - that's crossing the line, in more than just one way. But in the end it works for me. And that's the main reason, I guess. And nevertheless it's kind of posh this whole fake snake skin. But Annie Gee says it suits me and I say: Well yeah, it goes with my white hair and my gold jewellery project. Next thing: Blood red lips. Already started.