design Red Light Fashion in Amsterdam

A red light district.Jason Riedy / CC BY 2.0

I’ve never been to Amsterdam but I’ve heard it’s supposed to be quite a place. I was actually looking for something else on the map today when I decided just to have a quick look on Amsterdam. I was stunned; Amsterdam is filled with cool places.

I know that Sergi’s friends were going to Amsterdam not long ago and he listed a few cool places already but I felt the need to write a post about Amsterdam myself. Not because I have a specific place to tell you about but because there’s so much places pinned out on the map that I don’t even know where to start if I ever visit Amsterdam.

However, I know I’d love to go to this café that’s only open on Sundays, but most of all I’d love to visit Red light fashion district. Surely the Red light district is known for other things than fashion, but the transformation that has been made after designers was allowed to borrow some of the red lit windows, is supposedly amazing. Reading about it I’m convinced that this is one of the trendiest places you can visit in Europe at the moment.  What do you think?

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design Shopping in Rome

Scavenger Hunt Shopping 12-8-08 1stevendepolo / CC BY 2.0

As I love fashion I can’t avoid talking about two streets in Rome with plenty of vintage shops, one of them is “Via del Governo Vecchio” and the other one is “la Via del Boschetto”.

At 45 Via del Governo Vecchio we can find “Vestiti usati Cinzia” a great vintage store. Upon arriving at “Cinzia” you can’t avoid to stop; infinite lines of 70’s handbags, shoes, boots, and even YSL shoes from the 60’s for a ridiculously good price. There are also sunglasses, party dresses, jeans, jewellery … everything you can imagine from the past and ready to take home with you!

Moreover, once you put your foot inside you can’t leave; you get completely indulged in a “grandma- wardrobe- smell”, a little dog just by the door looking at costumers expressions when they walk in, a vintage expert and the managers of “Vestiti usati Cinzia”. This is one obligatory stop when you go to Rome.

The whole street of Via del Governo Vecchio (from the unmatched sculpture of Pasquino) is truly an exposure of antique libraries, young fashion designers, artists and sculptors who settled their studios here. If you’re hungry there is also a pretty good ice-cream shop …

Finally, I would like to talk about “Pulp” which you can find on 140 la Via del Boschetto. This road also has very interesting shops but with a different atmosphere; the previous one is like experiencing the deepest of Italian art whilst this street is more cosmopolitan.

You can find shops with ballroom dresses, cosmopolitan pizzerias, climbing plants that are all around the facade and in the middle of this you will find PULP. It’s shop that every Thursday receives exclusive vintage collections from Gucci and even Channel. Of course it’s very cheap prices; I think it’s a bargain to shop vintage Versace for less than 60 Euros! The only problem is that they don’t always have clothes to sell… but when they do, they are simply the best.

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Como me gusta mucho la moda no puedo evitar hablar de dos calles de Roma plagadas de tiendas vintage, una es la Via del Governo Vecchio y la otra la Via del Boschetto.

En la primera podemos encontrar “vestiti usati Cinzia” en el número 45 de la Via del Governo Vecchio, toda esa calle (partiendo de la inigualable escultura de Pasquino) es una auténtica exposición de librerías antiguas, tiendas de moda de diseñadores jóvenes, artistas y escultores que tienen sus talleres allí, también hay heladerías buenísimas…

pero al llegar a “Cinzia” uno no puede evitar pararse, hileras infinitas de bolsos de los 70’s, zapatos y botas,¡ incluso llegué a ver unos zapatos de YSL de los 60’s por un precio de risa!

También tienen gafas de sol, vestidos de fiesta, vaqueros, joyas… ¡todo lo que puedas imaginar llegado del pasado y listo para llevar a casa!

Además una vez pones un pie dentro ya no puedes salir, te envuelve por completo el olor a “armario de nuestra abuela”, hay un perro pequeño sentado a la entrada mirando las expresiones de la gente, un experto en vintage él y los dueños de “vestiti usati Cinzia”, una parada obligada al ir a Roma.

Para acabar me gustaría hablar de “PULP”, en la Via del Boschetto 140, esta calle también tiene tiendas muy curiosas pero con un aire diferente, así como la anterior es como meterse de lleno en el arte italiano más profundo, esta otra es más cosmopolita.

Con tiendas de atuendos para bailes de salón, pizzerías cosmopolitas, plantas enredaderas que se comen todas las fachadas, y allí está “PULP”, tienda que recibe cada jueves prendas exclusivas de colecciones vintage de Gucci e incluso Chanel.
Y desde luego todo a precios muy bajos, yo creo que comprar un Versace vintage por no más de 60 euros es un lujo. ¡Pero ojo! que no siempre tienen venta pero cuando tienen… son los mejores.

El vintage de lujo por no más de 6o euros en “PULP”, Via del Boschetto, 140. Y el paraíso vintage y de segunda mano,con piezas perfectamente conservadas en “Cinzia vestiti usati” en Via del Governo Vecchio, 45.

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design Passions Automatic Dispenser in Milan

DAP in Mantua

Pommefritz collective has been invited to take part into Box Shock, a project by Ronald Lewis Facchinetti, better known as ContainerArt’s art director.

Box Shocks is a network of contemporary art events that will be held throughout the month of October in Milan, Monza and Sesto San Giovanni: four curators, over 40 artists and 70 installations linked through an urban museum-labyrinth mounted in innovative city structures. Box Shock’s curatorial approach opens a new perspective on public and private musings: each work, happening or body concert is conceived for a precise space, an inner place planned and designed to isolate and protect the viewer at the moment of his/her aesthetic contemplation.

After its success at the Mantua Festival delle Passioni, Pommefritz collective will exhibit DAP (Passions Automatic Dispenser) again by placing it in the MuseoLabirinto special events @ Box Up Self Storage [Via San Maurizio al Lambro 1. Sesto San Giovanni – Opening: 17th October from 6 pm].

The beauty containers born with the experience ContainerArt don’t just enter cities’ art places. They also meet and consolidate in an archetypal figure: a cell structure MuseumLabyrinth of Contemporary Art with over 20 installations by artists and designers in order to lose your self and then meet yourself again through art. Facchinetti and his team of curators transform the interior of Self Storage Box Up in Sesto San Giovanni into a temporary labyrinth of installations which play both the role of Minotaur and that of Ariadne’s thread. Each box has one installation.

For the occasion, a true circus magician will read the photos discharged by DAP (Passions Automatic Dispenser), foreseeing the future of those who would have inserted a Euro into the dispenser. Take advantage and find out what fate has in store for you: don’t miss the opening and buy Pommefritz products!

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