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I often get the question if I, as a designer have any muses for my collections:
Yes! I do! This girls and their looks really inspire me!
Alison Mosshart, Cat Power, Charlotte Gainsbourg
Most of all I am inspired by movies and photographs, big cities and
the real people, stories from live, broken, dirty and all imperfect things.

This is the last post before Berlin Fashionweek.
Its very exciting for Blushless to present this collection
finally to the public.
I will busy during the next 4 days, but will be back in no time!
Meanwhile you can check out this amazing women and get
inspired…

images 1 cat power via myspace
2, 3 alison mosshart via interview magazine
4 charlotte gainsbourg via smokeeye
5 cat power via peta

Ducks will always stay together…

image by lepiafgeo
I know that these are not ducks, but at least lovebirds
and the picture is wonderful.
In China, every new couple needs to go to a park to have a video made
before the evening party starts. If two couples meet in a park,
they should exchange a new handkerchief and wish each other good luck.
It has to be red and have a picture of mandarin ducks.
Because ducks stay together forever. Red is central to the wedding theme of China: It signifies love, joy and prosperity.
This custom is about sharing happiness and congratulating each other.
Traditionally, the more happiness you share, the more good luck you get.
Right!!! Lets share happiness….

images via the great menswear blog 84/85

For cooler approach you can exchange rockin handkerchiefs from the Brooklyn based brand The Hill-Side its a brand-new neckwear Label which is inspired by an old fashioned working class mens aesthetic. Their Website shows that their styles also look great on girls and hey,even dogs.
I love their photos and can imagine a reall great grooms outfit with their ties…

You might also like this world wedding tradition posts:
Thats how people role in Ireland, If you worried about the weather,
Make a wish before you take a bite

Somewhere Over The Rainbow

image by Ally Aubry
Rainbow Week! Gay festivals and parades all over the world! Hooray!
My neighbours girlfriend surprised her with a visit all the way from Sydney to celebrate with her love in Berlin!
Their love inspired me to do this gay wedding post.
I guess most inspiration for my blog is from people anyway!
But I did some extra research on gay wedding themes.
I found two rad gay weddingblogs for you:
So you are enGAYged and SteadyHappy

Love and Pride is a jewellery label that supports gay marriage and also offers some information about the topic on their website.

Recommend watching this movies: Milk.The story of Harvey Milk, and his struggles as an American gay activist who fought for gay rights and became California’s first openly gay elected official and Fucking Åmål Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.

Check out this stunning real gay marriage featured on a practical wedding few months ago (if you haven’t seen it already!)
And now I will get me some rainbow accessories…

holiday, honeymoon, runaway…

image by Jin Thai
Ive started dreaming about foreign countries every night…
Its really fun actually, the few hours sleep I get each night

I am spending on adventures and beachholidays.
Thats maybe because of I can’t go on holiday this year, due
to starting my own fashion label, Blushless.
But thats kinda ok though, and one day I will be able to travel again.

The weather is currently so shitty in Berlin.
I really need some sun…
Got side tracked! Had a coffee break and I have done a little research on places

I want to be right now!!! Cup of Jo did a great Post about honeymoon hotels,
and The Rockstar Diaries just went for a 2 years anniversairy and birthday trip.
Oh well! Enjoy daydreaming, I have to go back to work ; )

P.S: Friends of Lav left for this exciting 6 month honeymoon, I already told you about.

Veronicas Veil

images via Style.com
…I just received a question asking if its ok to wear a long veil with a short wedding dress…
Sure!!!
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrety of purpose & imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace the slaves of the ordinary.”
by Cecil Beaton
Since I presented my latest Blushless collection with headbands or just with wild hair, I had to look to for an image with short dress and long veil.
And: Lanvin delivered! Alber Elbaz’s eclectic resort 2010 collection for Lanvin showed the requested outfit!
It looks quite nice, if you are into long veils.
The amazing girls from Fan Death are definetely in extra long veils, check out their video to veronicas veil.
AND now: Rock your veil, girl!

You might also like this posts: COLOR OF JOY, let bare legs rock,, top 7 vegan bridal shoes

Champagne with the stolen bride…

image by LaraJade via that unreliable girl

Might be time to tell you some customs about my home country: Germany.
This is about breaking dishes, kidnapping and drinking champagne. That’s how we roll ; )
A few days before the wedding, friends and relatives bring old porcelain and kitchenware to throw onto the ground in front of the bride and groom. This is supposed to grant them a happy, lucky life; that’s why this evening event is called POLTERABEND–the evening with lots of broken porcelain. It’s good luck for guests to bring old dishes to break.
The newlyweds then sweep up the broken pieces together, symbolizing that nothing will ever be broken in their house again. The Polterabend often develops into an informal and casual party.
It is customary for the ‘best man’ to steal the bride from the reception and take her to a local pub, where they drink champagne until the groom finds them. Then the groom has to pay for all that they drank. Later, friends of the couple block all the reception site exits with ribbons and garlands. When the couple is ready to leave for their honeymoon, the groom must pay a toll to exit, usually the promise of another party!

You also might like this wold wedding tradition posts: Thats how people role in Iceland, If you worried about the weather, One Night In Ancient Egypt

Top 7 vegan (groom) shoes

background image by cecil beaton
From white Keds to wear at an informal beachwedding to classy brown gentlemens brogues for the retro/vintage style wedding…
Here is my selection: the TOP 7 of vegan groom footwear:
1. Keep
2. Converse
3. BoBo Footwear
4. Novacas
5. Keds
6. Vegetarian Shoes
7. YMC

I am also in love with the boots shown here….
If you are interested in more wedding footwear check out east side brides latest bridal shoe posts.
You might also like this posts: Somebody Somewhere, Top 7 vegan(bridal) shoes, Color of Joy, Lady Dragon Anglomania

how to survive a sh*t day

I found this on my moodboard in front of my desk!
Lav made me this note before he left back to London.
And it’s working! It really makes me smile when I look at it.
So whenever everything is getting too much and you are
having a shit day: REMEMBER TO STAY IN THE POSITIVITY TREE!

You might also like this stories: Happy Bed-Day, Blossom Time ,
Heres To Happiness

make a wish before you take a bite…

image via drikadocesecia
Ola Brazil!!
I noticed last week that there are quite a few of you reading this from sunny Brazil! This got me thinking and after a little
research I found this SWEET BRAZILIAN WEDDING CUSTOM:
Bem Casodos or Well-Marrieds!
Its the most traditional sought-after dessert at weddings in Brazil.
Each Bem Casado is artfully made and is light, soft, airy and filled with smooth, home-made caramel bathed in a special sweet sauce.
I can’t wait to attend an brazilian (inspired) wedding, sounds delicious!
The packaging is also incredible.

They come in all colors and materials you can imagine:
Little baskests,napkins, paperboxes, wrapped in lace and beautiful fabircs, with bows, little cards or flowers. Many shops offer them custom-made to the theme or colorscheme of the wedding. Some are kitschy some very very nice.
Each treat represents two united parts sealed by sweet love, support and mutual respect.
According to legend, everyone who tastes them will be blessed with the happiness of newlyweds, Abraços!
so make a wish before you take a bite.

You might also like this: Thats How People Role In Iceland, One Night In Ancient Egypt, If You Worried About The Weather

I’ll be the rhythm and you’ll be the beat

image by dno1967
How deep is your love? My friend Julia just sent me a link to a rad article from the guardian:
“They say love conquers all. But can your love conquer a pan-pipe cover version of Sexual Healing?”
Charlie Brookers amazing idea was to create a digital mixtape with the worst cheesiest lovesongs ever.
If you can stand listening to it together, and it doesn’t kill your love-mood at all then you know for sure that you are madly in love.”How can you be sure the pair of you really like each other? By trying to have sex while listening to a deliberately off-putting musical playlist, of course.
My playlist, while tasteless in parts, doesn’t contain anything quite that horrifying, but it should prove one heck of an obstacle course. All you have to do is download and install Spotify, then go to this URL. Click around a bit and it should open the compilation….It won’t be easy. But if you make it to the end, then congratulations: you’ve proved your love will abide through the ages. Oh, and as a bonus, pick one of the entries for a wedding song. Then watch all your guests throw up.”
Ok, I wouldn’t go that far! But thanks for this love test idea Charlie!

You might also like this: Cool kids belong together, somebody somewhere, here is to happiness

show me the way, baby!

Actually that was the way Liv met Lav…
He was asking her for directions to a great club!
“I dunno! But I am in for that party…plus: I have map, I am German!”
From that wild night on Liv was the gal with the map!

To know the right direction is always a good thing!
This cufflinks could help with that! Find them here.

You might also like this stories: somebody-somewhere, cool kids belong together, here is to happiness

surreal & weird jewelry at its best…

when I saw this on the great design source notcouture.com they really blew me away.
…to another surreal world. A world of curiosity just as bizarre as Liv loves it.
A world without function without time….a state somewhere in nowhere.
I am talking about jewelry. Might be more art then jewelry.
Alida Alic has definitely a story tell.
She works similar as I do with my designs, very conceptional.
Thank you Alida you just made my rainy rainy day.
I got stuck in paperwork…yes:
Being a fashiondesigner with own label isn’t always glamourous…
Ok I had strawberries and champagne with my paperwork….but still!

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if you worried about the weather…

image by sister72
…then you picked the wrong place to stay!
this is a quote from another favorite musician of Liv:
Lcd Soundsystem
Stuck between London and Berlin the weather could be definitely better.
I have been freezing for one week now and its constantly raining.
Its so very cold in bed without Lav. (4more cold sleeps!)
I really like it hot! But you know what?
The English consider rain on a wedding day a sign of good fortune! Smart people the British.
It was in England that many of our most enduring Western European wedding traditions got their beginning.
Most of us know the ancient nursery rhyme about something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. It became an important part of most Western European weddings, even though many brides and grooms no longer know the significance of the rhyme:
Something old is symbolic of continuity. The old item was often a piece of lace or a grandmother’s scarf or an old piece of jewelry. Something new signifies hope for the future, and can be anything from a piece of clothing to the wedding band itself. Something borrowed is symbolic of future happiness and is often provided by a happily married friend of the bride. And finally, something blue. In ancient times blue was the color of purity and often both the bride and the groom wore a band of blue cloth around the bottom of their wedding attire.

If you are still worried about the weather just leave for a six month honeymoon to sunny countries!
Oh damn! I really feel like traveling… or listening to the great northamerican dance-punk of lcd soundsystem-
Life is too short to worry about the weather!

You might also like this: World Wedding Tradtion Posts: Thats How People Role In Iceland, one night in ancient Egypt…, c’mon lets celebrate_weddings in eastern europe

somebody somewhere…

image via refinery 29 by CITY
Wouldn’t this be a great grooms outifit?
The black buttons on the shirt are a rad alternative to a tie.
I saw this picture in just relaunched magazine CITY.
Its all about the city, you know, the city Liv is missing every day…
They wrote a great article about the London indie rock band
CAZALS, this guys are just looking amazing in this photoshoot.
Just like rock star grooms.
Not only that the band has a great style, they also made this awesome
little lovestory video: HAPPY WEEKEND:

Simple.Meadow.Barefeet.

The meadow was too wicked to go barefeet, but it was their original plan!
“Simple. Meadow. We didn’t want anything to be contrived.”
Looks like they really stayed true to themselves. Simple but artistic.

She (Katie) is actress, photographer, singer/songwriter
He (Steve) is anti-war sailor, poet, lover.
“We both entered walking to “here comes the sun”. Our wedding song was “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” Both dancers ourselves, we improvised the entire performance. The idea is that, no matter how many traditional words there are in a ceremony, it really gets down to your actions and how you roll in the moment so that’s what we wanted to portray through our ceremony. I gained a lot of inspiration from offbeat bride, blogs, and my own idealism. I spent hours pouring through photographer’s websites.”
Finally this amazing photos were taken from
Glass And Plastic Photography

Her greatest statement after her wedding to keep this wonderful feeling alive:
“This idea of wonder, magic, and super-stardom should be incorporated into every day to save and not starve that which makes us inside glow“. DAMN RIGHT! I love this wedding!
Thanks for sharing, Katie.