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drama, baby! drama!

all images courtesy of Staatsoper Berlin

The dress above is one of many great costumes by Christian Lacroix for the Agrippina Opera currently shown at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin

What a stunning dramatic wedding dress this piece would make!?

I haven’t seen this opera live but I am in love with the photos and I really feel
like going to the theater soon.(it has been a while)
This one will be a great fashion inspiration. So: If you are planning a Berlin trip soon: GO!

new music

photo by shitpausestudios

Liv really feels she is in need of some new music.
My internet connection has been pretty slow lately so
I haven’t been able to listen to music online and realised:
I really need some new music on my computer.
But anyways. Music is a big topic for wedding planning and
unfortunately not everyone could get the great THE FLASHDANCE
to their wedding. There is a new blog dedicated to music
inspiration for weddings HI-FI Weddings. Written by Ashley who is owner of a recordstore as well. I like it so far. I guess she introduced herself to all wedding-bloggers out there!? So you maybe checked her out already ; )

So now: Whats the best new music, I should get immediately?

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2009 Lav, Liv and others

Looking At You, Looking At Me. Pictures of 2009 from GT on Vimeo.

Our unbelieveable friend GT made a magic video of
some photographs, he took of friends during the last year.
Enjoy!
Oh I can’t wait to be in LONDON.

By the way the same guy took this photo.

You Got The Love

images via das rohmaterial and keepreal
Liv loves this song by Florence And The Machine.
Especially the Remix by XX.
I am listening to it a lot right now and think its really inspiring.
I am also in love with the style of Florence Welch.
Florence is of my new muses for the current collection

engagement guitar!

image via guitararchelogy.com
The awesome designer and writer of the blog MADE IN ENGLAND,
just got engaged to his amazing girlfriend and blogger of MONSTER MUNCH.
But instead of giving her a diamond ring,
HE GAVE HER AN ENGAGEMENT GUITAR: Now that really literally rocks!
“Rather than get a diamond ring, which to be honest I think is probably the least interesting thing you can spend a lot of money on,
I got her a guitar instead!
Neither of us play guitar, so at first sight it seems quite a random choice.. But her maiden name is Gibson, same as the legendary guitar makers, so I thought I’d get her something to remind her of that when she becomes Mrs Cookie.
I wanted to get her a vintage Gibson (this sort of thing just gets better with age), preferably a 1977 model to match her birth year (and mine). “
Congratulations guys: You rock!
Read the whole story (including pictures!) here…

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Sundays rock!!!

Sunday 4th of October CHIKINKI will play a FREE!
live gig at the 8 1/2 weeks store!

Come and enjoy the music, see Blushless dresses
and maybe meet Liv over there ; )
Let’s rock!

If you can’t make it find the dresses here in the online shop

LIV LOVES MONSTERS

image by 20sk Lee Crutchley.
Ive just discovered the trailer for the upcoming story book adaptation of
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE by Spike Jonze and I can’t stop watching it.
It just makes me happy. This could be the best movie of the year!
Why am I posting about a kids movie without any fashion or wedding theme?
I think this is a really healthy escape if you are stressing out about your wedding plans, or just anything that might be getting you uptight!

This movie is about LOVE, about friendship & about GREAT MUSIC
(soundtrack by ARCADE FIREas well as music in the feature by
Karen O from the YYY’s as well as Carter Burwell!))
Seeing all this MONSTERS just feels so so so very good in this polished fashion world.
I love the monsters, they are dirty, they are honest, they are weird,
they are blushless, they are cute in a rough way and they look like they really know how to party!

I wanna hang out with them NOW!

BLUSHLESS 8 1/2 weeks in Berlin

WE WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU:

Blushless will be a part of the great 8 1/2 Wochen Concept Store in Berlin.
Its a concept that combines Art, Music and Fashion made in Berlin-
If you will be around during the next 2 months,
come and have a look!!! Brides will be able to make an appointment for
a fitting with me through the shop.

WELCOME OUR NEW 8 1/2 WOCHEN CONCEPT STORE

Enjoy the new outfit, the new location, more than 50 designers and just let us entertain you. On September 5th, Berlin-Mitte goes Steglitz.

We would like to invite you to our Grand Opening to poke and shop with Prosecco and Pretzel.
Saturday, September 5th up from 12pm

8 1/2 Wochen at first floor of Forum Steglitz, Schloßstraße 1, U-Bahnhof Walther-Schreiber-Platz.

NOT JUST A LABEL: blushless!

image via stylealchemy
Exciting news for August:
Amanda Lepore, the amazing muse of David LaChapelle,
(one of my fav photograhers ever, by the way)
just picked the Wild At Heart mini dress,
LOOK01 theLIVLAVone for the Not Just A Label Shop.

I shipped it today. Will be available from August….
Of course I will let you know when its online.

There was also a great photoshoot for a Berlin shop opening,
(will tell you more soon) and another one tomorrow.
As soon as the pictures will be ready I will post them.
The studio is in summer mood, since the cutest interns
arrived and we are working while listening to good music,
having drinks, coffee and lots of fruit.
A little reward for the little sleep I get in my job.

Update: theLIVLAVone in the NJAL shop here, curated by Amanda Lepore!

Blushless Women

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

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!

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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!

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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!

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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:

cool kids belong together!

image via beachgoth

Liv loves the yeah yeah yeahs!
They inspire me a lot, remind me of how f*ing much I am missing
NYC and make my days over here rock!
Jumping through my studio….
High on caffeine (uhm,I am also hard working at the same time)
Oh yeah yeah yeah!
I wanna share this part of lyrics that really got me!
(when Lav told me it reminded him of us, uh,wow!)

Baby I’m afraid of a lot of things
but I aint scared of loving you
baby I know your afraid of a lot of things
but don’t be scared of love
cause people will say all kinds of things
that don’t mean a dam to me
cause all I see is what’s in front of me
and thats you

Well, I’ve been dragged all over the place
i’ve taken hits time just don’t erase
and baby I can see you’ve been fucked with too
but that don’t mean your loving days are through
cause people will say all kinds of things
that don’t mean a dam to me
cause all I see is what’s in front of me and thats you

well I may be just a fool
but I know you are just as cool
and cool kids they belong together

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