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Mónica Boixeda
The idea of Merci Merci emerged from the creators of Bonpoint, the favourite underwear clothes brand for babies and children of Western world mums. When they sold their brand, Marie-France and Bernard Cohen decided that they had to bring their experience, time, skills and, of course, money to help the poor. And they got onto that job, but they didn´t just start up yet another charity shop, instead asking the different fashion designers to help out and make designs for Merci Merci. The clothes are sold in the Parisian shop, whose address is on the right-hand column and whose benefits go entirely to different charity projects in the Third World, especially to Madagascar. It´s fair trade understood in another way, because they make the most of the remaining resources in the West to use them in for the education of the unfortunate children. The sensitized traveller can leave his luggage in the apartments in Paris that he´s managed to book and stock up with the designs at Merci Merci. There´ll be someone who will be eternally grateful for having carried out such a wonderful gesture. We, starting now, applaud any purchase in this charity...
Mónica Boixeda
Even though they have a magnificent online shop (since we´re in the Web 2.0 era), Sterling Gallery maintains its doors open next to the river Danube, in enigmatic Budapest. The traveller who enters this city, which was once two cities, in search of the best from the region, has to pay a visit to Sterling Gallery. Here he´ll find silver jewels and small complements made from imagination, talent and the hands of young, local artists who give their best to create exclusive earrings, rings, bracelets or necklaces. But the managers of the shop don´t want that Sterling Gallery becomes just another high range or exclusive jewellery shop, and they wish to offer thosw who enter its doors an authentic artistic experience. For that, they organize with the same artists who supply them with objects, theme exhibitions focusing especially on jewellery and small complements. Although there´s the possibility to buy online, the sophisticated traveller will come to the shop and will try on these magnificent designs in his apartments in Budapest and so show them off during the trip in the Pearl of the...
Mónica Boixeda
Perhaps more a stylist with the insight needed to refine and extend the techniques and methods in combination with existing cinematic conventions of art, literature and Victorian theater that a true innovator, the truth is it´s hard to argue that David. W. Griffith deserves the honorary title of “father of cinema,” if we consider the way his extensive work decisively shaped the language and syntax prevalent in film making for over fifty years starting with the most basic elements of the trade. The great Austrian director Eric von Stroheim, responsible for some of the most memorable films of all times, which in its infancy, having begun working as an extra, became assistant director of Griffith, said of him that he took charge of poetry and beauty in what until then was a form of cheap tawdry and tacky entertainment For the truth is that this film was essentially in those early years of the century something of a confusing matter in America, movies were fast moving consumer goods that were bought by the meter and displayed as part of vaudeville and variety or booth. Some of those petty first exhibitors hoping to make some money with what was essentially still considered a novelty with a bad reputation and a low prestige miles away from any artistic pretension (a famous assertion of a famous theater critic in 1905 referred to the convenience of shooting anyone who genuinely enjoyed a movie) became a term yet not too long ago as the highest magnates and rulers of the mighty and dazzling Hollywood Empire, whose powerful influence soon would seize the dreams and...
Mónica Boixeda
In Barcelona´s streets lately there is not anything new. The electro, indie-rocker and psedo hipster waves can no longer offer anything. Look closely; alternatives are becoming less and less while prices getting higher. Tourists, who come to Barcelona to relax, have fun, drink, dance or consume the “recreational” product. When living in Barcelona for a while, it´s easy to discover that people are very concerned of appearance, the “cool”, stylish and culture of the “beautiful” or “nice.” It is clear: if you aren’t “Good-looking”, you´re nobody here. If you don´t have a place where people know you, where you know there will be someone waiting for you, you´re just nobody. So, Barcelona receives thousands of visitors who come to leave everything in the dance floor, flirt, have fun, and are willing to have the unexpected always happens. From the Gothic to the Raval, the areas where there is more action in the center of the Catalan capital, there is a range of bars, nightclubs, restaurants and cafes where you can model the best thing you bought the other day, your new outfit, the dress “vintage” your mom brought you from Berlin. Musically, the city is bulletproof, you´ll find various events and locations that offer mostly the same thing: indie rock for hipsters, heavy metal for old metalheads, soul and garage for people more “arty” and “cool” people and electro for tourists and curious. However, there are other places that are different. Bar 68 is one of these. Recently renovating it really worth going out there any day of the week. Bar 68, in the Raval offers an alternative if...
Mónica Boixeda
In a city like Milan, so dedicated to contemporary art and to creation in all fields (from fashion to design) it´s not strange to find quite a few good art galleries. Local talent is so important that it reaches these artistic spaces without any problems. The bourgeoisie classes, together with a lively international clientele (who travels exclusively to this city of northern Italy to stock up with fashion, design and art), that maintain a constant movement with their shopping. If the large majority of Milanese galleries are of extreme quality, the Massimo de Carlo one surprises for its variety of languages (it has even projected artists close to virtual poetry), and for its internationalization from those who have exhibited their works there. Massimo de Carlo has gone further and hasn´t conformed with Milanese creators and therefore looks around the world for those creators with a radical cosmovision of reality. Not much to advise the traveller, just that, as they leave their luggage in apartments in Milan, they should start to see this impressive city by walking around the different art galleries in the city. You can find pleasant surprises with affordable works for all...
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