Lur Lur cover Peter Murphy's "A Strange Kind Of Love"

Portuguese band Lur Lur has just released a version of one of the best tracks by Peter Murphy, the former frontman of Bauhaus who has embarked in a solo career for nearly three decades now. The song is being aired in different radios and other media and somehow respects the original structure and the same feeling, ending with in a clever and beautiful solution of chorus and power drums.

Fashion on Film in Lisbon

Fashion and film often walk hand in hand and that is why we take this opportunity to walk you by the hand to CLOSE-UP, a special night dedicated to fashion on film and where you will have the opoortunity to see some of the most interesting fashion films produced in England in recent years for brands such as Richard Nicoll, Kenzo or Louis Vuitton.

This special night will take place at MUDE (The Lisbon Museum for Fashion and Design) and is organised by Associação ModaLisboa and Associação Il Sorpasso. This selection is curated by Kathryn Ferguson and will rely also on the presence of Portuguese fashion designer Lara Torres.

LANCIA FASHION Night Out

Fashion Night Out Lisbon is almost there and Trendenz has a great suggestion for you to start this special night in style. Take to Spazio Dual at Avenida da República for a nice get together and a cocktail and use the opportunity to know the groovy special series Lancia Fashion, a car with beautiful inner seats in beige color, parking sensors, steering wheel in leather and a car key with Swarowski elements. These are just some of the features of this special model. As for the remaining features it is up for you to discover in this Lancia Outlet, a place where you can buy the car of your dreams, have a great lunch and see the work by the resident artists who have their own ateliers at this very same Spazio Dual and whose works are regularly displayed here from the sculptures and jewellery by Valentim Quaresmas to clothes by Os Burgueses and photographs by Ricardo Quaresma, just to name a few. Do come by and you will receive a special offer, which we are obviously not going to tell you what it is and let yourself be driven in a Lancia shuttle downtown where the great action takes place during Fashion Night Out Lisbon.

Teresa Helbig - Pret-a-couture

This Barcelona based fashion designer showed today her proposals for the coming Spring/Summer and she has proven once again why she is one of the most interesting fashion designers in the Spanish fashion scene.
Trendenz visited Teresa Helbig backstage hours before the show and was therefore able to feel and touch her refined outfits.

"I got inspired in the imagery of the Palais de Versailles gardens", she said, explaining the manual work and the effort put into each outfit.

It is the third time we see her collections at the Madrid fashion week. Minutes before the show we came across Spanish fashion journalist Lara Courel wearing her iconic blouse from her last collection shown, here in Madrid last February.

 After visiting her backstage we had the opportunity to see how she cleverly turned what could have been a mostly couture collection into a fine mix of prêt-a-porter with fine details inspired in the work by landscape architect André Le Notre.

This inspiration is clearly visible in the lime, white and purple tones in voluminous skirts with purple embroidered elements.

Teresa Helbig started her career as a fashion designer after making a dress for herself for a wedding one day and after she realised she was pretty good at it. She now world full time in her atelier. Making bridalwear is one of the the things she likes the most, as she loves to make people feel special, she said.
Stay tuned for the coming work by the fantastic and extremely nice Teresa Helbig.

Francis Montesinos dresses Spanish Wine Reymos

Valencian fashion designer presented, along with Anecoop Bodegas, the new design for the Reymos 1918 wine, the first "Brut Nature Muscatel". The design for this limited edition was presented at the Mercedes Benz Madrid Fashion some hours before the show by the very same Montesinos where he, once again, came up with a show of colour, patterns, and cool knitwear.
Fashion and wine go often hand in hand in the Madrid Fashion Week: Veteran designer Roberto Verino, the first to show his collections on the first day, has been producing wine for ten years under the name Bodegas Gargalo.
The somehow offbeat fashion designer Amaya Arzuaga comes from a wine producing family and uses her fashion shows also to promote her wines.
Ion Fiz, a designer from Burgos used in the past the occasion to present wine from his region, and the cool  Sara Coleman teamed up this time with Bodegas Muga during the most recent Mercedes-Benz Madrid Fashion Week.
This is a rather clever strategy for a wine-producing country like Spain and a nice way to promote this country's wine. Stay tuned for more updates on wine and fashion :).

Lacoste Micah Lidberg Capsule Collection

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Lacoste has just announced a capsule collection, LACOSTE L!VE, and invited the American illustrator Micah Lidberg to design a range of clothes and accessories. This capsule collection comprises polo shirts for men and women, along with t-shirts and sneakers. Available in selected shops throughout the world.

Micah Lidberg is a well-known American illustrator who has workd until now for a range of clients from Nike to Visa, through The New York Times, Nylon Magazine or Computer Arts, among others. 

 With this capsule collection Lacoste thus continues its path of expanding its range of products. Meanwhile stsay stunned for the new collection by Felipe Oliveira Baptista, the Paris based Portuguese fashion designer who took the post of creative director of this French brand.

Primal Scream - Loosen up and get loaded - "Screamadelica Live"

By now the northern hemisphere is loosening up and taking to the beaches in the south, the lakes in the north or chilling out in improvised beaches in Paris or Berlin. It is time to loosen up, to get loaded, to release the pressure. To help you while your are at it doing absolutely nothing follow our suggestion and get this DVD with Primal Scream performing "Screamadelica", the brilliant album by this british band and featuring true hymns of a generation like the mellow title "Loaded", the fabulous groovy "Don't fight it, feel it" or the mind blowing "Swastika Eyes".