Shoes with attitude - Doc Martens spike

Here's the brandnew Doc Martens spike, the right shoes for people with attitude.
Contrary to most brands who have come up with models with spikes and which have absolutely nothing to do with it, at least this one is closely related to the initial spirit of punk and new punk, spikes and chains.
This is the new addition  to this British brand which has been relentlessly launching new models in recent years, thus keeping its spirit alive.
Have a word with your local retailer or simply get them from their online store at http://store.drmartens.co.uk/p-7798-dr-martens-spike-boot.aspx

Estelita Mendonça awarded Best New Talent at the Fashion Awards Portugal

João Pedro Estelita Mendonça is Portugal's New Best Talent. The prize was awared yesterday in Lisbon at the Fashion Awards, an event hosted by Fashion TV Portugal and which is there to acknowledge the best in Portugal fashion, from designers to fashion journalists, through to hairdressers, producers, photographers, make-up artists, stores and brands.
This year's new best talent is one of the most promising names in Portuguese fashion, someone with a very consistent body of work. Trendenz has always kept an eye on the work of this Oporto-based designer whose style is marked by a revealing simplicity and whose collections are a true statement.

Estelita Mendonça designs for the urban man and his outfits match the spirit of modern cities. His garments fit in perfectly in offbeat cities like Berlin, in the most alternative corners of Madrid or Barcelona, suitable for fashion conscious Asian men, for avant garde New Yorkers and for those for whom Antwerpen is still a reference.
But the city of Oporto plays an important part in his work. This city is booming with new artists, a place where fashion, architecture, performing arts, design, sculpture and painting intersect in a curious way, a city both proud of its legacy and increasingly open to the world.

Geox expands to Asia

The renowned Italian shoe company with the patented breathing shoes opened its first store last week in Hong-Kong. The opening of this flagship store marks the start of Geox expansion into the Asian continent.
The new store is located in Central, the busiest shopping street in this city, a city where Geox plans to open up to 30 new spaces during next year.
The Mario Moretti Polegato, CEO and founder of the company said this is just the beginning of the Asian expansion of his brand which is thus betting on the opening up to new markets, the development of new patents and new modern, comfortable styles.

As for style, Patick Cox, a renowned shoe designer, is the new addition to the Geox team. Cox, who has as been designing new models for Geox stated said he "was highly pleased to work with Geox on a regular base" given that this is a brand he admires both given the quality of this company's shoes and the concerns as to offer contemporary designs.
This event relied also in the presence of actress Tavia Yeung who stated she admires the versatility of Geox shoes. After storming Europe, where the brand is number two, and number one in Italy, Geox now has a new plataform for growth and a further oppotunity to sale its whole range of shoes, clothes and accessories.

Mario Testino guest editor for Vogue Spain

Mario Testino is the guest editor of the December issue of Vogue Spain. The renowned photographer whose image is, according to the man himself "a mix of fashion, elegance, humor, reality, beauty and energy" joined the team of Vogue España in this true celebration of the Spanish fiesta.

The December issue covers traditional Spanish imagery and a particular imagery of this country's art of partying, from the long sleepless nights to that crazy party called Tomatina. Trendemz took a glimpse at this particular production, which brings us back to that wild tomato throwing festivity, and was stunned by the fabulous visual result of this fashion production. 

Higher+Higher were the people behind the artistic direction of this issue inspired on true icons from Spanish design, fashion and movies   but from a modern perspective.

Movida was the Spanish movement, which brought party to another level, combining the traditional and the modern in lovely promiscuous way. Glamour and excess, sexiness and sophistication marked those days, something Testino did take into due account for this issue,  featuring leading icons from that time and which have made it remarkably until today, such as Almodovar, Rossy de Palma or Alaska. This issued thus feature everything that is remarkably Spanish or Spanish-related. Hence the profusion of names such as Plácido Domingo, Baroness Thyssen, Manolo Blahnik, Carolina Herrera, Marisa Paredes and Manuel Benítez “El Cordobés”, just to name a few.

Kate Moss was the model chosen for the cover of thus issue. The very same actress can be seen also in a stunning production in the pages of this magazine with Spanish bullfighter José María Manzanares.

Surrender to cork!!

Surrender to cork!! This could be the leit motiv behind this promotional video starring British fashion journalist Jemima Daisy Compton and Angela Giltrap, australian fashion journalist based in New York, filmed during the Lisbon Fashion Week on October 2012 and which is there to publicise Pelcor's range of cork products from bags to umbrellas, caps, hats and a myriad of products made by this company based in the Algarve.
After many years making pretty original products with this typically Mediterranean raw material and the typical beige and brown colour of cork, Pelcor decided to enter the fashion segment by coming up with a whole range of new colours and models, thus  creating true it bags made with the very same cork used in the production of Moet & Chandon champagne cork stoppers. 

"We Can Be Heroes" - The life of the Blitz Kids

Some called them New Romantics, others referred to them as Futurists  or as the Blitz Kids. Born in the beginning of the 80's at a London club called the Blitz, Blitz Kids is probably the name that best encapsulates this youth movement which brought fashion and extravaganza to a new level.
Steve Strange and Rusty Egan are the two names behind these club nights, the first with its daring look and tons of mascara, the second the person in charge to the synth music that took this wild mob to the floor - Both would later work together in the Visage, the band which delivered the huge hit "Fade to gray".

From this club nights resulted a movement which would later become better know as New Romantics, highly influenced by both the music and aesthetics of David Bowie. Boy George and Culture Club,  Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Ultravox, Bow Wow Wow, Heave 17, Gary Numan, Human League, Soft Cell or Adam and the Ants were just some of the names that provided the soundtracks for the crazy lives of these mob which Graham Smith covers and portrays in the book entitled "We can be Heroes, Punks, Poseurs, Peacocks and People of a a Particular Persuasion" which has just come out:. 

(http://www.amazon.co.uk/We-Can-Heroes-Particular-Persuasion/dp/1908717653

For those wishing to revisit these extravagant nights please check the London media on a regular basis and look for Blitz has been hosting one off club nights in this city. Aside from these nights, some of the aforementioned bands have been making regular comebacks, as it is the case of Heaven 17 which, after has been playing regular gigs featuring both the band songs and the songs recorded at the British Electric Foundation, inviting to these gigs household names such as Boy George, Midge Ure or Green Garthside.

Peter Hook plays Joy Division's "Unknown Pleasures" Live

Peter Hook, founding member of both Joy Division and New Order, will be playing live tonight in Lisbon at Centro Cultural de Belém. Together with his band, The Light, he will be covering the whole of Joy Division's first album, "Unknown Pleasures".
This gig is part of a whole tour which has taken Peter Hook & The Light to many stages worldwide. The man who took bass playing to new heights is strongly committed in reviving live the legacy of two of the most important bands in the history of modern music.
After this tour, focused on "Unknown Pleasures", but where we will have the opportunity to listen to further songs by Joy Division, Peter Hook will be focusing on two of the best albums of New Order's career, e.g. "Movement" and "Power Corruption and Lies".
The fist gigs of his new live venture are scheduled for January 17 at Koko in London, the place formerly known as Camden Palace and a true heaven for the new romantic and post punk generation, and at Cathedral, on January 18 in Manchester, the city where the remarkable sound of Joy Division and later New Order was generated.
For those who do not have the oppotunity to attend the "Unknown Pleasures" show or wish to retain the memory of that gig, Peter Hook & the Light has promised to release a live DVD of their concert at the Lowry Theatre in Salford, recorded on November 19, 2011 featuring this great version of "Love Will Tear Us Apart".