EVENT: NICOLIEN LAUNCH

 Ph. Marcella Koehorst

This week I attended the launch party of Nicolien‘s bags in the Westcord Fashion Hotel (where else?). Nicolien has a passion for leather and a talent for forms and colours. With her bag collection, Nicolien provides pure handmade and one of a kind bags. Every bag is unique because of their colours and different kinds of leather. As you might know already, I’m a big fan of well-made leather bags myself and I loved the ones Nicolien showed us. I particularly liked the big dark green one (see pics above, it’s the same one as the one I showed above in tan), and the cute little wallets. We had a great time, great bubbles and Nicolien herself seemed to be such a nice and warm person herself. Stay tuned for more here.

EVENT: NIKE FREE EXPERIENCE

 The winning team ;) We took the most effective route while doing our run, which means we won a pair of Nike Free ID’s, can’t wait to get them!

And.. A runningpost! Some of you might already know I started running a few weeks/months ago.. Last week I got the chance to truly experience the new Nike Free shoes and their ultimately cool running gear. From now on you wouldn’t find me running in my bf’s gear anymore, because now I felt the true benefits of wellfitting sportsgear (never thought I’d ever show pics of me wearing leggings on my blog though..). Even though shoes already were my on top of my priority-list (not only when running.. ;)), these Nike Free shoes really surprised me and easily became the best part of my Nike outfit. I got the type 3 shoes (measured on a scale from 0 to 10, where 0 means barefoot running and 10 means a regular runningshoe), so my shoes promised to stay very close to running on bare feet. And hell yes, they did! As this shoe allows the muscles in the foot to gain strength by providing less constriction, runners are advised to gradually break into the shoe rather than immediately running long distances as to prevent muscle cramps and other discomforts. I already took them out a couple of times since I got them and I have to admit: I expercienced some muscular pains afterwards.. which means they work. Excellent!

EVENT: RAAK SHOW

Ph. me. 

This week I got invited to come and visit the event arranged by RAAK. To be honest, my expectations were low, because on forehand I heared this show was all about Dutch celebrities and glittery glamour-style (só not my thing), but since I do like several pieces and brands they sell at RAAK (which is a store in Amsterdam, FYI) ánd because I don’t want to judge before I have seen something myself, I gave it a shot and settled down with fellow bloggers Rosanna and Sietske.

My opinion? The things I heared before were true: glittery-glamour-style, a lot of what reminds me of WAGs, but besides that I saw a lot of things I really liked! Cool leather jackets, flowy blouses, well-fitting trousers and cool boots (quite obvious where they got their inspiration from.. ;)). And I loved the big (hopefully faux?-)fur coat from the third picture. What do you think?

 Already joining the Fashiolista x Bijenkorf contest where you can win 250 euros of
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AFW: DAY I, PART II

Ph. me

And then.. some of my faves of the day! I was absolutely over the moon with the concept and unusual models of Marije de Haan’s show! She based her collection on Charles Earl Bowles, better known as ‘Black Bart’, was an English-born American Old West outlaw noted for the poetic messages he left after his robberies. Although he only left two poems, at the fourth and fifth robberies he commited, leaving poems became his signature and his biggest claim to fame.

Completely in contrast with the rough collection of Marije de Haan’s show, I love the pieces Winde Rienstra showed.. pure art! Guided by the serene tones of a harp (live!), the models were slowly (I can’t even imagine walking even a bit faster on shoes made out of cardboard!) walking the runway in a silent, yet powerfull kind of way. Magical, I loved it.

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