Monday 26 March 2012


Eat to live or live to eat? This is the question...


Food is beautiful, food is good but this is not about semantics it's all about the way we live. Food is also inspirational, just think about Marcel's Proust "A la recherché du temps perdu" and his madeline. Food can bring back memories, food has amazing colours  but food can also be a guilty pleasure.
I discovered a beautiful food market in Barcelona, I mean literary beautiful food, the colours I have seen in St. Josef Mercat "La  Boqueria" were absolutely fantastic. Who hasn't read " Eat, Pray, Love"? I totally agree, food has also healing powers and especially Italian food as all Italian meals look like they have been specifically designed for you. But  my God this place will make you feel in the mood for food even if you've eaten 10 minutes before entering this Mercat.  
Peter Bruegel's canvases illustrate the fabulous food from the Renaissance in a perfect trompe l'oeil. Rembrandt has also illustrated this sensory pleasure in his works and let's not forget about  Andy Warhol and his silkscreen bananas. Fruits enter the music world through an album cover made by Andy Warhol for The Velvet Underground.
Food inspired product design, in the 1970 Sergio Asti designed a " Profiterole lamp" for Martinelli Luce. Julien de Repentigny and Gabriel Lefebre have done an absolutely amazing milk packing concept.  Food inspired the film industry. The colour ways of La Boqueria brought back a memory form my past, when I was living in Bucharest. On a very late summer evening I have seen a beautiful but disturbing firm directed by Peter Greenaway, film in which  one can totally feel Jean Paul Gautier's touch. The perfectly made abstract concept looks like it is part of a  painting made by Hieronymus Bosch.  This film was made the same way a painter paints his canvas.

Food has inspired Fashion. In 2009 Aghata Riuz  ( Prada) presents a collection at Milan Fashion Week in which some of the clothes are decidedly food-inspired. She even puts baguettes on the models' heads. McQueen has a collection inspired by a Butcher's Apron, and Lady Gaga was seen wearing a Meat Dress at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2010. Food is definitely inspirational!

























































copyright Laura Cremene March 2012


Friday 9 March 2012


 Does the name Anton Corbijn tell you anything?  How about Control ?                                                  Friday, 9 March 2012
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Directed by Anton Corbijn, this film is about the life and death of Ian Curtis, quiet and rather sad lad who was the singer of a pioneering band called Joy Division . As you can see on the add the film is spellbinding, electrifying, magnetic, and I subscribe to this.  Based on the book by Deborah Curtis: "Touching From A Distance" the black and white scenario gives a magnificent depth to Corbijn's visual interpretation of Joy Division's living energy. If you liked I'm not There, a film by Todd Haynes then you'll definitely enjoy Control.  Bob Dylan once said "People are always talking about freedom, freedom to live  in a certain way. Of course  the more you live in a certain way the less it feels like freedom."Then what's left ... controlling the way you live ?
I had to take a break before finishing this post, just because I'm an undeclared control freak.  Our mind has the perfect design to create with precision and infinite accuracy the perfect prototype for a Control Freak. The ability to control is praised by numerous professionals and enthusiasts of this process, but is this really the way to live life? Some say that this can improve dramatically your precision as an active human being, it makes you competitive in this constantly changing world. The idea of feeling you are charge of everything it gives you power but what comes with power... pressure,  the will to get better and better, and then you get obsessed  with it. So then what to do when it feels so good to be the in charge, to be the ruler of your life. Well, wake up, you are the key player of your life, learn how to balance control and  try to also step " out" of control, simply enjoy life!
Anton Corbijn's genius doen't stop here. He's an accomplished photographer who has photographed bands such as U2, Metallica, Nirvana, Depeche Mode and many more. Check out his pretty exceptional work. Also just to go back to my big love denim, Anton's name is associated with G-Star. Their campaign as the product is pretty amazing  Therefore if you've got the genius to associate two amazing things what else than having an even more amazing outcome, can you have...
http://www.corbijn.co.uk/





 Coldplay and Anton Corbijn
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Wednesday 7 March 2012

Full Bloom 
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Devon Aoki's portrait /copyright Laura Cremene / March 2012
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Sunday 4 March 2012

In The End at the Beginning 
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  inspired by Ruven Afanador's Fashion Photography / copyright Laura Cremene 2012
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Every end is a new beginning. But how do you know you reached the end? Well you wake up one day and you just know it. What is left after the end...love and compassion towards the past? Well that's up to you to decide but keep in mind there is nothing more to life than love, love towards the new day, the unknown, the new beginning and love towards yourself. You are lost until you remember to ask, therefore  wake up and ask yourself what you want and then DO IT!  It's time to lose your weary mind.