Category: Lifestyle

At Darklands

Anna-Maria20 Comments

I still haven’t fully recovered from the sleep deprivation caused by all the crazy partying I did in Berlin, but I’m slowly getting united with what was left behind on Thursday. Introducing here my new hooded Boris Bidjan Saberi cardigan which I, after taking a long view, acquired from my absolute favorite Berlin boutique, Darklands, on the day of our arrival. This pretty little number is made of bamboo and is so soft and comfortable that I spent the rest of my four day mini vacation literally living and almost sleeping in it. The only time I gave it a little rest was on Saturday, when the sun was beaming from a blue sky, making it too hot to even wear a shirt for that matter. So yes, our destiny is sealed, we are pretty much inseparable now and will stick together through thick and thin, until unraveling threads (I hope never) do us apart.

Hooded cardigan: Boris Bidjan Saberi
Shirt: DRK SHDW
Tank top: Rick Owens
Jeans: Cheap Monday
Boots: Ann Demeulemeester
Bag: Self-made
Rings: Kalevala Koru & custom made etc.

Dear diary

Anna-Maria4 Comments

I went to Berlin and I… met up with some good old friends from the U.S., Finland and Sweden, made some new ones on the way, bought a Boris Bidjan Saberi cardigan which I wore pretty much all the time, pre-partied at a hotel that smelled like pickles, went to a cold wave night at the King Kong club, saw some weird art exhibitions, mingled at the opening party of Darklands 3.0, got lost in the metro, discovered Beck’s Green Lemon beer, attended the Berlin festival and experienced the most amazing performance by Fever Ray, went to Berghain at 4am in the morning, danced all night, took plenty of cheap cab rides, sent a gazillion text messages, missed every single breakfast at our hotel, ate the best veggie currywurst and burger yet at Yellow Sunshine, had a classy dinner with 20 people dressed in black (and it was not even anyone’s funeral), got into bar Tausend with an extremely strict door policy only to leave after 5 minutes realizing it was not our scene, bought a cool silver ring that looks like a space ship at an open air market, saw Willem Dafoe at the Tegel airport, had good pizza in Riga during our stop over, and finally got back home extremely tired to the rainy and cold Finland. Man, I wish I was still in Berlin.

12th picture by Richard Söderberg

Photographic

Anna-Maria27 Comments

Yesterday, fresh right after work, my fellow blogger colleague Niina and I drove to Helsinki for the photographer, Daniela Talvitie’s Fashion Photo Helsinki exhibition opening party. Since neither of us managed to take any proper pictures from the party itself, we decided to externalize our outfits in the yard of the a beautiful church that we spotted outside. Somehow the ethereal surroundings of the church under the cotton candy sky seemed to fit the mood of our rather black empowered outfits seamlessly, making me wonder that who even needs color when you can have a backdrop like this one?

If you’re a fan of fashion photography and in Helsinki during the following weeks, do check out Daniela’s exhibition at the Design Museum.

Leather jacket: Obscur
Dress: Nakkna
Knitted vest: Boris Bidjan Saberi
Wedge ankle boots: Rick Owens
Bag: All Saints
Necklace: Ann Demeulemeester
Rings: Kalevala Koru etc.

Group pictures by: Satu Kemppainen

Flow 2010

Anna-Maria19 Comments

Veni, vidi, vici. Recovering from a three day festival is like recovering from a massive hangover, requiring lots of sleep, plenty of water and some good ole junk food (too tired to cook after the hustle and bustle). Flow Festival in Helsinki was great and so was the company. Can’t believe I’m going through with this again in a few weeks, as we’re heading to the Berlin Festival in Germany. I’m quite excited though!

Flow 2010
I want to thank my girls, Essi, Laura, Ranna and Sophie for the great company (and all my other friends who are not meantioned or do not appear in the pictures, you are great too!), Indiedays for the tickets, for great musical enjoyment the XX, Beach House and the Radio Dept, Hannulelauri for the best dance party, and for pictures 1 & 2 my very own Peter.

P.S. Those of you who came here due to my little black  business card, your style pictures can be found from here.