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The Squid Stories image of the day #8.

Only 100 people had been invited to the show (editors and friends of the designer: photographer Nick Knight, Alber Elbaz (Lanvin), Kate Moss and Jamie Hince (The Kills), colleagues Manolo Blahnik and Christopher Bailey and one of his biggest fans Anna Wintour.  The occasion? The long expected return of fashion ‚enfant terrible’ John Galliano for Maison Margiela. Galliano was not the obvious, minimal media-avoiding successor of Martin, but as I said when the news was announced a year ago: it was going to be controversial. Or a complete failure, or a bomb.

The Squid Stories image of the day #7.

The streets of New York City, well known from visit visits, various movies and TV shows, are lined with loads of a abandoned, discarded domestic stuff. Think used furniture, books, plants, toys and tiles. Photographer  Justin Bettman and Brooklyn-based prop stylist Gozde Eker have been inspired by these seemingly random objects and used them to create poetic, fun  scenes, crafted entirely from unwanted materials they found abandoned on the sidewalks. Bedrooms, bathrooms and living rooms are built with wallpaper, tables, posters and assorted props, each which seek to tell the story of the family, couple or single inhabitants that are meant to reside in the spaces.

Tried & enjoyed: Precious hidden restaurant Va et Vient Kortrijk (B).

During the World Creativity Forum in November, this year held in the city of Kortrijk (where also the Interieur Biennale takes place), we left for lunch, just to get away from the cc (the creative crowd, 2000 people…) I heard about this little hidden treasure restaurant by a friend chef Dirk-Jan, also from Kortrijk, who runs Taste and Colours over there. (Delicate vegetable preparations with loads of flavors, herbs and inspiration). So the first ‚excuse’ we had to try the ‚Va et Vient’ (French for ‚come and go’), we booked us a table at 1pm.

The Squid Stories image of the day #6

When I read this article on the future oriented technology blog ‚Serious Wonders’, this image brought me back in time, weird enough. You have to know that my dad was an orthopedic technician, and we were brought up with all kind of prosthetics that he made for his patients. I remember him explaining us how he hoped in the far future to be able to have the technology to make real robotic prosthetics, to be controlled by the mind, like a real arm or leg does. We were impressed by only the thought of it but could not imagine that this would be possible ever.