I'm not quite sure what I expected, really.   I was psyched by the prospect of being in the city hosting this year's festivities for German reunification, especially such a significant anniversary as 25 Jahre Einheit. Considering the current dialogue in Germany and Europe involving asylum seekers, overcoming differences, tearing down walls and becoming one people is as relevant a message as ever.   Despite...

(c) Antoine Le Minh From Hauptbahnhof down Kaiserstrasse and then a left on Elbastrasse. It's a little before 8 O' Clock and the tall narrow door located next to some shoddy motel-hotel has it's rolladen dow tightly shut. A little after 8:00 with a knock on the seedy door, it is opened by a bearded man. Down into the dimly lit cellar we go. Located in the Bahnhofsviertel, with no signs or windows, only a door, the Kinly...

Normal 0 21 false false false DE X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <a href="http://www.bloglovin.com/blog/12524739/?claim=c7mv5ta82r2">Follow my blog with Bloglovin</a>The extremely intelligent Frankfurt style enthusiast and image consultant, Dr. Jonela Hoxhaj...

If there is any place to go in Frankfurt for specialty and rare purses, it is Ewa Lagan. With two stores on prime real estate in downtown Frankfurt,  Ewa Lagan is a true success story.  Ewa Lindinger, the storeowner, started with humble beginnings: she sold purses on ebay from home. She became so successful online that others starting coming to her to sell their purses for them. In 2007, after her two daughters...

Natalie Grott-Mess, the creative mind behind the label GROME DESIGN, is originally from Poland, and is very successful in her home country. If you visit GROME's website, you'll quickly notice that many of Grome's pieces have been featured in magazines like Harpar's Bazaar and InStyle Poland and her collections have been shown at  Fashion Week Poland.  Grott-Mess started creating, sewing and designing...

Tucked away on Brückenstraße, POSH is truly a little gem of a shop. After seeing the inside, it doesn't come to much of a suprise that storeowner Marvin was a former Visual Merchandiser for Ralph Lauren. During my visit, the front-facing showroom was completely decked-out for summer in a jungle theme: wild prints, flashy colors, and flora. The colors and patterns of front showroom changes seasonally, but the calming neutral...

Everyone has that one pair of favorite jeans, because, well, they are just perfect. They sit right and you look amazing in them. And when those jeans become worn-out or even worse...get a hole, you know that you will never find another pair that is quite the same. This is where #1 Jeans comes to the rescue. #1 Jeans, or Natalie and Marc, started their business about 3 years ago. At first, they were just a couple...

I attended the More than Fashion event, despite the down-pour that day. It was worth it. Sonja Eismann, editor and founder of Missy Magazine and author of the Absolute Fashion, and Anne Jung, campaign coordinator of #untragbar, discussed the role of fashion in life and throughout history (as laid out in her book), including current ethical topics concerning the mass-consumption of fashion.  Here are some main points...

For all of those interested in fashion and photography, I suggest you visit the Frankfurt Fotografie Forum's Viviane Sassen In and Out of Fashion exhibit. Dutch photographer Viviane Sassen has a very unique way of capturing fashion.  Her photographs at first glance are confusing, and require a second or third look before the eye can make out what was photographed. Most of the scenes are abstract, displaying contorted...