WELTEN CONTROL
April 16th, 2012
When Eddie & Sissy of The Polyamorous Affair met video artist Xhico at a Weltenbuerger N’ Friends pop-up event last summer, the creative juices started flowing right away. Before we knew it, they began collaborating on a video for the song Whoever Controls the Groove. We were happy to outfit the duo in Weltenbuerger vintage, LD Tuttle, C.NEEON, Juliaandben, Mia Morikawa, and more. And now, here it is!
A Soldier’s Girls
April 11th, 2012
Eddie Chacon recently shot this editorial for S Magazine featuring hats by Hats by Mia Morikawa. (NSFW)
Hats by Mia Morikawa available at Weltenbuerger.
Weltenbuerger’s Spring Summer Lookbook
April 3rd, 2012
Jillian of Weltenbuerger makes The Cut
April 2nd, 2012
http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2012/03/slideshow-the-week-in-style-blogs.html
http://www.histyley.com/the-stylist-weltenbuerger
New German Designer Pieces In!
March 25th, 2012
It’s been awhile, but we have just received a shipment of new designer pieces in our store for men and women! A few great pieces from familiar brand, Boessert-Schorn, as well as two new designers, Raphael Hauber, and Isabell de Hillerin.
Here are a few pictures of some of the pieces we now have in store from Boessert-Schorn:
Raphael Hauber:
And last but not least, Isabelle de Hillerin:
We also are now carrying limited quantities of OE magazine, an indepedent bi-annual magazine chronicling German/Berlin fashion. Swing by the store and get your copy!
Meet Sissy Saint-Marie
March 15th, 2012Meet our good friend Sissy Saint-Marie who will be working with us as. She’s got great style and we’re excited for her to join our team. With that said, read ahead and find out more about Sissy. And don’t forget to check out her etsy, Saint-Marie Vintage, and her band, The Polyamorous Affair.
Name: Sissy Sainte-Marie
Website or blog: Etsy.shops/SainteMarieVintage
Name of label, band name, project name: Sainte-Marie Vintage /// Band - The Polyamorous Affair
More about Sissy:
How did you meet Weltenbuerger /// I met Bryan when I returned to Los Angeles after a year in Berlin and was all excited to see a store with a German name carrying JuliaAndBen, one of my favorite Berlin labels. I also went crazy for their vintage. I participated in some of the WB N Friends pop-up events at the shop. My husband & I did a little modeling for the store’s website. We all became friends instantly. And since it’s so close to home, I never miss a chance to pop in and say hello.
Where are you currently residing? /// Los Feliz
What is your occupation? /// I own Sainte-Marie Vintage and I write songs and do vocals for The Polyamorous Affair.
Do you have a favorite designer/musician/artist? /// I love all the designers. I love beautiful things and beauty all around. I don’t think I could choose a favorite. I don’t keep up on music too much, I just find a couple of artists I like and listen to them forever and ever. I always love Glass Candy, Fever Ray, The Knife & El Perro del Mar. And I listen to David Lynch’s Crazy Clown Time a lot. My favorite visual artists deal with psycho-sexual matters and/or fabric: Louise Bourgeois, Tracey Emin, Yayoi Kusama - and I also love Nick Cave’s soundsuits and Cindy Sherman’s obsessive self portraiture.
What are you wearing in your photos? /// I sent 5 photos of my current favorite outfits.
1 - Black silk harem pants & jacket set, gold bodysuit, leopard boots, copper cuffs are all vintage + gold Gucci belt & blue tassel earring from UO $5 sale.
2 - White vintage bib dress & LD Tuttle horsehair heels, both from Weltenbuerger, snakeskin bag w/ head attached from Etsy & vintage mixed metal necklace.
3 - Moonspoon Saloon jumpsuit, Vena Cava Wedges & vintage yellow wooden earrings.
4 - Vintage angel print dress, American Apparel striped swimsuit & Loeffler Randall x Suno platform wedges.
5 - Bib overalls, YSL sunglasses & silk Christian Dior shirt are all vintage, Vena Cava pumps w/ lucite heel & my favorite toy - my snakeskin Holga.
If you were not in the fashion industry, what would you see yourself doing? I would study parapsychology and try to talk to ghosts & read minds.
Would you say your current location has an impact on your personal taste/style and how ?
LA is extremely casual and I like to dress up. So I’m kinda neurotic about it. I would just be a big fabulous peacock if left to my own devices. So right now my personal style is Minimal/Whimsical.
Are you working on any projects or collaborations we should check out? Yes, check out my online vintage shop. Come to my booth at the next A Current Affair. Check out some of my collaborations with my husband Eddie Chacon’s photography project, Metropolis of Vice. And our band, The Polyamorous Affair, has been collaborating with Bobb Bruno of Best Coast for our upcoming album. We will have some new videos and singles coming out soon.
Artist and Designer: Katharina Trudinski
February 27th, 2012
Katharina Trudinski, a founder and designer for one of Weltenbuerger’s successful German lines, Hui Hui is not only an outstanding fashion designer, but is also an amazing artist. As a trained textile designer, she has used her skills to create pieces she refers to as paintings. Trudinski’s love of color and texture is visible not only in her paintings but in her clothing line Hui Hui. She works by using Photoshop to collage paintings and drawings into an abstract print and digitally prints them onto fabric, for example this painting that she used to print a scarf:
Artist: Brian Kenny
February 2nd, 2012
“Brian Kenny was born 1982 in Heidelberg (Germany) on an American military base. While growing up, he traveled extensively throughout the US with his Army family. As a teenager, Brian was a competitive gymnast. After high school, he went to Oberlin Conservatory to study voice, but eventually left school to concentrate on visual art. In 2004, Brian moved to New York where he began collaborating with Slava Mogutin under the team name SUPERM. Together they are responsible for site-specific, multimedia gallery and museum shows in New York, Los Angeles, Houston, London, Moscow, Berlin, Oslo, Bergen, León (Spain), and Haifa (Israel). In 2008, he had his first solo exhibition of drawings and etchings in New York. Brian works across drawing, painting, sculpture, text, sound, video, and blogging. ”
(source: catch-fire.com & brian-kenny.com)
Meet Desiree Klein
January 28th, 2012
As we’ve said before, we are enlisting our friends to help contribute to our blog. With that said, we’d like to introduce you to our friend Desiree, the designer of Klein Corpse and Mirror. Take a look below, and find out more about Desiree.
Name /// Desiree Klein
Website or blog /// www.kleincorpse.com /// www.numberfour.org
Name of label, band name, project name /// Fashion labels: Klein Corpse & Mirror
More about Desiree:
How did you meet Weltenbuerger /// I was in LA in the winter of 2010/11 and was magically drawn there.
Where are you currently residing? /// Berlin
What is your occupation? /// Fashion Designer, sometimes Stylist
Do you have a favorite designer/musician/artist? /// Daphne and Vera Correll, Margiela, Cosmic Wonder, Hui Hui, Vladimir Karalev, Hussein Chalayan, BLESS, Louise Bourgeois, Louise Nevelson, Alexandra Leykauf, Nina Rhode, Kitty Kraus………………
What are you wearing in your photos? /// A Klein Corpse top
If you were not in the fashion industry, what would you see yourself doing? /// Prima Ballerina, Psychoanalyst or a Farmer
Would you say your current location has an impact on your personal taste/style and how? /// Berlin is cold and rainy right now, so you layer a lot of stuff, also people rather downplay things here and the line between male and female are much more blurred.
Are you working on any projects or collaborations we should check out? /// I am working on a Weltenbuerger / Mirror Menswear collaboration line.
100% SILK RECORDS
January 20th, 2012
Guten tag!
We’re excited to announce that we will be carrying 100% SILK records in our store. 100% SILK is the record label of our good friend Amanda Brown.
We’re excited to announce that we will be carrying 100% SILK records in our store. 100% SILK is the record label of our good friend Amanda Brown.
“100% SILK makes 45 RPM 12 inch singles of diamond-life dance & bliss-disco & basement luxury grooves by friends and lovers from all over the world.”
Ital - Only For Tonight
LA Vampire Goes Ital - Streetwise
SFV ACID - New West Coast
Check out more of 100% Silk here and “like” them on Facebook.
