BEAUTY ME UP

How to get all the cool, exclusive, niche beauty and make-up products spotted on Hollywood celebs from LA to NY, Paris to London? If your next NY trip is far off, check out niche-beauty.com (distributed by Atout Cosmetics located in Hamburg), where you can discover and shop online (delivery to Austria!) the precious beauty, make-up, fragrance secrets from Rodial, Weil, Apot.Care, OleHenriksen, ByTerri, Sarah Happ...

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BUT, at you next NY visit you have to check out the exclusive boudoir-styled fragrance boutique Aedes de Venustas (run by a German couple) in West Village, where you possibly run into Sarah Jessica Parker or Jennifer Aniston...

Currently me and my skin is perfectly happy with A Perfect World™ by Origins, a generous moisturizer with white tea antioxidants, that has proven effectively skin protection during the icy-cold past winter. And thanks to Sylvia my beauty-expert and dontyouwishyouhadsomemore-Blogger I found my ideal care for the night: High-Potency Night-A-Mins™ by Origins, sounding high-scientific the light balm formula acts deeply on skin renewal during the night and feels like cashmere on your skin...

Kate's Avenue Beauty Tip: Want to try out Origins? Check out there site on facebook and get a 30ml jar if 5 of your friends like "Origins Österreich".

WHAT´S HAPPENING?

To visit till 30th, April 2012 at Ausstellungszentrum Heiligenkreuzer Hof, Vienna.

Vienna. My Tuesday afternoon, still in my Aigle winter parker, led me to visit Elfie Semotan`s exibition, bearing her name, at the University of Applying Arts. Its an homage to the Austrian renowned contemporary artist, showing photographs and sculptures in a wonderful baroque setting. For me her work a perfect imperfection, realistic emotional, fragile but still strong, aesthetic with depth.

My day ended by a stop at HAPPY ENDING, a Pop Up Fashion Store under the slogan "give fashion a chance...give fashion a happy ending". Reasonable, nice designer pieces from former collections. An event where again more the scenes get-together was celebrated that the fashion itself.
I am waiting for the next Sample Sale, but not in Vienna.

SPRING TIME

The weather outside is currently very unpleasant, it seems the winter is about to start, appropriate to the recently closed fall/winter fashion week.
Though we could already breath in the first moments of spring. Every year it feels the same, but still differently. You feel subtly something growing, changing. This unique snap-shot involves associations and illusions, from past memories, current emotions to future dreams...What would be, if you could extend this feeling for hours, days, weeks, months...your whole life?
For me it doesn´t work. But why not capturing the moment and releasing it from time to time whenever desired? As long this vernal snap-shots come again year by year, life is alright.

Spring Time in my Viennese Apt

Me, Spring Look by K Bardot, London.

SKETCH PAD

It´s been almost a decade that I didn´t do fashion illustrations. The nice aspect of my several relocations last year is, that you finally rediscover new old things. So my 90style pro sketching box from high school. Here´s the 2012 result. Remember the shoot?

 

If only the future sometimes could be sketched that easily. But life is no design piece. Generations misbelief.