Our friends and partners from Afro Coffee opened their first coffee shop outside of South Africa in Salzburg/ Austria. They also carry their own brand of coffee, tea as well as home wear and accessories. We dxesigned some bags for them which we published earlier. Many more cities will follow, good luck to them!

I went for a very short trip to Italy.

Membership

Research. Research. For a new line of an Italian giant.

A bag or nothing at all– it is the essential accessory. It creates style, composes look, and signs a silhouette that it refines. Impossible to miss out on how the icons like Giséle, Anna, Kate and the others change looks by changing bags. First to carry the season's bestsellers, they set the tone and influence new dress codes. From oversized formats to the strictly minimum, from Dior's "Gaucho" to "Privé" launched by Jean Paul Gaultier, the variations are multiple. Choosing one or the other model is a way of showing the fashion 'membership' . Yet it all depends on the mood. The shoe option is also decisive. It gives the vintage to the trend. During the collections that become fuller with each fall, compensated and wedged heels take to the sidewalks, giving vertigo. Higher and higher, crazier and crazier, more and more cutout, they make sandals with multiple straps into things of beauty like sculptures; spectacular collector's items that magnify legs. Mink, fox, astrakhan, leopard-like pony, and colored crocodile in touches invade wardrobes. These furs make up the essential part of the accessories collections. Their chic is wild yet sophisticated. Leather has been renewed. Pleated, quilted, wrinkled, aged, pre-washed effects that give the illusion of reinventing the material make an impression. Black again essential to winter attire – the major wardrobe color, reference to Parisian attitude, the quintessence of style.

French Vogue 10/06