Twin » Ana http://www.twinfactory.co.uk Biannual art and fashion book inspiring a daily blog Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:20:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 High Heaven http://www.twinfactory.co.uk/blog/fashion/high-heaven http://www.twinfactory.co.uk/blog/fashion/high-heaven#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:52:54 +0000 Ana http://www.twinfactory.co.uk/?p=788 Thursday should be crowned the new party day for Germany´s young ladies, in honor of the Hamburg debut of Weekday – Sweden’s answer to Topshop. Both Weekday and its sassy little sister Monki are the brainchildren of Orjan Andersson and Adam Freiberg, who founded Cheap Mondays. Now the famed skinny jeans brand will sit alongside capsule collections by top Scandinavian designers Carin Wester, Minimarket, Stine Goya and store brand MTWTFSS. With the launch of super-affordable, playful but cool clothes at Monki, plus sharp chic next door at Weekday, this day will definitely be enshrined in Hamburg’s high street history.

Kira Stachowitsch, editor-in-chief of Indie Magazine and Material Girl Magazine

Acid Ferrets

Weekday staff

Jessie of http://www.lesmads.de

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The guys are the height of skater-boy cool but the highlights of the shop are Maren Szeymies’s masterfully hand-stitched hooded sweatsuit dresses, and super-soft organic cotton T-shirts which provide the canvas for slinky line drawings of irate chihuahuas, taggers, kittens, kissing couples and seagulls.

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www.dont-shoot-the-messengers.com

photographs by Maxime Ballesteros

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