The Chain Belt

First of all, we wanted to thank Florrie from Intrinsically Florrie blog for nominating our blog for the Awesome Girl Award. Thanks Florrie!!!


This is a super simple and super cute DIY project that takes only about 15 minutes.
The belt is made of a chain, in the spirit of the 80', but of course, very relevant for today.

1. The materials you'll need are: a 1 meter chain, a few joining rings and a clasp.



2. Cut 31 cm of the chain



3. Measure 8 cm from the end of the bigger part.



4. Mark for yourself the 8 cm point from the end, and then 28 cm from that point, and add the joining rings at these points.



5,6. Connect the 31cm part to the rings.





7. Add the clasp with a joining ring to one of the ends.



Voila! The belt is ready!

Here, I'm wearing the belt with my H&M dress.



And what do think about my new TopShop cardigan? I fell in love with it!

Grotesque

Earlier this year I went to visit the "Haifa Museum of Art" to see a show called "The Grotesque". While watching the show, which was absolutely fascinating, I stumbled across the work of Erwin Olaf, a photographer and video artist living in Amsterdam. Although Olaf is mostly an artist, his apocalyptic prediction of how people will live and look in the future are ever so fashionable. In the show Olaf's presented his visions of how we will look in the future if our obsessions with youth, beauty and plastic surgery will continue to be such a central part of society. While visiting the artist's website I discovered more wonderful works that this time dealt with the alienation of the modern world. Olaf's retro aesthetics and forlorn atmosphere reminded me Edward Hopper's works that also managed to capture the beauty and loneliness of modern times.Please press on this link
To see Olaf's video art

Rock "At" Roll

About a month ago Tamar Karavan called me and asked if I would like to be her assistant in a photo shoot for “At” magazine. Whoever is familiar with Tamar's work knows she is talented photographer and stylist, and who knows Tamar in person knows she is amazing and even addictive … well, of course I said yes!
The model is the actress Keren Mor, who is going Rock n Roll it these shots. Osnat the makeup artist and Yossi the hair stylist were also fabulous. Overall the photo-shoot was fun and inspiring!

Here is a photo of Tamar during the photo-shoot, photos of some clothes and accessories before dressed on the model, and the final editorial.







The editorial

I just love this video with Lou Doillon from the Venessa Bruno's show

On ball gowns and balloons

When we started our blog, we felt it was a good platform to discover all kinds of interesting and creative people from all around the world.
Yana Godin is one of those people. Yana is a full time director in a computer firm and a passionate photographer in her spear time. When Yana approached us and asked to collaborate and shoot for our blog we couldn't believe our good luck.
Anyone who has a blog probably knows how time consuming it is to try and get a good picture. Yana made it look easy and allowed Nina and I to take some of our first shots together. Aside from the embarrassment that includes parading around in a ball gown while holding thousands of balloons in a crowded public park, it was a real pleasure so thanks Yana!

Paper Dolls

When I first saw these paper made wigs, it reminded me how much I loved to play with my paper dolls, dressing them in paper dresses…
These exquisite wigs are part of the “Paper cut project” created by Nikki Salk and Amy Flurry that is exhibited at Jeffrey New York and Atlanta.
Of course, a real paper doll needs variety of paper dresses.
One dress that I found in Flickr by Jolis Paons is all made of newspaper and the second is by the amazing designer Sandra Backlund.
And what about the shoes I say?
Well, here I had two options; the very sophisticated paper shoes by Mathieu Missiaen and Julien Morin, or the more classical version by Jennifer Collier.

"Paper cut project" wigs


Here is the virtual paper outfits I created!

Look no. 1

"Paper cut project" wig


Dress by Jolis Paons


Shoes by Jennifer Collier


Look no. 2


"Paper cut project" wig


Dress by Sandra Backlund


Shoes by Mathieu Missiaen and Julien Morin

Style Sample Magazine

Braids and Bows are featuring at the fifth issue of the Style Sample Magazine .
Each month the magazine chooses some of his favorite fashion blogs from
all over the world and let these bloggers write about their countries and inspirational places.We wrote about our beautiful and fashionable city of Tel-Aviv, and named all of our favorite places to shop and play.
You are very welcome to follow this link and read our article, and of course the other articles at the magazine. Thanks Style Sample!!!

Thanks to Yael for this photo!