Went to see Florence and the Machine last monday in Paradiso…she impressed already at Lowlands last year but this night was phenomenal I think. Don’t care what others say cause she got quite popular, this was so good man. Whenever you get the chance, go and see her live. The video and sound don’t do the performance any justice, but still:

Opening coming friday at 8pm at Trouw Amsterdam. Our friend and talented artist Lucy McRae together with Mike Pelletier will present their ‘Peristaltic Skin Machine’; an experimentation into water, air and color draped over the body…must see!

More info at Multiplexart

Yesterday night The XX at Paradiso. Nice one:

I’m in Manchester at the moment. Tommorow Ontour meetings with our clients over here and today and yesterday I was here to see the city and some stores.

Really good mixture of both independent as department stores… I saw some nice selections of brands and I’m looking forward to spread some Ontour products across this city;)

Some stores I recommend when visiting Manchester: Flannels, Smithfield, Oi Polloi, Thomas St. Post Office, Ran, Wood and some good stuff in Selfridges and Harvey Nichols.

Laters.

I’m working from our temporary Amsterdam showroom at the moment. In this beautiful old building with amazing spaces the good people of Lev Kaupas are running their business.

We hooked up with them and the upcoming week I will be presenting our new AW10 line to buyers and press. Here some impressions of the space:

When you’re Dutch, read all about Lev Kaupas here and see how you can sit here soon working on your laptop enjoying this environment.

Our intern Wing left the building…

As a bye bye present he showed up with this lovely Ontour cake. Thanks man!

I’m in Verona right now. Had a meeting and collection presentation at the headquarters of our Italian distributor Blue. We decided to add a couple days to see the beautiful city of Verona and see lovely Venice…

some business, sightseeing, shopping, galleries and food & wine:

Many thanks to Blue for the hospitality and Hilde for taking some classic picts;)

This weekend we were busy with photography of our new line. Collection has grown a lot so it took quite some time to shoot all items, but we’re very happy with the result. Here some work in progress previews…

More soon…

Remember the shoot we did half a year ago? Here part one of the result…SS10 Stranded Ontour:

Roger wearing ‘DenimDown’ shirt, ‘Cargo’ chino and ‘Seaside’ tee.

More soon…