The Shepard Fairey vernissage at Merry Karnowski Gallery Berlin was held last Saturday. The print retroperspective was visited pretty well. Most of the prints cost EUR 1.000,- but the highlight of the evening was definitely the print of Turkish national hero Ataturk which was sold for a stunning EUR 12.000,- bearing in mind that we’re talking about prints here!

Gonca and Kathi VERY interested in the art:

Hanna trying to give me her number:

Ataturk:

Gallerist Merry Karnowski herself:

After we went on to celebrate the birthday of my friend Roman:

Without words:

Thanks for the night Hanna:

Paris, Part2. And here we go again… after the chill-out at Park La Villette, Samuel invited us to his crib in Gambetta, showing us some beats he produced and some rap songs (!) Sabrina recorded some years ago. We were all bouncing like crazy, but Sabrina was more embarrassed than happy about it! Sorry, my ugly duck. Truth hurts…

Next day, Deborah aka Pink Princess took me to the Palais de Tokyo, which I normally like very much, especially the book store, but the current exhibition called “Spynumbers” was rather whack.

It was much more fun outside the building watching little kids skate and Parisians playing fixie polo:

Afterwards Pink Princess and and her lovely funny friend Gaelle took me to this party boat full of French fashionistas chillin Ibiza style:

At night the girls took me on a lil tourist crash course by car: Champs Elysee, Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel tower, Montmartre and Sacre Coeur ALL in 1 hour! Hahaha!

THNX for the trip, ladies!

Next day I met up with my fellow blogger Jay from BKRW, who was kind enough to show me around. Nicest guy ever! First stop was Pigalle where we met Steph from the Pigalle store and the Pain o Chokolat crew. Had a blast with these two crazy birds!

Jay the gay fish (as Manu calls him) rocking the new BKRW collection:

Steph and his girlfriend “my Indonesian sista” Annabel:

Checking out some Bball courts in Pigalle for a lil event they’re planning:

Lunch@Fuxia:

Then over to the office of the family enterprise Vida9 who organize the fashion shows and showroom for Rick Owens and tons of other runway shows during Paris fashion week:

Thanks for having me guys! See you at BBB in Berlin!

And btw: Steph actually WAS a little bit jealous when Annabel was trying to go back with me to Berlin. Sorry, bro! Same blood. What can you do?!

In the evening it was dinner time with my friend Adrian from Louis, Roman from aka-aki and their funny ballet dancer friend:

Safed my last day for the Louvre, but the mofo was closed! (Every Tuesday!) But also, nice from the outside:

Maeva aka Mrs. Tahiti took me to the Grand Palais instead. Amazing building showing some of France’s most promising contemporary artists. Here some snapshots Maeva took in front of an art piece:

Short stop at the BKRW shop:

Yeah, yeah, yeah… couldn’t find these beauties for years in my size. Croped them at Opium!

On the way to the airport Sabrina and I discovered that that her ink guy spelled her Rock’n Roll tattoo WRONG! With an “M”! HAHAHAHA!!

No worries, guhrl, we can fix  that.

Thank you, Paris!

Got a little goody bag from my friend Steven Vogel. He surprised me with some sweet Kangol x Fragment Design hats and this nice Blacklodges T-Shirt:

Just loved the details of packaging, specially the Blacklodges seal which somehow perfectly fits in to Steven’s rather critical view of today’s “streetwear scene”. Make sure to read the Blacklodges magazine if you want to get “educated”!

The Vogels are great!

Make sure to hit Berlin soon! Wish you all the best for your soon-to-be-born baby Vogel!!

Paris calling Part1. I’ve been to the city of love last weekend visiting my friendly monkey family: Designer/Event Planner Sabrina “Le Tapin” aka Ugly Duck and Manu of Art Force 1 and of course their little monkey kids Giovanna and Ikuko (6 weeks old!).

The weather was super nice, blue sky, sun all day long, Parisians walking around happily and friendly, les mademoiselles as well, inspiration and eye-candy everywhere. Fortunately, Sabrina took some time off to show me around and introduce me to some people.

Waiting for the train:

First stop was Bastille where Sabrina, Manu and Adeline Affre aka Ugly Betty used to have their store just a few meters from book-store/gallery The Lazy Dog:

Beautiful old second hand chairs:

And right next to it I found this idyllic hidden backyard:

Then it was monkey time!:

Lil Giovanna already is more Diva than her mom and when she wants Starbucks Frapuccino, she gets Starbucks Frapuccino…

Lunch at Razowski’s:

Yup, yup… Fixie scene in Paris is as well “tres hype”! Super talented photographer Mathieu from NBP (NothnigButPoetry) and his Baby:

Giovanna rocking Samuel’s bagback:

On the way to colette, Starcow etc. Samuel from Mimetism and Mathieu were giving me a little lecture about the Fixie scene in Paris… I guess I was the most impressed by this one hard-core girl crew who aren’t allowing any guys to ride with them and how some boys are trying to role with them by dressing up as girls!

And this Russian drunk was talking my ear off at Aimecube telling me how great Germany is. (and then he asked me for a cigarette)

Manu and his lil cute daughter Ikuko:

Of course, it gotta be a Starter one:

In the evening we ended up in the park La Villette for a pic-nic:

Propz to Mathieu for the pics!

And this old fellow was my personal most stylish person of the day:

John Lennon ain’t dead! He’s chillin in Bastille!

To be continued soon…