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The Chanel Legend

Recently when we were out early from class, a few of my classmates and I visited the 'Gemeentemuseum Den Haag' to see 'The Chanel Legend' exhibition. It offers a lightning tour of the life and work of Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel and her celebrated fashion house. They show top items from the '20s and '30s, women's suits from the '60s, all original Chanel designs, including creations worn by star clients. You can also find designs from Karl Lagerfeld who joined the House of Chanel in 1983.

I really liked the old Vogue issues and ads, the sparkly jewelry, and a line-up of 'little black dresses' from Yves Saint Laurent, Hussein Chalayan, Max Heymans and other designers. Spotted my favorite LBD: from Hussein Chalayan! Unfortunately I can only wear a designer dress like that in my dreams, but visitors of the museum could take a picture with a Chanel tweed jacket. My picture is not 'blog-worthy' because the jacket was too big and I have a very uncomfortable expression on my face ^-^

I uploaded a small selection in black & white so I won't spoil the fun for the ones who still want to visit the exhibition :)

You can visit the exhibition from 12 October until 2 February 2014. For more information click here.

Venice Biennale

Today I stayed home because I became sick yesterday, meh :( but at least I had enough time for homework and to sort out my pictures from last week's trip to Venice with the Academy! It was a big surprise to hear that we were going to the city and La Biennale di Venezia.

We travelled by bus for 12 hours, I probably got 2 hours of sleep that night and when we arrived, we got to throw our stuff in little cabins and headed off to the city by boat.... which I missed so for me the adventure started 1 hour later :')

Venice is absolutely beautiful! First day was about exploring the streets, bridges, shops, restaurants and working on one of our assignments: street-casting. We had to photograph different identities, and then choose one type of person to 'cast' the other days. It was harder than it sounds but a lot of fun!
The second and third day we visited The Biennale. There is a big variety of beautiful, weird, funny, confusing art like paintings, sculptures, sounds, movies, photographs, installations, performances and more. I found it pretty hard to not try to understand everything ha ha! My eyes got even more tired than my legs everyday because I was constantly scanning people, taking pictures, looking at the city & art and the lack of sleep didn't help much either. But it was totally worth it!