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Stefano Padovani Editor & Ideator production@fashink.com Lucia Capelli Director Cristina Balestrini Creative Director advertising@fashink.com Andrea Tisci Fashion Editor fashion@fashink.com Elena Gentile Beauty Editor Stefano Guerrini Fashion consultant
Annalaura Giorgio Special Event coordinator Talita Savorani Writer & Accessories contributor Isabella Gaspardo Foreing Consultant Anisoara Constantin Fitness & Healthcare Specialist Michelle Dorrell Baking Master
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Claudio Ciliberti, Mario Chiarenza, Davide Gariboldi, Elena Monti, Samuela Nova, Martina Pennacchio, Shelly Wahweotten
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Dante Balestra, Rossella Balestra, Vittore Buzzi, Giovanni Ciraudo, Mauro Ferrari, Filomena, Davide Messora, Andrea Perego
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VITTORE BUZZI
A winner of prizes and awards for both fine art and documentary photography, he works for big companies and public institutions and has a very personal view of modernity and contemporary society.
DAVIDE GARIBOLDI
Davide is a Personal Trainer who is very much in demand at the moment; his clients are individuals who aim at achieving perfect physical fitness and very competitive sport performances.
ELENA MONTI
Born in Milan, Elena was surely destined to be a successful stylist, since she has been breathing the atmosphere of one of the fashion capitals of the world all her life. Already as a child she played at creating outfits and dressing her sisters up with her adored grandma’s vintage clothes.
MARTINA PENNACCHIO
Martina was born in Milan, the capital of fashion, where she currently lives. After attending one of the best Italian beauty and body care schools, her passion for these topics led her to become a professional beautician and make-up artist.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial p. 6 Fashion Moment p. 8
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Mind My Own Business p. 12 We Believe p. 22 Tattoo Icons p. 34
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EDITORIAL Stefano Padovani
About twenty years ago I had the luck of meeting Marina, the beautiful Brazilian tattooed model who was certainly one of the first to walk the most prestigious international fashion shows. Yet her career was not at all easy. I distinctly remember the day when her agency asked for my help during the Milanese fashion week. Her booker was sincerely convinced that having her fly to Milan for the shows was a good idea, but they soon found out that they was mistaken. There was no chance of sending her to castings. Marina could not be selected for castings because she was tattooed – something that at the time was considered to be worse than an infectious disease. A woman like her was completely unacceptable. Therefore, it was my pleasure to act as her guide, both in terms of psychological support and around Milan; with the excuse of shooting her book photographs with me, she was protected from the harsh reality, that was the real reason why she wasn’t being sent to any casting. Her tattoos were magnificent and she wore them even better than a couture dress on her splendid and graceful body. Her sweet and kind personality wouldn’t have scared a child, yet the Milanese fashion world of the time found her external appearance terrifying. A few days later Marina went back to Paris, where she lived and where, coincidentally, fashion designer Thierry Mugler had chosen her as his muse for his extraordinary creations. After a short while, her decision to move to New York proved to be the great turning point of her career. Mila Schön chose her as the face of her worldwide advertising campaign, after which she became one of the top models of the moment. Everybody wanted her and her tattoos, the framework of her beauty, became a hallmark. Obviously Marina never came back to Milan: by that time, she had probably reached on her own the conclusion that Italy was not ready for such grace. 6
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Fashion Moment by TFG ’Numéro’ and a handful more that dictate trends and decide who and what will be hot next season. Every season they have the last word on the current and future stars of the fashion world. Perhaps only English fashion magazines stood out a bit, with their edgy, ‘Brit’ spirit and their offbeat attitude towards fashion. Change is upon us in everything we do: fashion, music, movies, what we want to be. Dandies, hipsters and other (unconventional) street trendsetters are increasing in number. ‘Alternative chic’, ‘elegant rock’ and other new terms are being coined every day. The editors of these prestigious magazines and their managers are constantly looking forward and in fact have depicted these new trends in their latest issues. Today’s top models appear on these shiny covers with their beautiful tattoos and therefore indelibly brand the new direction. Jane Mosley on ‘L’Officiel’, Paris Jackson on ‘Harper’s Bazaar’, Catherine McNeil photographed by JeanBaptiste Mondino for the cover of ‘Numéro’ represent the new world. The 2010s’ fashion is tinged with new colours.
Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Karen Mulder, Nadja Auermann, Stephanie Seymour, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss in the ‘90s, and before them Lynne Koester, Brooke Shields, Felicitas, Frauke, Jerry Hall, Janice Dickinson, Gia Carangi, Iman: these are the unforgettable beauty icons that will always be a synonym of fashion in the minds and hearts of all fashion lovers and workers of this industry. They were portrayed by great maestri such as Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, Norman Parkinson and Francesco Scavullo for the most prestigious (fashion) magazines in the world. Beauty used to be so objective that it could not be questioned. In the new millennium, instead, things have radically changed: our society consumes and devours everything at the speed of light and very little is left to the nostalgics and to those who live on iconic memories. The new generations of journalists are called bloggers, models are ephemeral chimeras, flying out faster than comets in the sky, and photographers don’t seem to be that interested in creating magic though their work. On the contrary, fashion magazines have shown staying power: it is still ‘Vogue’, ‘Harper’s Bazaar’, ‘L’Officiel’, 8
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Claudio Ciliberti
Let me tell you a story... Later on I found out that this is called burnout syndrome – the emotional depletion, alienation and personal derealization suffered by individuals with professions that require a deep relational involvement. Ten years later I found myself full of doubts, sitting and wondering whether to continue following my creative path or not. In those dark days my girlfriend Daniela kept asking me to take our relationship to the next level, so one day I told her “If you come with me on a round-the-world journey I will marry you”: she looked into my eyes, kissed me and said “Ok, I couldn’t have asked for more”. I decided to take this
When I opened my tattoo studio in 1994, I only lived for tattoes and piercings. I was completely drawn in by this magical art and wanted to know everything there was to know about it. I felt like a sorcerer’s apprentice in a brand new world where I could finally be myself, so I gave my all: I would build my own machines, weld the needles and copy drawings of all existing styles, searching for my own path. As a consequence of giving away all my energy and time I broke down. I was exhausted from creating magic and dreams through all sorts of tattoos and piercings: this is what happens when you feed your soul to your inner demon.
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With her typical calmness, Daniela instead managed to negotiate with the airline and get an immediate compensation of about 3,000 Baht (more or less â‚Ź 80). We walked out of the airport tired and heartbroken, and to make things worse we were hit by hellish humidity and by a stench of fried food that stuck to our clothes - the only clothes we were left with. We managed to reach the guest house we had booked from Italy using public transport only late at night and we were given a small and very basic room. The next morning we were woken up by the bells of the buddhist temple nearby and this was perhaps the first evidence of the fact that we had really left Italy behind our backs. Thanks to jetlag, or perhaps to the excitement of this adventure, we felt very energetic and decided to visit the city on foot, using our map. Out on the streets of Bangkok, the smells that were unbearable for us the night before now felt like the scent and the setting of our new day.
chance and it was this stimulation to follow my dreams that spurred me into action. It took us two years to prepare the journey: after going to travel agencies to pick up brochures of the places we wanted to see, we started to look for collaborators capable of both replacing me at the studio and maintaining my high quality standards during my entire journey. Thanks to Daniela’s perfect organizational skills, on 24th September 2006 we got married and six days later we embarked on adventure. Leaving for such a journey without knowing any foreign language was no easy feat, yet armed only with the tattoo machines and a change of summer clothes we felt ready for it. From Turin we took a bus to the airport of Milan and from there we flew to Bangkok. After a 14-hour flight, immediately after landing we were told that our luggage had been lost. My first reaction was to think that the negative energy that was crushing me at the time had followed me to Thailand.
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internet point; incredibly, that tattoo looked familiar to me and I immediately told Daniela. Believe it or not, the tattoed arm belonged to Maury, a friend and a brother to me, who as soon as he heard his name being called turned around in amazement, uncapable of believing his eyes. We had breakfast together and then told him about our plan to travel up north, with the intention of meeting local tattoers, and hopefully of meeting the mythical giraffe women and visiting the areas where tigers could still be found. Maury was on the point of flying back to Italy because he was feeling very lonely and melancholic, but after our conversation he decided to join us on our adventure for at least one week. We booked a tour and a guest house in Chiang Mai and we left for the Golden Triangle. It was incredible how our journey, which had only just started, already looked like what it would become later, that is an adventure around the entire world.
We entered the shops in the alleys to buy what we needed to continue our journey, and luckily everything was cheap in that country. Wandering around Bangkok we came across the only thing that looked familiar to us: a tattoo studio, where we met a number of wacky characters, such as the Thai Rasta to whom I asked to tattoo a Ganesh on my back using gestures. The studio guys were our saviours: they managed to find our baggage and have it delivered to the studio. We realized how strong the bond between fellow tattoers was when they helped us move to a hotel nearby with a swimming pool that cost ₏5 per night, so that we could feel less alone. Following our new friends’ advice, the following morning we started looking for a tour operator that spoke our language and that could organize our journey towards the north of the country, where the weather was cooler and more acceptable. On our way to the travel agency, by pure chance I saw a tattoed person inside an
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F: In people’s heads the checkout lady is always a middle-aged indolent woman. What’s your opinion on that?
Martina was born in Milan 23 years ago, where she studied as an accountant; she loves sports and is a very active person: she spends her free time with her dogs and at the gym, where she professionally trains to be a pole dancer. Her free spirit helps her to live her everyday life with great peace of mind.
M: I totally agree: even today people expect to find only middle-aged ladies at the checkout when they go to the supermarket, until they actually see very young girls and a lot of guys too. Their immediate reaction is to be pleasantly surprised. As for me, I make a point of smiling a lot and acting cheerfully with our clients, also because I believe that my duties include making people happy with the service they receive.
FASHINK: Tell us about your job. Martina: I’ve been working as a cashier in a large supermarket since 2013. I started during high school and after six months the company decided to promote me to the merchandising department, thanks to my exuberant and creative personality. I was in charge of the displays, of the promotional areas and of the special events dealing with communication. I worked in this department for about two years, after which for personal reasons I asked to be moved back to the till. Basically, I realized that all my dedication and efforts were not appreciated and that every single good proposal I made was torn to pieces by my bosses.
F: Did your tattoos ever cause you any problem at work? M: The internal company regulations are very specific on the subject and no visible tattoo is allowed. When I joined this company I didn’t have any tattoos, so when I started getting them I had them done in areas of my body where they couldn’t be seen or where they could be easily covered up. When I decided to get my hands tattooed, I was well aware of the fact that I might lose my job, but in spite of the regulations I soon realized that 16
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my bosses turned a blind eye to them because they knew I was a competent and professional employee. All they asked from me was to always wear long-sleeve shirts. Our customers instead are always intrigued by them, especially the older people and those who have a hard time imagining a young and tattooed checkout lady.
F: Do you reckon that your job presents opportunities for growth? M: Large supermarkets offer a wide range of jobs, but in theory there’s also a merit-based advancement system of course. I’ve seen many colleagues ruthlessly compete against each other to climb that ladder, and more often than not the individuals who are more willing to compromise are those who actually make it. Personally, this is one of the reasons why I decided to go down that ladder and go back to being a cashier. On the other hand, there are people like my boss, a really deserving person, who started out in the bread-making department and little by little reached his manager position. Therefore I believe that if you are willing to work hard and to make some sacrifices you can surely build a career, even in a supermarket.
F: Your job implies handling large amounts of money, a bit like bank cashiers do. How do you feel about it? M: I agree, my job is very similar to that of a bank employee: we share the same responsibilities, the same risks and the same type of contact with our customers; we also both have to wear a shirt, but strangely enough these two jobs are perceived in a completely different way. In my opinion, for what it’s worth, the two jobs are practically identical, but in people’s minds a checkout lady will always be a checkout lady, while a bank cashier will always be a more respected professional figure. At the end of the working day, when the till is full of money, my responsibility is huge, because the cashier is always held accountable for any kind of
F: How do you see your future? M: I plan to open my own pole dancing school, because it’s my passion; I learned a lot from my 20
that starting to work at such a young age helped me a lot in developing my business project. By the time I turned 20 I had already taken it upon myself to take out a house mortgage and to buy a new car. My peers have no idea what it’s like to become responsible for oneself through manual labour: they often live in comfort, so they don’t know what it means to earn one’s living through the nobility of work.
job, working as a salesperson in contact with all kinds of people every day, and this is an experience I recommend to anyone, especially to young people like me. When I talk to my friends, especially to those who still go to university, in fact, I notice that they believe they know a lot about everyday life, and that they don’t realize that what you get from working, in real life, undeniably represents a type of education that no school can ever provide. I believe
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Giulia Pasquali Giulia was born 28 years ago in a family of French and Sardinian origins. She adores animals, especially dogs and reptiles. In fact, she describes herself as having the personality and cold blood of snakes. After all, she has six of them and spends lots of time with them and with her two dogs. Her mother, who herself had received a strict and aristocratic education, irrevocably decided that she would do classical studies at a Catholic high school run by monks. After her diploma, she started university to study Communication in Art Market, as she envisioned her future self as a writer and an art critic. In spite of her deep interest in art, her love for animals constantly reminded her that she would also have loved to become a vet. This
combination of interests is just one of the reasons why Giulia is definitely an uncommon person. She took an interest in the culture of body modification and in anything that has to do with bodily alterations, like piercings and tattoos, and developed an obsession for medical and surgical instruments which led her to become a professional body piercer. Giulia insists that the worlds of plastic surgery and body modification are apart, although the difference between them is sometimes barely perceptible: one undergoes the latter for the love of it, rather than for aesthetic criteria. It is however extremely important to be a skilled professional to perform any kind of surgery without causing permanent damage to the patient. She drew much of her inspiration 22
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‘When I’m suspended, it’s as if I were detaching myself from the common world and falling into a trance’, she says. This age-old technique was mainly practiced in oriental cultures and was apparently used to purify the body. In 2016, Giulia went for something really special: she became the first woman in Italy to have her eyes inked, with a technique known as ‘eyeball tattoo’. This way, she says, she feels a bit more/even more like a reptile. Given that she lives in Italy, a country with a very traditional lifestyle, Giulia is often labelled as ‘the weird one’, at least until people meet her and find out how ‘normal’ and sweet she is. Ironically, it is the young who are more shocked by her appearance, whereas the elderly are more intrigued and want to understand why she wants to look so eclectic and bizarre. Today Giulia is one of the most popular icons of alternative culture and a respected professional performer of the techniques and shows peculiar to that scene. And she has made it her own personal mission to try to open people’s minds, so that they can learn how to look beyond physical appearances.
from tattoo artist Brenno Alberti, who introduced her to scarification, a technique that creates permanent scars of any chosen shape and size on the skin by carving it with a scalpel. At the age of thirteen, she managed to win at least one of her (many) battles against her mother: after spending months in hospital because of an accident, as a reward she got her first tattoo, a gecko that reminded her of a beautiful holiday in Stromboli with her dad. Today 90% of Giulia’s body is covered with tattoos: she explains that every inked part has an emotional meaning, which can be as simple as exorcizing the pain experienced while having the tattoo done. Other modifications - such as silicone sub-dermal implants instead were only chosen on aesthetic and decorative grounds, as she candidly states. Despite her appearance, Giulia leads a surprisingly normal life: she even jokes on her being a clean freak. Another unconventional passion of hers very in line with her personality is body suspension: according to ancient shamanic rituals, being suspended from hooks going through one’s skin might ‘teach’ one to improve one’s resistance to pain and overcome extreme conditions. 27
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My name is Johanna Wilhelmina Thor, I was born in Sweden. I’ve been tattooing since 2001, so I guess it makes 17 years or something... Fuck... I started when I was 19 and I guess it’s the only thing I can do Oh God... I’ve loved it ever since I was a kid: I was always drawing on my brother, so it was quite obvious I was gonna become a tattoo artist. My friends and family have never doubted that: they were like “Yes! You have a career!”. I did a technical school where I studied maths and technology because I was supposed to become an engineer, so I know a lot about technology and I love my machines! If they break down I know exactly how to make them work again. I opened my own shop in 2004, so I’ve had it for thirteen years now, near Stockholm.
I’ve moved to an amazing new location near a river, with all the windows directly facing the water, so every morning I feed the ducks. “that’s so good for my soul”. My style is colourful, clean, sort of... New school... But not really as new school should be... I don’t know how to explain it... I think it could be called neo-traditional maybe. don’t know, people say that, “new school”... I don’t give a style to my art, I do what comes out from my feelings: that’s it!
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My name is Ellen Westholm. I am 28 years old and I was born and raised in Gothenburg, Sweden. I moved around a little bit in Sweden, but now I am back in my home town. I am tattooing for a little longer than six years. Never had any kind of artistic schooling, I was actually more into music - I play the piano and sing, but ever since I was a kid I’ve been drawing. My mom is an artist: she’s been drawing, sculpting her whole life, so as soon as I could pick up a pen I started drawing. This is where it comes from, my mom. She was always trying to push me towards being artistic, not just with pen and paper, but also with music. And she was so right. I don’t really know what got me into tattoos, but it’s just always been something very mystical to me, something inspiring,
hard to explain, because most of my customers still ask at some point “What got you into tattooing?”, and I’ve been trying to make up some cool story about it, because I don’t have one really. I think that all the drawing, which I’ve done since I was a kid and throughout my life, just led to [the realization] that I had to do something that has to do with this, so this is what I do every day now and I’m so happy about it, because I wouldn’t be happy doing anything else. I definitely prefer black and grey, realistic tattoos. Sometimes I like to add a little bit of colour into it, if the customer’s up for it, but I wouldn’t do a full coloured piece I rather use a lot of black and make it kinda dark and mystical, but at the same time feminine.
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FASHINK: Historically, tattooing has always been a men’s world. Have you noticed a trend reversal over the last few years?
female conventions actually, but it’s kind of sad that they are needed. I think that the girls think that they need a tattoo convention only for girls. I don’t know why they make such a big deal of if you have a dick or a pussy, I don’t understand that, I don’t really understand. For females artist [the situation] it has changed. I don’t think it’s the guys. I’ve been tattooing for sixteen years, so in the beginning you really had to prove yourself to be good, because you were almost one of a kind. It’s way much better than before. It’s super nice to see that there’s almost a 50/50, or a 70/30 [male to female ratio]. The styles have changed…clients
JOHANNA: Yes, the trend has changed a lot. Now you can even go to an all-female [tattoo artists] convention. Obviously I was asked if I wanted to go to a female convention, and sometimes I felt that maybe I should, but then on the other hand I thought “guys don’t have that [specification]”, you know what I mean? And then how would that look in respect to females? I think it’s weird to cut between genders. So I normally don’t attend 32
I have a lot of friends in the tattoo industry that are female. There is no difference in capability and talent: it’s just been a male-dominated business and I think that’s definitely changing because there are more and more women coming into it all the time. I actually think it’s a good thing to be a woman, because it kinda makes you stand out just a little bit, since we’re a minority at the moment. I have this client right now that really wanted to come to me and she had to decide between me and another artist whose style is very similar to mine. When she told me that she would come to me she said “Ok, you’re a woman, you
come up to me and ask for the female touch. In the shop I am the one that does most of the manly tattoos, you know, the hardcore, ?bloody? and messy ones. They come into the shop and they think “Oh, the female must do flowers and hearts”, but that’s not how it is. Again you can’t go by gender [to choose a tattooer]: you have to look at what the artists does. ELLEN: Yeah, I think so, definitely. I’ve been working with both men and women throughout the whole time I’ve been involved in tattoing, and right now I’m actually working in a shop where we are three girls artist. 33
a boy or a girl, or if I’m in my fifties or in my twenties. I’ve always been wanting to get famous because of my tattoos, never because of the way I look, ‘cause that’s private: I look a certain way, but that’s just the way I like to present myself and not the way I like to present myself in the industry. So that’s why I’ve chosen not to post photos of my face and of my body until recently really, because now I feel that I’ve come a little bit further in my career and that people maybe know my work and I think “Ok, I can put a face behind this”. I’m not gonna be getting followers because I post a semi-nude photo [of me] or whatever: that’s not the way I wanna be portrayed at all. I want people to know me because of my work, because of my talent and because of what I do. So I really, really hope that people do not come to me because of my appearance, that they only come to me because of the hard work that I put in, behind my tattoos. That’s been my thing, my focus since I started tattooing.
understand”: she wanted to have her full back done, so she told me “I wanna accentuate my waist: I want my waist to look tiny and my ass to look big.” I know the way I would like to look as a female, so I think that makes it easier for me to shape her body into the way she really wants it to be shaped. I’m not saying that men are incapable of doing it, but I’m just saying that she had faith in me because I know the shape of the body that she wanted. F: Besides your artistic style and your skills, do you think your personal style and look too plays its part in the minds of your customers when it comes to choosing to be tattooed by you? J: I don’t know... I hope they come for my art and not for how I look [laughs], because if I lose an eye or something I hope they come back again anyway [laughs]... I hope they come for my art, but I don’t know, maybe they do... I’m kinda neutral, you know, I don’t have my boobs out or anything, you know, nothing like that. They come for my art. That’s what I hope for.
F: The younger generations of tattoo artist and clients follow trends and what’s in fashion almost religiously. Do you think this might kill creativity?
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so many that have been tattooing for just a few years that are really killing it, so I don’t know if it’s good or not. But then now you have media like Instagram and Facebook that make it easier to copy [designs] and adopt other people’s styles, so you don’t know if the style is the artist’s own or not. You know, when I started I did [a lot of] flash sheets, so I guess we all go through these different [phases]. Evolution is good. So I think this [skulls theme] is a new thing. It’s a fashion. I learnt so much from that, you know: sitting and doing those tribals in the ‘90s, in the beginning when you are an apprentice, it was fucking good! You know, when I think back on it, it made me humble. So sometimes you just need to do that fucking hard work in the beginning, and if it happens that you have to do these mandalas everyday, well, develop a new one, be creative, do more, do better. E: In a way I’m feeling it, because right now I have a waiting list and I don’t know how many guys in their twenties want to do a sleeve that goes from good to evil, or from evil to good, you know, this religious theme that starts on the wrist where there’s Satan, and then it goes up and by the shoulder there’s supposed to be God or something. For the person that came up with it first that was a really cool idea, but now everyone’s doing it, so I don’t
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are a lot of computer apps to create these fashionable mandalas, and it takes you just a few seconds to draw and I’m really stunned because so far I’ve always been drawing them by hand. Maybe I’m gonna buy that computer, I think it’s called a drawing table. Yes, things are definitely changing. E: Yeah, definitely. If my computer broke, I would die, you know? I’m depending on my computer. I do everything in Photoshop. When I draw, I do it for myself, ‘cause if I was to draw for every customer that would take me a week for one customer. Working in Photoshop is much easier for me, because I can do the whole layout, the presentation and the stencil too: it saves me so much time it’s ridiculous – something that would take me an hour to draw in a stencil will take me two minutes in Photoshop. That helps both the customer and me, because I can put more effort in things like the design if the stencil making is not that time consuming.
E: Definitely. I’ve been travelling mostly through Europe, and then to Iceland and the States, so I can tell you that coming to Italy is one of the most inspiring [experiences]. This is where I gather my inspiration: in Milan just looking at the Duomo cathedral, and then when I was in Rome I took so many pictures, because it’s just so mind-blowingly beautiful. That’s really what makes me continue being inspired: looking at buildings, looking at statues,
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looking at architecture, everything inspires me so much. And just being in the surroundings of so many good artist, knowing that I’m in the same room with them, that inspires me a lot too, because I get the opportunity to walk around, look at their work, just enjoy the whole convention: this inspires me so much and gives me energy. I guess you can find inspiration anywhere and there’s always gonna be different trends wherever you go, in fashion, in tattoos, in everything. The difference between that and the culture that I come really widens
my view of inspiration. It’s hard to explain, but yeah, it inspired me to be in different cultures and just see how people here look, and what the city looks like. Unfortunately though when we travel, you know, we mostly just see the airport, the hotel and the inside of the convention and if we’re lucky enough we might have a couple of hours to do the touristy things, but I wish I had some more time to spend here. This is my fourth time [in Milan] and the only thing that I’ve seen is the Duomo cathedral, so I wanna visit so much: I need a vacation.
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From one side of the world, I am watching these tattooers post some of their amazing work, thinking what I wouldn’t give to have the opportunity to meet them, at very least, or get tattooed by them, if I’m lucky! I forget that they are not always as intimidating as I build them up in my mind, and striving daily to build up my works to be as good as them. Then we meet, have good chats, joke and laugh, and all I want to do is absorb as much I can, in the little amounts of time I am alloted. Even at home, when I meet new artists, or inspiring individuals, I want to bottle up their existence, and carry it with me, while I practice the same craft.
Out of all the places in the world, Los Angeles has never been on my bucket list. There are thousands of enticing, exotic places in the world, besides LA, but here I am, making my first visit, in January, while it’s snowing back home. Maybe it is the right time of year, maybe it’s the playground of opportunity, maybe it’s the variety of people that spread some California romance over me. Whatever it was, I felt it wash over me, while standing on top of Mt Baldy, snow blowing off the caps, clear skies, and a lack of smog covering the city. It was beautiful. Absolutely stunning. My friend Erik is originally from there, but now owns his own private studio in Dallas. We do the Kid Rock cruises together, and once in a while work with each other in Oklahoma City. He always asks me to go with him to different places when I can. This time, Six Feet Under, in Upland, owned by his pal Corey Miller. Of course I wanted to go!! This guys is a legend!!
The most important part of art, to me, is that it will always be a constant process of learning. How can I ever be perfect at it? How can I practice painting new things, using new techniques, varieties of tools, and leave my own mark on all mediums? It’s the people. I have been around the world and back, gone from coast to coast over my lifetime, and even found myself in some of the filthiest alleys of crap towns, to meet some of the most amazing individuals. I’ve met artists, ballet dancers, architechs, rock stars of all types, firefighters, pilots, mamas, papas, and
One thing about being a traveling tattooer....I rarely see the outside of a tattoo shop. So while the boys played at a car show, I stuck around the shop to tattoo a few friends, make some new ones, and feel at home.
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and kindred souls in La-La-land. Today, I made a new friend, during the few hours we had together, while I tortured the jeepers out of his arm. Conversations flowed with ease while the art was made. I learned about his only daughter, his lifetime of relationships with friends, coworkers, significant others, and the careers he has has in his lifetime. I know what gifts he presented to his girlfriend this past Christmas. We shared lots of stories. I was fortunate enough to tell him about myself too. Like the fact that I have fur children, who are spoiled rotten, and have their own family of friends willing to watch them while I am away. I told him that my father is the person who originally sprung my interest in tattoos, as he has always been naturally gifted in art as well. He has never done a tattoo himself, but years of being a rebel, he had plenty of his own, and appreciated the art. During my childhood, he would come home from work with new tattoo magazines, art publications, reference material for his own works, and ask me if I had any interests in them. Some of my favorite memories are sitting in the dining room, of our small trailer home, drawing together. We used to draw small squiggles, or short sketches, then pass them back and forth, while making something new out of the image. It’s how we bonded after
almost 20 years later, I am tattooing kids who were born the year I got my first tattoo machine. From inside all tattoo shops, all across the world, I have watched families grow up, watched friends come and go, people pass away, and once in a while, I get to see someone pop up out of nowhere, 15+ years later, in the most random places. But on a daily basis, I am blessed to have those occurances. At one point in life, we have shared an intimacy over art together. I mean - sure!! Sometimes I may forget that small star tattoo I put on a person, but they may remember everything about the day we met. - What silly jokes I may have made that day, or even the ridiculous outfit i may have been wearing, down to the stories we shared about life, during that small increment of time we had then. I was a high school teenager when I began this path, and of course I’ve grown up in various ways, good and bad, but until the day that person is no longer alive, we are forever an artistic memory, bound in skin. Blood brothers, if you will, even though I am but a young gal....trying to hold onto my youth. I have met kindred souls from the Caribbean,
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was a shock reaction I hoped for, but her curiosity overtook her distaste. “You’re just experiencing the world around you baby,” I remember her saying. Of course it was followed with a “be careful,” but enjoying living thru me, vicariously.
long periods of absences. My mom would always get so mad, being the arts were way more advanced and inappropriate for a grade school child, but in retrospect, she wouldn’t change a single thing about how it unfolded. I became the best rebel they know, doing as I please, and becoming the adult I am today. My parents were only together for short periods of time in their lives, but they got ‘me’ out of it. And I am the luckiest to have them, in great health, to this day. At such a young age, doing such bold things as a rebel, most families would have their reservations about my choices in life, but over and over again, I am reminded that they are proud of me. Sometimes my mom jokes that I should just live in my car, and keep traveling. It is a freedom they never had the chance to experience, with kids and other responsibilities. I have even called my mom from notell motels, sex themed rooms just to tell her where i was in the world. Maybe it
At the end of the tattoo session, the fella I was working on said he was going to be a bit sad once it was all over, unless he could find other ideas to tattoo, just because his experience with me was so wonderful. “I met with a lot of other tattooers, asking about this same tattoo, but once we met, chatted breifly about it, your vibe drew me in immediately, and I knew you were going to be my artist. From now on, it’s me and you, kid!” It never ceases to humble me. Without the people i meet, art wouldn’t be a color for me. And a world without color.....well....wouldn’t be very interesting, now would it?
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MOV Five people, five artists, started this project and together they share the same artistic spirit and the intention of helping people change their ways of looking at contemporariness. Motion, flow, force, an extraordinary way to connect the present to the future. An open space, an open pentagon, where illusory emptiness is the real expression of a raw dynamism: these five people, however, never abandon from their identity non and every single one of them is a pillar of this new vision that aims at expanding towards the new generations of artists. M.O.V. is a container of ideas, arts and therefore of artists. It’s a place where everyone can find a special way to come into contact with the knowledge and the knowhow of anything concerning ‘lifestyle’ and all kinds of arts, and where they can have a first-hand experience of the essence of a masterpiece’s creative process.
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ANDREA G AT T I Andrea Gatti is a footwear designer born in Vigevano in the early ‘70s. His grandfathers were painters and artisans, so he grew up with the background sound of the sewing machines used for vamps and the first tools he chose to express his creativity were paintbrushes and nails. His teenage years are marked by his passion for music. He plays bass guitar in a crossover band produced by Italian rock musician Omar Pedrini for about six years, to move on as a back liner, touring with Italian artists Gino Paoli, Morgan and Andy from Bluvertigo and with BB King. He then starts a new career as a stage director for several Italian television programmes and falls in love with film direction, producing a number of short films and documentaries on the tattoo world. After a sabbatical year, Andrea returns to the world of shoemaking through a collaboration with Milanese barber shop Bullfrog. He learns the shoeshiners’ techniques in order to develop ‘the art of patina’ and glaçage. It is precisely after these most recent experiences that his path becomes clear to him and takes the form of the Old Randa project, encompassing all his passions – music, film direction, painting and life philosophy. Designing and manufacturing custom-made shoes, using all kinds of hides and exclusively starting from crust-tone (neutral white) leather, on which he can paint and create patinas, feels to him like creating one-off works of art.
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FA B I O LISSI Fabio Lissi is a creative goldsmith born in Milan in 1974. A student of philosophy and an apprentice of painter Lina Galleazzi, as a boy he decides to embrace his family’s goldsmith tradition. This choice enables him to reconcile his creative vein and the desire to acquire expertise, manual skills Fabio is invited to move to Florida, but decides to remain in Italy instead, to manufacture and sell jewellery that bears an unmistakeable Italian flavour in terms of both creativity and technique. He believes that life’s real significance lies in emotions, so he starts a collection that epitomizes the value of the time we take for ourselves and of the small everyday joys. After a collaboration with Brioni, which marks his entrance in the world of fashion, in 2009 he creates a collection that bears his name and that denotes his artistic maturation, in a call to a realignment between man and nature’s harmony leading to a deep regeneration. His pieces are made of gold, silver and bronze and include gemstones and precious and semi-precious stones, as a symbol of universal theories and ancient tradition. Each piece is crafted following the time-honoured Italian goldsmithing techniques, starting from a drawing, a draft or a sketch, listening to stories, ideas, dreams or memories to create a perfect combination of materials and elements in a unique but wearable item. Jewels are the eternal embodiment of precious messages.
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OMAR NARDI Omar Nardi is a fashion designer born in Modena in 1979. He has been designing clothes ever since he was a child, while experimenting with performing arts, developing his own poetics focused on the body and on carnality. After completing his education at Accademia delle Belle Arti in Bologna, he moves to Antwerp to study Fashion Design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Omar starts his career in fashion from the basics, that is from pattern making, because it is crystal clear to him how important it is for a designer to fully grasp a garment’s structure. His career of freelance designer lasts until the end of 2015, when he decides to start his own collection, OMAR. He starts a company, works on brand identity and designs his first collection, which shows in June 2016 during the Milan fashion week at Men’s Hub and which is selected by both Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana and Vogue Talents. September 2016 sees the birth of the women’s capsule collection, followed by the fall/winter 17/18 collection, presented in Milan and Paris.
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PA S Q UA L E BONFILIO Pasquale Bonfilio is a hat designer born in Puglia in1979. He has been painting since he was five years old and takes part in his first collective exhibition at the age of thirteen. Among other things, he has been a cake designer, a make-up artist, a restorer and a pattern-maker / designer. In 2004 he moves to Brussels, where he works for a famous milliner and falls in love with hat-making. Pasquale moves back to Italy in 2013, with the intention of creating the hats of his dreams, free from the dictates of trends and from external obligations: he has never stopped since. His collaborations include those with magazines such as ‘Vogue’, ‘Schön’, ‘L’Officiel’, ‘Cosmopolitan’, ‘The Cube Magazine’ and ‘LYF Magazine’, besides several advertising campaigns, amongst which the promotion for MIDO 2017.
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S T E FA N O P A D O VA N I Stefano Padovani is the mind behind M.O.V., a project that allows him to fully express his creativity by participating in its various artistic experiences. He is also the founder of ‘Fashink’. A fashion photographer and a portraitist, he starts his career very early as an assistant to a number of international masters of fashion photography. He then collaborates with American motor sport magazines and publishes several books using a very creative approach in depicting this subject. His pictures are featured in countless magazines, amongst which I-D’, ‘The Face’, ‘Dazed and Confused’, ‘Elle’, ‘Glamour’, ‘Marie Claire’, ‘Rolling Stone’, ‘GQ’ and ‘Class’. A citizen of the world, he spends sixteen years in Los Angeles, where he portrays entertainers, movie stars and musicians such as Steve Jones (from the Sex Pistols), Janice Dickinson, Paris Hilton and Tommy Flanagan. Once he is back in Europe, after five years in London he settles down in Milan, where he keeps on working in the fashion and music industry. His latest work consists in a gallery of female portraits, the result of a collaboration with body-painting master Guido Daniele, who uses the skin of women of different ethnical backgrounds as the foundation for paintings inspired from the works of the greatest international tattooist.
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“Abandoned factories and forgotten, construction, railway stations, modern buildings, man-made architectures for human but immortalized free from his presence, the “non-places”, where the space is empty, where the corners, facades, heavy metals, glass and cuts that willingly blend with the sky create a single body, waiting to be frozen in a moment.” Croatian photographer Lara Zibret sharing her moments.
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New York: Brooklyn Bridge, John A and Washington Roebling The icon of NY. Finished in 1883 this beautiful brige is conneting sicne then Brooklyn with the beautiful island of Manhattan.
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Amsterdam: Pythonbrug, Adriaan Geuze Probably the most fashonable Amsterdam bridge. Built in 2001 is one of the bigest achitectual attractions in Amstedam, cause of the snake shape and amazing design. The bridge is connecting the two parts of east Amsterdam.
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Rome: Ponte Settimia Spizzichino, Francesco Del Tosto One of the newest brige in Rome, inspired by Juan José Arenas de Pablo and Marcos Jesús Pantaleón Prieto and Santiago Calatrava. The bridge is connecting the parts of Garbatella and Ostiense.
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Rotterdam: Willemsbrug, Cor Veerling
Rotterdam: Erasmusbrug, Ben Van Berkel
Rotterdam: Erasmusbrug, Ben Van Berkel
Diffinetly 2 of the icons of Rotterdam. Erasmusbrug known as well as “The Swan� is the well known bridge in Rotterdam that connect the north and south parts of this city. Willemsbrug, for a long time was the most important connection over the Meuse river. It’s the connection of the northern part of the city with the Noordereiland and (in combination with the Koninginnebrug) the district of Feijenoord.
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Milano: Passerella Serra, Arup Italia
Passerella Serra is one of the latest bridges done in Milan. It’s a part of the renewed area Portello. The bridge is connecting the new Center Terziario Vittoria with Park Portello, the Residential Center – Terziario Portello and the Mall.
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Photography Stefano Padovani Stylist Elena Monti Model Indi @Urban Hair/Make-up Samuela Nova Shot @Recording Lab Universo Special thanks Mauro Ferrari
Rock Shirt and pants M Missoni Shoes Sarenza Earrings, rings, bracelets Bijou Brigitte Necklace Sharra Pagano
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Necklace Cheap Monday Sweather Avant Toi Skirt Salvatore Vignola Ring Agalma Medusae
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Necklace Cheap Monday Hat Pasquale Bonfilio Body Freeda Jacket Redemption Pants Terre ALTE Belts Annie P Earrings Sharra Pagano Shoes DROMe
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Travel in time A.N.G.E.L.O. Vintage Palace, established by Angelo Caroli in 1978, is a three-floor building exclusively dealing with vintage clothing. This archive stands out in that it offers both pieces by high-end designers and items capable of evoking fragments of history and real life: military wear, workwear, sportswear, day and evening wear and most of all everyday garments. Frequent users of A.N.G.E.L.O.’s historical archive include top fashion brands, artists, musicians and film, television and advertising productions. Photography Stefano Padovani Stylist A.N.G.E.L.O. Model Barbora K. Hair/Make-up Elena Gentile Shot @Multiset Studio
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Jacquard velvet Roberta di Camerino suitcase, 1960s.
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Velvet and leather Roberta di Camerino zip-up hat box, 1950s.
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Velvet and leather Roberta di Camerino suitcase, 1950s.
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BEAUTY by Martina Pennacchio in collaboration with SPY hair & beauty
Martina was born in Milan, the capital of fashion. Her passion led her to become a professional beautician and make-up artist. She then specialized in beauty treatments and became a consultant for a prestigious Milanese spa and its discerning and elite clientele. She will guide you in her Fashink Beauty & Body Care pages with her experience and skills she will give you tips on how to take care of your body.
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The black mask is a face mask for the removal of blackheads and skin imperfections that is becoming very popular and entering the beauty routine of many people thanks to its effectiveness, in-depth cleansing property, user-friendliness and quick effect. There are not a lot of black masks on the market, but they all act on the same principle, that is turning into a shiny black latex-like film which absorbs blackheads. Its typical black colour is due to the fact that it is mostly composed of activated carbon.
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DIET Health GUIDE by Davide Gariboldi
Davide Gariboldi is a Personal Trainer who is very much in demand at the moment; his clients are individuals who aim at achieving perfect physical fitness and very competitive sport performances. Many of them are in fact sport professionals, who trust in his expertise. Davide is also an outstanding operator when it comes to post-trauma rehabilitation. He never misses an edition of Mister Olimpia in Las Vegas and of Arnold Classic; he is in excellent terms with many athletes and with some of the top-level trainers in the body-building world. Just to name a few, Davide is both a close collaborator and a good friend of Chad Nichols (Ronnie Coleman’s long-lasting trainer) and Dave Palombo. He is currently busy keeping fit and following his clients full-time.
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SPRING SEASON DETOX DIET The spring season detox diet is a three-days diet that aims at detoxifying the body before starting a specific diet regime. This is how it works. At the beginning of each day, drink a glass of warm water containing the fresh juice of one lemon and then do aerobic activities such as walking or cycling for 10 minutes, so that toxins will start to circulate; drinking at least half a liter of water during exercise will drain these toxins. I then suggest to drink a cup of coffee without any sugar before breakfast, a meal that I prefer to call “controlled fasting�. Breakfast consists of half a grapefruit, a slice of Ezekiel or sprouted grains bread (or a few rice cakes if you are gluten intolerant) and a spoonful of almonds spread (or nuts spread if you are gluten intolerant). I suggest you take a multivitamin supplement immediately after this first meal. Two hours later, drink a glass of cranberry juice, to detoxify the kidneys system, and take herbs capsules containing ginger, chilli, dandelion and sea salt, to help cleansing various body organs. For the second meal of the day, at lunchtime, I suggest a green salad (lettuce, spinach) dressed with fresh lemon juice, 30 g whole rice (or quinoa if you are gluten intolerant) and 100 g strawberries (or blueberries or raspberries if you have any allergies). In the afternoon, have a cup of tea or coffee without sugar and at least 1.5/2 liters roomtemperature water. For dinner, have 150 g purple potatoes, a plate of cauliflowers or green peppers (raw if possible, otherwise steamed) and one apple. Two hours later, have again a glass of cranberry juice and the same herbs capsules you took during the day. I suggest you add to the juice a spoonful of fibre such as psyllium, or alternatively some zeolite (a chelating agent capable of absorbing and removing heavy metals from the body) or some chlorella (an algae with the same properties as zeolite). The above-listed foods hardly ever cause any allergies, but if they do I can advise on how to substitute them. I suggest to incorporate a multivitamin supplement containing vitamins C and E in the detox diet in any case. This diet is recommended for vegetarians too. After these three days, the body is cleansed and ready for a proper long-term custom dietary programme. For a custom dietary programmes please contact: dave@davidegariboldi.net
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by Ani Constantin
Anisoara Constantin, fitness model and personal trainer, was born 28 years ago in the beautiful region of Bukovina, Romania, and has always been very passionate about sport. She is one of the top international fitness models and personal trainers. In the past 10 years, Ani has become an icon in Italy, where she lives and works as a fitness model. She will give you suggestions to live a healthier life.
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1. Dumbbell oblique side Grasp dumbbells with straight arms, then bend to one side keeping the other arm close to the body. Repeat with the other arm. This exercise is ideal for your oblique abdominal muscles A typical workout for a beginner consists of 3-5 sets of 10-15 repetitions. Between each set it is important to take a break to allow your muscles to recover. The level of intensity for the exercise can be varied increasing the number of repetition and sets and the weight of the dumbbells.
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2. Superman Lie down on your stomach with arms and legs extended, keeping your neck in a neutral position. Keeping your torso still, raise your straight arms and legs, hold for two to five seconds and lower them back down. Exhale as you lift your arms and legs and inhale as you lower them back down The Superman exercise works your abs and strengthens your back as well. Do 3 sets of 12 repeats.
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3. Donkey kicks Starting on your hands and knees and keeping your core tight and your back flat raise one leg, keep it straight, push it as high as you can and lower it back down. This is a perfect exercise for your backside. 4 sets of 12 repeats, with a 5 minutes break.
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4. Push-ups The body should form a straight line from the shoulders to the ankles. Squeeze the abs as tight as possible and keep them working. Lower the body until the chest nearly touches the floor, making sure that the elbows are tucked in close to the torso. Pause for a moment, then push yourself back to the starting position. This is an ideal exercise for your chest and arms. 3-5 sets of 15-20 repeats, but you can start also with 10 repeats. Take a break now.
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“Carrot cake”
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You Will Need Serves 8 For The Cake 250 ml Sunflower Oil 4 Large Eggs 225g Light Muscovado Sugar 200g Carrots, Coarsly Grated 300g Self-rasing Flour 2 Teaspoons of Baking Powder 1 teaspoon of Mixed Spice 1 teaspoon of Ground Ginger For the Icing 50g Butter, at Room Temperature 25g Icing Sugar 250g Full-fat Cream Cheese A Few Drops of Vanilla Extract Method for making 1. Preheat the over to 180C° Gas 4. 2. Grease two deep 20cm round sandwich tins, line the bottom of the tins with baking parchment. 3. In a big bowl put the oil, eggs and sugar, whisk until the mixture is well combined, lighter and thickened. Gently fold in the carrots into the cake batter, then stir in the flour, baking powder, mixed spice, ginger until blended. 4. Spoon the mixture evenly between the two tins, put the cakes into the oven and bake for about 35 minutes . Or until golden brown,risen and shrinking away from the sides of the tin, transfer to a wire cooling rack. 5. For The Filling: Put the butter, icing sugar, cream cheese and vanilla into a bowl and whisk until smooth and thoroughly blended. 6. Making sure the cakes a cooled spread half the icing mixture on one of the cakes, sit the other cake on top and spread the remaining icing mixture on top of the cake and make a swirl pattern.
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El Milanes 60 ml rye whisky 30 ml fine sherry 6.25 ml saffron syrup 1.25 ml butter syrup 1.25 ml saffron hydro-alcoholate 1.25 ml shallot soffritto bitter
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by Talita Savorani
Spring is coming, isn’t it? So on Fashink Magazine we decided to let our free spirit go wild and discover all the corners of our planet, we want to feel free and feel the breeze against our faces: we’re going talk about something different this time.. Motorbike. So let’s take a ride and let’s see how we can customize and give a new life, but also a personal and unique touch, to our “babies”. First of all, comfortability. So choose your personalized and tattooed seat from Mother Road Customs wide range and have a seat, relax and feel at home while you’re travelling with your love. Want see something out of ordinary? Have a look at “The Recidivist” customized Harley Davidson by famous Polish tattoo artists. Here
you got it: extreme style, 100% personalized and never seen before. You must have a look at their website: http://gameovercycles.pl/ and die for it! Next? Wearable tattooed gloves for you but especially for your lady sitting on the back of your baby! Something cool, inspired by vintage fashion and one of a kind handmade items. A perfect present to start a new motorcycle year with both “her” with Ellen Greene leather and fake leather gloves available on her Etsy shop. Last but not least, what about making your bike unique by engraving some spare parts? Steel Tattoos and JP from Colorado will help you to choose the right engraving for your bike and to give it the final touch before starting your journey. So, ready? 3,2,1, GO! Let’s start with Mother Road Customs which gives you the chance to find a perfect customization for your motorbike seat. What about a pin -up from the 50’s with a fresh taste? Sexiness and hotness on your bike. Or maybe you’re more into that traditionallovers stuffs? So eagles, 8-ball, skulls, sailing ships and anchors? They can satisfy your desires too. They’re from the States and it’s quite clear from their Route 66 symbol and flags on the website. Let’s move to the big news of this section: Game Over Cycles in cooperation with German company Cheyenne Professional 128
Tattoo Equipment and Dutch Zodiac Performance Products for Harley-Davidson presented a unique project combining automotive world with the world of tattoos. Here’s the Cheyenne Bike called “The Recidivist” construction which is covered in light colored leather - similar to the color of human skin - and on that material two tattoo artists from the Polish tattoo studios, Individuum and Steel Will Tattoo-Factory tattooed traditional works directly onto the bike. Tattoos covering the motorcycle are uncompromising works of art; definitely love it! Ellen Greene uses clothing and apparel in her artworks as a symbol to describe and explain her body. Gloves for hands, dresses for the torso and stocking leg forms for feet. Its several life experiences are translated into tattoo images that are painted or stitched on those second skins. Feelings of grief, anger, rebellion, love and connection become snakes, daggers and hybrid beasts. Ellen’s current work focuses on the area between head and the heart. She usually uses collars as the metaphor for the physical location and her works are made with love. Her works have been exhibited in several location around the world since she makes also paintings. http://www.steeltattoos.net/ in the person of Jeremy Potts, alias “JP” from Colorado, is a USA native and Vietnam veteran. He started his passion when he was 4 years old and put his talent to work starting drawing. He was second-generation master engraver so he started his current work in 1973 and founded his company Steel Tattoos in 1979. He’s one of the pioneers of the engraving motorbike field and he developed tools and technique to use chrome. He’s available upon request to customize and engrave whatever you want on spare and bike parts, according to your wishes and madness! So... still here? Jump on your bike and enjoy the pathway! 129
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