Maps and the City

Yeah, it must be clear after all these posts that MATC likes fashionable map use & also Tolkien inspired maps.  Thanks Thanh Le, for sharing this on 9GAG.com.

Spotted this weekend while strolling (and eating half of all the delicious food that was on display) at Borough Market in London: a maploving fashionable Londoner.

Let the summer begin, and let it please be soon (Spring will do also …)! Seeing this beautiful dress by Eva Franco I look forward to happier weather even more. You can buy the dress here (intercontinental shipping also). It’s also possible to put it on your wishlist in case you want to persuade someone else to buy it for you. Or just put it on the list when you need to save some money for this gem first… It’s on mine for sure!

Fashion blog TheDigitalistas.com posted a blog today about using a wall map as fancy wallpaper for your bedroom. As posted before, maps are fashion. Awesome!

Yes. There is more. Some friends already told me they are surprised by the amount of random map stuff that is out there. And I am pleased to say there is more to come, so stay tuned to MATC! How about this one. A few weeks ago I posted about the amazing dress by Michael Barnaart van Bergen, but there is more maps in fashion. I found these shoes on a blog on visual arts. Me likes!

Yeah baby, told you so! Who (and yes, you can put some names of my friends here J) ever said maps are not sexy or fashionable, let me prove you wrong. I stumbled upon this amazing dress by Michael Barnaart van Bergen, a young designer from the residential city of The Hague. The Robe de la Résidente was designed to celebrate the fact that Barnaart van Bergen was declared Fashion Ambassador of The Hague in 2010. I can sure see why, all his dresses are absolutely amazing!

Last week was Amsterdam International Fashion Week again. Blogs and articles show us the new trends, the front rows and some beautiful catwalk shots. But the photos I always like most are the street style photos. Photos of people, randomly captured on film outside, in a relaxed and almost accidental way (I bet that is not true in all cases). The background? A park, a busy street or a concrete building. These photos have a great city feel!

Almost everyone does is these days (The Sartorialist, fashion bloggers, magazines like Elle and Grazia). But my favourite photographer of street style is Bill Cunningham, one of the very first. Cunningham already started his ‘printed blog’ in The New York Times in 1978, and now (at age of 82!) still makes his On the Street column, nowadays online. He always combines beautiful city photos with shots of fashionistas and sharp descriptions of trends.

This year a movie by Richard Press will honour Cunningham. I’ll definitely watch Bill Cunningham New York, because I am curious to see more of the man that makes real city portraits through these photos of people in the streets. The trailer for the movie by Richard Press can be checked out here. Best detail of the trailer: the lovely fact that mister Cunningham drives his bike around New York. Love that man!