Hartmann Nordenholz - spring 2010

what a spring-like colour palette

... met & greeted the ever-so charming and gifted Hartmann Nordenholz duo in Paris and am actually totally disappointed that most of the pictures I took (as each and every time, I must say...) are pretty crappy and don't reflect the character of this absolutely BIEN RÉUSSIE, well-done, multi-faceted collection...

this is Austria's NEXT IT BAG...

... if ever a Viennese label will come close to doing an IT BAG, it'll be them - besides their well-known pleated and ruffled leather bags, they did a body-wrap linen bag and a TOTALLY AWESOME FRINGED BAG WITH AN EXTRAVAGANT HORN(Y?) DETAIL, wow!

more and more and more of those bags - remakes of classic designs, this time round

The same detail they also do as a necklace. The basic inspiration, btw., was the turned and twisted and almost impossible form of the Moebius strip (if you're like me, you'll have to look it up on Wikipedia to make up for your lost maths and find out what all of this is about...) - WHAT A COINCIDENCE then that on the first floor of the building where they had their showroom there was an agency (whatever it was busying itself with...) called MÖBIUS... For the second time running, Hartmann Nordenholz did beautiful speckled and spotted prints in many light and very joyful, spring-like colours. The Möbius theme was present, but not oppressing. And I am absolutely in awe...

the MOEBIUS coincidence - too good to be true...