German brand and SLAMXHYPE favourite Bless are always one to bring a little fun to fashion. This time in the form of this Watch Belt. Available in Black and Natural Leather, the Belt includes a Casio digital watch face. The product isn’t new, but in keeping with the Bless philosophy these are timeless pieces, and it’s available now at Project No.8.

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We are so proud to present the first fashion editorial for Slamxhype shot by the amazing Mark Rabadan on location in Berlin, entitled “Place To Hide.” Clothing by Bless, Y-3, Boris Bidjan Saberi, C. Wester, David Delfin, Louboutin and Mykita Sunglases by Alexandre Herchovitch and Romain Kremer.

Photographer – Mark Rabadan

Stylist – Carlitos Trujillo

Hair/Make-up – Nadia Tucconi

Model – Frits Richter @ Viva (Berlin)

Photo Assistant - Julien Yall

Stylist Assistant – Marie Reicer

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Bless continue to push boundaries and stand out as a genuinely creative brand, whilst keeping a classic style and a unisex appeal. These Metal sunglasses feature a functional leather arms, available now at colette.

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The BLESS Berlin Store has relocated and renewed and now floats like a private island, three floors up and hidden away in a typical residential street in East Berlin. Existing as th hoem of the first BLESS collector, the space is filled with BLESS products, that over time, grew and took shape as the perfect collection to live in and with. This apartment ambience extends the concept of welcome. As a visit to BLESS is an energy intense investment (there are three floors to climb) this energy is rewarded with intimacy. So explore as you wish, have a tea and talk, read on the balcony, look through the cupboard or just laze in the hammock. The essence is to exist in an enhanced living space. Wallscaped and Window gardened BLESS Shop Berlin fits every style.

BLESS Berlin Store / Oderbergerstrasse 60 / 10435 Berlin / Prenzlauer Berg Backhouse / 3rd floor

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Berlin based photographer Daniel Josefsohn travelled to Ethiopia to shoot the amazing landscape and people. The photography is amazing and juztaposed with BLESS products, its a great way to highlight one of our favourite brands, check out the photos here.

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“The German tittle defines at the precisest, the actual BLESS state of mind. A plea for the here and now, the present time, this very instant and the joy that comes along with being “present”.

As always themeless, stylefree and genderfree, the new items of this season are the S/M/L trousers; a pair of trousers that adapts to one’s eating habits, and is able to grow or shrink according to the daily body size.

Both the Tanksakko and Tankcoat bring typical male dressing elements together with a sporty backside silhouette.

This season’s colours are characterized by numerous light greytones, some caramel tones, some natural linen colour, and as well as a jeans linen. Contrastly, there is a bright violet and dark tones such as dark green and dark red.

Hand knitted pieces are made of a muticoloured linen yarn or black raffia, that give the sporty clothes shape through its consistency and a slight couture twist.

Like last season, a limited amount of special customized one-of-a-kind clothes will be available. This time they are either handprinted, showing scenes of last seasons presentation, as well as several bless pieces zipped together, forming an overall look.

BLESS collaborated this season with the Swedish brand WEEKDAY

The inspiration is drawn from the idea of the perfect weekend trip, the accessories you have fun with and the ones you need to protect yourself from the changing weather. They are highly practical but still fun and fashionable.

BLESS creations are born from a particular need. The need to constantly combine the simplicity and comfort of daily life with a visionary and groundbreaking horizon. The duo’s wide variety of references creates the basis for this unconventional and interesting collection. The multipurpose bag can be turned in to a towel or a blanket for lazy days in the park. At sunset the sunhat can be turned into a comfortable cape. BLESS products can’t be categorized, instead they pass freely from one domain to another, bringing a universe of functional forms and conceptual solutions into being.

A limited number of edible garments, such as scoubidou gummy lace tank tops, knitted liquorice, coke flavoured sweaters and lollipop glasses sweeten up the silhouettes.

Following the desire to modify eating habits, a selection of unique cutlery pieces are shown, all with a detachable jewellery chain ending that can be worn around the wrist while eating.

An elegant way of eating ice cream looks like kissing one’s own hand is possible with the help of the Servering, a ring that holds several small ice cream bowls.

The presentation is a redefinition of co-existance between food and clothing, proposing a variety of food-sharing among friends.

A champagne pyramid is built as a piece of architecture  in the room. A glass wall that seperates, but also connects the guests on one side, and the models serving champagne on the other side. The wall is deconstructed by giving away the champagne glasses.

Another group of models team-up in the bloody mary chain. Starting from a big cupboard where glasses are handed out,  guests can pass by from person to person getting one ingredient after annother to build- and flavour-up their drink.”

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Being huge fans here at Slamxhype we are extremely excited to share news of the Bless Retrospective opening this Saturday, May 22nd, at the Joanneum Museum in Austria. The designer duo, Ines Kaag and Désirée Heiss, sum up their philosophy quite nicely by saying, “We’re giving ordinary life a makeover “, which for those of you familiar with Bless’ products will understand the craftsmanship, humor and beauty in their work. In addition to the retrospective, Bless also have a new book coming out which will document their products from N°30 to N°41. Stay tuned for more information on that!

Source: ANYONEGIRL

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To showcase its Bless n°40 collection, the Berlin based brand have called in film maker Sebastien Jamain to create this great video. Simple in its production, but as always perfectly representing the Bless aesthetic and philosophy.

Source: Paris-LA

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Bless do things on a completely different level to anyone else, and I can’t get enough of it. Their Spring/Summer 2010 collection is again an extension of the Berlin based brands move into more encompassing apparel collections.

In the Stables of 104 , the Bless presentation will appear as a game of balance between the models. With beginners and the more experienced, forming human pyramids of multiple dimensions, these fragile connections evoking children games and circus exercises. Everything will be dismantled to be remade in a movement, where each person is related to the other, to create an energetic, fluid, and improvised event. This kind of balance and this spirit is at work in the Bless collection spring/Summer 2010. Where elements of clothes, cut and reworked, give birth to surprising pieces, both sportswear and classic, loose and structured.

From a jacket whose top part is formed by the top of a tee-shirt and back. The work of balance goes on. The supple and the light are at play with more rigid elements ; as the collar of a shirt leads to a dress, or a blouse, and so liberating a silhouette at once structured, elegant, and at the same time so cool. Everything is about deconstruction and reconstruction ; the free and personal, always oriented toward a double use of the clothes (bag jacket, bangle bag, towel purse …) always on the move, always in motion.

These pieces are first of all clothes whose function varies following the flow of the day, its activities and mood…and in this fragile balance of functions, it is possible to find the alliance of opposing material. Taking risks with jute, cord, and leather. Ironically, some pieces play to (trick the eye) the trompe l’œil and make fun of this functional balance. (And so we find) (Such is the case for) a skirt being at once a pair of pants, and a pair of ray ban reflecting a fake image. At times the clothes transform into self promotional tools, referencing the stores in Berlin and Paris, or as souvenir of the last collection.

Lastly, you will notice that for the first time, Bless introduces a limited series of customised classics, exploring pieces of past collections. These classics slightly modified incite a mood of create your own Bless collection. Alongside other basics of the old collections produced again to (ground) reassure us, after all, in these new variations of balance.

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Two fashion capitals, Paris and Berlin, have combined together for a celebration of fashion which explores the wide range of materials and philosophies that turn our fashion into a means of self-expression and self-experience. With the biggest names in fashion involved such as Hussein Chalayan, Maison Martin Margiela, Gaspard Yurkievich, Raf Simons, Pierre Hardy + Damien Blottiere, Bernhard Willhelm + Christophe Hamaide-Pierson, Kostas Murkudis and Bless, the exhibition is transformed into a construction site which all takes place at the Passage du Désir in Paris in 2009 and at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin in 2010. 

‘The idea is to inverse the principles and to invite fashion designers to present installations which reflect their imagination and creative universe, rather than their collections. Through these environments, objects and films, a multi-layered horizon is constructed, whereby fashion appears beyond its constitutive material objects, as a field for experimentation or a state of sensibility in the making’. -Extract from passagedudesir.com

Read more about the exhibition here.

Image from Geometrie Variable

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Moving on from their highly conceptual Duo Fringe Glasses from last season, Bless have created a new pair of sunglasses for their N.39 Heart Ringers Collection which are some what easier to wear…. This time they’ve used photoprints on the sunglasses and have perforated them, giving the impression of a better reflection than what they may or may not already have in them! Have a look at the ‘reflection’ options below.

Images Today and Tomorrow

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With their signature aesthetic working its way through Bless‘ new Spring 2010 collection number 39, titled ‘Heart Ringers’, this season sees the same silhouette throughout of layered and oversized garments with some added in hybrid pieces of a more traditional nature. Including classic blazers in non classic color ways, an almost cowl neck button up shirt, shirts with incorporated scarves and fabric wrap up sandals. Have a look through the collection below.

Images Fashionisto 

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