Bukowskis' Showroom

As most of you know from reading this blog, I've been working as a stylist at the auction house Bukowskis the last few weeks, for their Vintage and Jewels auction. After the photographing for the web catalogue was done, we started building the showroom.

Huge balloons were part of the decoration! I felt like a ten year old little girl holding those things. When I held five at the same time I almost lifted from the ground...

Here's lovely Linda tying the balloons up. Look at her electrified hair!!!

And here is the result - flying dress number one...

...and flying dress number two!

We color-coordinated everything with the help of different paintings and photographs. This is the red corner - obviously...

Here we have a picture of a horse, under which stands a pair of shoes (the black ones) decorated with hair from the mane of an actual pony!

The Hermés Kelly bag - watched over by gorgeous Marilyn! I want that picture!

One of the cabinets. There were lots of stuff for sale!

One of the mannequins, dressed in Chanel and surrounded by bags from Dior and Gucci! One day a woman walked around with her husband, looking at all the clothes and trying some on. Then she stopped, pointed at me, and said loudly to her husband: "I want her dress!". He, he. Just a little something I stitched together myself - an original Miss Meadows! It was this dress by the way. Another day a very sleazy old man came and said he wanted to by me at the auction! Gah! Men with money just assumes they can get anything! Don't think he could have afforded me though. I'm don't sell out for money, I'd rather have somebody's soul...

Keith Richards kept an eye on everything...

He especially liked this Lars Wallin dress!

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Dresses weren't the only thing that could fly - here we have an umbrella hovering too!

On the stage we put all the big Louis Vuitton travel cases. And more balloons...

This was one of my favorite pieces of the whole auction - a black, transparent blouse from the 20s or 30s! The sleeves were decorated with heavy rhinestones, and it was in top condition! If it had been just a little bit smaller I would have put a bid on it. Since it didn't have a label it was clubbed at a horribly low price...

Designer Bea Szenfeld had made an installation for the showroom - a big necklace made of white, gold and silver paper, folded as diamonds...

...and another piece of the same media, writing out part of the lyrics for Madonna's Material Girl!

During the VIP evening, when the showroom opened, a line to the jewelry room was soon created by eager guests.

I do understand them though...That room SPARKLED!!!

Here's a ring shaped as a frog. I spent a few minutes in that room every day, just to get my daily dose of diamonds. Right now I really suffer from the abstinence...

Fanny, Tifa and Elsa came to the opening night. Fanny even had a few pieces from her store Kellerman Vintage for sale at the auction!

Here's a little picture from the actual auction. Exciting...

I liked working at Bukowskis so much I couldn't stand the thought of leaving them when my work there was done, so I decided to end it all by hanging myself with a diamond necklace in the jewelry room...When I was almost out of air I remembered there was a burlesque party the next day though, which I really didn't wanna miss! So I released my neck from the 21.75 ct of diamonds...The starting bid on that thing was 100,000 SEK (14,730 US dollars) by the way. Could there be a better way to die?!

I made it to the burlesque party, but more about that tomorrow!

Bea Szenfeld

We have a young, very talented designer here in Sweden, called Bea Szenfeld. The cool thing with this girl is that she often makes her creations out of paper! I like the way it mixes art and fashion, and here I'm going to show you her "haute papier" collection "Sur la Plage".

On Bea's web site it states that this collection "contains 12 outfits, each and every one manufactured by hand and out of paper. In the hands of Bea Szenfeld the paper undergoes a complete metamorphosis. The compact cardboard is cut and fold into tiny architectural concoctions, which are assembled together by hand into incredible creations that leads your mind to Jules Vernes (sic) fictitious sea demons.

Among the rolling waves and uninhabited islands appears also the mythological folklore of the seamen. It is a male dominated existence with water sprits (sic) and sea nymphs that fascinates and seduces the men and drags them into the deep seas and rivers. With this simple resources as paper (sic) Bea has created a beautiful and delicate collection of garments. Dreamlike textures and elaborately layered wisps, precise paper cuts and expressive forms. Everything is pleated, stuck, sewed, and glued by hand.

Are these garments wearable? No.

Washable? No.

Strangely exquisite? Yes!"

I don't know about you, but I would gladly wear one of these creations to a beach party! If I could sit in the shade of course. I don't think getting sweaty in the sun would be such a good idea if you happen to be wearing something made of paper...