Feeds to Follow #4
Here are this month's six Insta-picks to follow, from a super-chic Miuccia Prada devotee to a Japanese vegetable shop in Guéthary.
I truly consider the 1400+ feeds I follow on Instagram a highly curated pack of people that inspire me on the daily basis. And I openly confess that I might spend way too much time on browsing my feed, but even if it seems to be a form of leisure, it’s 90% work-connected! And well, I love beautiful things that please my eyes and intriguing people that stimulate my mind, both IRL and digital. So, I decided to start sharing with you from time to time my favorite accounts I follow and which you might also fancy following. Here are this month’s six picks!
» Also, I’ve made a spring playlist… turn the volume up, it’s spring scream! «
Talia Chetrit blurs the borders between being a fashion photographer and a documentarian. You can see her simple, yet commanding shots of models all over Phoebe Philo’s website and Instagram, and they are the best visual narration of the brand. But there’s also the other side of Chetrit’s work, focused on depicting her family: sometimes perversely, sometimes as “pure fiction”, but always honestly. I’m just perplexed with her work, and her Instagram is a space where she posts some raw ideas or random moments. There’s also a great New Yorker profile by Chris Wiley through which you can have a glimpse at Talia’s creative process. “You get the sense that she views making a photograph the same way a child views playing dress-up: as a chance to stretch the boundaries of the possible.”
The Miu Miu autumn winter 2024 show had a brilliant casting, but one of the models sparked extra attention. It’s safe to say that that day the fashion world fell in love with Qin Huilan, the 70 year-old doctor turned style icon from Shanghai who is among the world’s biggest fans of Miuccia Prada’s clothes. Once you enter her Instagram, there’s no way back. This woman has the biggest Prada and Miu Miu holy grails one can imagine. Spring 2009 creased velvets and spring 2010 chandelier crystals from Prada; spring 2013 fur boas and spring 2011 leather jackets in retro hearts and blooms from Miu Miu. You can dissect every single look and check your Miuccia knowledge by playing the “match it to the right season” game. What’s fascinating is that Qin styles her Pradas and Mius so effortlessly - with a certain nonchalance Mrs. Prada definitely approves.
Godard Haberdashery is a store in Tokyo’s Yoyogi district as well as the pseudonym of Hiroki Sasago, a fashion stylist and art director. Sasago found himself fed up with the tremendous speed of things he had experienced at his previous job at Dover Street Market Ginza. He longed for the healthy flow of time which is represented by the art of bespoke tailoring - his biggest passion. As he says in one of his interviews, he believes that “the counterculture is the source of the DIY spirit that sprouts from the spirit of originality and the desire for something different from others”. That spirit is reflected in his store (named after Jean-Luc Godard), where hand-picked vintage menswear meets his designs infused with style of ever-inspiring French men (think Gainsbourg, Belmondo and all the Nouvelle Vague heartthrobs).
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