Fraikin's Friday Fashion Photo Booth (8) - A biker jacket

Plans for this weekend? A saturday with friends and a double photo shoot on sunday... Packed but fun!

Morgan leather biker jacket, grey and gold Alexander McQueen sweater, black satin shorts, a white shirt and Belstaff boots

Snubbing Lanvin for H&M

What kind of person buys the Designer for H&M range? And don't tell me it's people interested in fashion but with not enough money to afford the real stuff... Cause I don't believe that.
If you're interested in fashion and you have taste, you can find your style at any price. Don't waste your money on these collections, be resourceful, be imaginative and please, don't be a sheep.

Last weekend, I've been looking online for an evening dress (I have this special evening in December) And yes, OK, I can spend a bit of money on it. But one thing is for sure, I will not spend 200 euros on a Lanvin for H&M dress.
Look at alternatives, they'll usually have a better quality, better cuts and will be more original. And you won't be remembered as "the girl with the Lanvin for H&M dress anno 2010". And don't get me started over the shoes :-)

Above all, it's not worth being stabbed for (New York, last Saturday).

Fraikin's Friday Fashion Photo Booth (7) - Hooded

According to the french Belgian blog The Fashionalists, being 'hooded' is one of the big trends of this winter... So I tried it for this FFFPB but I couldn't help feel like a) an Easter bunny and also b) the virgin Mary. For some advice on knots and such, make sure to check out Liberty (of London) and their great videos The Liberty Way To Tie A Scarf.

Belstaff boots, leggings, Superdry sweater, black satin jacket and my mom's very old checkered scarf

Fraikin's Friday Fashion Photo Booth (6) - Marc Jacobs

This is a very special dress to me, I think it's the only dress I own with a not-cinched waist. Despite that, it's amazing in any circumstance. In this case, casual, at the office...

Marc by Marc Jacobs black and blue checkered dress with clasps, MiuMiu wedges
and blue thights, Ise Miyake bracelet

Fraikin's Friday Fashion Photo Booth (5) - It's like summer...

17°C during the day, 14°C at night: it's incredibly soft weather for Belgium this time of year. So I'm still enjoying short sleeves for a bit...

Skinny jeans, McQ waistcoat, short sleeves checkered shirt by Polo Jeans, Ellen Verbeek shoes and the must have of last summer (and a few summers before that too) a white watch
(in this case, Ice Watch)

Fraikin's Friday Fashion Photo Booth (4) - A hint of aviation

Heading into a long week-end and I'm wearing a mix of fabrics, with two key seasonal themes: aviation & navy.

Black satin jacket with pilot's wings brooch, skinny jeans, chunky hoody from Superdry, striped scarf and Marc by Marc Jacobs boots

Visual analogy database

Call me lazy, but instead of doing the thinking,  I'd love to be able to type the name of an object in a database, hit enter and be served with a list of things of a similar shape.

Rope would get your these results: snake, wire, hair, hose, ... and so on.
Maybe this could be a user-managed database since each object would be defined compared to another one (and not only to a trait).

What for? Visual analogy is one of the methods used in advertisement. Finding those never-seen before combos requires not to think logically but purely by association of shape, use, effect...

Delifrance, Ready to bake at home

I found a rather interesting document: "A Computational Model for Visual Metaphors" from German and Indians researchers and I quote:  

"Perceptual similarity seems to play a major role in the generation and interpretation of visual metaphors: Two conceptually different objects are associated with each other due to their similar appearance. Based on this new alignment, conceptual properties of the source can be transferred and applied to the target, which enables a completely new, metaphoric interpretation of the target. In this paper, we suggest a formal framework to analyze metaphorical relations: HDTP (Heuristic-Driven Theory Projection) computes an interpretation via a mapping based on common facts describing the visual appearance. Afterwards it transfers conceptual properties."

Now I need to find out what came out of that...
To be continued.