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Louise, dedicated to Karlovac and its renaissance star town heart
10 September 2012
by Mala Mare in Très Chic
Karlovac was built in the 16th century. The construction of the town begun on 13 July 1579 – the town’s birthday! The town was build as a renaissance fortress in shape of six-pointed star. With central square and rectangular network of houses and streets inside of the star, trenches with water [...]
Love Bags
16 June 2012
by Mala Mare in Clutch Bags
My friend Olive Tree makes unique jewellery and other thingies from Mediterranean olive wood. I like his work very much. Each piece is beautiful in its own way, it has its own story told by rings and patterns of olive wood. They are beautiful visually, and they are equally beautiful to touch – [...]
Flowers
31 May 2012
Sunshine-rain, rain-sunshine. Everything in the garden is growing and blossoming. And a new bag model grew on my kitchen table. It is not small, it is not large, the size is just right, somewhere in between. I started to play with paper, then test fabric, adding a bit, taking out a bit… When I am [...]
Little Lady
19 January 2012
I wrote before that sometimes I have got a problem with inspiration for a photo shoot.
Sometimes I have a very clear idea of how I would like to show a handbag in a photo. But when I am a model holding the bag in her hands – what then? Then I try to force my idea of how the photo should look like [...]
Green Seductress
2 October 2011
by Mala Mare in Très Chic
The stash. Fabric stash is a sea of cloth pieces, collected over time. Ever growing collection of craft fabrics. A fabric intrigues me and I have to have it, even if at that moment I do not know what to do with it.
I do not buy upholstery fabrics often. I remember houses and gardens motifs on the [...]