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Valentine Avoh: Blog
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A passion for fashion, music, photography, and any other form of arts really. Inspired by my origins; Ivory Coast, my home; Belgium, the cities I've lived in; London, Paris and Milan, the people I met... This is a piece of my life... I now work as a freelance fashion designer, stylist and photographer.
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Video Inspirations #6

Hi everyone! Here are the latest videos I came across recently and as usual, I wanted to share them with you…     First, the latest video from Garance Doré… Everything Garance d...

18 h ago

Lime and Lemon

Hi everyone! I hope that you are all enjoying the sunshine. For my part, those high temperatures gave me the opportunity to wear the little skirt I made earlier this week. I was quite happy with the ...

3 days ago

In my bathroom

I received a few emails asking me what kind of beauty products I use. So after doing a “What’s in my bag post”, I thought it could be fun to show you the content of my bathroom. &nb...

5 days ago 1 person likes this

And so I made a skirt

With the temperature slowly rising, I now feel like ditching my jeans for some less covering items. So when I saw, in my local textile store, this piece of fabric laying in the clearance basket, I th...

24 may 12

Fuchsia

One of my favorite color is fuchsia, so when I saw this girl with her bright fuchsia tailored jacket, I had to take her picture! I ran into her outside the Triennale Museum in Milan while hunting dow...

17 may 12

Caroline Issa…

The other day I discovered this new video from Jimmy Choo introducing their new Stylemaker 24:7 project staring one of London’s style icon, Caroline Issa, fashion director of Tank Magazine and ...

12 may 12

Summer Wardrobe…

Spring is finally knocking at our door, at least for this week. Time for us to unfold our summer dresses and send our winter clothes on a hopefully long leave… While my heavy jumpers are still ...

11 may 12

The Alexander McQueen Boots…

There is nothing like a pair of gold studded peep toe boots to glam up any black outfit. And this is exactly what came up to my mind the other day when I ran into Vero from The Glamtagonist… Th...

05 may 12

Karl Lagerfeld is back..!

Ok, he didn’t really disappear from the fashion radar as he is still after all the official mister Chanel (and Fendi). But he did, over the years, distanced himself from his own labels, so much...

02 may 12

The McQueen Years Flashback…

  I just discovered this beautiful Alexander McQueen backstage video on Dazed and Confused and I couldn’t help but sharing it with you immediately..!   As some of you may know, when I...

01 may 12

Video Inspirations… #5

Just for you, some of the nicest videos I came across this week.   Let’s start with this video from ELLE featuring Rihanna. I have to admit I am not the biggest fan of Rihanna but I do lik...

29 apr 12

My Design Week in Instagram’s…

Not only did I saw some inspiring artwork and installations, but I also saw a lot of inspiring people.   As you might already know if you were following me on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram , I ...

27 apr 12

My Design Week in Pictures…

Another week has passed and with it the Milano Design Week came to an end… The city has emptied itself from all its creatives travelers and the hotel prices are finally back to normal. The mult...

26 apr 12

Elita Festival

Tomorrow I will be sharing with you my pictures from the Design Week, but until then here are some images from the Elita Festival Event that acted for the week’s closing party…   The...

25 apr 12

Love birds in Spring…

Now that spring points the tip of its nose*, a new kind of species is starting to venture outside… I would call it the “love birds”. Always in pairs, they evolve in our streets look...

20 apr 12

Swide and the Design Week…

If I had to name you one event just as exciting as the fashion week, it would have to be the Milano Design Week ! Although I am totally hooked on the fashion weeks, especially the ones taking place i...

18 apr 12

Giveaway: What’s in your bag…?

  In my bag, it’s like in my bathroom, I have just the essential, or should I say, the bare minimum… At least according to me, as my boyfriend doesn’t seems to see my collectio...

14 apr 12 1 person likes this

Jacquelyn off duty…

Valentine Avoh: BlogPlease meet the beautiful American model, Jacquelyn Jablonski who I met just outside the Gucci show in Milan. She has such a sweet face but what really got me captivated was her e...

10 apr 12 1 person likes this

La Parisienne…

Valentine Avoh: BlogThere has always been, and will always be something about the french girls… That it’d be the way they hold their cigarettes, their attitude or the way they master the ...

07 apr 12

Video inspirations… #4

Valentine Avoh: BlogToday I thought I would share with you some of the video that caught my attention recently…   First, the new advert for Prada by Steven Meisel… Some of you might ...

04 apr 12

Meeting Joan Smalls…

Don’t you think she’s mesmerizing? I almost got hypnotized when I took this picture of the absolutely gorgeous Joan Smalls. It was just after the Blumarine show in Milan and the place was...

01 apr 12

The jacket…

In just three days of interval I had the opportunity to photograph the same Roberto Cavalli blazer jacket on two very different women. I thought it would be interesting to put the two pictures togeth...

30 mar 12

Pastel…

If there was an opportunity to visit someone’s wardrobe, be certain that I would get in line to investigate the one of Eleonora! Based solely on my imagination, it would be filled with amazing ...

28 mar 12

Maria…

The first time I met Maria Kolosova, was last September in Milan… I took a shot of her while she was waiting outside a show, and that picture became one of my favorite among all the ones I post...

27 mar 12

Courrèges…

  Talking about Valentina in my last post reminded me of where I first met her… It was during the fashion week at the Courrèges launch party organized by Negri Firman in the Milanese conce...

27 mar 12 1 person likes this

The “it” dog…

(Above: Valentina Siragusa)   Contrary to what you might think, the coolest accessory from this last fashion week wasn’t a pair of shoes* nor a bag or even a hat… It was a dog..! &nb...

22 mar 12 1 person likes this

Welcome to the new site!

I have just moved my blog to the WordPress platform..!   What does it mean? That you have just been redirected to the new site and that the old address and blog are no longer accesible via Blogg...

20 mar 12 1 person likes this

Allo Milano…?

During Milan fashion week, one has to be blind not to note the amount of people who are on the phone, that it’d be in or out of the shows… One of the most common reason to get your phone ...

10 mar 12 1 person likes this

ELLE and Me…

This this last few weeks I was lucky to be mentioned twice in the two Belgian version of the magazine Elle. Once in the Elle Belgique (French edition), and the other one in the Elle Belgie (Flemish e...

07 mar 12 1 person likes this

A day at Luc Duchêne… #2

As I told you one month ago, I had the opportunity to spend one day at the boutique Luc Duchêne along with three other Belgian bloggers, to try on and get photographed in their new spring summer coll...

05 mar 12 1 person likes this

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