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Playlist: Heaven Scent by Soulwax and Chloe Sevigny

M odel, permanent it girl, actress and now also a singer? There seems to be nothing Chloë Sevigny can't do. The American journalist Jay McInerney already knew that when he wrote a seven-page homag...

Movie Night: "Florence Foster Jenkins" with Meryl Streep

What she lacked in talent, her lavish bank account made up for. Few were more so than New Yorker Florence Foster Jenkins, whose inherited fortune enabled her to pursue an operatic career—withou...

Movie Night: The Louvre documentary "Francofonia"

H ow do you keep art treasures of immeasurable value from falling into the wrong hands? More precisely: the masterpieces of the Louvre like the "Mona Lisa" against the Nazi occupiers. From 1940...

Movie Night: "Peggy Guggenheim - A Life for Art"

M arguerite "Peggy" Guggenheim is one of the most important and at the same time most dazzling personalities of the international art scene from the 1930s to 1970s. The eccentric American not o...

The Chic is On: The Summer Fashion City Guide 2016 by Allude

W hat makes the late summer even nicer this year? Aside from the hopefully soon tanned skin and airy summer dresses... Go on a fashion holiday to your heart's content. So that you don't have to wa...

Playlist: To Have You Back by Tourist

Colors alone are enough for Davy Evans and Jason Drew, both renowned art directors, to bring Tourist (aka William Phillips)'s track “To Have You Back” to multimedia life. Black and white symbolize...

Art Dept: The exhibition “Isa Genzken – Make yourself pretty!”

"I always wanted to have the courage to do totally crazy, impossible and also wrong things," said Isa Genzken once. She therefore put sunglasses with mirrored lenses on the delicate nose of the...

Art Dept: Three artist discoveries from China

F or Andrea Karg , art, especially contemporary art, is a constant source of inspiration. In the design process as in life. We have some of her favorite artists in our Art Dept. already introduced...

Art Dept: Wet x Qiu Yang - Songs from "Don't You"

"I can't make up my mind, everything is so colorful here," the punk icon Nina Hagen is said to quote, while the eye is immersed deeper and deeper into the light-flooded, brightly colored and ex...

Food for Thought: Munich Laughing and Shooting Society

“The best place for politicians is on the election poster. There it is portable, noiseless and easy to remove.” The old master of humor Loriot once said, forgetting an important and extremely e...

Breakfast at Käfer's: "Cashmere" book premiere in Munich

Andrea Karg was happy to see this cool wintry morning in Munich. The founder and creative director of Allude was finally able to present her big "Cashmere" book in the cozy Käfer tavern and in fro...

Playlist: Writings on the Wall by Sam Smith

"If I risk it all Could you break my fall?" Sam Smith's Bond ballad "Writings on the Wall" became the number one hit as the first theme song of the legendary Agent film series. And the Allude team...

Movie Night: The Divas Documentary "Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words"

"I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!" T his quote from Ingrid Bergman already makes it clear what an extraordinary woman the actress, who w...

Oktoberfest Cathedrals: photo series by Michael von Hassel

They look like the holy halls of a cathedral or the dance halls of baroque castles, the festival tents of the famous Oktoberfest. At least in the impressive pictures of the photo artist Michael ...

Playlist: Little by Little by Groove Armada

"Today, today If you believe that there is no other way Trying living, today, today Little by little in your own way" - Groove Armada, "Little by Little" G roove Armada have been an integ...

Cashmere - The Book: Interview with co-author Berit Grosswendt

A ctually, it's still a little early... in the year to start thinking about Christmas presents. But we would like to recommend something very special to you and the cashmere fans in your life: On ...

Big voices, fine sounds: Munich Opera Festival

Fashion and opera have a lot in common. In both art disciplines, wardrobe is more than just clothing, it is an expression of one's personality or defines characters in the action more closely. ...

Art Dept: Louise Bourgeois at the House of Art

“ Space doesn’t exist, it’s just a metaphor for the structures of our existence ” – Louise Bourgeois She lived in Brooklyn before the New York City district became a hipster mecca and a month'...

German designers win Hyères Festival 2015

F or 30 years, the fashion and art world has been looking forward to a small port town in the south of France in spring. That's when the Festival International de Mode et de Photographie takes ...

Allude & Friends: Photographer Anne Combaz on selfies and Sydney

A few weeks ago, photographer Anne Combaz captured the tense backstage atmosphere of our fall/winter 2015/2016 collection show while still in Paris. Not her first successful assignment for Allude....