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Movie Night: The first documentary about shoe god Manolo Blahnik

A visit to New York this fall is doubly worthwhile: in September, not only the spectacular Indian Summer, a colorful natural spectacle, attracts visitors here on the east coast of the USA, but ...

Allude's Munich: Travel tips from Andrea Karg and team

A lot can be read about Munich in city guides and on online portals. However, before you have clicked through the flood of open browser tabs, it is often too late to put the inspiration into pract...

Beach Ready: The Allude Guide for the perfect beach outfit

As in everyday (fashion) life, we are occasionally plagued by the question: "What am I going to wear?" on the beach or pool. But since there are more important things, especially during the well-d...

Artful Cookbook: Dinner with Georgia O'Keeffe

L ong before chia pudding, goji berries and kale chips hit the plates and Instagram feeds, American artist Georgia O'Keeffe was already swearing by healthy eating. Preferably grown by yourself. Th...

Playlist: "Alaska" by Maggie Rogers

"And I walked off you And I walked off an old me Oh me oh my I thought it was a dream That's how it seemed" Hard -nosed hip hoppers are known not to be shaken by anything – except maybe t...

Summer in the City: The Allude Guide for balcony decoration

T he summer makes us wait a particularly long time in 2017. Instead also in May: nasty April weather par excellence . However, pulling the blanket over your head again when looking at the temper...

Allude goes Kitzbühel: Our first concept store

Elsewhere in the Allude flagship store in Kitzbühel, shopfitting tricks are also celebrating the star, the most beautiful fashion material in the world. For example, the specially developed shel...

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...

Heat-free: summery cashmere looks from Allude

E ven if the temperatures are clearly in the double digits, nobody has to do without the pleasant feeling of cashmere on the skin. Ultra-thin and breathable, the high-quality material is on the co...

Allude & Friends: Konstantin Spachis, Deputy Fashion Director of Madame

There are good reasons why he is one of the most photographed male fashion editors in Germany. In his outfits, Kostantin Spachis manages to combine the glamor of old Hollywood, the casual esprit...

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...

360 degrees cashmere at the Munich Press Dates A/W 2016

The here always is a next season . And in order to give as many magazine editors as possible - from B for Brigitte to V for Vogue -, freelance journalists, stylists and bloggers the opportunity to...

TRAVEL IN STYLE: ALLUDES DESTINATION SHIRTS AND INSIDER TIPS FOR THE MOST BEAUTIFUL DESTINATIONS

They do exist – those magical places in the world where we can switch off and relax so effortlessly. Whether thanks to their impressive nature, picturesque alleys, exquisite food or their unique...

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...

Hey Santa: The Allude Christmas wish list 2015

"What do you want?" A question that ranks right after "And what are you doing for New Year's Eve?" in the popularity scale. To answer this, it helps to think about what makes a package under the C...

Allude's Hong Kong: Travel tips from Andrea Karg and team

F or Andrea Karg , Founder and Creative Director of Allude, Hong Kong was more like love at second sight. But one that lasts to this day! “When I first came to Hong Kong in the early 1980s, I was ...

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...

XMAS-READY: THE ALLUDE GIFT GUIDE FOR MEN

What do you give someone who says they have everything? Finding the perfect Christmas present for your dad, brother, boyfriend or husband can often feel like a Mission Impossible . But like ever...