LOVE My Live

shoes: Alexander McQueen
video edit: Klara Plainer

A friend of mine mentioned that she almost set her closet on fire because she was frustrated and couldn't find anything new to wear. What a relief to start over again. I long for this kind of new beginning every time the burden of responsibility fets too heavy. Michael Landy systematically catalogued each one of his more than 7227 personal posessions 2011 in his artwork "Break Down". I came across his work on tv at "ARTE" and I am very pleased we got the chance to talk to him about his work, consumer culture and material means of self-definition...

necklace SWAROVSKI
ring CHOPARD
watch HERMÈS
necklace PRIM BY MICHELLE ELIE
bracelet LANVIN
ring TIFFANY

DIRECTOR: Marcus Gaab
FASHION: Ann-Kathrin Obermeyer
MAKE-UP & HAIR: Catrin Kreyss using Chanel
MODEL: Christiane Bördner
DENTIST: Privatzahnärztliche Praxis Rudolf Zimmermann, Fasanenstr. 42, Berlin
VIDEO EDIT: Klara Plainer




A LITTLE FLOSSING INSTRUCTION
(PLEASE DO TRY THIS AT HOME!)

1. Use unwaxed dental floss.
2. Make sure floss is tight against tooth surface and fingers are close to teeth, approximately one inch of floss between fingers.
3. Rock floss back and forth to get into tight spaces – do not snap down onto tissues.
4. Keep right hand on right side and left hand on left side.
5. Remember two fingers do not crowd your mouth like four fingers will.
6. Wrap the floss just past the first knuckle, not around the end of the finger.
7. To floss the upper teeth, use the thumbs or thumb and one finger. To floss the lower teeth, use two fingers.
8. Always keep the right hand on the right and the left hand on the left.
9. Slide fingers or thumbs about an inch apart on floss pushing as you go.
10. If teeth are tight together rock floss carefully back and forth until it is loose between teeth.
11. Make a C shape with the floss around the shape of the tooth keeping fingers close together.
12. Start in the same place every time, count the teeth and follow the tongue.

My favourite dentist allowed us to do a jewellery shoot in his treatment room and have her assistant to get my teeth polished. And no, jewellery isn't something they usually wear during sessions.

See the result in I love you No. 7 "THE WRONG ISSUE" - out soon!


PHOTOS: Marcus Gaab
FASHION: Ann-Kathrin Obermeyer
MAKE-UP & HAIR: Catrin Kreyss using Chanel
MODEL: Christiane Bördner
DENTIST: Privatzahnärztliche Praxis Rudolf Zimmermann, Fasanenstr. 42, Berlin
VIDEO EDIT: Klara Plainer

“TO DO A GREAT RIGHT YOU NEED TO DO A LITTLE WRONG.”
(WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE)


Thanks to Fotostudio Babylon for this great project. Find the result in our WRONG ISSUE, coming out soon.

Video Edit: Klara Plainer

IS WRONG THE NEW RIGHT?



Video Edit: Klara Plainer

Enjoy our new little film, with an excerpt of our most popular looks of the summer season.
Thanks again to Leica Camera for supporting this project.



Outfits in order of appearance

1.
dress PAULE KA
protector NAN LI
stockings FALKE
shoes JIL SANDER

2.
dress and jacket MIU MIU
shoes LOUIS VUITTON

3.
skirt and jacket LOUIS VUITTON
top LALA BERLIN
shoes MIU MIU

4.
pant BURBERRY
bodysuit PAULE KA
shoes BURBERRY

5.
top LALA BERLIN
pants JIL SANDER
bear backpack NICOLE GÜTL

TALENT: LEELEE SOBIESKI
DIRECTOR: MARCUS GAAB
EDITOR: MATTHIAS SCHELLENBERG
FASHION: SARAH COBB
PRODUCTION: JAMES JOLLY (AFG MANAGEMENT)
MAKE UP: BENJAMIN PUCKEY USING CHANEL (D+V MANAGEMENT)
HAIR: JAMAL HODGES

recommended by Jeanette Becker, mother.
The mama issue coming out next week.

Dear Santa,
I have been a very good girl. All I wish for Christmas is shoes, just a few please. What about those brown ostrich leather pumps from LOUIS VUITTON or the beige pumps with the metal clip from MIU MIU? And please don't forget the PRADA sling pumps, they would look so beautiful with my new silk dress for the new year's eve party.
Yours Cinderella

Video: Thalia de Jong
Sound Design: Yme de Jong
Model: Léa Delion

6. KATHERINE PARR

BORN: 1512
MARRIED: 12 JULY 1543
WIDOWED: 28 JANUARY 1547
DIED: 5 SEPTEMBER 1548

TO BE USEFUL IN ALL I DO
Katherine Parr was the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Parr and his wife Maud Green, both of whom were at the court of Henry VIII in hisearlyreign.Maudwasalady-in-waitingtoQueenCatherineofAragonandnamedherdaughter,bornin1512,afterher. So,Henry VIII’s last wife was named after his first.
Thomas Parr died in November 1517, leaving his three children, William, Katherine and Anne in the care of their mother. Maud managed the children’s education and the family estates and must have left an impression on her daughter of the greater role an independent woman could have in society. The education that Maud arranged for the children was similar to that of other noble figures of the time and at least in the case of Katherine, it ignited a life-long passion for learning. She was fluent in French, Latin and Italian and began learning Spanish when she was Queen.
Katherine Parr was the most-married English queen, as she had four husbands. Her first marriage was to Edward Borough when she was 17 years old. Edward died only a few years later, probably in early 1533. It was during this marriage that Katherine’s mother Maud died.
Katherine’s second marriage was to John Neville, whom she married in the summer of 1534 when he was 41 and she was 22. Latimer had two children from his previous marriages so Katherine also became a stepmother for the first time Katherine’s ailing husband died in March 1543, leaving her a widow for the second time, now at the age of 31.
It was around this time that Katherine was noticed by not only the King, but also Thomas Seymour, brother of the late Queen Jane Seymour. Katherine expressed her desire to marry Thomas Seymour after Latimer’s death, but the King’s request for her hand was one that Katherine felt it was her duty to accept.
Katherine and Henry VIII were married on July 12th in a small ceremony attended by about 20 people.
Katherine was interested in the reformed faith, making her enemies with the conservatives of Henry’s court. It was her influence with the King and the Henry’s failing health that led to a plot against her in 1546 by the conservative fraction. Katherine and her ladies were known to have had banned books which was grounds for arrest and execution on charges of heresy. The warrant was accidentally dropped and someone loyal to the Queen saw it and then quickly told her about it. After learning of the arrest warrant, Katherine was said to be very ill, either as a ruse to stall or from a genuine panic attack. Henry went to see her and chastised her for her outspokenness about the reformed religion and his feeling that she was forgetting her place by instructing him on such matters. Katherine’s response in her defense was that she was only arguing with him on these issues so she could be instructed by him, and to take his mind off other troubles. Playing to Henry’s ego no doubt helped and Katherine was forgiven.
Katherine was close with all three of her stepchildren as Henry’s wife and was personally involved in the educational program of the younger two, Elizabeth and Edward. It is thought that her actions as regent, together with her strength of character and noted dignity, and later religious convictions, greatly influenced her stepdaughter Elizabeth (the future Queen Elizabeth I).
She was also a patron of the arts and music. Katherine’s own learning and academic achievements, as alluded to previously, were impressive, and in 1545, her book “Prayers or Meditations” became the first work published by an English Queen under her own name. Another book, “The Lamentation of a Sinner”, was published after Henry VIII’s death.
Henry VIII died in January 1547 and Katherine had probably expected to play some role in the regency for the new nine-year-old king, Edward VI, but this was not to be. Only a few months after Henry’s death, Katherine secretly married Thomas Seymour, but the quickness and secret nature of the union caused a scandal. Katherine was still able to take guardianship of Princess Elizabeth and Seymour purchased the wardship of the king’s cousin, Lady Jane Grey.
Afterthreepreviousmarriagesandattheageof37,Katherinewaspregnantforthefirsttimeand onAugust30thshegavebirthtoa daughter named Mary. Katherine soon fell ill with puerperal fever, which was to claim her life in the morning hours of September 5th. Katherine was buried, with Lady Jane Grey as the chief mourner, in the chapel at Sudeley Castle, where the tomb can still be visited today.

DIRECTOR: MARCUS GAAB
FASHION: SARAH COBB
MAKE UP: DEANNA MELLUSO
HAIR: JOHN RUGGIERO
PRODUCTION: JAMES JOLLY (AFG MANAGEMENT)
MODEL: MARTHE (SUPREME MODELS)


TEXT: LARA E. EAKINS

VIDEO EDITING: THALIA DE JONG
TEXT: LARA E. EAKINS
SOUND: "If Love Now Reigned as it Hath Been" by King Henry VIII


shirt PETER JENSEN  
skirt EMMA COOK 
neckpiece & earrings ERICKSON BEAMON

5. Kathryn Howard

BORN: c. 1521 
MARRIED: 28 JULY 1540 
EXECUTED: 13 FEBRUARY 1542

NO OTHER WILL THAN THIS
Kathryn Howard was the daughter of Lord Edmund Howard, a younger brother of Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk. She was also first cousin to Anne Boleyn, Henry’s ill-fated second Queen. She was brought up in the household of the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk. Kathryn came to court at about the age of 19 as a lady in waiting to Anne of Cleves and there is no doubt that the spirited young girl caught Henry’s attentions. Kathryn’s uncle probably encouraged the girl to respond to the King’s attentions and saw it as a way to increase his own influence over the monarch. The Duke of Norfolk also took advantage of the debacle of the Anne of Cleves marriage as a chance to discredit his enemy, Thomas Cromwell. In fact, Cromwell was executed shortly after the marriage was nullified. Sixteen days after he was free of Anne, Henry took his fifth wife, Kathryn Howard, on July 28, 1540. Henry was 49 and his bride was no older than 19.
For all that can be said against this match, Kathryn did manage to lift the King’s spirits. The vivacious young girl brought back some of Henry’s zest for life. The King lavished gifts on his young wife and called her his “rose without a thorn” and the “very jewel of womanhood”. Kathryn, however, may well have found her marital relations unappealing. Henry weighed around 21 stone (about 140 kilograms or 300 pounds) at the time, and had a foul-smelling, festering ulcer on his thigh that had to be drained daily. Less than a year into Kathryn’s marriage, the rumors of her infidelity began. In a way, one couldn’t blame her for seeking the company of handsome young men closer to her own age. But to do so, even if only in courtly flirtations, was dangerous for a Queen, especially one who came from a powerful family with many enemies. Kathryn didn’t help matters much by appointing one of her admirers as her personal secretary.
By November 1541, there was enough evidence against the Queen that Archbishop Cranmer informed the King of Kathryn’s misconduct. At first Henry did not believe the accusations, but he agreed to allow further investigations into the matter. Enough evidence was gathered that the Queen had been promiscuous before her marriage and may have had liaisons after becoming Henry’s wife. She was beheaded with one stroke on February 13, 1542, and her body was buried in an unmarked grave in the nearby chapel of St Peter ad Vincula, where the body of her cousin, Anne Boleyn, also lay. Henry did not attend.

DIRECTOR: MARCUS GAAB
FASHION: SARAH COBB
MAKE UP: DEANNA MELLUSO
HAIR: JOHN RUGGIERO
PRODUCTION: JAMES JOLLY (AFG MANAGEMENT)
MODEL: MARTHE (SUPREME MODELS)


TEXT: LARA E. EAKINS

VIDEO EDITING: THALIA DE JONG
TEXT: LARA E. EAKINS
SOUND: "If Love Now Reigned as it Hath Been" by King Henry VIII

leather dress GEMMA SLACK

4. Anne of Cleves 

BORN: 22 SEPTEMBER 1515 
MARRIED: 6 JANUARY 1540 
DIVORCED: JULY 1540 
DIED: 16 JULY 1557


GOD SEND ME TO KEEP
Henry VIII remained single for over two years after Jane Seymour’s death, possibly giving some credence to the thought that he genuinely mourned for her.
However, it does seem that someone, possibly Thomas Cromwell, began making inquiries shortly after Jane’s death about a possible foreign bride for Henry. Henry’s first marriage had been a foreign alliance of sorts, although it is almost certain that the two were truly in love for some time. His next two brides were love matches and Henry could have had little or no monetary or political gain from them. But the events of the split from Rome left England isolated, and probably vulnerable.
It was these circumstances that led Henry and his ministers to look at the possibility of a bride to secure an alliance.
Henry did also want to be sure he was getting a desirable bride, so he had agents in foreign courts report to him on the appearance and other qualities of various candidates. He also sent painters to bring him images of these women. The most famous of the Tudor court painters, Hans Holbein, was sent to the court of the Duke of Cleves, who had two sisters: Amelia and Anne. Henry required the artist to be as accurate as possible, not to flatter the sisters. The two versions of Holbein’s portrait are in the Louvre in Paris and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. At the time in 1539, Cleves was seen as an important potential ally in the event France and the Holy Roman Empire (who had somewhat made a truce in their long history of conflict) decided to move against the countries who had thrown off the Papal authority. England then sought alliances with countries who had been supporting the reformation of the church. Several of the Duchys and principalities along the Rhine were Lutheran.
The paintings of the sisters of the Duke of Cleves were sent to Henry who decided to have a contract drawn up for his marriage to Anne. Henry was impatient to see his future bride. He went to meet her at Rochester and was promptly disappointed. Henry urged Cromwell to find a legal way to avoid the marriage but, by this point, doing so was impossible without endangering the vital alliance with the Germans.
The marriage took place on January 6, 1540. Anne was ill-suited for life at the English court. Her upbringing in Cleves had concentrated on domestic skills and not the music and literature so popular at Henry’s court. And, most famously, Henry did not find his new bride the least bit attractive and is said to have called her a “Flanders Mare”. The couple’s first night as husband and wife was not a happy one. Henry confided to Cromwell that he had not consummated the marriage, saying, “I liked her before not well, but now I like her much worse”. In addition to his personal feelings for wanting to end the marriage, there were now political ones as well. Tension between the Duke of Cleves and the Empire was increasing towards war and Henry had no desire to become involved. Last but not least, at some point, Henry had become attracted to young Kathryn Howard.
Anne was probably smart enough to know that she would only be making trouble for herself if she raised any obstacles to Henry’s attempts to annul the marriage. She testified that the match had not been consummated and that her previous engagement to the son of the Duke of Lorraine had not been properly broken.
After the marriage had been dissolved, Anne accepted the honorary title as the “King’s Sister”. She was given property, including Hever Castle, formerly the home of Anne Boleyn. Anne lived away from court quietly in the countryside until 1557, thus outliving all of Henry VIII wives. She is buried in a somewhat hard to find tomb in Westminster Abbey.
God send me to keep

DIRECTOR: MARCUS GAAB
FASHION: SARAH COBB
MAKE UP: DEANNA MELLUSO
HAIR: JOHN RUGGIERO
PRODUCTION: JAMES JOLLY (AFG MANAGEMENT)
MODEL: TATIANA (IMG MODELS)


TEXT: LARA E. EAKINS

VIDEO EDITING: THALIA DE JONG
TEXT: LARA E. EAKINS
SOUND: "If Love Now Reigned as it Hath Been" by King Henry VIII

ears COCO DE MER 
suit & knit SONIA RYKIEL 
shoes GAP