The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Hello dear readers and a very belated Happy New Year!
I thought we should start this year off with a nice anime movie called The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006).
The story is about Makoto, a young girl who, after a mysterious incident in the science lab, discovers that she can move backwards in time. Well, more specifically (and as the title suggests), she can leap back in time. At first Makoto is having a blast with her newfound powers, but quickly enough she learns that changing the past can have dire consequences for the future. Will she be able to undo her mistakes and create a happy future for herself and her friends?
This is a very sweet movie about friendship, love and learning to understand and deal with the consequences of one’s actions (however it gives a falls impression of the practicality of seriously short school uniforms. That skirt is not ok for leaping in public!). It has won several awards, including the Fantasty Filmfest Official Selection 2007 and the Japan Academy Price of Animation of the Year 2007. It is absolutely a film worth watching!
Love, Elin
A Short Disclaimer
Do not despair, dear readers! We have not quit you again! It’s just that we’re currently spending Christmas with our families, which leaves precious little time for blogging. Rest assured, we will keep on blogging in the new year. You are not abandoned!
Happy Christmas, everybody!
Love, Vili Flik.
One of our many theme songs
Enjoy 🙂
Resurrection
Hello dear internet!
We apologise profusely for the lack of updates the past year. We’ve been busy doing actual paid work, moving (some of us abroad), and generally being fabulous! But we feel bad, and we miss you guys and doing this, so we have decided to try to resurrect the blog. Yay!
So from this week on, we will try to update regularly again. Now, we are not promising to update as often as we used to (5-7 times a week), because we have lives and jobs and are responsible, important adults now, but we are aiming for at least three updates a week.
So enjoy, good people of the vast internet. We have missed you, and we hope you’ll keep checking for updates (even though we’ve let you down for some time now). We love you all!
Love,
Elin, Hanna and Mari
Guccio Gucci
Guccio Gucci (1881-1953) was an Italian business man and fashion designer, and I shan’t insult your intellects by asking you to guess which fashion house he is founder of.
House of Gucci was founded as early as in 1906, in Florence, and began as a small leather saddlery shop, expanding to Rome in 1938, Milan in 1951 and Manhattan in 1953.
Today Gucci is, with talented Creative Director Frida Giannini (1972 -) at the wheel, the largest selling Italian brand. Something went right.
Gucci did well up till the 1980s, when conflicts in the Gucci family threatened to bring the house down. Eventually it was sold to another company, a company which had the brilliant idea of bringing in Tom Ford, to restore the house’s glory. And restore it he did.
Since 1997, House of Gucci has acquired other awesome fashion houses, such as Yves Saint Laurent, and sharing with Stella McCartney – Alexander McQueen and Balenciaga.
And in 2005, Frida Giannini took over as Ford’s role as Creative Director. And that brings us up to date? What do you think?
Love, Hanna
Merry Christmas!
We wish all our wonderful readers a glorious holiday!
Love from Mari, Hanna and Elin
Doctor Who
The BBC series Doctor Who first made its debut in 1963 and ran until 1989. In 2005 it reappeared and continues to be one of Britain’s best contributions to the modern world. Since 1963 the titular character has gone through 10 “official” regenrations, making the current doctor the eleventh.
In short, Doctor Who tells the story of a 900-and-something-year-old Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey who travels through time and space in his TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimensions In Space). He usually travels with one or more companions, often human but occasionally alien or tin dogs. Together they get into trouble, partly due to the Doctor’s inability to properly navigate his TARDIS. The show is by turns exciting, scary, educational, hilarious and heartbreaking. But it is always awesome!
The Doctor has the ability to regenerate, which means that over the years he has changed drastically – and seems to be getting younger. With each new look comes a new personality, although his genius and brilliance is constant. My favourite doctors to date are Tom Baker
- …with his lovely scarf…
and David Tennant
- …partly the outfit, partly the gorgeous.
There are also recurring monsters, none better than the Daleks.
- Shiny pretty monsters.
And here’s a great video pretty much summing up the new series.
Love, Mari
Film Posters
As long as films have been made, there have been film posters to go with them. The first ever movie poster to be made with the sole intention of promoting a single film, was for the French short comedy L’Arroseur arrosĂ© (1895) directed by Louis Lumière (1864-1948). It was designed by Marcellin Auzolle and depicts an audience watching the film it was promoting.
Posters had been used to promote films since 1890, but this was the first poster made to promote a specific film.
Before the 1980s, most posters were sent out to theatres by the studio along with copies of the film and had to be returned when the film was no longer running. Posters were recycled to new theatres and the result was that by the end of a film’s theatrical run, they were often too damaged to keep. Because of this, real vintage movie posters are very hard to come by and are often extremely expensive. Luckily, many have been reproduced, and they look very good.
Posters are usually categorised into several groups. One of these is the smaller “lobby cards”, which often depicts scenes from the film:
The teaser poster is distributed a while before the release of the film, and is designed to evoke interest without giving too much away.
Film posters can be artistic, classy, funny and silly, and they often reflect the era in which they were made, and the genre of its subject. Some focus on the star of the film, while others emphasise the director, plot, effects or monster. While vintage posters were often drawn or painted, modern ones are usually photos. There are some real gems out there!
Some, of course, focus on certain attributes of its star...
Love, Mari
Burberry
The British luxury fashion house of Burberry was founded by Thomas Burberry (1835-1926)Â in 1856.
Since 1956, the fashion house has done quite a lot of cool stuff such as inventing the iconic trench coat, outfitting Norwegian Roald Amundsen on his expedition to the South Pole (now there’s a stylish explorer for you).
Burberry operates under five different brands: Burberry Prorsum, Burberry Sport (fail), Thomas Burberry, Burberry Black Label Men and Burberry Blue Label Women. My favorite? Burberry Prorsum.
The chief designer, or creative officer, if you will, of Burberry these days is the magnificent English designer Christopher Bailey (1971 – ), who’s held the position since 2009.
Love, Hanna
Belated birthday
Due to, believe it or not, busy days and nights for all of us, we didn’t have the chance to make this announcement yesterday, but yesterday was our blog’s birthday. It has now been exactly 1 year and 1 day since our very first post here at Vili Flik. Yay us! And yay you! During the past year we have had 81 170 visits, which is simply amazing. So thank you all for visiting us! We really appreciate it.
Love, Vili Flik
More pretties from Milan
Emilio Pucci
Emilio Pucci
Emilio Pucci
Jil Sander
Jil Sander
Jil Sander
Again, I encourage you to check out the entire collection here.
Emporio Armani
Milan Fashion Week
Prada
Fendi
Fendi
Fendi
Fendi
I think Fendi had really good spring collection altogether, and though I wish I could post it all here, I recommend you check it out at NY Times  instead.
D&G
The first from London Fashion Week
Daks
Daks
Ashish
Jasper Conran
Jonathan Saunders
Vivienne Westwood Red Label
Vivienne Westwood Red Label
One last goodie from a (if you ask me) rather disappointing NY fashion week
Good coat from Marc Jacobs
But despite a lot of ugly and boring stuff from the coming spring collection, I just have to say that I do like that many of the NY designers have used awesome hats and accessories in their showings.
London next!
The Penultimate Day of NY Fashion Week
Nanette Lepore
Nanette Lepore
Nanette Lepore
Nanette Lepore
Milly - Michelle Smith
Anna Sui
Anna Sui
Anna Sui
Anna Sui
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