Close your eyes for a second and imagine your city. Think of everything that belongs to the place from the gray streets full of black, red and blue cars to the flashy signs of shops, numerous people hurrying from A to B, passing yellow crosswalks and gray buildings under a light blue sky. Now think which colour you saw the least often!

Maybe orange, or purple? But wait, no: It was pink, right? Possibly there was a little girl with a pink unicorn balloon or maybe you even imagined me entering a beauty store, but I bet there was little or even no pink in your imaginative city. Pink, the colour we connect with feminity, the innocence of childhood and unconditional love is almost not present in the daily life of most people. Isn’t that a quite sad thought?

At least when you live in Geneva, this might not be true anymore: Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist designed a train that is pink from the outside and inside. 250 kg of colour were required to realize the Monochrome Rose project. The tram is part of the project art&tram, which aims to make art part of urban life. Pipilotti Rist says that the tram has “emerged from taking an exquisite bath in a sea of colour, with the drops of pigment still dripping over the whole of its body.”

The inauguration of the tram was about two weeks ago, and I was very honoured to be part of it. I have always loved the art of Pipilotti Rist with its winking humour, strong sensuality, uncompromising boldness and exuberant feminity.

I remembered how I encountered her work for the first time in my first year at art school. I admired the classical paintings in a museum for their virtuosity and craftmanship, but somehow something was missing that depressed me: Colours and quirkiness. But then I discovered a quite tiny screen in a corner playing video art: “I’m not the girl who misses much” sang a hypnotical, female Mickey Mouse voice through the speakers. I was fascinated and drawn to it like the moth to the light; I thought: No, I indeed don’t miss much, not anymore, while I was overwhelmed by a wave of colour coming into my life through Pipilotti’s work. This installation was one brick stone in a wall of events convincing me of the necessity of a life in bright, vivid colours. Yes to embracing rainbows, yes to pink!

Finally, so many years later I finally encountered the woman behind the art that inspired me since then and I loved the energy radiating from her and that she obviously doesn’t take herself too serious. Pipilotti kissed my hand and went to her knees in fron of me, I don’t know how I survived this moment without fainting…

Being in the all pink tram was like a dream for me, and I am convinced Barbarella would trade her spaceship for Pipilotti’s tram. It’s like a break from your usual life when you enter the pink, playful world, a place which is cheerful, filled with positive emotions and where pink is the new black. You could see it as the fearless grown up version of being inside the whale in the story of Pinocchio.

When the doors after a ride open and you have to disembark, you will regret leaving this pink paradise and secretly wish on your next journey the pink beauty might pick you up once again. At least I have a lot of souvenirs from this day, because all Swiss newspapers printed the picture of Pipiotti and me in the tram to remember the best pink day of 2016.

Pictures: Ela Brettle/Lovely Sara

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Art Inspires Fashion is back! Some of you missed this category of posts, and I know you were right because styling outfits taking inspiration from paintings and photographs is something I love to do as a former university of applied arts student.

Today’s inspiration is the photography called “Roses” by John Rawlings taken in 1948. The American Rawlings was one of the most important photographers of Condé Nast from the 1930s through the 1960s and created numerous covers for the magazines Vogue and Glamour. His style of photography was very forward and influences many fashion photographers till today.

The picture “Roses” is part of the Vogue Archive collection of Lumas and shows an elegant lady wearing a stunning vermillion velvet hat with rose appliqués. I was instantly enchanted because the picture captures true beauty and prestige in a very sensual way.

My look includes the essential things of the artwork: Smooth and shiny materials,  delicate flower petals and gorgeous berry colours. While the appearance of the lady is uncompromisingly elegant, my style has a different edge and can be understood as a translation to modern times.  If necessary, the lady in my picture can run for the tube or carry a dozen shopping bags (after all she is an independent girl), but she will look just as beautiful as John Rawlings model.

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My kind of a cave to hide: The iridescent pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery designed by Selgascano.

I turned into a wildlife-photographer at The Roof Gardens, London’s only rooftop with living flamingos.

From the real birds to the paper birds: Lovely craft from Kaper at the Manchester Art and Design Center.

Glittery dream bags from Luna on the Moon at the Showrooms Shoreditch.

Loved those flowers at the V&A, where I went to see an exhibition about shoes.

Finally we made it to the best loos in town at Sketch London.

Oh Sketch London, I think I know where I will go on my future birthdays…

Loved those heads in Pearls & Swine’s house.

Fairylights at London Wonderground. We went to see the Double R club, because I love Benjamin Louche.

Aren’t we a cute couple, this artwork for Ted Baker and me?

Wished we could have done a shooting with this graffiti, but we were busy getting cocktails…

Are you Getting Enough? I could show you a hundred pictures of the God’s Own Junkyard.

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A dreamy girl in a purple landscape: One of my favourite pictures from Robin Eisenberg.

A mighty heroine, maybe from outer space?

Look at those eyes! Whoever doesn’t fall in love with this cat has no heart at all.

What a couple! They must have invented Rock N’ Roll…

Robin Eisenberg art for your home. Pimp your shower, sofa and your wall!

Wow, one of my goals have come true: I’ve been drawn from a very talented young illustrator. I love the work of illustrator Robin Eisenberg so much, I just had to share it with you.

Robin Eisenberg is an illustrator from Los Angeles. She describes herself as a nerd who likes Star Trek, letters and cactus plants. Her work is enormously vibrant and clearly comes with a cheerful 80s influence. It’s easy to guess that Robin must have grown up with My Little Pony and Lisa Frank. While Robin has been drawing for her whole life, she only decided five years ago to try it as a job.

Since then she did quite a few album covers and other work for bands, as well commissioned work for magazines. Very often she paints cool babes or yummy food such as pretzel or chocolate covered strawberries. Personally, I always get hungry when I see her avocado and pizza prints.

Fortunately this mega babe has a shop as well, so we can all own bed sheets, pillows, phone covers or even shower curtains, featuring the illustrations.

Visit Robin Eisenberg’s page and shop her things here.

Copyright of all pictures by Robin Eisenberg.

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