My friend, Alex, is having a painting exhibition next Friday. The opening is at 7PM @ Carturesti in Timisoara. Can not wait to see his work and also what he’ll wear, as he has great style. Hopefully  I won’t forget my camera and be back with pics from the event.

If you are in Timisoara it would be lovely to see you there!

I know I only posted the previous pictures of our new showroom/atelier at night, so this morning I took more photos. I just wanted to share. :)

This is the result of about 2 years of hard work, no personal life whatsoever and extreme determination - mine and Florina’s of course. We are extremely excited right now and after two months of roller coaster feelings - from hope to agony - we finally took this big step towards establishing and growing our brand identity. I am so lucky to have her, to work with her and to go through all of this together.

View from our workspace, I absolutely love this building.

We searched for, bought, moved and cleaned all the furniture ourselves. We did a lot of heavy lifting may I add.

Of course I sewed the cream cotton/silk curtains myself. :)

Florina’s huge work-desk.

My color coordinated fabrics and accessories (below).

Our lovely fash books and office room (below).

Part of the old, historical building.

All of this is just motivating us to keep on working, regardless of all the inevitable stress that comes with the job. We are also planing an opening cocktail party sometime in April; it will happen once my new summer 2010 collection is ready. That means work work work now!

Catalin interviewed me for the latest issue of Ambition about what kitsch means for me. Well, I am pretty open minded when it comes to fashion and I’d really wear a lot of over the top outfits, so the conclusion is that it’s not about what you wear, but how you wear it.

I know I have a tiny kitschy po[rn]p princess inside of me, but don’t we all have one? :) have a fab fab weekend!

Me and Florina have been telling everybody about our new showroom/atelier/workspace and how busy we were the last couple of days with the moving. There is still some work to be done tomorrow, but I could not help myself and I took a few snap shots to share with you. It is 11:58PM and I still have some sewing to do, but I have absolutely no reasons to complain as I have the results of my/our working right in front of me: the workspace of our dreams!

Not even a year has passed since we first moved together into our first atelier and now we managed to get this place. It is amazing how everything happened so fast. The universe works in mysterious ways, does it not?

I am incredibly tired and very busy, as I am struggling to get up to date with the work which I couldn’t finish because of the moving, but I am positive. For the first time I am actually really happy and excited and I hope to inspire you to follow your dreams, because if you take it step by step it will actually come true! :)

Hope you have a lovely, sunny & great beginning of Spring.  :) Brooches from Josephine.

Me (on the left) with Coca Zaboloteanu and Mihaela Tarhuna at a fashion fair a long time ago. Found the pic on Facebook. Love it!