JORGE VENTO

2010-03-20T20:12:00.015+01:00

Barcelona ( Saving Up )

2010-03-20T17:14:00.004+01:00

Xàbia ( Luca )

2010-03-16T22:19:00.000+01:00

Stockholm ( Polka Dots )

2010-03-03T20:57:00.006+01:00

SINCE YOU SAID GOOD BYE , POLKA DOTS FILL MY EYE

Barcelona ( Carneval )

2010-03-03T20:14:00.001+01:00

Barcelona ( Dead Nature )

2010-03-03T20:05:00.005+01:00

Barcelona ( Old Pipes )

2010-03-03T19:56:00.001+01:00

2010-02-28T18:10:00.009+01:00

2010-02-26T15:45:00.005+01:00

Moments in B/W V

2010-02-12T14:18:00.008+01:00

2010-02-12T11:18:00.002+01:00

2010-02-11T18:08:00.019+01:00

Click On The Pictures To Enlarge Them

Stockholm ( Fancy Hair )

2010-02-06T13:35:00.001+01:00

Stockholm ( Ego )

2010-02-06T13:21:00.002+01:00

I'm not a big fond of appearing in my own blog, but I felt like posting this one so...fuck it!

Stockholm ( Princess Leia 2.0 )

2010-02-06T13:01:00.002+01:00

Stockholm ( Attitude )

2010-02-06T12:51:00.001+01:00

Fuck Fashion! Where Is Jane??

2010-02-05T15:59:00.006+01:00

Dear followers,
I have to apologize for being quite inactive lately. It's been a lot going on my mind and even though I have material to post and time to do it, I just didn't feel like doing anything but watching crap on TV, eating junk food and laying on my couch... The weather didn't help much, always 2 digit numbers bellow cero, dark as a tunnel with no train crossing it, and dirty snow everywhere.
"Fuck Fashion, Where is Jane?" That was the title of my ex classmate Eric Ruhle´s last project in our Foundation year... It was a collection inspired on a girl he met and never saw again, also criticizing fashion in a funny way. Always loved the title ( the project was also pretty cool...).
Recently, I am starting to really hate fashion more than ever and that's a horrible thing to say from a fashion designer, but that's the way I feel about it. The more I go thru it, the more it makes me sick...
Don't get me wrong, I love clothes and I definitely love style... style, manners and body language are the superficial aspects that attract me most of a person, more than beauty ( don't forget I'm strictly talking about superficial virtues!! ).
Honestly, I truly believe that now a days taste makes the social station. Especially with the global expansion of "pronto moda" chains and the consolidation of second hand stores, flea markets etc... your whole outfit can be worth no more that 50 bucks and look ten times more refined and chic, than someone's that costs 5000... Always loved the final quote in H&M's ad with Karl Lagerfeld, when the snobby fat guy tells him: " BUT IT'S CHEAP!!!" and Kaiser Karl answers: "Cheap, what a depressing word! It's all about taste, if you’re cheap nothing helps".
I also love design and quality. Designers like Martin Margiela, Junya Watanabe, Come des Garçons or maisons like Yves Saint Laurent, Lanvin or Bottega Veneta in order to mention some of them, usually create amazing timeless pieces, because of their smart cuts, smart details, creative solutions or because of their comfort and quality... it's pretty obvious that cashmere just feels much better than wool, or a two ply 180's cotton shirt much better than a polyester one (and if you don't appreciate it, you don't have much sensibility! There are people who don't distinguish Coke from Pepsi and say that they just taste the same! ) Sometimes I wish I'd be one of those, cause would make things much easier.
Those are the things I like in the industry: the creative part and/or the craftsmanship. What I dislike is the unifying process that fashion represents or even worse, the frivolous and excluding attitude in some cases. People start looking like clones everywhere and seems that, if you're not on that boat, you have no idea what is going on.
I've lived in Stockholm for almost a year now, and this place is probably the closest one from the Fashionista's Paradise that I've ever been (even more than Milan, London or Paris... I was in NY when I was 13 so I can't really tell how it is now...).
Here, people are tall, beautiful and very, very fashion conscious!! They follow fashion to a point that, in my humble opinion, is even too much! Most of them look great and that's a fact, but there's a lack of personality in most of their looks.
The Swedish kids follow the trend doctrine so hardly, that they look like a stylish army of good-looking people, so in a way they are not even stylish anymore. Those who two years ago were worshiping Hedi Slimane's dark skinny look, picked up now the relaxed Brooklyn style. So, all the fashionable folks in Stockholm look like farmers or sailors with their long beards, flannel checked shirts, heavy Norwegian knits, roll up non washed denim, tan boots...they all wear a knitted hat in a new specific way (rolled and on the back of their head...) and the same kind of parka.
It is really funny and interesting how fashion, which was born to unify, makes people that follow it belief that they're different!
It’s normal to follow it a bit in terms of volume, silhouette, proportions, colors etc (if not you would look like you came from another era!) but I think it’s important to give your personal twist to it, to not forget who you are, how do you wanna present yourself to the world and to keep it unique and personal.
Remember what Saint Laurent once said: " Fashion Fades, Style Is Eternal".

Stockholm ( Kitsch )

2010-01-21T21:28:00.002+01:00

Stockholm ( The Rehearsal )

2010-01-21T21:04:00.000+01:00

Stockholm ( Ölandsgatan )

2010-01-19T19:23:00.003+01:00

Stockholm ( Oskar )

2010-01-19T19:13:00.002+01:00

Stockholm ( Designer Michael Bastian )

2010-01-19T18:57:00.001+01:00

Stockholm ( Girls Just Wanna Have Fun )

2010-01-19T18:50:00.001+01:00

Stockholm ( Ursula )

2010-01-10T15:04:00.001+01:00

Christiania ( Fuck The EU )

2010-01-07T17:44:00.003+01:00

Stockholm ( Getting Ready III )

2010-01-04T15:08:00.000+01:00

Stockholm ( Clark Kent )

2010-01-04T15:01:00.002+01:00

Stockholm ( Christmas Spirit )

2009-12-28T21:13:00.000+01:00

Stockholm ( Lalle )

2009-12-17T22:17:00.001+01:00

Stockholm ( La Gioconda Svedese )

2009-12-17T22:13:00.000+01:00

Stockholm ( The Thinker )

2009-12-17T22:04:00.000+01:00

Stockholm ( Camera Man )

2009-12-17T21:25:00.000+01:00

Stockholm ( The Roof )

2009-12-15T20:28:00.001+01:00

Stockholm

2009-12-15T20:25:00.001+01:00

2009-12-11T20:16:00.012+01:00

Christiania ( A Small World )

2009-12-10T22:31:00.000+01:00

Copenhagen ( And The Last Crusade )

2009-12-10T22:29:00.002+01:00

Polaroid Rules III

2009-12-10T22:20:00.006+01:00

Copenhagen ( Love At First Sight )

2009-11-29T16:51:00.003+01:00

Copenhagen

2009-11-29T16:45:00.001+01:00

Copenhagen ( Changing Of The Guard )

2009-11-29T16:43:00.001+01:00

Stockholm ( Riiiiing!!! )

2009-11-29T16:41:00.000+01:00

2009-11-14T18:48:00.012+01:00

2009-11-09T22:11:00.003+01:00

Boston ( Ready To Go )

2009-11-05T22:35:00.000+01:00

Florence ( Ginger Hair )

2009-11-04T23:35:00.000+01:00

Berlin ( Supermodel Nieves Álvarez )

2009-11-03T20:29:00.003+01:00

Moments in B/W IV

2009-10-28T23:22:00.005+01:00

The Modesty

2009-10-27T20:10:00.024+01:00

My friend Thomas from the mod band The Modesty, asked my colleague Filippa and me, if we could take some pictures of them to send to the press...Here are some of the ones I took!
P.S. You should listen to their album "Heads In Our Hands"... Really good stuff!

Stockholm ( The Metal Tree )

2009-10-25T20:23:00.000+01:00

Stockholm ( Lunch Breaks )

2009-10-25T17:11:00.001+01:00

Fly Me To The Moon

2009-10-24T16:14:00.004+02:00

Hollywood Blvd

2009-10-22T22:24:00.002+02:00

Audrey By Avedon By Me

2009-10-22T00:07:00.002+02:00

Richard Avedon is for a long time one of my favourite potographers and Audrey...I mean, what can I say about Audrey? She's so sweet, cute, delicate and refined that is even frustrating to watch...I couldn't resist to shoot at my laptop's screen...

Stockholm ( There She Goes )

2009-10-21T23:57:00.000+02:00

Valencia ( The Doctor )

2009-10-21T21:37:00.006+02:00

Don Vicente, one of the coolest men on Earth

Valencia ( Hand Made )

2009-10-21T21:04:00.000+02:00

L A ( The Pocket Watch )

2009-10-21T19:39:00.008+02:00

This picture always reminds me to Christopher Walken's scene in Pulp Fiction ( obviously so does the watch itself... ), even though it's not my father's heritage and thanking the Lord, he didn't have to carry it up his ass for several years, so the vietnamese soldiers didn't steal it from him!
The story behind this one is way not so interessting and how I'd tell it, would certainly not be half as good as mr. Walkens way, so I don't think is even worth to go thru it...
Still love my pocket watch...And I definitely still love my dad!!

Stockholm ( Hasta La Victoria Siempre )

2009-10-18T19:03:00.001+02:00

Stockholm ( Fifi )

2009-10-18T18:59:00.002+02:00

Those Were The Days

2009-10-17T02:00:00.041+02:00

Click on the horizontal pictures to enlarge them!

Stockholm ( Medborgarplatsen )

2009-10-16T23:06:00.001+02:00

Berlin ( Craftmanship )

2009-10-16T23:04:00.001+02:00

Stockholm ( Ssshhhh )

2009-10-15T20:51:00.001+02:00

Florence ( Eli )

2009-10-15T20:30:00.003+02:00

Stockholm ( Stylish Workout II )

2009-10-13T19:01:00.000+02:00

Florence ( Barbie Video Make Up )

2009-10-13T18:50:00.007+02:00

It's so hard to tell if she's playing videogames or putting on make up!! So young and yet so feminine!

Stockholm ( Missing The Summer )

2009-10-10T17:35:00.000+02:00

Stockholm ( Jonathan & Elsa )

2009-10-10T17:28:00.001+02:00

Moments in B/W III

2009-10-08T21:18:00.017+02:00

Polaroid Rules II

2009-10-08T20:17:00.008+02:00

Valencia ( Tomi )

2009-10-08T19:51:00.010+02:00

If I was in Paris or London, this would have been just another guy dressed in black...but being in Valencia at the Medicine's University bar and seeing someone wearing such an outfit was so unexpected! ( and let's not even talk about the tuxedo pants! Wow! I bet you at least a decade can pass, until you see another pair of those in that place! ). Because of that, because of the fact that he looks fucking great and because Tomi is one of my best friends, I think this is one of my favourite shots ever.

Florence ( Before The Cake )

2009-10-06T21:27:00.003+02:00

Stockholm ( Back On Track )

2009-10-06T21:19:00.003+02:00

Florence ( Miss Hong )

2009-10-05T19:14:00.001+02:00

Polaroid Rules

2009-10-04T23:31:00.021+02:00

Not so long ago, Polaroid announced that they were gonig to stop producing their iconic camera with self-developing film. With the arrival of the digital era, there's no place for such an item and apparently the sales were exponentially decreasing...
Ever since then, Polaroid pics have become the biggest trend! Most of the streetwear brands, designers and magazines in the design field, started presenting their creations in Polaroid format, so the soft pastel tones have taken over a scene, that was bored of the oversaturated colors presented by many photoshppers.
The whole industrie has stood up to say goodbye to the machine that has been used for so many years to prepare the fashion shows and after a long time of being ignored, they are suddenly at the highest point when they're going to dissapear...it's quite common to appreciate the good things we have once we loose them.
Here is my small tribute to it! ( click on the pics to enlarge them )

Sigüenza ( The Snow Queen )

2009-10-03T21:10:00.002+02:00

Valencia ( Family Matters )

2009-10-03T19:13:00.006+02:00

" Don't ever take sides with anyone against the Family "

Florence ( Shary )

2009-10-03T19:04:00.001+02:00

Stockholm ( The Coolest Boy )

2009-10-03T18:58:00.002+02:00

Florence ( Getting Ready II )

2009-10-03T18:56:00.000+02:00

Stockholm ( Missmatched Patterns )

2009-10-01T20:28:00.002+02:00

Florence ( Hi -Tec )

2009-10-01T19:59:00.002+02:00

Moments in B/W II ( click on pics to enlarge them )

2009-09-29T23:35:00.015+02:00

Stockholm ( Santi )

2009-09-29T21:11:00.001+02:00

Stockholm ( The Sweetest Thing )

2009-09-29T20:48:00.010+02:00

Is there anything cuter than a swedish kid?? "YES! His mom!!" That would be a common answer from most of my friends, I reckon...Anyways, swedish kids are just soooo beautiful and they are everywhere! These swedes have so many children and I dunno if it's because here is so f**ing cold that they spend a lot of their time in bed, or just because most of them have jobs that pay quite well and don't live at daddy's place until they are 35...

Valencia ( Always Time For A Cold Beer )

2009-09-29T20:46:00.002+02:00

Moments in B/W ( click on pics to enlarge them )

2009-09-27T16:35:00.003+02:00

Stockholm ( Getting Ready )

2009-09-27T16:04:00.000+02:00

Formentera ( click on pics to enlarge them )

2009-09-26T13:45:00.009+02:00

Stockholm ( The Photographer )

2009-09-26T13:12:00.000+02:00

Stockholm ( Stylish Workout )

2009-09-26T13:07:00.001+02:00

Xàbia ( Here Comes The Sun )

2009-09-22T22:55:00.002+02:00

Stockholm ( The Profile )

2009-09-22T19:19:00.002+02:00

Stockholm ( Keep Smiling )

2009-09-22T18:53:00.016+02:00

Stockholm ( Bergshambra Gang In Söder )

2009-09-19T18:09:00.015+02:00

Stockholm ( ? )

2009-09-19T17:34:00.003+02:00

Berlin ( Best Friends... )

2009-09-16T21:41:00.016+02:00

I know it's quite a cliché to photograph homeless people. Many times I just feel sorry, so I don't wanna bother and make them feel unconfortable. Anyways, their tough lifes, usually gives them a very special look, a look with lots of personality...And I find those looks really charming. They are, in my opinion, the ones that work in pictures ( very pretty or very ugly, very elegant or very trashy, young and fresh or old and rugged... there's no room for mediocracy! )

In this case, the gentleman was really kind and funny and was looking forward for it! Love how the colors of his hair and outfit match with the background!

Berlin ( Supermodel Kasia Strauss )

2009-09-16T21:00:00.001+02:00

Berlin ( German Power )

2009-09-16T20:54:00.002+02:00