On the blog Myriad Whimsies I discovered a “this could have been me” story of a young girl called Jovanica, who is a regular customer of a street kiosk selling 3d printed stuff. Jovanica is returning day after day with her pocket-money to buy
Plastic vintage barrettes from the 50s
With a simple search on Etsy or Pinterest you can easily find 1000+ images of vintage fifties barrettes and hair accessories. Some of them cause an immediate ‘coup de foudre’: how beautiful are the clips in the tiny bag of Paulette hair accessory. Vintage
Could we have the Buch and Deichmann hair barrettes back on the market?
A bit of history: Buch and Deichmann (B&D) Denmark started up in the early 1970’s. Designer Ketty Dalsgaard, inspired by the ropes of local fishing vessels in Denmark, started with a collection of bright coloured plastic bracelets. The pieces were made of a nylon type of softer
Water resistant hair clip systems
It would be a significant advantage if 3D printed hair clips didn’t need metal springs anymore. The spring often gets rusty if one wears the hair clip while swimming. Yesterday a friend pointed out to me that women in the seventies wore different
Inspired by Japanese fiction: Lain’s Hair Clip
According to Wikipedia ‘Serial Experiments Lain‘ is a Japanese franchise that includes an anime, a game and several artbooks and other publications. It was broadcast on TV Tokyo from July to September 1998. The series focuses on Lain Iwakura (character design
Simple yet elegant white hair accessories design
There’s a huge wow-factor in the 3D printed hair accessories in pure white produced by design atelier Monocircus. My absolute favorite is the ORCHID comb. Apparently it was first created as a brooch, but because of the many suggestions from
Brigitte Bardot knew just what to do with a hair clip.
This is my first post. Let’s kick off with Brigitte Bardot, because among other reasons why to love her, she just knew what to do with a hair clip. The reason I start with this blog is to collect pictures