Magazine Madness: Kate Moss, VOGUE UK Holiday Issue 2013-14

VOGUE HOLIDAY 2013-14

Kate Moss is 40 in 2014. To British Vogue’s tradition, Kate appears as cover girl once again to celebrate the immense fashion heritage with British well-known photographer Tim Walker.

According to VOGUE 2013 guest editor John Galliano’s words, that Kate is ‘as much muse as creator. She understands the power of fashion, the language and magic it speaks, and how to convey this into pictures’ (Galliano, 268). It perfectly shows that no matter how British media tries to find the next Kate Moss’s heir apparent, it predictably fails. Not only because of her unfocused eyes and highlight cheekbones, her boyish body figure and various body languages on the shootings, but her off-stage street fashion and party wear. Those show her unique taste on fashion, or perhaps we should say, on style. Since fashion may fade away but style stays, Miss Moss phenomenon will still last for ages. 

Photographer TimWalker has his famous fairy-tale styles of fashion campaign, while VOGUE UK Christmas issue ‘Made in Britain’, he adapts black-and-white, clean-cut and sleek, without Baroque settings, pinky colours or enormous ball gown, he nails the characters. VOGUE UK December issue usually provides astonishing fashion photos, shopping stories and designers’ lives (as Isabel Marant);from Kate Moss to Stella Tennant, from Gareth Pugh to Nick Knight, that’s how we call Britain Great.

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www.vogue.co.uk

Cuisine Crush Helsinki! Midhill Burger Answers My Hunger

Helsinki, City Käytävä

Eating burger shall not be unavoidably super sizing up, as long as the bun, the beef, the sauce and the salad are non-gene modification and properly made. After my Mountain View life in August 2011, I have been hunting and searching some high quality burger inn with casual dining atmosphere hiding in Helsinki, Finland.

Passing by the passage linked between City Centre and Aleksanterinkatu, Midhill Burger is waiting there, vibe, brisk and full of American graffito ink on the porcelain wall. Fascinated by the chalk hand-written ‘Brgr of the Day’ on the storefront board, we folks decide to give it a fresh try. The menu is designed a twitter-like layout, and the pony-tailed waitress takes our order soon. First served French Fries on green pepper, 4e, I love the iron pen-rack and yesterday newspaper loading the hot snack. Secondly is Brgr of the Day,9,80e: holding onto a very-in-and-out burger basket, with slightly baked bun, yellow pickle, purple onion and red potato rings, chowder cheese, and juicy, rich, thick and medium rare beef, Top-A!D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S!!! Usually beef fiber can be easily un-chewable and later stuck between teeth gaps, but Burger of the Day has answered my very own meaty concerns.

Operated by TV chef Hans Välimäki, only open for a few weeks and already become one of the hippest burger joints in the centre of city. The menu at Midhill Burger Helsinki features a variety of burgers, with fresh ingredients and black Angus beef. Recommended are the Korean BBQ burger, the classic cheeseburger and hot dogs!! With the a bit tough of American diner, and the designer furniture and stuffed wild boars on the wall, its interior is reminiscent of retro and trendy. This restaurant is great for lunch while shopping and reunion of a group of happy at the same time goofy buddies. 

An unforgettable burger defines its beef quality and sauce taste. Enjoying my burger and watching the head of boar hanging on the beam column at Midhill Burger, hhuumm…Brgr of the Day does make my day!!

Photography: Mindy Yuan 

Special Thanks: JMH

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