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DJ, Kenth Andrè Engh ”DJ Kent”
His name is Kenth Andrè Engh, he started his dance career
when he was 4 years old. When he was 8 old he started to compete
in ballroom dances and became a good performer in Standard dances.
He and his partner won many competitions in Norway in their class.
In 1988 he was a member of “Studio S Junior Latin Team” and
they became champions in Junior at Blackpool Dance Festival
His interest has always been music, and he plays the organ, the keyboard, the guitar and
the drums. Furthermore he is an all-around DJ With ballroom music as a specialty.
Dance teacher, Bjørn Wettre Holthe
Bjørn has worked as a flight attendant for SAS, for almost three years.
Originally, he was educated at the Bårdar Academy’s dance and music theater line.
Prior to that he spent several years at the national team in the ballroom and represented Norway in the EM and World Cup.
He is a Norwegian Champion in 10-dance, meaning he is professional in 10 dances.
He won the first season of “skal vi danse” on TV2 with Katrine Moholt and danced with Eli Hagen in 2013.
This fall he has swung on the parquet with Trude Drevland.
In TvNorge’s “Dansefeber” he was a finalist and with Guri Schanke represented Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest.
He has participated in several musicals, including Jesus Christ Superstar, Dream about Narnia,
West Side Story, Billy, Little Me, The Dancing Man, Showgirls, Cats, The Producers, Bernardo in the West Side Story, A Chorus Line.
In addition to being an active dancer, Bjørn has a wide education- and choreography experience.
He is a certified personal trainer and worked at several gyms.
Wine merchant, Nicolas Mahé de Berdouaré
Nicolas Mahé de Berdouaré
Marchand de Vins – Wine merchant
Our Wine-friend
Nicolas was born and grew up in Bordeaux, with a french
father and norwegian mother. The history of the family goes more than a thousand years back, and includes participation in a crusade,
a capital city named after the family (Mahébourg in Reunion), and of course a wine Chateau in Bordeaux.
The title Wine merchant has been inherited from his
grandfather, who was both proud and happy when he understood
that Nicolas wanted to follow in his steps.
A wine merchant must never betray his customers,
and therefore Nicolas is always looking for the honest wines which represent
the best from their district. The personality of the wines carry the characteristics
of the local soil, climate and grapes. The best producers are able to combine traditions,
modern techniques in a humble approach to develop their best possible products.
With the motto “drink more often, less and better”
he travels around to locate the best wines to your joy.
Santé Nicolas
For more information: http://www.vinhusetnofra.no/
Photographer, Tatyana Nevmerzhytska
Tatyana Nevmerzhytska.
Tatyana is a famous fine art and portrait photographer in Kyiv, Ukraine.
She adores fairytales. Trying to compensate a lack of magic in real life, she loves to make up beautiful and sometimes fantastic characters in her artworks.
Tatyana has been working with photography since 2012. Before that she had a successful career as a tax manager at big multinational company, however after going through her first maternity leave her sleeping art abilities awoke.
In autumn 2013 she and her colleague established a photography school which is now one of the most successful and developing in Kyiv.
Currently Tatyana enjoys her work shooting beautiful creative portraits and educating other photographers.
Vintage the treasure hunt
Dear all,
Vintage definition:
What is the definition of VINTAGE clothing = The term vintage is used to describe clothing between 20 and 100* years old which is clearly representative of the era in which it was produced. Vintage clothing can be used, new (from dead stock), manufactured, and handmade.
It is important to understand that the definition of vintage is fluid, so every decade brings forth new items as “vintage”. It is also important to understand that all vintage will eventually become antique.
*Clothing 100 years old or more is classified as antique. (source: about style)
History:
Today I will tell you a story about vintage clothing. Many years ago, in the beginning of the 90s a friend of mine in her years as a student,
made me aware of second hand clothing stores. At the time it had not matured in me to use clothes that others had used. I bought most of my clothes in cheap mainstream chain stores.
Mainstream buying pattern:
I will make a comment about this cheap chain stores. Sometimes I meet people who
seem to think that they are modest and noble to buy from cheap stores like I did as a young girl. They tend to have the opinion that buying cheap or not spending
too much money on clothes is a good deed, that they are not being extravagant and seeking luxury.
But let us ask this question: Is it a good deed? In a society where we produce as much garbage
as we do. Why buy clothes that do not last? Is that another add to the waste society? Is it good household economy? Is it more affordable? By buying these badly produced products we
support an industry that is producing more waste. In addition we accept the poor quality and let those businesses live on and dominate the marked.
On the other hand there are of course expensive brands that produce poor quality too. It is in my opinion not better to buy from them, though their brands might be trendy.
Vintage
Back to vintage. In the old days 50s and 60s. The quality of the tailoring was in general i high one. In addition high quality,
fabrics were often used, defined by durability.
As an example some of the coats from those times still look new, they are comfortable, great looking and warm.
The first vintage garment
My very first vintage coat was sitting in my grandmother, Grethe’s, closet. The coat was there waiting for me when we were organizing her home after we sadly lost her a few years back.
It was there all by itself, brown tweed, long, elegant and warm. Around that time I was pregnant with our daughter, Julia. And was I very lucky to have found that coat!
The garment kept both her and I warm during a chilly winter. My grandmothers coat has been with me since then. The coat is most likely from the 1960s.
Julia is soon to be 10 years old, so in addition to those years my grandmother was using it
I have used it regularly for all those years. Furthermore this coat opened up my interest for vintage clothing. My search for other solutions like this opened up a new world to me.
I found shops on e-bay with high quality products. That is defined by no smell, high quality fabrics and tailoring, no wholes or damage and great customer service.
Soon my collection of vintage clothing became larger. These clothes I love them so much that they stay with me and I use them a lot. The winter garments wait in the closet for the next suitable season and the summer clothes do the same.
They are still of the same interest to me and I am looking forward to bring them back year after year.
My issues with wearing clothes that others have used are long gone. It is honestly truly hard to find the quality from the old days nowadays or less we are willing to spend a whole lot of money. Though even then we have no guaranties.
My latest treasure
From Millstreet Vintage
Shopping
Finally I will like to make some specific recommendations, personally I have great experiences with all this.
Online Shops
Millstreetvintage ebay
Red House Vintage ebay
Secondhand4Sale
City Shopping
Luxembourg:
First & Second Hand Concept
Paris:
Gilda Vintage
Glamourfestaften 2016
Takk for hyggelig blog innlegg Lie 🙂
Deltok i Glamourfestaften 2016. Det var koselig å se mange kjente folk igjen. Samtidig var det gøy å bli kjent med nye folk. Det ble middag og dans. Jeg liker å ta bilder. Tok med meg kamera og har tatt en del bilder. Arne har tatt en del fine bilder av meg. Vi hadde et liten midnattshow i år. Bildene forteller alt, og er gode minner fra denne anledningen.
Mange gjester hadde på seg lange ballkjoler. Noen hadde på seg korte festkjoler, vertinnen hadde på seg en kjempefin dansekjole. De fleste valgte å ha på seg selskapskjoler. I denne anledningen er alt lov. Du kan pynte deg etter ditt ønske. Maten var kjempegod. God mat, gode mennesker. masse dansing. Hva mer kan man vente?
