Irina Belva
Fashion label · ArchiveMy own fashion brand. The label is no longer active and lives on as an archive.
Projects
A fashion label and a newsletter about film and fashion.
abdriften
Newsletter · SubstackEssays on film and fashion. Plus short film reviews on Letterboxd.
Texts
12 essays from abdriften, on film and fashion. Originally written in German, translated automatically.
Visually, this film runs on a track of its own.From: LOVE NEVER DIES → 01 LOVE NEVER DIES
Dark, blood-red scenery, costumes from another world and a romance that outlasts centuries. This Halloween I want to give my time and attention to …
4 min →
02
you f yourself
Definitely the most personal thing I’ve written down and published here so far. Basically it’s about how everyone, some more, some less, needlessly …
5 min →
03
DO WE REALLY DRESS THE WAY WE LIKE?
I think this entry is going to be very conceptual and won’t necessarily follow a common thread. You could see it more as a brainstorm put into …
3 min →
04
DARK ESCAPISM
Thanks to the Lumière brothers, today I get to experience what is probably the most beautiful form of escapism: the cinema. Because here, any day, …
3 min →
Nothing is uncool just because it isn’t trendy.From: THE RETURN OF THE ROCKSTAR → 05 HORROR TOP 13
Now that horror season is over, here’s my little personal list of top horror films to wrap it up. I tried to turn it into a ranking - whether I …
5 min →
06
THE RETURN OF THE ROCKSTAR
Leather jacket, ripped tee, slim jeans . What was considered a fashion crime a few years ago is on its way to becoming an it-piece again. The latest …
2 min →
07
BLOOD
Take a Walkman and the most expensive suit you can find, and blast either Whitney Houston’s perfect song How Will I Know or the clearly best track by …
4 min →
08
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE RANKED
On the occasion of the recently released M:I 8, here’s my short, personal ranking of the series. It’s worth mentioning that my enthusiasm for Thomas …
3 min →
A 117-minute nightmare.From: IN SPACE NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM → 09 THE GREATEST
It’s time I got my thoughts on this film off my chest - my absolute favourite film. Kill Bill Volume 1 came out in 2003, followed by Volume 2 in …
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10
THE PHANTOM OF FASHION
A name that seems to show up in every other rap lyric these days. A phantom about whom little is known. But above all, someone whose creations caused …
3 min →
11
IN SPACE NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM
Alien - one of my absolute favourite films. Ridley Scott takes the newly booming science-fiction genre in a direction that didn’t really exist …
2 min →
12
WHO AM I?
The title isn’t a nod to some magical German movie starring our national superstar Elyas M’Barek. It’s meant to roughly sum up what this piece is …
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