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Although I have to admit that there is sometimes a lack of glamour in Prague, it seems that times are a changing. With young fashion designers determined to push the envelope, this city is hopefully gonna be back on the fashion map.

This week, Leeda fashion house is opening their newly reconstructed store at Bartolomejska street. Here are few images from their new collection, which was made in cooperation with the emigre Czech architect Jan Kaplicky (yes, the one who made the great National library design and won the international competition, only to be rejected by the conservative political mafia) from Future Systems studio.

In our upcoming ‘East is Sexy’ issue in July we will bring you the entire fashion shoot.

How long have we been telling you all to get along to the Space:Garage bar/club in the Riga district of Andrejsala? Too long. And how many of you have listened? Not nearly enough. You’ve been lazing around in your trendy Berlin kiez, tripping out at dayclubs until the afternoon, sleeping in parks in the sunshine, waiting for the world to come to you - haven’t you? Well, your tactic worked.

Riga’s Space:Garage crew visited Berlin’s ZMF bar on Friday April 25 for a special “Riga Party”, organized by our friends at Pixelfestival. Unfortunately the venue wasn’t nearly as authentically cramped, steamy, sexy and trashy as Andrejsala, the dockside squat where the DJs normally play. But then again, nothing could match the atmosphere of Space:Garage on a Friday night.

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Change is definitely afoot in the ‘boho’ capital of East Europe. Although still known for its cheap beer, grunge bars, English-teaching expats, dogs a plenty, and dope-friendly atmosphere, the new Amsterdam is increasingly looking more to Moscow—and less to Berlin—as prices rise and a new wealthy class grown rich on the real estate boom tires of 24/7 slackerdom.

The exclusive La Scene restaurant/bar, which plans to become a Soho Club-like members establishment in the fall threw a fashion party last week to establish its ‘elitist’ credentials. Czech and Siberian models (from Petr Holanec’s PH Models) sashayed down a make-shift catwalk while real estate heads, fashionistas with their trophy pets, advertising execs, and others from the city’s growing monied classes sipped mojitos and gaped at the babes as they walked past. It could have been Moscow or Warsaw or Kiev—but it was Prague.

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