At the end of September, Quiksilver women from all over Europe headed down to Hossegor for a week of surf, music and a bit of bootie shaking. Gosh we had fun!!! Check out the video below to get a taste of what went down.

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Wants the good old postcard days back: Ela in the QSW Privilege Plaid coat (photo: creagerphoto.com)

I experienced a premiere the other day. It was the first time of my life that I decided to break off the relation to someone completely. I actually never thought much of such unconditional acts. I always hated those typical girlie fights back in high school when best girlfriends wouldn’t talk to each for a defined period of time for some stupid reason like ‘she copied my hairstyle’ or whatever. I thought it was useless and I could never understand how people could draw such lines under relationships that had meant the world to them just before… Not until the other day exactly, when I saw myself forced to make a cut and send the chosen someone packing combined with the urgent request to never return.

Of course it was not just someone… How less of a young woman’s life would my life be if the designated person wouldn’t have been a guy that I had declared as the ‘possible one’ to my girlfriends before? I’m not an expert in such questions but I assume this comes naturally with the whole break-off-touch-deal. You need to care for a person pretty badly to be at the same time bothered badly enough to give marching orders… So without getting into details among the reason of my particular break-off-touch-story, all that needs to be said is that I got let down literally all along the line, and I felt I had no other option than to completely ban this guy from my life.

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Well, easier said than done. First of all, it took me a while to convince myself that this preposterous act had nothing to do with me being preposterous, but much more with this guy being the reason why ‘preposterous’ as a word was actually invented. Once I had myself at this point, the ‘second of all’ began to torture me… Now did you know what a time-consuming and complex undertaking it was to break off contact with someone in time of modern technology? It was not like back in the good old days when our mummies could take their leather-wrapped address books and erase an entry that they once had written with great foresight in pencil and that consisted of a phone number and a mailbox address only. No, what I faced was

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an entry in my cell-phone for his private cell, his business cell, his private landline and his office number

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an entry in my laptop address book for his private e-mail, his business e-mail, his mailbox address and instant messaging contacts

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an enty in my scratch book that compiled again his cell phone number, this time with some sort of heart shape around it (luckily (or pathetically) painted in pencil…)

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and then of course a Facebook friendship I needed to cancel, a Skype contact I had to block, a Twitter feed I no longer wanted to follow and so on and so forth… All in all, it took me approximately half a day to erase any possible traces this guy had left in my life. It was exhausting. And honestly, if I had known before that this was what it takes to ban someone from my life, I would probably have found a way to live with the entry of ‘Mister Preposterous’ in all my face- and address books…

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However, once the mission was accomplished, it felt amazingly relieving to no longer see this unholy name in all my possible contact archives. As pathetic it might be breaking off a relation seems like the best choice every once in a while. And in order to keep myself this option open in a less stressful way in the future, the next guy I possibly have a crush on can have my landline and my mailbox address. And if he wants to get in touch with me, he can send me postcards. Basta. I want the good old days back… Now.

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Ela (call it nostalgia…)

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Fall-feeling: Ela reading postcards in the QSW Privilege Plaid coat (photo: creagerphoto.com)

She’s all at the same time: a student, a journalist, a part-time model, a fashion addict, an art lover, a book reader, a music listener, a movie viewer, a theatre spectator, a sun worshipper, a rain enthusiast, a snow devotee, a city person, a mountain dweller, an ocean admirer, a globe trotter… meet our Quiksilver woman of the week: Ela.

Despite the fact that we weren’t competing in any of the official categories, we went home with an award under our belt! Quiksilver women exhibited the photo collection “Quiksilver women by Bara Prasilova” at Designblok in Prague. Our booth featured the photos as well as our latest clothing range. Our brand ambassador Charlotte O’Connor was there to share this special occasion and to make us all dance to her music. The Jury was pretty impressed by everything that happened and decided to throw our way a “Special Award for an extraordinary feat related to design occurring outside official categories“. Boy were we stoked when we heard Quiksilver at the award ceremony!!!

Special thanks go to everyone that made this award possible: to Bara Prasilova for her art, her vision and her passion for our brand; to all the ambassadors featured in the pictures - Ellie Lawson, Leddra Chapman, Mahara Mc Kay, Ela and Charlotte O’Connor; to Mathus Hubka and the whole Quiksilver team in the Czeck Republic and to everyone else that was there to make it happen:

A MASSIVE THANK YOU TO YOU ALL!!!

Check the video below for a little insight on what went down.

More information on the event at www.designblok.cz

This is a fresh, innovative magazine with great photography and layout. It’s the ‘London Issue’ and you can view it and read it at: state of play magazine 04

Quiksilver encourages creative female talent, and supports young artists like Leddra Chapman in their professional projects. After many years of hard work, Leddra is delighted to finally share with all of us a little piece of her debut album, due to be released this winter. To download the Mix Sampler of “Telling Tales” and the full version of her first single, “Story”, please go to:

leddrachapman.quiksilver-women.com

Enjoy!

Bara Prasilova is an accomplished artist and an awarded photographer. In March she joined the Quiksilver women’s team in London to capture our ambassadors in images that she will be exhibiting for the first time in her home town Prague, Czech Republic. To celebrate the occasion, she will be joined by Quiksilver woman Charlotte O’Connor in a unique concert with her new band.

Come check it out:

When: Thursday 8th October 18h30

Where: Superstudio A7, bývalý Holešovický pivovar; U Průhonu 13; Prague