Text by By Inny Taylor
Photography by Elena Breuer shot at Dong Xuan Center Berlin
Model Laura
Styling Janina Gruber
Birthdays–the day that once was looked forward to and one day may become the day you keep your eyes closed, hoping if you don’t look at the black printed numbers on the calendar, it may not come or happen–growing old is just something you refuse to do–time will just sail on by and you’ll stay 21 forever.
However some things just don’t change. And if the day just has to come because usually and hopefully it does–despite keeping your eyes shut tight–then you might as well be ornately crowned all day. Keep your glass filled with bubblies–that prior, in your childhood days was filled with brightly colored pop or lemonade. Nowadays your pals find it appropriate to deem you the, “Birthday Bitch”. It’s a contemporary honor–which is fine, but you still prefer, “The Birthday Girl”. There’s something so defining, effortless, and beautiful about it that can travel through the ages you collect–from 5 to 86–even before and even beyond. The Birthday Girl, is someone you get to be once a year–and sometimes you might even find it responsible to extend it for a whole week, “The Birthday Week”.
May you have a cake dressed in pastel icing, topped with icing roses, roses made of icing–and shiny fantastical sprinkles. May you outfit yourself as magically as your cake in royal robes of wonder and wander, for your new year of adventures yet to unfold. And please don’t fret, but please do disco dance and fill your day with giggling around good company until midnight, and even longer. Who knows maybe you’ll watch the sun rise, still giggling. Because, here’s hoping that on your day and the days that follow, leading back to your day again, are always surrounded with many loving friends or just that one friend who gets you. And when serenaded with the melody of celebrating you on your day, may it sound like sweet music to your ears, and be filled with meaning–even if it’s sung in the wrong key. Remember to wish for all of your greatest desires and dreams to come true when you blow the glow off the magical wax that holds it.
So to all the Birthday Girls, whatever day in whichever month it falls–whatever your astrological sign–may the stars align and… Happy Birthday Beautiful… And many, many more. Cheers.
