Let it bloom!

We had a very heavy snow the last couple of days which ment 2 hours traffic when coming back from work, but the lovely thing was that once the storm was over the sun started shining for the next 2 days, bringing this spring weather and feeling. I am dreaming with spring, so sick of wearing coat and thousand layer on my body and the freezing cold that hits your bones.

This weekend I have been watching movies and clips, humming songs of Devendra Banhart and finding inspirational images, with this new site I found, We ♥ it, the most gorgeous and easy way to find lovely images on the web and keep them in your personal online archive without filling up you own hard drive. Spring cleaning has also started at the rabbit hole, maybe I am a little ahead of my self, but I keep my faith that the blossoming season is around the corner, and my rabbit is loosing her hair so it can only mean the season is changing! - and that I can't slack on my cleaning or else I will swim in hairs.
I found in my closet thousands of things I haven't been wearing lately, but also those that then need to be desperately DIY'ed, so I might as well get my hands busy. I will also start reparing my bike, rust aways and change of tires, can't wait to hop on it to go to work.

Cross you fingers with me that spring will come soon!!!

source: form my personal archive at we ♥ it

don't waist time

Got home from work wanting to vegetate on the couch but knowing and dreading the idea that I had to clean the house, but on went the computer and out came popping msn, skype and facebook and so the procrastinating started. Since all of these networks are a fabulous waste of time I decided to craft my self something while I was having endless skype calls with friends, just to not feel guilt that dust was still flying around the house.

ingredients:

3 Dead watches bought at the Sunday Corsico market, were they have all sorts of forgotten junk.
2 different type of chains
Jewelry clippers
nylon thread

the result...

now the question in, long or short? I just can't make up my mind!

Knot me up

Did you ever see how Olivia Newton John in Let's get physical and Julia Roberts in Pretty woman twisted their tops around their waist, well I have been doing it as well. I find that is slims you out specially if you are wearing high waisted skirts and pants as I do, it put enphasis on the waistline, an alternative to tucking them in, that sometimes can make you look bulky.

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wearing:

vintage pleated skirt, Crishop jersey shirt knotted around, Tiffany's key chain, DIY chains and crystal drop, vintage silver ball necklace, Top Shop polkadot stockings, Miu Miu orange heels.

Dissapointed

I was just reading Swide's interview of style icon Anna dello Russo, which one of my favorite persons to keep a watch on during fashion week, since she is a fashion collector she is always covered by the most exquisite pieces and styled to the tops with no regrets, as she says in her interview she collects only amazing pieces that could be put in museums when she dies. The interview is fantastic full of her stylish image memories and personal opinions. Unfortunately she revealed that street style madness is all planned out, in other words fake..

'' The whole street style thing these days is like a job, it's all planned and thought up in advance; it's not as though you just "happen" to run into one another. Outfits are prepared in advance... I just hope it doesn't end up making it lose its spontaneity and make it become fake.''

I don't know if I have been living in a cloud or something because when I commented it to my friends everyone seemed to know but me, apparently even The Sartorialist takes half of his street shots by appointment. So sad, but if it's true, then it shall be it, life goes on... I guess fashion will always be fake but beautiful after all!

read HERe more of dello Russo's interview.

sources: swide, thefash pack, hapsical,

the black side of me

I am not only polka dots, floral prints, bright colors, happy music and sweet little rabbits, I also have dark conceptual side of me that doesn't come out that often. This morning it did while having breakfast :)

Hidden treasures

Found these pair of dirty white wannabe Coverse sneekers that I customized my self 3 years ago abandoned in the back of my closet. I remembered I decided to sew by hand these can cap openers with thread, obviously after using them for a while some came off and I had started to sew them back on with nylon thread but eventually got bored and left them a side. Quite an insane project of mine but with a satisfying result. I must get back to fixing them.


The Quatrinni brothers were pimped up in Gienchi, we looked like the fantastic metal trio!

ph: Daniella Benedetti

5 things that make me go U-La-La!!!

1. The Tavi Madness

She has been caught by Tommy Ton's cam for style.com during couture week in Paris and she is has rocked every picture. She is unique, has something interesting and intelligent to say and is way ahead of many of us, regarding her age, so well deserved! I must confess I am a little jealous, who wouldn't want to be in front row couture shows and blocking peoples view with non other than a Steven Jones hat!!! This morning on Jak and Jil, Tommy Ton revealed his shoot with her for Vogue Paris, can't wait to buy it, Tavi was the first blogger I ever read religiously and I started doing it a year and something ago when I opened my own blog, won't stop now :)

2. Tommy Ton for style.com
He has been documenting not only the mens shows but also the couture feeding my eye with fantastic pieces that I would dream to have in my wardrobe. Scott Schuman reported for style.com last year, but I enjoy more Tommy's entrinsicate eye for edgy detail

3. The Great Encounter

On Wednesday Anna Wintour, Carine Roitfeld, and Hamish Bowles got together to discuss funds to support emerging new designers, something I totally agree with, being one my self and having many of them as friends, but what I find quite scary is the encounter. Anna Wintour flew to Paris to teach the french how it is done in New York and to teach Lady Roitfeld how to guide it? Yikes!And what about the coats they are wearing? To be the queens of the fashion bibles, it feels like they left they fierceness back home having a nap in their closets.
I adored how Bryan boy described them.. take a look here.

4. The video

While I kept scrolling down the Bryan boy's article on 'the great encounter' of the Vogue queens I came across this video posted by him from the Loic Prigent documentary with Anna still commentating that France is not supporting young talents, apart from other sections of the video. Take a look at the very beginning, the tall heeled guy, very confident, and that is why he is convincing , he looks sexy because he believes it. I don't see it but I love his confidence! Other thing that I found interesting about the video.. the stickers in every borrowed garment, something new to me.

5. Yvan Rodric raw images

Face hunters photographer personal image bank, my new love.
The last image with the bottles, do we want to talk about how fab that party must have been?

source: canadian school, style.com, Jak and Jil, Fashionologie, Bryan Boy, Yvan Rodric

Tim Walker pictures @ Galleria Sozzani

Galleria Carla Sozzani presented on the 23rd of January the opening of Pictures by Tim Walker. Not only his most recent works were in exhibitions, such as his latest Tim Burton series, but also the sketches and plans of his most important sets.

He is truly a dramatic surrealist, a day dreamer, full of fantasy that he didn't leave behind in his childhood, but kept it with him, and still at the age of 40, translates it into fatalistic fairy tales. He reminds me always to dream, as though I don't do it enough, and transports me into each of his images, thanks to the amount of detail in his productions. How I would love to look out my window to find a huge garden full of lit up gowns and just be able to through my checkered cloth and have a picnic with them, dance with skeletons or live in a wonderful decorated red beetle car. I will keep dreaming, hoping he keeps doing it as well, it is always nice to find dreams turned into a somewhat reality.













Unfortunately the lighting in this gallery seems to set up perfectly so paparazzers like me can't take pics of the pictures because the lights reflect perfectly towards us, they could just save up time by putting a 'do not take pictures' sign instead of blinding us all!
This red hair, femme fatale rabbit with Nina Ricci sky scrapper heels, is absolutely my favorite, tempting me to take it home with me to join my other odd rabbit fanatic artwork.

travelling pets

Since I can't take Miss.Romeo - the rabbit on the banner- around on my shoulder and stuff things into her, I would die to take this Giles rino bag..!

source: ny mag , pet sugar

Straight a head..

Last time I straighten my hair was a year ago so decided to do it once more and pair it up with my yeti hair sweater, which I am totally obsessed with. I must say I like my self more with curls, I miss the volume and the disorder of it

waiting for the last snow

Next seasons collections are starting to pop on every store window as well as all the spring/summer campaigns on magazines, but we are still wearing coats and heavy sweaters! Not at all fair, specially for a latin girl that can spend long ours in the sun, sipping on coconut rum water and munching on ripe mango strips. It seems such a long wait so while we are at it I will keep sucking up the cold under coats,heavy fabrics and vintage pleated skirts. This one is 100% wool, it's almost like wearing a blanket around your waist.

This is the second time this picture background come up in my pictures, well it's the back of my office a very industrial place with lots of tubes and poles to hop on an off when you wish to release work stress.

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wearing :
Zara white basic t-shirt, H&M by Karl Lagerfeld customized coat, black and white kefiah, vintage pre colombian belt, vintage pleated skirt, H&M polkadot stockings, branless heart shape sunglasses and Verlon school shoes.

The GLAMOURous life of the Mad Hatter

I want to congratulate my friend Cosimo-Mad Hatter for his publication in this months Glamour! Well deserved! To celebrate we went out to Gasoline Club where he sponsored the night and everyone wore hats and us lady friends wore his creations. Mobi and Loris spinned the vinyls for us and made us dance machines,some shoes came off, drinks were spilled, t-shirts were given out pictures were taken , we had a marvelous time!

Bite your self through the credit crunch!

I love a collection with a story or a statement, and Viktor and Rolf don't seize to surprise me with every show. You would think that because there is an economical crisis they would go back to their basic roots, with safe expenses, tone down the couture and keep it quite commercial, well hell no! They have never done it and they weren't going to start now, well in theory, in practice they did, by choping down the gowns and actually 'cutting back', biting through. Hurray for them, for throwing us a show (pregnant Róisín Murphy including) showing us that there is hope in surviving this crisis and there are different solution and way to embrace it.
My favorite, the coral one, paired up with convers to go groserie shopping :)

enjoy the show

source: Dazed and Confused via the photography link, video thanks to toey2daria

hairy business

I love hairy, soft, furry garments, but the fact of having a dead animal over my body gives me the chills, so I content my self by just contemplating other people wearing it, so when I saw this furry woolly sweater at H&M on sale I had to have it! Waiting for prices to get lower and maybe get it in beige. It kind of reminds me of Prada FW 2007 collection, very teddy bear/ poodle razed hair material, but it is not dead and it seems I'm not the only one that is wanting going to walk around looking like a wannabe hairy softy and cuddly animal..

source: knight cat , yvan rodic, fab sugar

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wearing:
H&M hairy sweater, H&M by Karl Lagerfeld customized coat, Marco bug pin, vintage glasses, computer keyboard earings by me and patented red Dr.Martens

"I've got the look" by Ginevra Barbetti

Ginevra Barbetti snaped Vanna and me while roaming aroung the Pitti. I have a such a serious face I was starving and the only thing in site were sandwichs which I had been eating for the past 2 days! But I found a fantastic sushi place around the corner and so the grin in my face finally changed
I loved the tittle she gave my set of pics.

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wearing:
Crishop jersey shirt, Moschino vintage high waisted pants, vintage pre Colombian belt, Paksitani flower embroidered scarf, h&m customized coat, vintage key collection necklace, vintage doctors bag , John Galliano heels

Classic black with a fabric twist

As you walked in the Costume National Men's FW 2010-11 fashion show you went through a sort of little jungle with neon blue lights which created certain expectations to the show- nature? organic? city jungle? Certainly green wasn't going to be the subject since the brand is all about their rock and roll black. In the crowd Tim blanks, Michael Roberts, Anna dello Russo, Steve Doyle, Chris Brown, and other Italian celebrities attended with me the star of fashion week, once the music started pumping and the models started strutting down the runway my expectati ons started to be satisfied.
Minimal as always but this time quite classic in it's forms but modernized with fantastic organic fabrics. Wool coats and jackets that degraded into knits, brushed wool coats with hairy mohair sleeves, elegantly cut suits with leather shirts, all in black and gray tones and a touch of silver here and there in a print or between the woolly fibers. I loved how most of the models had long rock star hair that complimented the mood of the show wonderfully.
Overall, I think Costume has a stronger statement with his mens line than the women one , and for a girl that has the contrary of a minimal taste, I found this collection to be marvelous.

see more ages of the show log on to men style.com

Pitti Immagine Uomo °77

DAY 1

The brand that I work for, Ganesh, has a stand Pitti Immagine Uomo Firenze every season, so by turns all the style office goes down for research and helping out at the stand. I had the chance to stay three whole days that was quite exhausting but fantastically refreshing, it always good to have a change of scenery and air.

At Pitti the brands always take special care of how to attract attention to their stands with eye popping ways to exhibit their collections. The most refreshing and inspiring ones come from the new upcoming young brands at New Beats and Welcome to my house pavilions. Cor Sine Lane Doli won me over with their ceramic papillons kept in glass vases as precious objects.

DAY 2

Unfortunately I don't go to Pitti just to rome around the stands with eyes and ears open for new inovative trends, garments and stand layouts, but I also have to stay at our own and greet buyers and show them the collection, though it is mostly standing and looking for a confortable position so my feet don't kill me which by the end of the day they do, at least I get to share my pain with my standing partner, whch on day 2 was V_.

DAY 3

What I enjoy the most of Pitti is the steet fashion, all the effort people put to their image in the morning to look the best around their air walk about, specially Asians and Northern Europeans, they have an attention to details that is jaw dropping. Every singe accesory is possitioned in the correct place, the shirt is tucked in that special way scarf hand flawlessy and all the farics contrast the contrast the others harmonically.

wearing:

Day 1
Flanell chequered shirt, American Apparel leggings, Pakistany black and white scarf, key collection necklace, Pakistani silver tassel necklace, Russel & Broomley boots

Day 2
H&M skirt and t-shirt, Max Mara cardigan, Vintage deninm shirt,Obras de Alambre necklace, Top Shop flower print stockings, Verlon shoes

Day 3
Crishop jersey shirt, vintage pre colombian belt, vintage high waisted Moschino jeans, pakistani black and white scarf, customized H&M coat, vintage doctor's bag, John Galliano heels

"Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again "

Sorry I haven't been posting that much, it has just been quite a shock to come back to reality after such short but very relaxing holidays. I have been reminiscing the long walks at the farm, soaking up the sun, eating, eating, eating and family company. Tomorrow I am off to Pitti Immagine Uomo in Florence, will post pics.

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wearing: Crishop harem pants, vintage scarf, H&M socks, personal key collection, Verlon shoes.

wild spots

Leopard has never been my thing, I have always kept my distance from it, I had always love it on other people but not on me. Well when my sister saw this kitschy leopard/flower print stockings she got them for me and I am glad she did! They are so foxy fabulous! Leopard is a huge trend now a days, every single shop is infested, I am not the kind that follows trend by the dot, but this could be the first step for me to go down the leopard spot lane! I actually wouldn't mind to start with the Alexander Wang leopard pumps..

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wearing: Accessorize leopard/flower stockings, dragon fly crystal Obras de Alambre pin, crytal eye drop, denim Zara sandals.

Happy New Year's

2010 has started! Hope all of you had a fabulous new years!

I am still in Dubai where I spent the New Years at the Emirate tower's Rib Room, with thousands of party props, feathers, hats, whistles, dressing up is my favorite thing and I couldn't find a better way of ending the year this way! Food constantly kept coming as well as the wine which worked as an anesthetic wonder to my feet and let me twist and twirl all night long to boogie piano music on my Miu Miu red pumps. The next morning my feet were in a coma which just proved that we had a fantastic time!

So a new year is always an excuse to set goals and plan a new life start and I do it by writing down resolutions. After writing new goals, I went in search of my last years list to see if I had achieved any of them...

1. Don't bite my nails ( Achieved!)

2.Control my appetite ( only until September, ignoring weekends and holidays.. so no, no appetite controlling )

3.Tone up ( Yes, until September, damn cold weather that makes me lazy)

4.Spread joy and happiness (what the hell is this? I guess I did, it is a natural thing, isn't it?)

5. Meditate ( Yes, til September, again)

6. Battle with dust (having a rabbit that moves dust back and fourth obligated me do battle with dust, so it is a Yes!)

7.Keep in contact (Yes)

8.Create, create, create ( no, very uninspired this year, hope 2010 wakes up my creative veins)

9.Control Anxiety ( no, I ruined a tooth because of it)

10. Learn something everyday ( thanks to internet, yes!)

11. Learn french or Urdu ( no, no, but after my trip to Pakistan I noticed I know more urdu than what I though I did, so this year I have to learn it)

After ticking 4 and having a half squiggle on 2, I edited some of my 2010 resolutions, I must keep some from last year. If you can't succeed then try, try again!

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wore: Miu Miu dress and pumps, obras de alambre black crystal necklace