incredibly feminine, elegant and chic
Winter and coats equal classics. Burberry’s Creative Director, Christopher Bailey, called the collection I Heart Classics and he indeed made the usual looking unusual, unexpected and new. point grabbed with a translucent rubber topcoat and a calfskin trench.
(photo courtesy of WWD)
(photo courtesy of WWD)
Some trends: ombre’, animalier, rust, charcoal, olive green.
nothing better than a perfectly shaped eyebrow
When the switch between the holidays and Pitti clicks, it is called the new #[insert the city] F[ashion]W[eek] season. That wanting to be there and having to watch runways vicariously through webcasts or Instagram.
Picture this: watch the new autumn ‘13 runways attended by the most fabulous crowd donning in the best of the best of the fall ‘12 collections sitting at your computer with a constant 80 degrees temperature. The perspective gets surreal.
You see these pictures from the aisles of La Fortezza Da Basso and then you happen to stroll in Lincoln Road and capture middle aged men wearing tight fitted black underwear tees and flared jeans with black squared toe shoes …
Or, you see this grandeur (excuse me, a man with a rust Cosentino coat) and then the dirty truth, such as baggy cargo bermudas and short socks sticking out of sneakers.
That’s when champagne weekends spent devouring every style.com review kick in.
Every time Pantone announces the color of the year, I think of all the rest of the colors in a sort of Hunger Games competition. And then the trilogy galore, Hollywood style. glad that this year it’s a color I can wear, not like the Tangerine Tango that killed me in 2012.
I have never done it before. Repurposing content is an art and what better time than the end of the year to look back.
It’s been one to remember (mon Dieu it had been ages I didn’t feel that replenishing happiness in saying that) for accomplishments, travels and spiritual growth. I adore just about everything that happened in 2012.
Writing: did I really always harbored in my heart that love for writing? Yes I did, I have been blinded by life hustle to the point of digging a tunnel deep down to the earth and hide it as an unspoken treasure.
Accomplishments like writing for Examiner.com and CBS Local, landing a column on Fashionotes thanks to guest-blogging-guru Jon Morrow. Getting the press accreditation for Art Basel Miami Beach
Travels to Madrid to visit friends, to my beloved Florence and vintage scouting.
… and California, Playa del Carmen, Chicago.
Spiritual growth, time for myself, meditation and reflections about the culture I come from. Did I ever mentioned about my dream of retiring in Populonia? ‘cause if I didn’t, there you go.
Motherhood (who said that when kids grow they need you less? idiot!) like Cecilia’s blog.
Cheeky obsession with ‘weddings' to the point that I have had the honor to feature etiquette fairy Eleonora Miucci.
Fashion everything, any #anywhereFW, including Pitti, the first Christian Dior par Raf Simons, Schiaparelli moments and its related impossible fashiousness at the Met Gala (the highest fashion moment of the year)
Tiaras on my mind (almost ready for another tattoo) and London callin’ (just about time to go back)
Here we are welcoming a new year.
Sending you all wishes for it to bring you all you wish for. Simple.
Yours truly
