Rainy Days

   Hate the uncomfortable, cold, wet rainy days?

   There is no need to do so, due to these amazing Raincoats and Rain Boots:


Burberry

 

 Hermès Vintage(left)
 Jil Sanders(right)

Lanvin(left); Moncler(right)

Agnona(left);Nina Ricci(right)

Wanda Nylon

 Yohji Yamamoto














 Which ones are your favourite?

Monday

   " Today is Monday... but nothing lasts forever."


   We all " love" Mondays. I'm not sure if it is because of getting up early or because it will be a full schedule week... or because time passes so fast that we already find ourselves on Saturday night when we feel like it is just Wednesday afternoon.

   Because almost everybody fears Monday, I've heard that there is a " substancial" variety of sayings related to this day, which is believed to influence or to " predict" the whole week; a lot of people try to be positive on Monday morning, some of them try to make something good for someone, a lot of them avoid spending or borrowing money and so on; but a lot of people choose another way to start a new week with energy and cheerfulness: they put on a lovely outfit which generates delight, joy, comfort and joviality.

   These days I have a preference for those outfits that have a very masculine tone, because I strongly believe that they manage to highlight feminity very well. In other words, this contrast between feminine and masculine favors the sweet, delicate side of a person.

   For today, I have found a perfect match between the two mentioned above, with an extraordinary classy tendency. Take a look:

  










   She is Alexandra, a very nice colleague of mine. She is likes Kristen Stewart( whose style is also very much inspired by the classy masculine looks and who is addicted to the wayfarer sunglasses) and the iconic James Dean( whose outfits almost always contained the classy white shirt). Maybe these two influenced a little her style.
   I love the fact that she combined a lot of accessories without creating a strained look: the hat, the wayfarer sunglasses, the bow( which is adoraaaableeeee!!!), the oxford shoes... Her face and hair are very well revealed by this combination.

   Thank you, Alexandra!
   I'm sure you will all love her outfit.

   Have a nice evening and a lovely week!
   See you soon,
   Kisses, A.

Another Famous Apartment. Gabrielle Coco Chanel's

   Yesterday, I wrote about 3 famous apartments of some of the 3 most famous feminine characters( Holly Golightly, Blair Waldorf and Carrie Bradshaw). I cannot pass this topic unless I write about another famous apartment " owned" by a woman who lived her reality as a Victorian character: Gabrielle " Coco" Chanel.



   Everybody knows something about her, even if not everyone read her biography( at least everybody interested in Fashion must have seen " Coco avant Chanel"(2009) with Audrey Tautou). She had a tumultuous, controversial life, full of compromise, a life that Coco used to "improvise" when she wanted to fescape the very complicated reality that she had to face so many times. In general, fashion designers are eccentric, complicated, " hard to get". Because she had reinvented herself and took it over again so many times, Gabrielle Chanel has something special that makes her difficult but ambitious personality, what it represents today, after more than 4 decades from her death : Coco's image remained the emblem of the strong woman, a powerful and " avant-gardist" woman, who is not afraid of prejudice, who is willing to fight for what hse wants, who permeates in a man's world by using their weapons: the suit and  and the trousers.


   About her death:
  " As 1971 began, Chanel was 87 years old, tired, and ailing, but nonetheless stuck to her usual routine of preparing the spring catalog. She had gone for a long drive that afternoon and feeling ill, went to bed early where she died on Sunday, January 10, 1971 at the Hotel Ritz where she had resided for more than 30 years. Her grave is located in the Bois-de-Vaux Cemetery, Lausame, Switzerland." - Wikipedia

   About her apartment:
   Coco loved luxury and this can be seen in her beautiful, opulent apartment, about which you can read here The Coveteur review: http://www.thecoveteur.com/coco_apartment

 

   "Chanel and Place Vendôme are very linked. She lived in the Ritz, now there is a Jewelry shop, it’s very Paris, there are many photos of her on the place Vendôme. The big site of the Ritz is also still the Ritz, a part of the place Vendôme." Karl Lagerfeld