May 2013
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The MET ball: a Monday bloody Monday affair →
Fashion dame extraordinaire Diana Vreeland was the initiator of the event back in 1972. She was hired as Special Consultant to help jaded and moribund MET resus
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'it's a tragedy': the John Galliano saga in...
It seems there’s no redemption token on sight for John Galliano, the immensely talented designer. [as seen on Vogue.co.uk]
March 2011. the infamous, inhumane, unfortunate “offensive remarks” and he’s out. No excuse, we agree, none should ever express nor bare in their mind for that matter any depleting thoughts and words against any other human being’s beliefs.
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'the most beautiful and rich woman on earth'
It happens in your life like your Bat Mitzvah or your First Communion, sooner or later you cross your path with the Fitzgeralds and it’s never the same.
I was 17 and on my first rebellious stage when I first saw the movie with Robert Redford and subsequently read the book. Although my rebellion manifested in such a demure fashion that [I believe it] mostly remained confined within the...
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The MET ball: a Monday bloody Monday affair →
Fashion dame extraordinaire Diana Vreeland was the initiator of the event back in 1972. She was hired as Special Consultant to help jaded and moribund MET resus
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The MET gala red carpet: veni, vidi, vici
And it’s a wrap. Punk: from Chaos to Couture opened on Monday.
One of the less exhilarating live red carpet with Hilary Rhoda who had the power of making us all miss E! Entertainment.
5 dont’s for a live red carpet interview
1. “Did you have a punk phase?” the model kept asking as a machine to everybody. Thank God she was saved interviewing the Queen of Punk [1]
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April 2013
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a look back at the past: when media were mass, not...
It was the 1926 when society was dichotomized by F. Scott Fitzgerald between who goes to Palm Beach and who goes to the French Riviera. Then 50 years later, the Deauville American Film Festival brought red carpet frenzy to the coasts of Normandie. Hollywood stars and their entourage flew over the ocean to be received with red carpet treatment, by paparazzi and accolades of screaming and...
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cecilia l.j.: Warning Nerdfighters: A Surge of... →
cecilialj:
By the end of the following two days, I should be able to say that I’ve been to most of the historical sites in the great American city called Boston. Am I excited? I guess, beside the fact that my day started at 4:15 in the morning. But I have a feeling that this trip is adding to the world suck…
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de la Renta + Galliano: masters and a truce with...
it was not like ant other collaboration, but more of a symphony in four hands. two geniuses and a truce with the fashion world. John Galliano & Oscar de la Renta for prez and veep?
‘Everyone in life deserves a second chance’. And, with that, Galliano set a under-the-radar foot back again in a less anticipated manner. Hours of community service and rehab might have changed the...
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March 2013
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Happy Easter {via Irving Penn}
our Easter morning
and an Irvin Penn’s image
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The Cypress Room: where eating meets all senses
That sense of walking into a world of its own, somehow reminiscing of Woody’s “Midnight in Paris”. Get ready to fox trot.
The door of The Cypress Room opens into an inviting quaint room with not so many tables but enough to be so closed to each other that you can almost taste your neighbor’s order, very sexy French bistro.
Unexpected feminine touches like crystal...
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5 surprising reasons to adopt the new 'in with the...
THE INSPIRATION. The Cut this week came out with a series of unseen pictures of thespian icons Marilyn Monroe and Liz Taylor (and more) . Vintage, behind the scenes stories, the unpublished, biographies, or just plainly knowing anything that happened but nobody ever knew it did, always intrigue my curiosity. Antique markets in Tuscany and flea markets in Miami stimulate my adrenaline, yes that...
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the Law & Order SVU school of perfecting an open...
”My name is Cecilia and I’m teaching my mom how to type so here I am randomly typing here see mom this is how you type but not really because I sort made up my own way of typing which is half traditional and half my way so its half my way or the highway and also if I write too fast I have auto correct to fix it like the previous problem but I won’t be lazy and...
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party like a movie star #MiamiChic way
how to party like a movie star in Miami Beach … without the bea[t]chy side
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#MiamiChic flat out
yes you can go against every rule that reigns in Miami and be elegant and chic without wearing heels. this is all I could find in just one website.
good thing: they are all under $100 and this was just one website. they are modern, but they are not designer wanna be.
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stepping down the platforms
Paris Fashion Week is heating up and the next few days we will attend the fireworks of this long season.
A blazoned slew of talented designers on their first collections as creative directors for historical fashion houses, the runways have wiped our eyes off with gorgeousness.
Live streams and Instagram give us a pretty good idea of what it looks like sitting on first row.
velvet Mary Janes...
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Paris Couture was a Russian Affair
Is it only me, or I am becoming fairly obsessed with these Russian girls? Ulyana is a Couturier, Miroslava Duma surpasses my ideal iconic standards of fabulousness, www.bureau247.com
History, glamorous embroideries, gilded architecture, aristocracy, furs in all its glory, Paris was under a Russian takeover. It looks like it’s in their genes, like for Italians the morning coffee. And it...
February 2013
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#MFW fall winter 2013: train departing on...
Prada
Miuccia at the highest of her performances? Was there any hint in the man collection of this collection (as we insinuated here). ‘Rich and poor’, contrasts, a lot of Miuccia in the air, ‘raw’ fabrics with unexpected inserts of gilded embroideries and fur . Fashion and cinema, could it be the influence of designing the costumes for Gatsby that rolled out in her...
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cecilia l.j.: The Thing About Love →
cecilialj:
February 14 was Valentine’s Day.
A day that not only is full of love, but other emotions too. You have the anti-Valentiners, who think love is overrated since they don’t have a date that day, the lovey dovey people who are madly in love and can’t possibly think of a problem in the world, and…
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London calling! #FW13
London is screaming magnificently, diligently and royally like the Big Ben.
talent, techniques, intuition, daring, embroideries [read Tom Ford, here], colors, cut outs, proportions, venues, natural chicness, absence of vulgarity or reality show star-lettes …
Tom Ford came back with a bang, enough with those “shush” secret presentations. Mr. Perfection didn’t leave...
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2013 #Grammys: and best dressed it is
Just one winner, easy, one girl and one boy
Florence in custom Givenchy: color of the year, ‘liquid’ sequins and red head. I mean, Audrey Hepburn used to wear custom Givenchy, so chapeau for the perfection
Tom Ford is turning the designer of the tux lately. Justin resides in the collective imagination of half of the female world (the other half doesn’t know him) under the...
do you see a trend here?
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The Parisian school of couture
The city of lights and its pompous being never downplays when it comes to hosting Couture week. Even under a snow blanket, grey skies, clouds and forbidden temperatures to any sensible human being, Paris has the knack for fashion that surpasses itself every season. Choosing the collections to feature is not easy task for anyone as in awe of fashion as we all are, but surprisingly there’s a fil...
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How to wear couture like a pro for street cams
The street style version of Couture. They say rain or shine, this Spring 13 it was all about snow.
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on reshaping and rebranding
2013 is the year of the snake. snakes shed their skin numerous times in their life as a manifestation of a re-birth. by coincidence (first link, here is where my chain of thoughts begun) I started the year with a colossal and regenerating 21-day detox process that procured an internal and inner chock. my body, skin, guts, lymphatic system, organs thanked me and my chakras are so cleansed that I...
