She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?

Alexander McQueen Pre-Fall 2012

Miro Vogue cover

Yes, this is a French Vogue cover, and yes, the artist is Joan Miro.

I wonder when Vogue will decide to let Lara Stone keep her clothes on and will actually do a cover like this again.

You can look at a painting for a whole week and then never think about it again. You can also look at a painting for a second and think about it for the rest of your life.” ~~ Joan Miro

Vogue Espana

Natasha Poly is the guest editor of Vogue Espana and I think somebody needs to get this for me asap.

Just because I need hair ideas, and Natasha has the best hair out there.

She also has the best cheekbones, but that's not much I can do to get those. 

Actually, there is. Facial exercise.

FlexEffect.

I actually have the book and DVD. I need to actually start doing the work now.

Cafe Press-- Vogue part 1

This month’s US Vogue has 758 pages, with lots of expensive advertising and lots of interesting articles that will make you younger, better looking and skinnier. They might even add a few points to your IQ. Let’s see.

I had a moment in my life when I wanted to write for Vogue magazine… I would have been something like Lauren Santo Domingo (the girl that never washes her hair by herself), but it wasn’t in the cards for me. My one of a kind article was rejected by the almighty Anna Wintour, my dreams were crashed and that was that.

So, today I decided to be a Vogue writer anyway, for their September issue.

The most important issue of the year, the articles would be nothing but… brilliant.

Let’s see what we find.

As some of you know, English is not my first language so I might be missing some language nuances here, but here we go.

First page, Ralph Lauren Romance Perfume Ad. Great, means they paid the most money for advertising. And I don’t think I will be buying the perfume, they could have put a sample in instead of just pics.

Prada- The girls are wearing some helmets and look like they are on xanax

Photo credit-- Steven Meisel

Dior Ad- Marion Cottilard wearing a Dior bag and a jacket that looks Chanel-y to me. Pour quoi faire ca, Marion?

Ralph Lauren again- a really ugly ad, too much red and green. Why? I understand that they are complementary colors, but still you could have done better. I could have made a better campaign for less than 1000$, model included.

Modern Mercury for Estee Lauder- Seriously, is this the best makeup you can do, Estee Lauder MUA? And I supposed you charged about $10,000 for the shoot.

Photo credit-- Estee Lauder

Gucci- Sleepwalking Zombies, my opinion at least.

Photo Credit-- Gucci

Lancome new Serum—“Discover why one out of two women would postpone a cosmetic procedure.”

Oh no!  

Fendi—Is she really painting in that ad? She is way too clean to be painting.

Great makeup, the Estee Lauder people should give Fendi people a call.

Photo Credit-- Fendi

To be continued... we are going to get into the articles next.

Vogue Italia

Steven Meisel shot these three plus-size beauties for the cover of Vogue Italia.

This cover generated lot of buzz here in US, so here it is.

Can't wait to see Vogue US doing this, but I don't think this will happen.

I like the cover, and they look very Sofia Loren-esque, but still, I don't know if they needed to be surrounded by pasta on the cover. Seriously, we get the point.

"We help [plus-size women] dress fashionably. We say:It's pointless for you to buy leggings, take this because this will look good on you. We help them choose. We don't talk about diets because they don't want to be on a diet, but it's not a ghetto. Why should these women slim down? Many of the women who have a few extra kilos are especially beautiful and also more feminine."~ Editor in Chief Franca Sozzani to WWD.

Blanca

Picture from Stockholm Streetstyle

This picture has been everywhere this week. New York Times--check. LA Times-- check.

So I thought it's kind of a big thing and I dcided to post it myself.

I guess the ruffles are back, take them out of your closet and wear them like this girl.

Hers is Viktor & Rolf, in case you want to go shopping in your part of the world.

Jill Sander Summer

Jill Sander Summer Campaign

How does it feel to book a major campaign as Jill Sander and then have your head totally cropped out, dear Daria Strokous?

News in the World of Shoes

Getty Images

Anja Rubik is looking pretty skinny these days.

As we all know, she is the face of Giuseppe Zanotti ( lucky girl) and... that's all, I really don't know much else about her except that she is Polish( and I like that too.)

I didn't post any Cannes pictures because I am sure you've seen the dresses on about every fashion website and you have your own opinions by now. Like, Angelina should have worn another color or Eva Herzigova wore shorts about giving birth last month. What I just told you are also known as entertainment news.

The Emilio Pucci blue ostrich dress is really pretty.

 I posted the picture mostly for the shoes.

A collaboration between Giuseppe Zanotti and Chopard, the pink satin heels boasted 22 carats of diamonds, 199 carats of pink sapphires and 134 carats of rubellites all strung on rose gold chains. And were sold for about $200,000 at auction. Now, this is what I am calling expensive shoes.

Not that I want them.

I would rather have the ostrich dress. I will find some shoes at Target to match. 

Capstone Couture

Why, as soon as I buy something, I see somebody else wearing the same thing? I mean, the places to shop in Malibu are Planet Blue, Madison and Intermix, I don't even bother mentioning Maxfield, as we are not in the best terms anymore. But, a unique top or dress is not so unique anymore if you see it on three other people.
Well, one of a kind apparel is not just for Penelope Cruz and Charlize Theron anymore. Because that's what Diana Orr from Capstone Couture does, unique couture garments created with a story in mind. Beautiful dresses that will make you look like the princess you are meant to be.

I am so buying this for the next Viennese Ball I am attending.

Here is a little love from Elle Magazine, that loves Roseark and Capstone Couture.

You can find beautiful Capstone Couture pieces at Roseark in Santa Monica and West Hollywood and on the Capstone Couture website.

Great find.

I can't wait to do a photoshoot with the golden tank top that Diana gave me... oh wait, she gave it to Lindsay Lohan too. Fine, I can share. ( just this one time)

Louis Vuitton Fall Campaign

Steven Meisel for Louis Vuitton, Fall 2011

I know those puppies are supposed to look cute, but they look pretty mean+scary to me.

Why couldn't Louis Vuitton use Diego for this campaign? Things could have been so much better for Louis Vuitton, I'm telling you.

Me and Diego.

Maybe they want to hire him for Winter 2012?!

Steven Meisel, I will give you his info, his mom is a model too.

Givenchy Time.

 Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face.

Costumes by Hubert de Givenchy

~Sunday afternoon movie~

Givenchy  by Riccardo Tisci

I think Hubert would approve.

"I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles." ~Audrey Hepburn

YSL thoughts.

Le Smoking

Helmut Newton~1975

Kate Moss YSL Beauty

YSL Palais suede pumps

Image from Tommy Ton, at style.com

Everything Yves Saint Laurent.

I know those mohawk shoes got your attention, so here they are again.

Goat Hair Fringed Trim. I wonder if it's a Mountain Goat or just a regular goat.

I also have questions about the life of the goat.

You can purchase them on sale from $935 to $654.50( what a surprise! surprise!), on net-a-porter, aka the site I never order from. As I would prefer to see this (possible)Mountain Goat shoes in person. And pet them.

Iris Apfel~A Rare Bird of Fashion

Iris Apfel by Bruce Weber

Can I be this lady when I am 90?

Assuming that I will have collected enough jewelry by then.

“I think dressing up or down should be a creative experience. Exciting. Fun. Whenever possible, it’s really great to start with a marvelously cut designer piece and build on it. For me the key to personal style lies in accessories. My friends tell me that my oversized glasses and my pairs of bracelets have become my unwritten signature. I have amassed an enormous “collection” of bags, belts, bangles and beads without which I would be lost. One can change the entire look of an outfit by substituting one accessory for another. I love objects from different worlds, different eras, combined my way. Never uptight, achieving – hopefully – a kind of throwaway chic.”

“(My look is) either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.”

Happy Mother's Day!

Dreamy images by Tim Walker.

Happy Mother's Day!

Extensions... and not at UCLA.

Remember when I used to have extensions?

That wasn't such a great idea.

Wearing a Versace dress and somebody else's hair.

Extensions are so passee, so Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

If that's your ideal, go get some. 

Coral Story

Welcome to my wardrobe Miss Coral Coralina. She is a linen resort dress, made by the Los Angeles based company Splendid.

Miss Coral Coralina is very happy with her new home. I might even send her in a business trip to Tahiti, with my girlfriend. She could get photographed there also. Some dresses have the best life… until they are abandoned and forgotten. You are a novelty, and then a new dress comes in your wardrobe and Miss Coral Coralina is history.

I guess you have to enjoy it while it lasts, and make the best out of it. So Miss Coral Coralina, the clock is ticking, but you are the flavor of the moment.

Speaking of waiting lists( as you know, well informed reader, I am on the waiting list at the Malibu Missoni store for Havaianas)... 

I can also be on a waiting list to have this Chanel ring for only $88 a month. I mean, to borrow it. It would go well with my dress. But, why in the world would I want to borrow a ring from a website? Let along place myself on a waiting list first. Seriously? Can the person that is currently borrowing this ring please contact me and explain to me the reasons behind her/his decision? 

Thank you.

Agent Provocateur

                                                              

Bottega Veneta or Vogue, learn how to translate! or Just have less.

Bottega Veneta Knot Clutch. I don't have a preference, I'll take whatever.

I like Bottega Veneta's Tomas Maier.  His profile in one of the latest New Yorker issues is extremely well written, he seems like a very straightforward kind of guy.


Listen to what he says about the It bag.


"The It Bag is a totally marketed bullshit crap. You make a bag, you put all the components in it that you think could work, you send it out to a couple of celebrities, you get the paparazzi to shoot just when they walk out of their house. You sell that to the cheap tabloids, and you say in a magazine that there's a waiting list. And you run an ad campaign at the same time. I don't believe that's how you make something that's lasting — that becomes iconic as a design."



How can you not like him... because we all know the truth but nobody says it.


I was reading/researching the last issue of Vogue Collections. At the Bottega Veneta page, we have a quote from Tomas Maier. 


Quote from the magazine:
""I don't like making clothes for real life events." said designer Tomas Maier. "I like real life". And so, for his S/S 2011 collection he focuses on..."


Wait, what??? What does this mean? I reread the sentence and it still doesn't make sense. He seemed pretty articulate in The New Yorker. He couldn't have possibly said that. It makes no sense.


Minutes later, I decide to read the french paragraph. It starts like this:
"Je n'aime pas creer pour le tapis rouge. J'aime la vraie vie."
Ok, even somebody that is not fluent in French would know that "tapis rouge" means "red carpet". That's all you need to know to understand the correct meaning of the sentence that was lost in the English translation. 
"I don't like making clothes for the red carpet. I like real life" is a little bit different from "I don't like making clothes for real life events. I like real life."
I just wonder, such a prestigious magazine as Vogue can't afford a better translator. Are they using google translate too?
I mean, really, do I have to do everybody's work?


The New Yorker profile ends like this.


"He's also anti-materialism: "I'm not somebody who likes to possess. I'm not the person who has six hundred suits. I want to have two suits. Actually, I want to have one suit, and I replace it." He applies that feeling to how people should shop, insisting that Bottega's goods are not beyond the reach of the middle class, which has been trained to want too many things. "Anyone, he said, could afford one $550 hand-painted cashmere scarf,"  "'Just have less,'" he said.""



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