terça-feira, 5 de Janeiro de 2010

Merteuil Dixit

When I came out into society I was fifteen. I already knew then that the role I was condemned to, namely to keep quiet and do what I was told, gave me the perfect opportunity to listen and observe. Not to what people told me, which naturally was of no interest to me, but to whatever it was they were trying to hide. I practiced detachment. I learned how to look cheerful while under the table I stuck a fork onto the back of my hand. I became a virtuoso of deceit. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think, and novelists to see what I could get away with, and in the end it all came down to one wonderfully simple principle:
that happiness and vanity are incompatible.

Accessorizing

segunda-feira, 4 de Janeiro de 2010

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Closetting

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Life in Detail

If you still have thank you cards to write for all the Christmas presents you received, then I suggest that you order these stunningly beautiful notecards featuring the artwork of Jeremiah Goodman.
Available here!

Don't Cha Wanna Ride

Accessorizing

domingo, 3 de Janeiro de 2010

Strike a Pose

quinta-feira, 31 de Dezembro de 2009

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Kate and Laura Mulleavy started Rodarte in 2005, and since hasn’t taken a step in the wrong direction, all leading towards their 2009 CFDA Womenswear Designer of the Year award. Alongside a number of other high profile fashion brands, such as Alexander Wang, Rodarte have made the move into menswear, I'm pretty sure this is going to be just as successful for the sisters. A mixture of knit fabrics culminating in a light weight knit, but a heavy weight price tag take centre stage in this debut collection available at Opening Ceremony.

terça-feira, 29 de Dezembro de 2009

Must-Have

domingo, 27 de Dezembro de 2009

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Martin Margiela designed the Suite Ile aux Oiseaux at the Les Sources de Caudalie near Bordeaux.
The hotel and spa, opened 10 years ago in the Smith Haut-Lafitte château by the winemaking family and its entrepreneurial offspring (who knew that grape seeds were the fountain of youth?), tapped Maison Martin Margiela to design its signature suite, which re-opened last week. The freestanding cabana, perched on a pond, is now a world apart from the French country charm of the rooms in the château.
For 650 euros a night and up (a special package includes “a gift signed by Maison Martin Margiela” — perhaps one of the Maison’s new wine-bottle lamps?), guests can retreat to the avant-garde chambre between spa treatments and bottles of premier cru at the hotel’s La Grand’Vigne restaurant. (In keeping with the spa theme, the restaurant offers a calorie-conscious menu amid the foie gras.)
The suite’s décor is classic Margiela, with its white-on-white-on-gray palette and trompe l’oeil playfulness: overlapping white calfskin rugs cover the bedroom floor, 12 white pillows are stitched to a white wall to form a headboard. The wallpaper in the sitting room is printed to look like the ghostly walls of a Haussmanian apartment, while the bathroom floor “tiles” are photo-printed pebbles. The only shock of color among the slip-covered 1950s chairs and mirrored cubes comes from a red hot-lips sofa. The effect is as calming as it is subtly disarming. The only question is: will room service bring you red wine?

Les Sources de Caudalie, Chemin de Smith Haut-Lafitte, Bordeaux-Martillac; 011-33-5-57-83-83-83.

Get the Bag

quinta-feira, 24 de Dezembro de 2009

Lagerfeld Dixit

I'm never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that's the secret to doing things well.

Accessorizing

quarta-feira, 23 de Dezembro de 2009

Coming Soon

terça-feira, 22 de Dezembro de 2009

La Vie en Pose

O Escarrador Deseja

segunda-feira, 21 de Dezembro de 2009

Why Don't You

Ladies With An Attitude

Resistance is Futile

The Peak of Chic

quinta-feira, 17 de Dezembro de 2009

Escarrinho de Génio

A calúnia e a injúria são armas da ignorância.

George Sand

Joie de Vivre

Accessorizing

Sabia que...

O Governo aprovou hoje a proposta de lei que permitirá o casamento entre pessoas do mesmo sexo. A iniciativa define que as alterações no regime de acesso ao casamento não se repercutem no que concerne à adopção. Por isso, o diploma vai dispor de uma “disposição legal expressa” para proibir a adopção aos novos casais.

The Trip Chanel Only Made In Her Dreams



quarta-feira, 16 de Dezembro de 2009

Escarro de Génio

O orgulho é a consciência (certa ou errada) do nosso próprio mérito, a vaidade, a consciência (certa ou errada) da evidência do nosso próprio mérito para os outros. Um homem pode ser orgulhoso sem ser vaidoso, pode ser ambas as coisas, vaidoso e orgulhoso, pode ser — pois tal é a natureza humana — vaidoso sem ser orgulhoso. É difícil à primeira vista compreender como podemos ter consciência da evidência do nosso mérito para os outros, sem a consciência do nosso próprio mérito. Se a natureza humana fosse racional, não haveria explicação alguma. Contudo, o homem vive a princípio uma vida exterior, e mais tarde uma interior; a noção de efeito precede, na evolução da mente, a noção de causa interior desse mesmo efeito. O homem prefere ser exaltado por aquilo que não é, a ser tido em menor conta por aquilo que é. É a vaidade em acção.

Fernando Pessoa, in "Da Literatura Européia"

Portraying Maybach

Happy Together

terça-feira, 15 de Dezembro de 2009

A Very Stylish Boy

The Casino Trunk

The Louis Vuitton trunk has always been a special and somewhat timeless item and even today, the French heritage brand manages to revamp it in new ways. The latest one to come out is the Casino Trunk. The name says it all – for you next casino evening or poker round with friends, all you need is the LV casino trunk, which comes with all the equipment needed for the various games. The trunk was produced in celebration of the brand’s latest Macao flagship store, along with some other items.

A Very Stylish Girl

Masquerade

segunda-feira, 14 de Dezembro de 2009

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Parisian “parfumeur” Diptyque invited artists Kuntzel & Deygas, famous for colette’s Caperino & Peperone mascots, for a collaboration. The designers worked with a fictional universe of two glamorous characters called “Beauty and The Beast” over a set of limited edition candles.

Scala Regia

sábado, 12 de Dezembro de 2009

Parton Dixit

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

Why Don't You

Accessorizing

Escarro de Génio

Os resíduos ancestrais formam a camada mais profunda e mais estável do carácter dos indivíduos e dos povos. É pelo seu “eu” ancestral que um inglês, um francês, um chinês, diferem tão profundamente.
Mas a esses remotos atavismos sobrepõem-se elementos suscitados pelo meio social (casta, classe, profissão, etc.), pela educação e ainda por muitas outras influências. Eles imprimem à nossa personalidade uma orientação assaz constante. Será o “eu”, um pouco artificial, assim formado, que exteriorizaremos cada dia.
Entre todos os elementos formadores da personalidade, o mais activo, depois da raça, é o que determina o agrupamento social ao qual pertencemos. Fundidas no mesmo molde pelas idéias, as opiniões e as condutas semelhantes que lhes são impostas, as individualidades de um grupo: militares, magistrados, padres, operários, marinheiros, etc., apresentam numerosos carácteres idênticos.
As suas opiniões e os seus juízos são, em geral, vizinhos, porquanto sendo cada grupo social muito nivelador, a originalidade não é tolerada nele. Aquele que se quer diferenciar do seu grupo tem-no inteiramente por inimigo.
Essa tirania dos grupos sociais, na qual insistiremos, não é inútil. Se os homens não tivessem por guia as opiniões e a maneira de proceder daqueles que os cercam, onde achariam a direcção mental necessária à maior parte? Graças ao grupo que os enquadra, eles possuem um modo de agir e de reagir quase constante. Graças ainda a ele, naturezas um pouco amorfas são orientadas e sustentadas na vida.
Assim canalizados, os membros de um grupo social qualquer possuem, com uma personalidade momentânea ou durável, porém bem definida, uma força de acção que jamais sonharia qualquer dos indivíduos que a compõem. As grandes matanças da Revolução não foram actos individuais. Os seus autores atuavam em grupos: girondinos, dantonistas, hebertistas, robespierristas, termidorianos, etc. Esses grupos, muito mais do que indivíduos, então se combatiam. Deviam, portanto, empregar nas suas lutas a ferocidade furiosa e o fanatismo estreito, característicos das manifestações colectivas violentas.

Gustave Le Bon, in "As Opiniões e as Crenças"

Guess Who

sexta-feira, 11 de Dezembro de 2009

Joie de Vivre

Cinderella?

Why Don´t You

Accessorizing

quinta-feira, 10 de Dezembro de 2009

My Girl Crush

United Colors of?

BullShit

Guinness Dixit

I think fashion is over. Or if it isn't over, I believe we've reached a saturation point. No wonder there is no authenticity. The future stopped in the '60s. Before that, you had everyone looking forward, and now it's just a tide of people looking back. What I'm really looking toward is the future.

Sabia que...

Colette invites Maison Martin Margiela into their corner space in celebration of the label’s 20th anniversary and the new line 13.
Items include: giant snowballs, Matryoshkas, fabric calendars, bottle lamps, goose or ostrich feather fountain pens, the line 12 jewelry with Damiani, and exclusively for colette, the re-issue of the vintage wool and chiffon scarf from the Artisanal collection of 1999, as well as two unique Swarovski crystallized items; the Maison Martin Margiela book published by Rizzoli and Flammarion, and their famous white cotton bag.
The colette shopping bags have also been revisited by MMM, creating a collector’s item for your December shopping. Runs December 7th – January 2nd, 2010.

segunda-feira, 7 de Dezembro de 2009

Guinness Update

domingo, 6 de Dezembro de 2009

Accessorizing

sábado, 5 de Dezembro de 2009

A Very Stylish Girl

quinta-feira, 3 de Dezembro de 2009

Remembering Cruella



Sabia que...

Actress Glenn Close keeps a museum full of costumes collected from her decades-long movie career - because she's obsessed with her eccentric on-screen characters. The legendary star began her collection after her first movie, 1982 film The World According to Garp. But Close's hoarding ways soon became a habit she's been unable to kick. She says, "I have all my costumes. I have an unbelievable costume collection... They represent some of the most phenomenal feats of design and execution you could ever see. I get very attached to my costumes because you spend a lot of time in the fitting room. For me it's a very important part of creating the character in those fittings, because in film you don't have a lot of rehearsal. By the time you're in your full drag, a lot of that has been collaborated with the make-up artist and hair stylist and the costume designer, so they mean a lot to me.".

Rivers Dixit

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

Get the Bag

Two is a Coincidence, Three is a Trend!

The Peak of Chic

Why Don't You

La Vie en Pose

Iconic

Sabia que...

As Dr. Martens approaches their 50th Anniversary, they continue to push the envelope of design and creativity by enlisting CFDA Award-winning designer Justin Giunta of Subversive Jewelry to create four pairs of one-of-a-kind boots. These creations of wearable art will be featured exclusively during Art Basel Miami at The Mondrian Hotel in Semi-Automatic, the high-end vending machine in the hotel’s lobby which is being curated by Interview magazine during the fair. Four one-of-a-kind pairs are priced starting at $1,400, during Art Basel Miami Beach, December 3 – 6, 2009.

Get the Look

quarta-feira, 2 de Dezembro de 2009

The Peak of Chic

A Very Stylish Girl

Hello There!

Ladies With An Attitude

Talk To Me, Ranjana Khan, Tell Me All About It!

Enough Is Never Enough

Eternal Classics

domingo, 29 de Novembro de 2009

Accessorizing

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Escarreta Actual

Um país sem memória, ou que não cultiva a recordação das coisas, está irremediavelmente condenado.

Baptista-Bastos, in JN

Why Don't You

A Very Stylish Girl

Les Grands Esprits Se Rencontrent

Portrait of a Lady

Strike a Pose

Get the Bags

Socializing

Entretanto em NY

Lagerfeld Dixit

I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.

Les Uns et les Autres

sábado, 28 de Novembro de 2009

Details

Must-Have

Patsy Stone Dixit

These women shop for lunch! Labels are their only sustenance! Their skeleton legs in Manolos have worn trenches down the pavement of Sloane Street. Their arm sinews have just enough muscles left in their arm to lift up a credit card.

quarta-feira, 25 de Novembro de 2009

Take a Look

Get the Book

A Very Stylish Boy

La Vie en Pose

terça-feira, 24 de Novembro de 2009

I Die!

A Very Stylish Girl

Accessorizing

Details

More of the Same

Get the Bag

segunda-feira, 23 de Novembro de 2009

Les Grands Esprits Se Recontrent

Party People

It's Bananas!!!

A Very Stylish Boy

domingo, 22 de Novembro de 2009

Joie de Vivre


O Escarrador Recomenda

Take a Look


quinta-feira, 19 de Novembro de 2009

Just Can't Get Enough

quarta-feira, 18 de Novembro de 2009

Sabia que...

Once again Jeremy Scott has collaborated with Longchamp on their Pilage bag, which was first given out to front row seats at his last fashion show in London in September 2009. Now the bag which comes in pink with a bones all-over graphic, has been released at colette.

Strike a Pose

The Peak of Chic


Socializing

Why Don't You

terça-feira, 17 de Novembro de 2009

Woop Woop

Escarreta Actual

Não só não me importo como acho uma honra ser, como se diz, pirateado. Não só pelo facto de eu próprio ser pirata. É porque o mundo mudou.

Miguel Esteves Cardoso, in Público

segunda-feira, 16 de Novembro de 2009

The Simple Life

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Neither Do I

The Peak of Chic

Just Can't Get Enough

Accessorizing

Making Of

domingo, 15 de Novembro de 2009

Coming Soon

Les Grands Esprits Se Rencontrent

Escarrinho de Génio

Ambição é apenas vaidade enobrecida.

Jerome Klapka Jerome

sábado, 14 de Novembro de 2009

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Over 70 influential and celebrated fashion designers and personalities were asked to showcase - My Favourite Dress.
The texts include commentary on the emotional attachment that various people have with their favourite dress. The idea is to highlight the intimacy between the designer and the wearer of their garments. Some of the designers featured in the book are: Alexander McQueen, Barbara Hulanicki, Bernhard Willhelm, Calvin Klein, Christian Lacroix, Dolce & Gabbana, Dries Van Noten, Eley Kishimoto, Giles Deacon, Giorgio Armani, Isabel Toledo, Issey Miyake, John Galliano, Albert Ebaz, Marc Jacobs, Mary Quant, Naoki Takizawa, Paul Smith, Rick Owens, yours truly and the list goes on.

My Favourite Dress - Hardcover (Dec 16, 2009) available now for pre-order on amazon.com

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Estreou no passado dia 12, no encerramento do 66º Festival de Veneza, o filme “A single Man” de Tom Ford. Exactamente Tom Ford.
No final da exibição, os críticos renderam-se ao "novo talento" do designer.
O filme, cujo guião é baseado num livro de Christopher Isherwood, conta a história de um professor (Colin Firth) na Califórnia dos anos 60 do século passado, que perdeu o namorado (Matthew Goode) num desastre de carro. O luto aliado ao desejo de morrer são contados num dia da sua vida. A deslumbrante Julianne Moore faz também parte do elenco.
Let's look at the trailer:

Accessorizing

I Die!

terça-feira, 10 de Novembro de 2009

Coming Soon

A Very Stylish Girl

segunda-feira, 9 de Novembro de 2009

The Peak of Chic

Escarrinho de Génio

Se nos é impossível permanecermos puros, não tentemos ser artistas.
Katherine Mansfield

Why Don´t You

Happy 60th Birthday!

Accessorizing

Socializing

Escarreta Actual

O sucesso é para os políticos. Os escritores vivem sempre na medida exacta do seu fracasso, que, romance após romance, se torna mais notório: cada vez é mais difícil, cada vez é mais pessoal. O sucesso completo significaria que era inútil escrever mais livros.

João Tordo, in Jornal i

Raise the Guinness

The Peak of Chic

Escarro de Génio

A arte de viver - dado que para viver é preciso fazer sofrer os outros (ver vida sexual, ver comércio, ver qualquer actividade) - consiste em habituarmo-nos a fazer todas as patifarias sem abalar o nosso equilíbrio interior. Ser capaz de todas as patifarias é a melhor bagagem que um homem pode possuir.

Cesare Pavese, in "O Ofício de Viver"

Strike a Pose

domingo, 8 de Novembro de 2009

Lagerfeld Dixit

If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.

Back in 1978

Escarrinho de Génio

A amizade e a gratidão nada podem contra a ambição.

Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette

sexta-feira, 6 de Novembro de 2009

Why Don´t You

Late Halloween

domingo, 1 de Novembro de 2009

The Peak of Chic

A Very Stylish Girl

quarta-feira, 28 de Outubro de 2009

Back in 1962

terça-feira, 27 de Outubro de 2009

Scala Regia

segunda-feira, 26 de Outubro de 2009

A Family Portrait

sexta-feira, 23 de Outubro de 2009

Pinning Up

quinta-feira, 22 de Outubro de 2009

Why Don't You

Masquerade?

segunda-feira, 19 de Outubro de 2009

Let Them Eat Cake

sábado, 17 de Outubro de 2009

Coming Soon

A Living Work of Art

Why Don´t You

A Menina Dança?

Get the Bag

A Very Stylish Girl

quinta-feira, 15 de Outubro de 2009

Strike a Pose

Wintour Dixit

Fashion means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Vogue is there to report on the fashion industry. Fur is part of fashion and we will continue to report on it as long as that is the case.

Sabia que...

California Dreaming

quarta-feira, 14 de Outubro de 2009

Mistress Guinness

Strike a Pose

Accessorizing

Toile de Joie

Entretanto em Paris

domingo, 11 de Outubro de 2009

Why Don´t You

Motta goes Casati

quinta-feira, 8 de Outubro de 2009

Strike a Pose

Beige

domingo, 4 de Outubro de 2009

Just Can't Get Enough

Leon Talley Dixit

There is a famine of beauty, my eyes are starved of beauty.

Get the Look

sexta-feira, 2 de Outubro de 2009

A Very Stylish Boy

UHU Gareth Pugh

Ghesquière Dixit

Luxury (today) doesn’t mean anything, except in the quality of execution.

Les Uns et les Autres

Long Time No See

quinta-feira, 1 de Outubro de 2009

Les Grands Esprits Se Rencontrent

Sugestão Cultural

Behind the Scenes of Mnemosyne


Mnemosyne Interview with Daphne from Starworks Digital on Vimeo.

Let Them Eat Cake

O Escarrador Recomenda

Masquerade

Chapéus Há Muitos

Socializing?

Grey is Okay

Lagerfeld Dixit

Fashion's life is short. It's six months, six months, six months. It's not something you do for a great future.

quarta-feira, 30 de Setembro de 2009

Accessorizing

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Must-Haves

Sabia que...

The Royal Academy of Arts presents a major solo exhibition of the work of the internationally acclaimed artist
Anish Kapoor, winner of the 1991 Turner Prize and one of the most influential and pioneering sculptors of his generation.The exhibition surveys Kapoor’s career to date showcasing a number of new and previously unseen works, including a select group of Kapoor’s early pigment sculptures, beguiling mirror-polished stainless-steel sculptures and cement sculptures on display for the first time. The exhibition also includes highlights such as the monumental work Svayambh, the title of which comes from a Sanskrit word meaning ‘self-generated’. Emblematic of Kapoor’s interest in works of sculpture that actively participate in their own creation, Svayambh moves slowly through the galleries across the entire breadth of Burlington House. Another major exhibit is Shooting into the Corner, a work of extraordinary complexity and drama that builds up against the walls and floor of the gallery. Tall tree and the eye, a major new sculpture, is on display in the Annenberg Courtyard. Infinitely repeating and reflecting its surroundings, like much of Kapoor’s work, this object both disorientates and distorts, challenging our traditional notion of form and space...
26 September - 11 December 2009Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London

segunda-feira, 28 de Setembro de 2009

Socializing

domingo, 27 de Setembro de 2009

Guess Who

sexta-feira, 25 de Setembro de 2009

Entretanto em Londres

Accessorizing

sexta-feira, 18 de Setembro de 2009

Chapéus Há Muitos

quinta-feira, 17 de Setembro de 2009

Wintour Dixit

There is always a way to wear fur.
I like to wear it on my back
!

Accessorizing

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We Are Family

quarta-feira, 16 de Setembro de 2009

Lagerfeld Dixit

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

Accessorizing

Go Green

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In recent seasons, digital fashion film has been gaining momentum as an emotionally charged and cost-effective presentation format. But this season is the first time designers have started using film in a way that tightly complements their runway shows and lets them extend their presence across multiple fashion weeks, in different geographic markets.
Yesterday evening, English enfant terrible Gareth Pugh, who has been showing in Paris for the last two seasons, established his first presence at New York Fashion Week by showing not one, but four short films. Created in collaboration with fashion filmmaker Ruth Hogben, the films set the tone and outlined the inspirations for Pugh’s upcoming Spring Summer 2010 collection to be unveiled on the Paris catwalks in early October.
Inspired by the four elements – earth, water, wind and fire – the four films were presented on four sides of a monolithic cube designed by Simon Costin. Accompanied by a soundtrack by Matthew Stone that was at once futuristic and medieval, the cube sat in the darkened loading dock at Milk Studios, before editors including Suzy Menkes and Jefferson Hack, looking like it had landed from somewhere far away, carrying the elemental essence of Mr. Pugh’s forthcoming collection with it.

Entretanto em Versailles (Take 2)

terça-feira, 15 de Setembro de 2009

Lagerfeld Dixit

I love Lily Allen. She looks a lot like Gabrielle Chanel and she is a self-made woman. She is cool, young and extremely witty. Photographing her for this advertising campaign was fantastic fun. She is extremely inspiring and is completely taken with the bags, with her typical English casualness!

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