dimanche, février 13

Une icône de la mode: An Ode to Emanuelle Alt











Emanuelle Alt, newly-appointed Editor of Vogue Paris, I salute you.

 I have been searching for you for a long time.You are the epitome of Parisian cool. You are sexy, but not obviously; androgynous but still feminine. Your look is never dull, despite the dark colour palette and clear favourite wardrobe staples, like your perfect leather jacket. You understand the importance of incredible shoes in an otherwise simple outfit. You are going to lead the most daring and forward thinking magazine in popular circulation. You are a forty three year old mother yet you look twenty five.

 You are my hero.


1.Black plastic flip flops, they're easy, practical, chic and sexy.
2. Black Wolford tights (because of the magnificent campaign by Newton)
3. Black Helmut Lang trousers, because they are timeless, low-waisted, loose fitting but not baggy.
4. I don't wear them but, from time to time a black Anne Demeulemester skirt, perfectly cut, worn barefoot with perfectly tanned legs.
5. A black Costume National coat, closely fitted, modern style.
6. A Glossies by Gossard bra, incredible, in black or nude, seamless like tights.
7. A black APC t-shirt, short sleeved, because its small, it looks like it's from the 1970s, and it ages well.
8. Black Armani sunglasses, like Bono from U2

9. An 'Air King' Rolex watch, because they don't make a better one.
10. A long black Galliano dress, chic without being old-fashioned, sexy, pure, with Manolo Blahnick heels.







samedi, février 12

russian revolution



Vintage fur hat, Ecote jacket, Topshop belt, Topshop leather shorts, Sam Edelman boots


This hat makes me feel like some kind of revolutionary Russian soldier. To maintain this illusion I will drink vodka and eat black cherries and smoke Sobraines and intimidate everyone with an ice-cold stare.

...or I'll just go to the supermarket and get some odd looks.


"And although she felt sure that his love for her was waning, there was nothing she could do, she could not in any way alter her relations to him. Just as before, only by love and by charm could she keep him. And so, just as before, only by occupation in the day, by morphine at night, could she stifle the fearful thought of what would happen if he ceased to love her."
                                                      
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Le Debut.



"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. 

Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle The world you desired can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible.

It is yours."

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged