My Essentials / Valentina

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Here are Valentina Di Pinto‘s essentials who is a Fashion Editor for Glamour Italy and whose style I just love, and whose humor (yes, it’s my favorite personality trait a person can have) and haircut I secretly dream of stealing.

My Top: my essential is a leather t-shirt from COS. When it’s really cold it is better to wear something under or over it and if it’s hot …it’s better to stay in the shade!

My Bottom: Very, very thin leather pants from H&M, a leather ’50′s skirt by Salvatore Ferragamo and oversized leather pants by Au Jour Le Jour. I’m not kidding– I’m in a leather mood!

My Jeans: Black or grey are the essentials! I usually don’t spend too much money on them because I love to change it up a lot, so jeans from H&M.

My Evening: Transparent, transparent and even more transparent…from Acne to Valentino, whatever the fabric, it has to be soft and chic. Transparency + transparency = covered!

My Intimates: In contrast with the clothes: really colorful with dark clothes and skin tones with prints from American Apparel.

My Coat: My last buys are both bicolor: black and beige. One really grungy style from Hache and one vintage from Kamanta, in double face materials. Really aristocratic.

My Bag: Like almost every season….. a new clutch bag from Marni! But a clutch is usually not enough for everyday life, so a really cool bucket bag is the right answer. From Marni too.

My Shoes: Flat or really high, nothing in the middle! The essential this season is a chain on them. Like the shinning ones from Stella McCartney or the black & white one from Etro.

My Accessories: I’m becoming addict for necklaces; I’ve never worn them before! Lizzie Fortunato and Leda Otto are essentials for me.

My Watch: It’s one of my favorite pieces, always. My essential is a vintage one from Vacheron Constantin that my grandfather gave to my father and my father gave to me.

My Glasses: RetroSUPERfuture, they are my must! I love to wear the men’s version, they’re bigger on my face!

My Scent: Like a lot of things in my style: sunglasses, jacket, and watch; my perfume also comes from a male world. For ten years, Intense by Costume National is my second skin.

My Brunette: My hair chooses for me. They have a different life, really far away from me. They wake up when they want and they don’t care about what I like.

My Lip: Coral color it’s my must, especially one from YSL.

My Skin: Good cream, like Kiehl’s oil-free lotion, and not too much make up. Sometimes it’s not enough, but a nice smile balances everything.

My Inspiration: Any woman with a story can be an inspiration. Peggy Moffitt, Monica Vitti, Lauren Bacall, Mia Farrow, Julianne Moore and more.

Unpublished / Yasmin

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It’s winter break!!! And for the break, I’ve put together a little selection of photos I’ve never publishedYou’ll get to see some pretty cool stuff I found. It’s never too late for a good photo!!!

Today is my dear friend Yasmin, with her awesome sunglasses and her beanie and this was well before she…

was pregnant!!!

Since, Yasmin has become a mama. She just had her first Christmas with her baby and I’m so happy for her…

Here are all my photos of Yasmin. Merry Christmas, Yasmin ;-)

Unpublished / Camille

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I hope you had a good Christmas and that you gave and received tons of gifts!

 I’ve put together a little selection of photos I’ve never publishedYou’ll get to see some pretty cool stuff I found. It’s never too late for a good photo!!!

Here’s a photo of Camille Miceli and I might as well just come out and say it: I’m in love with her style. The mix of colors, materials, jewelry that’s just downright insane, she’s totally comfortable with nudity, her creativity, her sense of humor… All of it just gives her the most exceptional personality. And it’s super intimidating for me… That just means that you have no idea how many photo opportunities I’ve missed with her!!!

Since then, we’ve gotten to know each other a little. I’m still pretty darn fascinated by her taste and I’m a little less of a catastrophe when I’m around her…

Here’s a few more shots I took of her. Oh la la, it’s really just never enough. Voilà. Camille, you’re on my list for 2012!

All the Pretty Photographers

This past fashion season I noticed how photography has become THE art of choice for all the prettiest young women of fashion.  (And of course I think Garance is the epitome of this movement.)

 

I won’t try to explain why this is happening, but this week all the 8 PM posts will document this trend.

Tine à la Rotonde du Printemps Haussmann

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The last hour of the last day of fashion week, the fantastic Maria Luisa – a woman I just love and need to talk about again soon on here – put together a luncheon in honor of Alexander Wang. It was absolutely amazing.

I swear, I was so tired I didn’t even have the strength to lift my camera. I was just so content to listen to Maria Luisa, Virgine Mouzat and Alexander Wang talk about the shows and have a good laugh with my friends Gaia and Tine while enjoying a few bites of truffled risotto.

The only thing I couldn’t help but getting a shot of is Tine’s outfit which just matched the private room at the Rotonde at Printemps Haussmann so perfectly it seemed like she did it on purpose.

Next time you’re in Paris, don’t forget to take a peek in the big department stores. They really are architectural treasures. How about I promise you that next time, I’ll put together a little photo tour for you? Big hugs!

Translation : Tim Sullivan

Natalia

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I really like Natalia’s “beauty” style. She’s always extra cute without looking overdone – she changes her hair and make up style often, but still looks really herself. Click on the arrows to see what I mean…

Oh, also, she is such a happy person. A real ray of sunshine !

I am the kind to have the same hair and make up everyday (I was telling you about my daily bun yesterday)… What about you?

Fashion Week Diary

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Fashion Week Diary because even though Milan is already behind us, I still haven’t really told you much more than “I love these shoes! I love this show! I love this girl!” And really, I’m a much deeper more profound girl than that (“I love yoga!!!”)

So today, special just for you….. *drum roll please…*

 

The Big Questions I’m Asking Myself During Fashion Week

Big Question Number One :

Where are our favorite models from years past? 

Did you see the shows? C’mon! Where was Freja? And where was Sasha? And Constance? We all saw the fantastic Karlie Kloss do a few turns on the runway but outside of that, only cute little newbies.

So here’s the question : Are they saving them for Paris? Are they getting exclusive contracts? Are they now too big to do all the shows? Are they over and done for and fallen into the dark hole of fashion’s long forgotten?

Already Calvin Klein stole the beautiful Lara Stone to walk his and only his runways.

(Personal message for Lara : Lara, I miss your sexy truck driver walk)

So this is me saying right here and now, give me back my Freja.

Big Question Number Two : 

What’s going on with cheekbones? 

It was 10 or so years ago, okay, probably more but that doesn’t matter, that someone decided that the thing that every woman had to dream of having would be a luscious mouth. (and you have to say it with a sexy accent, like Laetitia Casta : luhseeeuhhzzzz)

No problem, some people thought, we’ll just pump ‘em up!!! Done!

10 years of giant smackers later, the same person decided that the new thing we had to dream of having would be high cheek bones.

As soon as that took, some people said (probably the same people, indeed) : We’ll just pump ‘em up!!!

It’s a pretty scary little circus show to watch those addicted to plastic surgery.

So this is me saying right here and now, please stop.

Big Question Number Threeeeee!

Who is going to win the designer race?

Marc is going to Dior, Phoebe to Vuitton, Raf to YSL, nothing is fully confirmed and is all very vague and every day some new piece of huge news comes falling down upon us. “coming from sources very, very, very, very close to the designer…” but nothing ever happens.

Who, whoooooo, whoooooo is going where??? Please, I beeeeeeegggggg you, just tellllllll me or I’m going to have a heart attaaaaaaaack!!!  Ohmagadohmagad!

Ok, I’m kidding.

And for now… Big Question Number Foooour!!!

What will the Kanye West Collection Look Like? 

Wait, there we have it!!! Kanye is actually going to win the designer race!

Yes, no, yes really, of course you heard me right. Kanye is launching his own women’s collection during Fashion Week Paris and we’re invited because we’re so buddy buddy with the staaaaaars (say it like Laetitia Casta, with the stahrrrrrrrs)

So there you have it all you haters who think that Kanye West goes to all the fashion shows for some shameless self promotion : nope, wrong again —-> He’s doing industrial espionage!!!!

The show is at 9:30pm,  which is when I’m usually fast asleep, but I’m still going. Because if it’s anything near what Victoria Beckham’s The Row was like, then I won’t make any fun beforehand. Kanye West the fashion show, I’m sure it’ll be great.

And finally Big Question number fiiiiiveeee

The mosquito that is currently fighting hard for dear life on my leg, won’t he just go ahead and die a terribly painful death, like, I dunno, under the 25 pounds of US Vogue that I’m about to drop on his head? 

That’s the last Big Question of the day and I have even fewer answers than for the others. Unfortunately, for my leg, if we run into each other and I’ve got red spots all over my leg, please please please, just don’t ask me any questions.

Aaaah, actually, come to think of it, I still have a whole bunch of Big Questions!!! Okay. Give me your answers to these ones and I’ll keep them coming as soon as I have this mosquito situation figured out.

Big hugs!

Translation : Tim Sullivan