The World C – Pagina 17 – The website of the editor Carolina Ogliaro

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The 54th Milan Design Week has just closed its doors between niche events and presentations of prestige. In an elitist and glamorous climate , took place the cocktail “I AM POP: DESIGNERS 60s, DRESSES AND LAMPS” that consecrated the beginning of an exhibition, lasting 14th to 17th April, in the ASAP showroom in via Pantano 17 .

The main character of this exhibition were furniture and lamps of the 40 ‘, 50′ and 60’ created by famous architects and designers, such as Ignazio Gardella, Luigi Caccia Domignoni and Franco Albini, who were joined an exclusive and luxurious selection of clothes from Sixties from the famous Atelier Vintage Delirium of the collector Franco Jacassi.

The exhibition has been housed in the showroom of ASAP, in a building of 400, where inside there are frescoes, stucco and ceilings that blend with
modern structures built with industrial materials.

In a dense and full of emotion atmosphere, snapshots of rebellion, change and progress have been underlined by the music of Ken Nordine and Rod McKuen, with Dino Buzzanti‘s images and again with the words of poets Alda Merino, Maya Angelou and Muriel Rukeyser . Curator of the selection was the contemporary poet Tania Haberland, aka Van Schalkwyk, skilled in conveying the intense atmosphere of those years, updating it with a pop and post-modern mood.

The collection of vintage clothing instead revived masterfully years of pop art through mini skirts byCourrèges, Paco Rabanne plasticized materials and iconic Pucci prints.

An event with a cool and urban flavor in a context that is able to blend the antique with the metropolitan, the vintage with the futuristic design.

Carolina

Ph.Isabò

23 Apr

Beauty | Lancôme Shine Lover lipstick

“If to kiss you then I had to go to hell, I would. So then I can brag with the devils that I saw heaven without ever entering it. ” William Shakespeare

The secret of the perfect kiss is the overwhelming feeling that binds the two lovers and the lips soft and sensual.

Is well known that a healthy and sinuous complexion gives to each woman more confidence in herself and that’s why Lancôme has developed a new product with bonne mine effect. The studies showed that two most influence characteristics on the harmony of the face are the color and texture of the lips. Lancôme has discovered that to have a glowing complexion you need to bring out the natural color of the lips and just that is the basis of Shine Lover, a moisturizing lipstick with rich and shiny colors, which gives a greedy effect to lips and sublimates precisely the effect “Bonne Mine” of each face.

The colors of Shine Lover are intense and bright like a kiss and go from pop pink to pinky beige through the electric fuchsia and sensual purple. Sparkling and energetic shades that celebrate the Joie de Vivre and the joy of feeling comfortable in your own skin and with any look.

The shades of Shine Lover lipsticks were processed with powders of Mother Pearl with a transparent base, to bring out the intensity of pink and red, giving juicy and tasty lips. The names of the 15 shades recall all facets of the ideal Lancôme woman, who is unique, singular and mischievous. Thanks to the combination of moisturizers and nutrients agents, the balm texture of Shine Lover moisturizes for a long time, plumps and soothes the lips for a long-lasting effect that lasts for several hours. The hyaluronic acid spheres attract water to hydrate intensively for 8 hours while the oil of Rosa Moscata nourishes and soothes.

Each lipstick is enclosed in a pure white and futuristic casket, ultra sleek, with silver radical chic details and lipstick has a delicate scent of rose and violet. A test carried out in France on 62 women revealed that after a month of use, the nude lips are smoother than ever!

Laughter is the best therapies and the smile is the most beautiful accessory that can be worn and for the Shine Lover ADV campaign were chosen two icons of contemporary and spontaneous beauty, Lupita Nyong’o and Lily Collins.

The nuances of Shine Lover are:

340 French Sourire

357 Fuchisa in Paris

354 Inattendue:

120 Ô My Rouge

136 Amuse Bouche

160 Inconventional

212 Twisted Beige

286 Brun de Coquette

314 Spontanée

316 Eclat de Rose

321 BC – Beigé3

23 Effortless Pink

334 Insta-Rose

346 Electrisante

388 Plum Audace
You too are #borntoshine and with Shine Lover you’re ready to have lips intensely hydrated, in harmony with the face, ready to shine with a smile and be kissed.

Carolina

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22 Apr

Look of the day: One

Fashion, Home, My style, Storytelling

They say that in life the same situation is repeated endlessly in an increasing scale so that a lesson can be learned and at the end, after having grasped the profound meaning, you are able to loose the bonds and you can continue going over.

An ancient African parable says that to escape the cage you have to die when you are still alive. We must then cross our limits for them to put them in a corner.

In situations such as in feelings.

Today, while I lingered as usual sipping the last drop of my tea in which resides the essence of it and of the sacred moment, a group of girls confided about their last love in chronological order, exhale at the end of a laconic “Love does not exist” … And I smile thinking about how many surprises will have in their life. An older lady, echoes answering “It’s true, love does not exist and before you understand it better will be.” And my smile disappears, as when you walk happy in a sunny day and a dark wind brings dark clouds heavy with rain.

I have always believed that in life you will meet many people but only one will be One. Usually that One is just the one on which you would not have bet anything, who seems wrong from every point of view. Or when you’ve stopped believing and thinking in One because everything now seem lost and different, in a more disparate and unlikely situation you met the eyes of One and there … there you are cheat. And at the very moment in which you realize that you were cheat, you also understand why it never worked with anyone before.

Souls do not need words, they recognize themselves in the skin. This is a great lesson that we should learn from them … To not listen to the words but to our inner and to the signals it sends. The eyes were given to us to see the material, but to look beyond the conventional logic we have to close them and hear what the soul says.

And yes dear girl, you will meet many people that will go wrong with but simply because they were not the right ones for you, but your symbiotic soul, the One with whom you shared a life path started even before you took this physical shape, is there. Hides among the others because he wants you to recognize him, but he is waiting. Waits for you to open your hand to take his, and every time you close it to slam a fist on a table against the hostile fate that makes you not find true love, One shudders a bit .. . Of fear, that you lose the faith of have him with you. Of fear, of being a faded memory in most remote corner, locked in that drawer that you locked with a key full of rust and sadness.

But you never lose that belief. Will tell you that you’re crazy and with no head, but, in the end, Love is a feeling that has no explanations. Not giving and not receiving.

It’s to be lived. From inside, heart, stomach and chest.

Carolina

Ph.Isabò

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21 Apr

Look of the day: Souls

Fashion, Home, My style, Storytelling

Wandering souls, wandering lost in an unknown dimension of serenity. In a clear sky of crazy feelings only few are those who have decided to spread their wings and make it.

Convenience and fear created with the ego the renunciation to sing.. That subtle and obscure little voice that tells you it will be a failure, that you will not be able, that you might as well give up … Stand up and as loud as you lungs screaming No.

Who has never raced in the wind doesn’t know what means the thrill of being surrounded by an invisible embrace that propels you forward. Who has not followed the heart doesn’t know what means to have a breath of eternity that surrounds you. Who never gave faith to his dreams will never know what it will mean to see them realized.

You can live a life of but, if and renunciation or you can put the helmet and armor and decide to have what you want.

Carolina

Ph.Isabò

20 Apr

C. Loves | GREYMER & MY GREY F/W 2015-2016

GREYMER, Made in Italy luxury brand that produces footwear, handbags and accessories, was founded in 1980 in San Mauro Pascoli by Luciano Alessandri who subsequently pass the leadership to his daughter Perla.

Refined, unique and in the sign of the highest craftsmanship quality, Greymer, thanks to a policy of targeted communication and a great support of the commercial network, in recent years has entered clearly in the national and international market, through its know-how and their stylistic, industrial and organizational skills.

The new collection of shoes and accessories for women GREYMER “Op-Art On Stage” is inspired by the art and the evolution of artistic languages, especially the avant-garde of the early ‘900. Fashion and art merge and mingle among the optical illusionism of “Op Art”, forms deconstructed and geometric abstraction.

The shapes of the shoes are squared and geometric, dynamic but with a purely elegant allure and are characterized by relief prints on innovative materials, surfaces and leather with laminate effect, paint, rubber and multicolor that create movements almost three-dimensional. The unified soles and uppers, embellished with metal inserts, make the collection seductive akin to every personality. The collection is seductive and sophisticated, intense and radical chic.

The collection MY GREY 2015-2016 “Glamour View” is a riot of geometric and square shapes and modular grids that create a new style that recreates the silhouette of shoes and accessories. A collection intensely alternative.

The collection is inspired by the world of sportswear, with shapes and moods more suited to everyday life and with an attitude more fresh, young, versatile and dynamic. Pop and futuristic inspirations are the focus of the Fall / Winter season.

Stand out the use of innovative materials such as PVC, fiberglass and neoprene, mixed with natural fibers and three-dimensional printing, with 3D and décor ton-sur-ton patterns that are molded of high-tech materials and rubber. Continue the interesting developments of the runner, with leather models renewed in the design and typical autumnal colors, warm iridescent, while the uppers are enriched with tassels and technical details. Bright studs blends with leathers, creating nuances, or became proper decor enhancing the tonal, shadowing and materic aspects. The slip-on in the ankle length version has a gritty effect given by addition of zips and metal caps.

The sneakers and the running are presented in the new version “Gym Chic”, “Derby Gym” (accolades and without strings) and “Sporty Beatles”.

GREYMER & MY GREY bring to market collections from the strong appeal of style, practical and innovative without giving up on the glamor of a shoe and sought the good qualities of the purest and only made in Italy.

Carolina

Ph.Isabò

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18 Apr

Beauty | Intertrade Group

The incomparable pleasure of wearing a unique fragrance, precious and of niche. Of using products aimed at a market of connoisseurs who prefer the elite to commercial.

Intertrade Group has become, in 25 years, the most advanced and sophisticated international platform for contemporary perfumery research Founded in 1989 by Celso Fadelli, who was joined in the years by Cristiano Seganfreddo.

The purpose of Intertrade is to create, develop and place on the market the most interesting brands on the international panorama, following every single phase in the making of a brand, from the creation of a fragrance, to naming and packaging, market placement, marketing and communication. An advanced strategy unusual and different, deliberately atypical compared to today’s choices of the mass market. A winning and valid choice that leads Intertrade to not follow fashion and easy positioning, but that leads them to find contemporary artistic expressions outside of each rule imposed by mass.

The operational headquarters of the group are in England, Italy, France, Germany, the US, Russia, Hungary, Spain, Emirates, Australia.

Every group action is inspired by a maverick aspect, like the creation of communications and experiential scenarios at Unscent, a project-event-magazine, and the opening of the Avery concept store, a three- dimensional synthesis of the group’s approach, in London, New Orleans and Modena, to be followed by new openings in Milan, Venice, Florence, Doha and Paris. Avery Perfume Gallery is located in Milan at Excelsior in Galleria del Corso 4 and, also in Milan, in Corso Como 2.

In particular you will find:

– The high-quality and unique toothpaste Couto. The Portuguese doctor Alberto Ferreira Couto, helped by a dentist who was a friend of his, created a toothpaste, with the intention of limiting the widespread cases of gingival recession. Success was guaranteed due to the product’s quality; still today for the elders in Portugal saying “Couto Paste” is synonymous with toothpaste. The small production is still in the hands of the last heir of the Coutos, Alberto Gomes da Silva. In its day, Couto was among the first to move from harsh, grating powders to a smooth paste using a mild glycerine base. With a minty taste, it was pleasant rather than repulsive, and notably effective in preventing problems of the mouth, containing no fluoride or parabens. The retro packaging is still the original one,.

– The Hype Noses is a collection of scented and long-lasting candles created in France by renowned perfume masters. A singular, elegant and sensual light, the collection of The Hype Noses candles evokes all the senses. The end result is the experience of design and fashion combined with innovation and tradition, working to offer a product with an aroma of a primitive and sophisticated fragrance. The elegant vegetable wax made of soya and palm is smooth, dense and creamy. Longevity, quality of the olfactory result, aesthetics and well-being are the main advantages of the wax of The Hype Noses. The wooden wick allows for an even and complete melting of the wax; the flame goes out without any emanation of smoke. The wooden wick of The Hype Noses emits a distinct yet subtle noise of the crackling of a fireplace. Some people would say they are the sound of light. This background noise is both striking and soothing. Overall, the scents are unusual, unique and beautiful to see, as they are housed in hand-blown glass vessels.

– The fragrances of AGONIST, that is a Swedish perfume house founded by the creative couple Christine and Niclas Lydeen. Christine has a background in fashion and studied at Studio Bercot in Paris, where due to her French roots she lived and worked before moving back to Sweden where she met Niclas, an art director and visual artist. Today AGONIST is regarded as one of the most sought-after and unique brands within the international niche market of perfumes. The unique and dramatic artistic expressions from AGONIST are derived from the beauty of Scandinavian nature and culture. With a distinct focus on details, artistic expression and sustainability, AGONIST creates unique unisex fragrances based on natural ingredients in collaboration with renowned perfumers. Each fragrance is artistically expressed in handcrafted Swedish glass flacons in collaboration with the multi-award-winning glass artist Åsa Jungnelius and the internationally renowned glassworks Kosta Boda, situated in the deep forests of Småland, Sweden. AGONIST challenges both the ancient art of perfume making as well as the traditional craft of glassblowing with their unique and artistic vision. The AGONIST fragrance collection comes in both the Sculpture Line and the Spray Line that can be interpreted as the haute couture/prêt-à-porter editions of each fragrance. The passion for artistic craftwork and sophisticated essences makes AGONIST a unique combination of fascinating fragrances that become true sculptural objects and collector pieces.

– The fragrances of Roads, that is an international lifestyle brand that includes not just a line of luxury fragrances, but also a publisher of books on art and design as well as a film and documentary entertainment company. All of this is Roads Luxury Group Ltd. Founded and directed by Danielle Ryan, businesswoman and daughter of the Ryanair proprietor, the group has created Roads’ artisan fragrances in collaboration with the finest master perfumers of the United Kingdom – each eau de parfum takes its inspiration from places, people, memories, emotions, artistic and visual sensations. Each perfume is made with finest ingredients and finest quality raw materials. The fragrances explore new paths of research, leaving the door open to new forms of olfactory poetry.

– The exclusive products of make-up signed by Jane Iredale, that is a range of makeup that has been designed to focus on and care for the skin, using natural mineral ingredients, created in 1994 by its president and founder Jane Iredale. Jane had always thought of makeup as an essential part of a women’s sense of well-being and wanted to make sure it was achievable for each of every woman. From her background in the entertainment world, Jane understood the importance of using high-quality products. Jane’s range of makeup essentials consist of mineral foundation with sunscreen protection, “facial spritz pom mist” and the “bitty brow kit” which all work in harmony together in order to create a flawless look that can be easily achieved. Recommended by plastic surgeons, dermatologists and skin care professionals, Jane Iredale’s makeup range should undoubtedly be present in every woman’s makeup bag. Jane’s success in reaching women of all ages and nationalities is based on the belief that true makeup artistry comes not from trying to make a face conform to the latest fashion trends, but from enhancing the wearer’s natural beauty and, as a result, allowing her personality to shine. The most important cosmetic you can wear is a healthy skin.

The products we use for our beauty and for the wellness of ourselves and our home, must be used to re-create in us a state of serenity and that magical feeling of feeling unique. And Intertrade is able to give us these feelings through its unique, luxury and above all high quality products, because basically nothing is more valuable than feeling good.

Carolina

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17 Apr

Look of the day: Tu sapevi di me

" Tu sapevi di me, segreti nascosti in forzieri sepolti tra le isole della mia anima. Tu sapevi di me, che cadevo in picchiata sfidando chiunque volesse dividerci ." Il Cile "Sapevi di me" Ph. Isabò I was wearing: La Petite Robe di Chiara Boni dress Roberto Della Croce shoes Chiara Bellini bauletto bag Oscar Mamooi for Celebration sunglasses...

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16 Apr

The Luxury Lifestyle | Xie Xie Tea

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The ritual of tea is sacred to me. In my favorite corner of my home I love having some time just for me, sipping my hot tea in my favorite cup … shabby and not trendy, in ceramic, full of emotions and affection. Every time I look at it and moving it in my hands, like a magic ball, brings to mind fond memories that always tears a smile and a thank you. A thanks indeed filled with gratitude for having had the good fortune to live those moments.

Thank you. Xie Xie.

In Chinese, the name XIE XIE means “thank you” in fact, is a commonly used term, but also indicates that same gratitude you feel seeing the most beautiful moments of life, making new experiences in a simple and genuine way. And XIE XIE is also the name of the brand of my favorites and of absolute value oolong tea.

XIE XIE is a refined and charming brand directed by Madame Xie, a soul devoted to the art of tea and looking for the most refined and exclusive product. XIE XIE is a real moment of purity and happiness, among so many imperfect little moments of life. XIE XIE believes that a cup of tea can be the tool to get a moment of real peace, to take time for themselves by taking a break from the rest of the world.

Each flavor is a state of mind and a different situation of the day, that could be read a book, walk aimlessly or indulge in your favorite hobby.

The art of tea is not made of strict rules, it serves to warm when it’s cold in the Winter or to cool off when it’s hot in the Summer. It’s not important why prepare a tea, but count the beautiful moments of life spent over a cup of tea.

XIE XIE is an innovative Oolong tea. It has a packaging that takes the shape of a book, becoming almost a familiar object. As a basis for the combinations is used Oolong of high mountain handpicked. The leaves are dried in their entirety, so as to maintain optimum shape and scent. At a later stage the tea is mixed with other plants carefully selected with the help of European specialists: chamomile, rose, lemon grass and a selection of rare Mediterranean herbs. At this stage of the process, technology is used for local cooking, without added flavors, so that the flavor of the tea integrates perfectly with the European flowers and fruits. The care of this process demonstrates excellence in cooking of Taiwan and Europe, gathered. The East meets West. This meeting creates new tastes that would seem conflicting, but turn out surprisingly harmonious. Each mixture can be enjoyed hot or cold.

My favorite flavor is Oolong with lemongrass and chamomile. The sweetness of chamomile and the freshness of lemongrass, with the delicate fragrance of orange create a perfect balance in taste, sweet and intense. After 3 minutes the mixture releases a strong scent of chamomile and lemongrass with slight fragrance of fruit and Oolong. I put it in its practice bottle in the morning and take it with me, in particular, it is always with me after yoga class and pilates to refresh the spirit and the body.

Other flavors by XIE XIE are Oolong high mountain roasted coal, an Oolong tea with a strong aroma, Oolong with myrtle leaves and ginger, whose taste changes according to the tea is sipped hot or cold, Oolong with mint tea, unique taste, fresh, delicate and even tastier in the Summer, Oolong and rose, sweet and fragrant, red Formosa Oolong, an innovated combination of black tea and Oolong which leads into an adventure in the realm of the senses, delicate Oolong, a tea of the high altitude Taiwanese that when tasted door at the time of collection.

The tea culture has its roots in ancient and elegant China, full of mysteries and mellow atmosphere. XIE XIE tea has the aim of contributing to donate one happy lifestyle to consumers, thanks to the fusion of tradition and innovation, of East and West.

Xie Xie.

Carolina

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15 Apr

The Fashion Interview | Laura Comolli from Purses and I

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Fashion weeks each season crown undisputed queens and kings of street-style. From cosmopolitan New York to urban London, from the stylish Paris and our Milan who law in terms of trends are journalists, bloggers, It-Girl and influencers who give special outfits to the shots of the photographers.

The trends born on the street even before than the catwalks. If an accessory becomes fashionable will be because they, the influencer, believed in it and have transmitted this love to those who observe them.

Recovering from an intense fashion weeks season where she was much sought after by all photographers of street-style and appearing in magazines most renowned in the industry, from Vogue to Elle from Style Arabia to L’Officiel and even Grazia, is Laura Comolli, founder of one of the most appreciated nationally and internationally blog, Purses and I, who today talks about herself to you on the pages of The World C.

laura comolli purses and i

1) Laura Comolli, you are founder of the famous blog Purses and I, how would you describe yourself to those who still do not know you?

I live in Turin but, since some time, Milan is my second home. I have a degree in law and I have a blog about fashion and lifestyle that is the key part of my every day. I love freedom in all its shapes, I would eat only sushi, I daydream watching the sea, I was born under the sign of Cancer in a hot day in the middle of July and I share my life with an egocentric cat named Kiki. In my pictures you will never see me without a smile: I love taking life with positivity. I’m a radiant and resourceful girl: I like surprising myself every day and try to exceed my limits.

2) Ultra-portrayed during recent fashion weeks on all the most prestigious magazines such as Vogue and Style Arabia, how do you see the relationship blogger-fashion industry? Bearing in mind that we are at a turning point, what are for you the essentials for a successful blog?

A relationship that is evolving and growing: Companies are starting to realize more and more the importance of bloggers, relying on them for communication projects in the long or short term. To deserve this trust is important that bloggers know how to be first professional, consistent and highly passionate in their work. These are the keys that will determine success and that will make a difference.

3) Your style is very elegant, never excessive, and this is undoubtedly your strong point that makes you appreciate in Italy and abroad, which are therefore the three garments that for you are real must?

For spring definitely an oversized T-shirt, a pair of white pants and my new Adidas Supercolor.

4) As an expert of the fashion industry, which is the brand on which you would be betting all out this year and why?

Each brand has its own philosophy and its own style, and for that each brand has its own charm. For me it’s very difficult to choose one, but my favorites of the moment are definitely: Chanel, Asos, Adidas.

5) Laura and social networks. What is your relationship with them and what do you think are the strengths and weaknesses?

Social networks are an integral part of my work. I love sharing, a bit less when it becomes exagerate. Despite being a blogger, I’m a very private person and I don’t like sharing too personal moments of my life. Every so often I share some photos with my boyfriend (who my readers like very much), but I always try to make sure that this type of shares are the exception and not the rule.

6) Purses and I is constant source of personal and working satisfactions, which is the one you remember with more pleasure, pride and emotion?

Definitely my collaboration with Glamour of March 2015 as an assistant stylist for the print magazine. An incredible experience that I would never thought to live!

7) Sector employees describe you as a serious and professional persone, with her feet firmly on the ground and with a strong dedication to herwork. What advice would you give to those who then looks now for the first time in the world of fashion?

To be primarily motivated and constant: are the keys to being able to establish yourself in any job.

8) When did you realize that fashion would become an integral part of your life and especially what is fashion for you?

I always had a passion for fashion, passion that has led to the creation of my blog in a moment of my life dedicated to a completely different context. At that time I was in the third year of Law (faculty that I have finished with honors) and I choose to take a road so different and above all so new, it was not easy. For me the choice of this road began at that time and could not have chosen better way and that would make me happier. Yes, because for me fashion is above all this: to do what I love every day and wake up in the morning with the joy of it.

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14 Apr

Look of the day: Alekos

Fashion, Home, My style, Storytelling

They say that walking melt thoughts, especially if you can do in the open air away from the chaos of the city. They say that helps to make things clear, to understand things, to dispel the fog made of doubts and anxieties. They say.

At night, when the rest of the city sleeps, I like to take my blank paper, locked in a bound folder that has become my treasure chest, and carefully choose a pencil. I like to temper it to make it sharp and severe, as only the night thoughts can be. I reversal in my hands, dab the paper and drawing a scrawl of contemporary art on the edge. All that white gives me anguish, the paper must be soiled with words and signs, must exude emotions and feelings. A white sheet involves vacuum and uncertainty, brings cold and aseptic atmosphere. Sometimes a white sheet is the one that says it all with nothing … Translates the pain of not being able to express the suffering with nothing.

My sheets are filled instead. Of words, signs, drawings and me. My sheets, they smell of me. They bring to surface the daytime thoughts, bring out the beauty that I had the good fortune to live, keep afloat the intense feelings I live and especially they are harmful and burn like the passion that burns within my soul. I keep them with care, jealously, shelter them from the eyes of others, protect them … And then, when I think they have become mature enough, I share them. I give them to the people I love as a gift, that they may have a piece of me, or simply because they can understand how grateful I am to have them in my life.

And just as I thumbed through my sheets I find one, smaller than others. It edges slightly yellowed and was originally the back of a cover of an old book. I will admit that I had completely removed its existence. Handwritten, with my own hand, in the dark blanket of night I read aloud, “And maybe I didn’t like your character, or the way you behave, but I loved you with a love stronger than the desire, more blind than jealousy: so much so relentless, so much so hopeless, that now I could not imagine my life without you. You were part as my breath, my hands, my brain, and give up on you had to give up myself, to my dreams that were your dreams, your illusions that were my illusions, to your hopes which were my hopes, to life, and the love existed, it was not a scam, it was rather a disease, and of these disease I could list all the signs, the phenomena. “Oriana Fallaci. Alexandros Panagoulis, Alekos said. A Man.

How many years have passed and I smile thinking that there are things that don’t go and never change. Then I turn to my right and you are there … It’s not you, not me. We are twin prime numbers.

Carolina

Ph. Isabò

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13 Apr

Beauty | [ comfort zone ] Body Week

The outward wellness passes, first of all, through the inner, it’s impossible to feel good outside if you are not good with yourself on there inside. This philosophy is the basis of [comfort zone], Italian beauty brand born in Parma in 1996 and that clearly distinguishes the sector of skincare of Davines Group, founded in 1983 by the family Bollati, where science and passion blend together to create a complete system for skin care, body and soul.

As it was in November for the SPA Longevity Week, an initiative of [comfort zone] which aims to spread the culture of beauty, health and longevity promoted with the approach of Skin Regimen, on Friday I was invited in the authorized [comfort zone] centre of Vercelli Free Soul, Free Soul, in via Vincenzo Viviani +39 18 0161 56498, to try the new body treatment #BodyWeek and to discover the products of the Body Strategist line, to continue to take care of me even at my home just like in a spa.

The project #BodyWeek born with the question “What will you do today to feel in good shape?” Will you grant a healthy diet? Will you have new goals? Will you give birth to a new beauty routine? Or finally will you start to do exercise? My answer was a bit ‘of healthy exercise, at least an hour a day every day dedicated only to me and detox diet.

After answering this simple but profound question, I compile a quick medical history questionnaire with my data, my eating and sports habits, so that you can get at the end a real custom tab on the necessary treatments to my body.

Immersed in complete relaxation atmosphere, including essential oils, candles and soft lighting, in the name of the best aroma and color therapies, begins the real treatment that includes an all over the body massage, with particular interest in the area that I feel “more critical “. My operator is informed immediately if I prefer to be massaged lightly or in a more intense way … At [comfort zone] nothing is left to chance and the attention towards the customer is very special and loving.

The body is treated with Body Strategist creams, oils and gel, that is a complete line of products specifically created to combat and counteract the imperfections of the different types of cellulite, combined with treatments and physical exercises designed to reshape and firm.

From April 13rd to 18th this body treatment will have a special price of only 25 € in the Wellness Centers by [comfort zone] that you can find here and also get a discount of 20 € on scrub, tone and cellulite products.

A cuddle for our mental and physical well-being, a moment for ourselves in the expert hands of [comfort zone] and its treatments specifically designed to ensure a perfect, healthy and serene synergy of body and mind. I remind you that 13 to 18 April a toning firming body treatment will have the particular price of 25 € and you will be have a discount of 20 € on scrub, tone and cellulite products. All you have to do is close your eyes, [comfort zone] thinks about the relax.

Carolina

Ph. Isabò

10 Apr

Look of the day: Luz

“ I read once that the ancient wisemen believed that there was a tiny bone in the body, indestructible, on the end of the backbone. It’s called Luz in Hebrew, and it doesn’t decompose after death or burned in the fire. From there, from that tiny bone, the man will be recreated at the resurrection of the dead. So for a while I made a little game: I was trying to guess what was the luz of people I knew. I mean, what was the last thing it would have remained of them, impossible to destroy, and from which they would be recreated. Obviously I tried to find mine too, but nowhere fulfilled all the conditions. So I stopped looking for him. I declared missing until I saw it in the schoolyard. Immediately that idea has awakened in me and with her the thought arose, crazy and sweet, that maybe my luz is not in me, but in another person. ”

David Grossman ” Be my knife”

Ph. Isabò

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9 Apr

C. Loves | Chiara Bellini

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The days in this month of April are getting longer, giving us a few more hours of sun and warmth and take us to the Summer, like old dear friends.

It’s time of the dreaded change the wardrobe where from the warm and dark coats, they left space to froufrou dresses and colored and light garments. Bossy is the desire of bright and vibrant tones, alive and energetic and it’s perfect treat yourself with few pieces in the wardrobe that have a strong visual impact and emotional on the spirit. So Chiara Bellini, luxury brand of the Italian scene, has created a collection glamorous and attentive to the latest trends, with an eye to practicality.

Brand of the excellence of the Made in Italy, Chiara Bellini, after a first test of sales in the Russian market in 2013, debuted this year with the Spring / Summer collection, that is very accurate and with a so fine taste. The main material is PVC which is used both in footwear that in the accessories.

The shoes of the Spring / Summer 2015 by Chiara Bellini are declined in a multitude of models, from the boot rider to the beatle boots and heavy-duty boots, the flats and the thong sandals. In all the models of shoes, PVC can be combined with other materials such as leather, metal or cork. Combinations of different materials are also found in the trunk bags and in Rock’n’Ball bags.

Special attention has to focus on PVC material often protagonist of thorny issues related to ethics and respect for the environment. Chiara Bellini is careful to these aspects and in fact she uses for her products a PVC that comply with R.E.A.C.H., an integrated system of registration created by the European Union to improve the protection of human health and the environment, which is the registration, evaluation, authorization and restriction of chemicals used and therefore presents no phthalates. The PVC, among other things, is a material from the many advantages, including the maximum water resistance and it is not a driver of electricity.

Shoes and accessories by Chiara Bellini welcome within itself all styles, from rock and strong mood to more charming and elegant without forgetting the ones who love classic.

A young and luxury brand, enterprising but trendy, created by a woman for women that releases energy and vitamin components through shoes and accessories destined to become iconic.

Carolina

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8 Apr

Books | “Reykjavík Café” by Sólveig Jónsdóttir, Sonzogno

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When I’m in my Paris, there is nothing more that I love that immerse myself in the façon de vivre typical of the French capital.

Get up early and enjoy a wonderful breakfast at a bistrot, sitting at the tables outside, sipping a café au lait with a basket of viennoiserie resting on the table with my favorite book of the moment. A tradition that has its roots in an indefinite time, was born in an age not very precise, perhaps even when my body was not this but my soul was wrapped in a delicious different body.

Surrounded by lovers of Le Figaro, Le Monde, Le Parisien and Les Echos, I love to bask rays of a shy sun on my face with only the company of my book while I linger between a hot sip and a bite to a delicious croissant. I flip through the pages with the fingers remained safe from my gourmandise, put on more and more my glasses and let myself slip between the main characters, immersing myself in the words and history, walk in the shoes of the protagonist, sharing their actions or admonishing them peremptorily.

This is what happened with “Reykjavik Café” by Sólveig Jónsdóttir, published by Sonzogno. A female book, ironic, funny, witty and brilliant that makes strongly reflect. A real boost of energy from the glacial Iceland.

The first things that struck me about this little literary jewel has been the homeland of the writer and the cover. They say there that we never judge a book by its cover but in this case, when I could just have it in my hands, I quickly realized that would be special, fearless and unforgettable. I have always been curious about the distant Iceland, nation shrouded in an aura of mystery and especially magic, with their fairy language and their names that sounds so funny.

In Reykjavik Café four women, Hervör, Karen, Silja and Mía, are the protagonists of sentimental situations unsatisfactory and very confusing, that are told alternating between chapters. The four women don’t know each other and don’t seem, apparently, have much in common.

Hervör is an adventurer who dreams of traveling around the world but who wastes her time in an without future relationship with a university professor. She’s a waitress at “Reykjavik Café”. Mía instead works in a clothes shop for plus sizes. After years of living together, her boyfriend Daniél confesses that he loves another woman. The woman in question is not very handsome and charming and Mía plunges into despair, bringing her to lose her jobs and to be submerged in debt. Silja is a prestigious doctor who, returning home after the night shift, found her husband Baldur in bed with another women. The episode is not sporadic and, after 10 years of marriage, she has never been able to really forgive him and trust him. The fragile Karen after suffering a bereavement, dedicate herself to alcohol and transgressive nights in clubs. The following morning she wakes up always in a different bed with a hangover from the night before. Karen lives with her grandparents and her night life is particularly heavy.

To join this group of drifting souls is the obliged break at Reykjavik Café where, in the dark and cold Icelandic January, they go in search of a little physical and emotional heat and where there their different stories, but so similar, end up to meet and merge. A place, the Reykjavik Café, where understand themselves, learning to love yourself and where to grasp deeply that a wrong love must not make you doubt of yourself. Happiness is to be found within yourself and not in another, just so you can be able to be calm even in interpersonal relationships. A cocktail, a latte, twist of fate, laughter and improbable advices, will each of them being able to achieve their own happiness?

A stunning debut novel for Sólveig Jónsdóttir, who was a publishing phenomenon at home and now is preparing to conquer the Italian peaks thanks to the publication by Sonzogno.

I recommend to you that are going through a particular moment in your relationship. To you who don’t feel safe with your partner but also to you that you don’t feel sure of yourself. We must not look for the solution so far, it is inside. In your interior. Treat yourself with a cappuccino in a cafe, look at those around you and melt. Listen to your heart and follow it.

Carolina

Ph. Isabò

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7 Apr

Beauty |[ Comfort Zone ] Body Strategist

Summer brings with it the benefits of the sun and of the weather and the desire with the need to strip the body become a pressing need. To get to the Summer season in perfect shape, a complete and varied diet associated with a basic hydration and sport are the best allies for a flawless body.

However, the use of creams specially studied by medical teams and by a brand of beauty, which is [comfort zone], help in finding your own physical well-being and to fight cellulite.

Body Strategist Cellulite is the new line of products and professional treatments that aims to treat cellulite with a global approach that allowed for a deeper understanding of the factors that give rise to this problem, so as to develop effective solutions aimed at the two main types of cellulite: edematous and adipose.

The line includes three homecare products, four cabin treatments and a series of exercises for effective anti-cellulite work-out, making the offering of the label as complete as possible.

[Comfort zone] has sought the collaboration of Dr. Massimo Gualerzi, Cardiologist, and Dr. Mariuccia Bucci, Nutri-dermatologist, who has been joined by the brand in research and analysis and who are part of the Comitato Scientifico Internazionale which has contributed to the development of the project Skin Regimen . The two doctors base their studies on the link between beauty and the proper functioning of the body and focused themselves on the recent discovery of the adipose beige tissue, that give fundamental implications on the ability to stimulate metabolism.

Cellulite is in fact related to inflammation and metabolism. It’s an inflammatory disease that can affect the body at vascular and/or fat level. In the presence of an alteration of the microcirculation, the cells receive a smaller amount of oxygen and nutrients, resulting therefore weakened in the performance of their metabolic activity. It should also stimulate the process of thermogenesis, through which the body uses the fat to raise the body temperature, thereby activating a slimming action.

With BODY STRATEGIST CELLULITE, [comfort zone] introduces products free of silicones, parabens and mineral oils, which are characterized by a high content of natural ingredients.

BODY CREAM GEL STRATEGIST is a gel with a reshaping action for the treatment of edematous cellulite, helping to improve the appearance of orange peel skin. Created with ivy extract, 2% of pure caffeine, carnitine and escin for reshaping action, with lecithin, to enhance absorption of the active principles. It’s recommended for edematous cellulite, with swelling legs and water retention. To be applied on dry skin twice a day, for at least a month, with a circular massage from the bottom upwards.

BODY STRATEGIST CREAM is an intensive cream with a double thermogenic action that remodels adipose cellulite. Created with the micro-algae that is a unicellular alga capable of activating the thermogenic action, with the 1% caffeine, carnitine, escin and seaweed fucus to donate an aspect that redefined the silhouette. It’s recommended for resistant cellulite and accompanied by localized fat. Be applied with quick and light massage twice a day on dry skin. The cream gives a feeling of alternating hot and cold, with a slight tingling and redness, which can last about 30-40 minutes and indicate that the product is working. Wash hands thoroughly after application.

BODY STRATEGIST PATCH is a remodeling multi active patch that can remodeling and that is for an attack to intensive cellulite. Created with 0.5% of pure caffeine, carnitine, with the combination of escin and ginkgo and kelp and brown seaweed rich in minerals and iodine. It’s recommended for all types of cellulite. For a shock effect is recommended constant and daily application in combination with body strategist cream or gel cream. You have to apply a patch daily on dry skin, in the lower back or buttock.

Combined with the products, [comfort zone] has created a work-out session of daily exercises, to do some supported by an elastic band, to act in a targeted way on cellulite and to improve balance body-mind.

Together with the line, have been developed 4 types of professional treatments to do in the cabin.

Again [comfort zone] reminds us that our physical well-being starts, before the outside, from our internal, from how we decide to live things and from serenity that we carry within us. If we are radiant inside we shall be also on the inside and nutrition, physical activity, and products will be the corollary of a body and a mind in perfect health.

Carolina

3 Apr

Look of the day: John Galliano F/W 2015-2016 in Paris

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Paris Fashion Week. John Galliano fashion show, signed by Bill Gaytten, for the Fall / Winter 2015-2016.

The Art Deco comes to life within the walls of the Palais De Tokyo and Bill Gaytten door on the catwalk a proud and sensual woman illuminated by metallic bronze flashes and colored jacquard embroidery. The creative director of the Maison cleverly mixes the grit of a strong and intense femininity to the salient features of the master Galliano.

The collection features a vertical drop of lengths, available in short dresses that look perfectly matched with long coats to the floor, graceful and sinuous. The cigarette pants instead are molded on chiffon blouses and overcoats with contrast profiles and collar. Wraparound skirts are worn with ultra close-fitting top and short jackets. Gaytten plays with proportions and volumes, with a winning result that captures the feminine universe.

Must of the collection are the long evening dresses with one shoulder draped neckline and puffed sleeves, wrap-around and haunting, and also long mohair coats in shades of purple and scarlet. Must-have in the wardrobe.

The color palette is intense and with a high level of sensuality with black, white, scarlet, purple, silver, copper, gold and cream, spread on fabrics such as leather, mohair, wool, suede, silk, chiffon, lamé , technical fabrics, fur and sequins. Highly incisive are the prints created with colorful fish and glitter.

Bill Gaytten presents a woman conscious of her femininity, strong and charismatic. Glamour and incisive, sensual and mysterious, creating garments that will be real must-have for next season. Femininity according to Maison Galliano is disruptive but never boring, revisits the classics with an artistic twist and releases that energy persuasive and charming that only a few brand can have.

Congratulations Bill.

Carolina

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1 Apr

Look of the day: Numeri Primi Gemelli

A prime number is a natural number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself. Personally I have always been fascinated by the twin prime numbers, that are two prime numbers that differ by two.

I associated the numbers to people and to the facts of life. You meet souls who go through life and events that upset, flipping it as a small wooden raft in the middle of a storm in the ocean. People and things that cut you, that strip the flesh from you, that tear you to shreds and leave you there, helpless, like a banquet of meat for the vultures scavengers. Sometimes degraded and lost, you continue to walk the path of life, in the dark, clashing again with other experiences and people that bring you down, making you feel more and more alone and smaller, leaving you to ask you about the real reasons for why that happened.

Why? Why again? Why to me again?

The “sins” are not outside of us, but within us. A lesson is repeated again in our lives until we learn it and it representing again in major scale until we are put up against the wall to understand it. To understand it thoroughly. And then go over to it.

And it is at that point that the magic happens. The twin prime numbers. Your twin prime number, the one to attach to, to get lost and to melt with. Whether a project or a love, don’t put limits to your own life. The twin prime numbers should be your other half of the Moon, the person with whom to share what is most precious, but not relegate this concept only to the affective side … Enlarge it, broke down the walls that have created around. When you let go, you know and found yourself, and you will finally be able to complete that project that you wanted so much, you can do that job that much dreaming, have the life that you desired so much.

Your twin prime numbers is rare, is repeated more and more infrequent but you have within you the ability to find it and to keep it tight.

A wind that smells of Bora is outside my window, the scent of the cinnamon candle has invaded every nook and cranny of my apartment, as I write one hand is beating on the cold keyboard and the other runs on a hot back who knows the strengths and protection. In the distance on the immaculate duvet, the breath of a sleepy Audrey cradle my sleep that does not arrive.

And in the dim light of a nearly full moon, I smile. I smile thinking about the twin prime numbers and how we, unlike mathematics, can repeat them much more often than they want us to believe. Will is power, but you must really want and believe.

Carolina

Ph. Isabò

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31 Mar

Look of the day : Vivienne Westwood Gold Label F/W 2015-2016 in Paris

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Paris Fashion Week. Vivienne Westwood Gold Label Fall / Winter 2015-2016.

You cannot understand the energy and intensity of Madame Westwood until you see her live and yip cannot perceives her being punk, unconventional and absolutely iconic.

Vivenne Westwood was born in Tintwistle, UK, on 8th April 1941 and the Gold Label collection for next Fall / Winter brings on the catwalk her Unisex world. Just when the Parisian catwalk parading the clothes, in London the event called “Time to Act” asking for an intervention to stop climate change.

At the base of the collection, designed with her husband Andreas Kronthaler, is overcoming the identity of any kind, where the male becomes female and vice versa. The walkway is in fact animated by women wearing clothes from a wardrobe purely for men but also by men dressed in women clothing. The garments that make Gold Label are characterized by cuts crooked, asymmetrical lines, blatant volumes, rich colors and vibrant prints are countered clean shapes, cuts and classic colors with the ever green tartan.

Particular become wires applications coming from the hula-skirt that are inserted into belts, pants become soft whereas the dresses lose their waistline becoming tunic. It sees the return of the pajama suits and capes with huge hoods to hide your heads, stand out jackets with oversized shoulders. Word key is to deconstruct. Retain their importance accessories, such as the enormous hats, sock boots, the charmante pointy décolleté large wedges.

Vivienne Westwood transgresses and amazes with a collection that goes beyond the ethical and social conventions, opening up to a world of people who actually live according to their instincts and follow what they want to be.

Carolina

Ph. Isabò

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30 Mar

Oscar Mamooi for Celebration, a tribute to Anna Piaggi