I love my scarf by Hermes

This is a very nice project done for Hermes by young photographer Matt Irwin. Finally a youth and fresh vision of the famous brand that looks accessibile to all. http://www.ilovemyscarf.com/

Archie Grands: notebooks for friend and foe

We want tons of these booklets, collect, fill and write them all. And we know exactly to whom they should be addressed. Archie Grand Notebooks came for this purpose in 1980s, a gift to aid friend and foe in their creative pursuits. http://www.archiegrand.com/legendarynotebook.html

Yaya Store, Paris: une boutique pleine de surprises

Yaya store is in the heart of Paris, in vibrant and cool Rue Montmartre 55. It looks like a Souk Market directly from Marrakech because it’s full of atypical and unique products coming from all over the world.

Handmade bags and shoes from Italy, no-logo items selected with fine research in Japan and Usa, limited and special collection just available in the store: this make Yaya store a unique place. I have worked with Valerie Blanchard, the owner, for many years and here you can see all her passion and cool hunting job.

http://www.yayastore.fr/

Velvet, 50 covers

Last week we have been invited to a cult disco in Milan called Plastic to celebrate Italian magazine VELVET and its cover no. 50. Cool people, wild dance and the beautiful covers on display have characterized the nice evening. Launched in November 2006 and directed by great editor in chief Michela Gattermeyer, the magazine is stylish and glamorous. We love the graphic, so fresh and contemporary. And all covers. That we collect jealously.

VOGUE EXPERIENCE

This is a good memory of a special saturday spent at Vogue's office in Milan. Enjoyed speaking with editors and stylists. Next goal is to become a Beauty Editor and get tons of free sample, goodie bags and spa treatments. A VERY demanding role.

Paris, mon amour

Enjoyed few days in Paris at Hotel Plaza Athènèe, in the footsteps of Carrie Bradshaw, Jackie O and Edith Piaf. We loved all the xmas lights, the very first snow, the fois gras, the tour Eiffel, the Louvre, Lina's soups and sandwiches. Best restaurant tip http://www.squaretrousseau.com/, rather disappointed instead by the service and menù choices at Costes http://www.hotelcostes.com/ that was one of my favourite. Need to start french lessons, now!

Le French Dresser

Le French Dresser: every girl should have one! http://warymeyers.blogspot.com/

Anna Dello Russo

It is ANNA DELLO RUSSO golden moment. Her twitter account has more than 25.000 followers and magazines do fight to write articles about her. This is the latest one featuring an exclusive interview about her 2 flats... 'one is just for my wardrobe', she says to the italian Il Corriere Della Sera.

http://www.corriere.it/spettacoli/10_novembre_20/persivale-abitare-abitazioni_cd1a377a-f477-11df-b9c7-00144f02aabc.shtml

The Soft Parade

We are featured here http://soft-parade.tumblr.com/ Nice blog!

Lomomania

Few experiments done with my cool Lomo Fish Eye at Rockers vs Hip Hoppers party. What do you think?

Kitty Usb

Love this hello kitty usb. More characters on http://www.mimoco.com/

Libra sign by British Vogue

Love the way Tim Gutt matched fashion with astrology for British Vogue. This is my sign, Libra.

Groove Armada at O2 Brixton Academy

The year 2010 has been a massive year for Groove Armada. They released their sixth studio album Black Light to great acclaim and followed up with an explosive string of concerts and festival appearances across Europe, America, and Australia. And suddenly they announce that they are retiring and that the last date of the tour at Brixton Academy last 16th opf October was their last as a live band, what a feeling of melancholy! Tom Findlay, Andy Cato and SaintSaviour bounded onto the stage and launched straight into “Look Me in the Eye Sister” and “I Won’t Kneel”, the effect was incredible. SaintSaviour’s vocals are more impressive and powerful live than we could ever have imagined and she is was fantastic with her energetic dancing, crazy outfits, and amazing voice but she was not the only star vocalist of the evening. Up next was MC M.A.D. the distinctive ragga voice behind some of Groove Armada’s biggest hits. It was an incredible show and with the help of SaintSaviour and MC M.A.D., Groove Armada delivered some of their biggest hits including “My Friend”, “Paper Romance”, “Cards To Your Heart”, “Fogma”, and “Madder”.

La prima cosa bella

'La prima cosa bella’ is a melting and poetic family portrait set in Tuscany and was chosen to represent Italy in the next Oscar race for the Best Foreign Film that will be held in Los Angeles in February 2011. Challenging goal for the film director Paolo Virzì which tells the story of the disillusioned Bruno and his relationship with his mother Anna, a beautiful and energic woman. Bruno, the eldest, is a professor of literature unhappy, insecure and problematic, with no relations with his mother and sister Valeria that is a neurotic employee fled into the arms of a talkative husband. Bruno reconciles with the two women only after learning that his mother is seriously ill and this will be an opportunity for him and his sister to digest a mother really bulky, but also capable of outbursts of unusual love. The childhood memories are the real filter of this story of Bruno and Valeria, both adults and suffering. And around the charismatic Anna the story turns around and takes form. Touching.

People meet in architecture

These are images taken at the 12th Venice Architectural Biennale. This edition is called ‘People meet in architecture’ and is curated for the first time by a woman, the architect Kazuyo Sejima. The choice of the 53 national participants in the exhibition and collateral events is related to how architecture can clarify new values and propose a new lifestyle for the present due to the many radical changes that are taking place in our life. The Biennale will be open until November 21st 2010 and is worth a visit. http://www.labiennale.org/

Little Red Riding Hood by Maripol

Remember Maripol? She was the beautiful French art director, stylist and photographer that scouted in 1983 an aspiring dancer and singer named Madonna Louise Ciccone. After working as art director for Fiorucci in New York and designer Reissue, she started working in photography and she loved working and playing with Polaroid camera. After her first book Maripolarama released in 2005, last month she published this new book from Damiani: a collecction fo the polaroids, art and designs.

Thailand: a journey through Kanchanaburi, Lopburi, Ayutthaya, Chiang Mai, Ko Samui and Bangkok

There are images that lead us into an unknown and sometimes forbidden world. There are images that make us dreaming of distant and exotic lands. This is a journey through several Thai provinces. Gianandrea Rodato, narrator of this story and author of the pictures below, misses a lot the Pad Thai every time he goes to eat pizza to the local trattoria. And keep thinking that Bangkok is only 11 hours away.

Photo courtesy Gianandrea Rodato gianandrea.rodato@gmail.com
http://www.livincool.com/photography/thailand-a-journey-through-kanchanaburi-lopburi-ayutthaya-chiang-mai-ko-samui-and-bangkok

Notting Hill Carnival 2010

London’s Notting Hill Carnival returned for its forty-sixth year in 2010.
Check out the parade route, costumes and masks, the great soundsystems (they were massive speakers stacks everywhere) and Caribbean food stalls with jerk chicken, rice and peas and rum punch as well as the odd taste of other exotic cuisines. This is a gallery of what we have seen at Europe’s biggest, brightest and best street party on Monday 31st of August!

http://www.viragoentertainment.it/gigs.php

L.E.D.

L.E.D. : London Electronic Dance Festival. During the massive UK bank holiday weekend, Victoria Park hosted its last festival of the season. The Friday’s instalment boasted headline sets from house giants Calvin Harris (follow him on http://twitter.com/calvinharris , his tweets are cool!), our beloved Belgium brothers Soulwax and Mr. David Guetta, just back from another successful F**K Me I’M Famous night at Pacha Ibiza. Another big crowd was pumped by electro-banger Tiga and mask-wearing Italo duo The Bloody Beetroots in the big tent opposite the main stage. Saturday’s line up with Goldfrapp, Leftfield, Annie Mac and many more had to compete instead against SouthWestFour festival at Clapham Common, big hitter of the season, sold out weeks before. Check out our photo gallery!

http://www.viragoentertainment.it/gigs.php

A weekend in Oslo

Are you planning a trip to Oslo? Few tips from us for a fantastic stay in the Norwegian city capital! Oslo is green, bring your sport gear for a healthy run in one of the beautiful park (you can easily choose the Royal House Park or the amazing Vigeland Park) or rent a bike; get blond hair so people will take you for a local native; do cool hunting, street shots are recommended for good fashion tips; do not get shocked if you meet just families with at least 3 kids and a dog, it’s the house rule; order dinner before 9.30pm if you do want to invest your money in McDonald and Tgi’s Friday; do not feed seagulls at Aber Brygge, by the port, these animals can become really bad enemies of your sunset break; bring at least two credit cards, euros is not welcome and cash (locally called kun) just in very rare places.
Enjoy the gallery of an extraordinary sunny weekend in Oslo!

http://www.viragoentertainment.it/travels.php

Electro-Venice

The electronics music has landed in Venice, Italy. A week after the Heineken Jammin Festival, the beautiful lagoon city is still the leader: Saturday, July 10, from early afternoon till late at night, more than 25.000 young danced continuously on the lawn of San Giuliano Park 'burned' by four previous days of real rock. International line-up, people from all over Italy and swarms of mosquito killer: this was the right mix of Electro-Venice. See the gallery featuring Digitalism and Guy Gerber dj set and the magnificent live of Moderat, The Bloody Beetroots and superlative 2manydjs. www.electrovenice.com

Urbanautica

The July issue of Urbanautica is out now with a contemporary exhibition by Brian Ulrich, the invisible cities by Giustino Chemello, the ‘foreclosure USA’ project by Kirk Crippens, the lateral view of Kerim Aytac, the ‘Ciudad De Los Reyes’ portrayed by Carlos Jimènez Cahua and much more! Urbanautica is a research platform centered on photography and the human landscape. A navigation by sight, a trip around the ideas, people and what makes them part of nature and the world. Each month Urbanautica publishs a selection of international photographers who have developed artistic research topics and fine art works that concern landscape, urban transformations, habitat, pollution, abandoned places and our relationship with nature. Urbanautica has great plans for the near future, subscribe the newsletter and stay tuned!

Frida Kahlo in Berlin

Be enchated by the wonderful and intense universe of Frida Kahlo, full of femininity, true passion and colours. Check out the exhibition at Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin in association with the Kustforum of Wien till August 9th, 2010 and get inspired by the 150 works (paintings and drawings) of one of the world's greatest and most fascinating artist. This is the most comprehensive show of Frida’s Kahlo’s work ever staged. She is still a timeless female role model and fashion icon. www.berlinerfestspiele.de

Åsa Tällgård photography

We love the latest editorials from swedish photographer Åsa Tällgård. One is called ‘Road Trip’  with Sara Von Schrenk and the other one ‘Easy Rider’ with Janeta Samp. Both for Elle Sweden. Cool casting and an interesting focus on denim. http://www.tallgard.com/

A sea of shoes

We love this blog. This is probably due to the fact that we are all shoes’s addicted but A SEA OF SHOES promises to give interesting inputs to the fashion victims. The young author, Jane Aldridge, has a great vintage wardrobe and an insane passion for shoes. Check out her blog and the fantastic shoes she is wearing with very very stylish outfits! www.seaofshoes.com

Alexa Chung

We love Alexa Chung’s style. English model and now also television presenter and dj, she is overall a real style icon. We might have the most enviable closets of all time. Her looks are made up pf everything, from Gucci or Chanel to H&M, Topshop and Zara: she is great in mixing all styles together. She was voted ‘Best dressed of 2009’. What about 2010?

INDUSTRIE MAGAZINE

This is a unique magazine for the fashion business. It brings together contents that industry watchers may never have been able to find in one publication before. It’s like the fashion industry version of a high-school yearbook, except more stylish and elegant, showcasing the fashion industry’s stars in their best light. The rise of fashion blogs all over the net and cult films like The September Issue featuring Anna Wintour’s dauily life, means there is more interest in the fashion industry than ever before, so that’ the perfect time to launch Industrie. This will be the first and only media title dedicated to going behind the scenes to chronicle the personalities, stories and defining moments in the world of fashion through interviews with some of fashion’s biggest stars. Finally readers will find new fashion inspiration (a lot of it is happening online now) as editorial will be the main core in the magazine. INDUSTRIE Magazine will be available on newsstands during the week commencing 24 May, 2010. http://www.industriemagazine.com/

SPRINGTEN

We are just back from Springten Festival in Graz, Austria, and did not even had the flavour of spring due to the heavy rain and strong wind that characterized the weekend! But good electronic beats are still in our ears. Main happening during the 4 days festival was the anniversary of Sixteen F**cking Years of G-Stone Recordings’at Orpheum, an old charming theater. Huge (and well paid back) expectations for Kruder & Dorfmeister: an awaited, elegant and sophisticated gig with their usual savoir fair and sobriety; daylight projections, visuals, massive leds and two vocalists that warmed up the vast audience, completed the dj set. Many other artists made the festival exceptionally cool this year, such as Ebony Bones, Erol Alkann, Breakbot, Moderat, Layo & Bushwaka, Chicks on Speed, Pendulum, Autokratz, Disco Of Doom, Jahcoozi, Zoot Woman, Nano Rec. with 6 djs from Italy and the very talented Parov Stelar Band. http://www.springfestival.at/

THE MUSEUM OF EVERYTHING

A fantastic temporary museum has opened last Autumn in Primrose Hill in London. You enter through a tiny alleyway on a side street and find yourself in a huge building that began its life as a dairy and was until recently a proper recording studio. The name of the eccentric location is The Museum Of Everything and it is the only public space dedicated to outsider art in the city: a massive collection of artworks created by untrained artists, operating outside the commercial art world, in remote or impoverished communities and sometimes in mental institutions. Crammed into a warren of corridors, cubicles, shaped rooms and one cavernous double-height space, is a big exhibition of the marginalised art of the past 200 years, which has at various times been labelled art brut, outsider art, folk art, naive art, visionary art. There's a cosy tea room with wooden tables and vintage china, plus a mini retail space with a simple, handmade appeal, selling crafted things such as tea towels and badie. For those not in the know the Museum of Everything is an exhibition of what for want of a better term has been called ‘outsider art’. It’s been the smash hit of the autumn and it’s free.

MULTITASKING

Dopo aver discusso l'articolo con vari amici 'multitasking' ci permettiamo di dissentire... women are more than multitasking. And some men too.

MILANO – La tendenza un po’schizofrenica del multitasking non è nella natura dell’uomo e il massimo che il cervello può arrivare a sostenere sono due mansioni alla volta: lo sostiene uno studio condotto da Etienne Koechlin della Ecole Normale Supérieure di Parigi . GESTIONE SIMULTANEA DEI COMPITI - Allattare il bimbo mentre si scrive un articolo, nel frattempo rispondere al telefono e mettersi d’accordo con un’amica per un caffè e, contemporaneamente, mandare un’e-mail. Il tutto mentre si ascolta uno splendido pezzo musicale appena scaricato. È l’era del multitasking, che secondo gli esperti porta alla concentratio interrupta (ovvero la disattenzione intermittente suscitata dal perenne bombardamento mediatico). Si fa una cosa e, grazie (o per colpa di) alle nuove tecnologie si possono portare avanti altri tre/quattro compiti. Ma la domanda è: fa bene? E se anche facesse bene, sarebbe naturale per l’essere umano? TROPPE COSE INSIEME - La risposta arriva dai ricercatori francesi, che hanno osservato e studiato un campione di 32 volontari, affidando loro prima un compito e successivamente due compiti differenti ma simili. I volontari sono stati osservati nel corso dell’esperimento con la risonanza magnetica e i ricercatori hanno notato che, mentre nello svolgimento di un’unica mansione venivano coinvolte più zone neurali di entrambi gli emisferi cerebrali, nello svolgimento di più funzioni il cervello si divideva a metà, deputando a ciascun emisfero un incarico. In particolare il lobo frontale, che è la parte del cervello deputata alle funzioni esecutive,
LIMITI NATURALI - «Il tipo di esperimento eseguito, su un campione di individui destri e nessun mancino e con due compiti da portare a termine che erano simili tra loro», dicono i ricercatori sulla rivista «Science», «non consente di dire se la divisione dei compiti tra i due emisferi sia casuale o dipenda dal tipo di operazione e dalla dominanza di un emisfero su un altro. Ma i risultati dello studio suggeriscono che il lobo frontale, che ha funzioni esecutive, è limitato a svolgere al massimo due compiti nello stesso momento. «Ecco perché la gente prende spesso decisioni irrazionali quando fa più di due cose insieme», spiega Koechlin: «Possiamo cucinare e stare al telefono, ma non possiamo per natura provare a leggere anche il giornale». Lo studio suggerisce anche che non esagerare nel multitasking è una buona regola non solo per le cose da fare, ma anche per quelle da pensare. Come il nostro cervello non è fatto (se non a un caro prezzo e con dubbi risultati) per fare troppe cose in una volta, così non è predisposto nemmeno per pensare a troppe cose: anche le scelte devono essere prese su due opzioni alla volta. http://www.corriere.it/salute/10_aprile_16/cervello-non-multitasking_eabbf244-494d-11df-af35-00144f02aabe.shtml

RIO

Summer is coming soon. Yep! Where to fly to a long, cool getaway? Beautiful and at the same brutal, sophisticated and populist, tropical and urban, Rio de Janeiro is the place to discover. Because it is a buzz of energetic contradictions. Rio's coolest months are June and July, when the temperature can finally drop to a pleasant 18 degrees, far away from the hottest January and February. The turquoise waters, which lap all around the coastline, are a living storyboard of design and fashion inspiration. Catch the surfers at Arpoador, sunbathe at Barra Beach or Barra da Tijuca, explore the steep inclines of Santa Teresa or head to a samba school, such as Mangueira, to catch the pre-carnival practices. Wish to be already there…

COACHELLA FESTIVAL. WHAT WE MISSED!

I love festivals. This time i would have really liked to go to the Coachella’s one. That is more than a festival. It a melting pot for music, art, installation. Part of Coachella’s appeal is also linked to its location, in Indio, California, approximately 50 miles from the spectacular Mojave Desert. Even if is still quite young it has gained so much popularity over the years that i bet that all festivals goers will be there next season. Music is the first order of business at the Coachella but fashion has literally invaded the indie music festival: there were enough models, designers, musicians, movie stars, fashionistas to organize a mini fashion week!
Hard to figure out which was the best day to attend: Friday’s favourites were Fever Ray, Grizzly Bear, LCD Soundsystem and Vampire Weekend; Saturday’s 2 Many Dj’s (omg, i love them), Edward Sharp & The Magnetic Zero, Hot Chip, MGMT, The Temper Trap, The XX; hardly surviving after such gigs, Sunday would have been the turn of Charlotte Gainsbourg, Little Boots and Mayer Hawthorne. Gosh, when will all of them be again all together?! www.coachella.com

ADVANCED STYLE

It is called http://advancedstyle.blogspot.com/ and we enjoyed reading it. After the worldfamous The Sartorialist, now a blog that speaks about style... over 60 years old and more! Style is a mix of small details and audacious choices: the result is that you can be stylish and fashion no matter what's your age. The idea of the blog comes from Ari Seth Cohen that wants to demonstrate that even with grey hair and facial wrinkles, you can be glamorous and charming. Check out ladies and gents that she found on the street and portrayed for us!

Had enough of beds, tables and chairs?

Need to report exactly this review. It's funny, witty, and speaks about a great party that i did work on. Enjoy!

"Last night, after uselessly trying to get into Established & Sons’s infamous party (the front door was so packed I nearly had a panic attack!) I decided I had enough of designers and furniture for the day and drove off to Hangar Bicocca, where the REPLAY party was taking place. I know, I know, you’re thinking: “what’s this to do with the Salone?”. Well, my friends, the true Salone insiders knew that that was the place to go to yesterday! Especially when the names of Roisin Murphy and Hercules and the Love Affair are engraved on the invitation. And it was totally up to the expectations!
An international, hype, hot, glossy and trendy crowd attended the incredible exciting concert. In the huge industrial space of the Hangar, between secret gardens and virtual waterfalls, free drinks flooded endlessly, high heels screeched on the cement, glitter powdered amazing looking girls danced their hips off, and the steamy hunky boys were just too much to be true.
Everybody was having the time of their life. Roisin and the Hercules were just awesome and a rocking glamorous excitement took possession of our tired Salone muscles, forcing all of us to dance and get groovy. The PR of the soirée was Milano’s nights darling Marcelo Burlon, so it couldn’t have gone differently. My friends were uberhappy! Vicke Vanlian, the Lebanese talented architect and Adnan Abbasi, PR for Miami Design, couldn’t stand still, overwhelmed by the music. Salvo Nicosia, group celebrity director at Dolce & Gabbana and the Jordan architect Osama Jumean were so rayonnant, they had all the hottest people humming up to them asking for a kiss. Glen Proebstel, style director of the Australian design magazine Inside Out, was obsessed in taking crazy pictures of the party (these pictures, as a matter of fact) and Anne Marie Sargeant, the beautiful Australian creative consultant, couldn’t stop talking to one of the most good looking boys of the party. And me? Still dealing with a major hangover today… Ah, what a night!" Apriltov (source http://blog.atcasa.corriere.it/salone-2010/nggallery/post/had-enough-of-bed-tables-and-chairs/page/106/)