This summer I have seen a lot of maxi skirts… I would have gladly bought one if it wasn’t for my meter 65… Fashion can sometimes just be about recognizing what fits you and what could make you look like a dwarf…
Anyhow. Four different skirts and four even more different girls… Which one is your favorite?
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Because shoes are to an outfit what the cherry is on top of the cake… Ok, with the exception that you can buy a cake without the cherry but you cannot walk without shoes. Here is my little selection of the best shoes from this past Milan Fashion Week! Let me know which ones are your favorite… And maybe you can guess who are the owners of some of those… Answers below 😉
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3-9 Elisa Nalin
2 Deni Elias (the Chicmuse
7 Maria Kolosova (Kyklamasha)
13 Bryan Boy
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Imagine being “forced” to witness a sea of beautiful dresses, each one being closer to the perfection than the other… The models, or should I say mermaids walked down the runaway adorned in the finest fabrics. It felt like assisting to an under cover haute couture show right in the middle of the ready to wear season… So much that when the last three dresses left the catwalk I surprised myself wanting more!
And I leave you with this beautiful short film by Anna Dello Russo featuring the Armani collection…
[youtube w=”680″ h=”376″]http://youtu.be/OC4eR_ryJHI[/youtube]
Thanks to Geoffroy from Elle.be for the invitation!
Carine Roitfeld is on every one’s lips these days… Ever since her resignation from the french Vogue, after ten years of loyal service as the queen of “erotico-chic”, it seems like the planet fashion cannot get enough of her.
First there were the incessant speculations about her after Vogue life…
Would she go on to work with her longtime friend and accomplice Tom Ford?
Was she going to create her own magazine, or her own line?
The truth was that she has been working with Olivier Zahm, editor in chief of Purple Magazine, on a book. But not just any book… Between a biography and a retrospective, Irreverent, is an open window on the last 30 years of her career but also her personal life. 368 pages of photos, notes, editorials, letters, souvenirs and drawings.
For my part I cannot wait to get my hands on her book. It is said to be out around the 4th of October depending on your country.
Seeing Carine in pictures with her eyes blacked up and half her face covered up in hair, I always imagined her being a tat aggressive or a little bit punk (almost more scary than Anna Wintour* 😉 Anyway, after meeting her outside the Prada show in Milan last week I was happily surprised as she  actually is very sweet and warm. And when I asked her for a picture and she kindly accepted…
*Ah yes Anna… Actually she is not that scary either… She just walk super fast which makes it almost impossible to get a good picture of her… She is, and I am willing to testify, faster than sound speed! I have some shots of her though that I will try to show you shortly…
Here are the pictures I took during the Iceberg show in Milan.
I really liked this show as I thought it was a very playful yet elegant collection. I especially loved the mix of sportswear and tailoring. Even though those two elements alone could have produce a very masculine collection, it was carefully avoided by combining the stretchy bandeaux and tee shirts with evening wear while the tailored pieces where made more feminine with soft and silky materials.
My favorite pieces of the collection where the ones with the macro sequins but particularly the silhouette from my last picture with the silver sequins blazer, the yellow pants and the printed teeshirt with Guido Crepax’s Valentina’s face…
A very relax but dazzling look which I think is perfect for the day without the jacket and for an evening out with the jacket for little added sparkles!
And for a complete evening look I would definitely go for the silhouette worn by Jourdan Dunn… (below) But I would probably swap the white bandeau for a simple black tank top…
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And here is a little video I made from the show finale so you can have a quick look at the whole collection 😉
[vimeo w=”680″ h=”383″]http://vimeo.com/29731829[/vimeo]
A big Thank You to Charlotte for the invitation!
Today, while queuing for the Armani show, I bumped into my editor at heart… (yes some have their editor at large, their fashion editor, or simply their editor-editor, I have an editor at heart…) Also known as Bea Ercolini… Because if I had to choose my ideal editor it would have probably been her. Béa who is the editor in chief of the Belgium ELLE  has the amazing quality to be very down to earth, which, I assure you, in the fashion world, is as rare as healthy Big Macs, or smiling Parisian waiters… (I swear, quasi nonexistent..!)
Anyway it didn’t take us long to realize that we were both wearing the same bright orange…  Which brings up to my mind this phrase, that couldn’t have been more true than in that moment: “Great minds, think alike” 😉
I thought she looked effortlessly elegant in her orange oversized shirt dress. Simple but with an impact! And she’s not afraid to smile..! She even suggested that we take this picture of us. (Living proof that orange is THE color 😉 So how cool is she ?
Thanks for your time Béa!
I am wearing: shirt: Valentine Avoh * trousers: Courrèges
And all this wouldn’t have happened without Geoffroy…! Merci pour les invits 😉
Stay tuned for more pictures and stories on fashion week Milano!
In this world, there are two kinds of people. The ones who don’t look so good when they wake up, and the ones who do. I am part of the first group… And I do firmly believe that Anaïs belongs to the latest!
I met the gorgeous model Anaïs Mali outside the last (ever) D&G show on the corner of the Viale Piave. She was standing there waiting for her driver. Now, I will tell you one thing. I have waited for a thousand of things in my life… For example I have waited for buses, taxis, metros, emails, pay checks, friends, deliveries, my first barbie, Santa Claus, the latest episode of Gossip Girls and so on, but I swear, I have never looked that cool. Impatient, sure, but cool… Never! Anaïs, what is your secret?
Not only is she beautiful, but she is also very sweet. We got to talk a little while waiting for her driver and I learned that she was actually French, from Nice, with mixed origins (Chad and Poland) and that she moved to New York to pursued her modelling career …
I really do hope that she will continue to rise, as she is truly beautiful…
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What I loved the most about the John Richmond collection was his shoes and carefully worked leather pieces. What’s not to like about the little pair above? And the ones with the bow?
No really, I spent more time with my head down, scraping the floor than looking up…
After two months of flip flops and sandals it is now time to lace up our stilettos to face one of the most glamorous fashion week of all…. Milan Fashion Week!
Jumpsuit: Bel Air * Shoes: Massimo Dutti * Belt: H&M
Of course getting back into the arena can sometimes be harsh, as I discovered myself yesterday. After one full day wearing a pair of chunky heels, my feet became very close to what I would certainly call a “compote de pied”, meaning, completely mashed. Not the kind that make you say “I cannot wait to go home to get my shoes off, but more something like “**********” (sorry, to rude for transcription!). The kind that make you search for the nearest cheap shoe shop like a junkie would look for his next dose. Thanks god the last show I attended was not far from the Corso Vittorio Emanuele where I could find a little shoe shop called Lolita (si si!) which were selling pairs of shoes from 10 euros..!
There I could find a pair that I thought I would probably re use but that did unfortunatelly totally ruined my outfit of that day… Then again, fashion is not always about feeling stylish but also about feeling comfortable…
That’s how I started the day with these…
Shoes: Faith by Olivia Morris
…to finish it with those:
Shoes: Lolita Milano
This being said I have to leave you as I must go and choose my heels of the day 😉
Stay tuned for fashion week pictures!
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A few months ago I was interviewed by the lovely Tamara Gausi, journalist at the Brussels Airline magazine bSpirit! for her upcoming article on fashionable Belgians/Africans.
We met at the inevitable Café de la Presse on Avenue Louise to talk about my blog, my designs, Ivory Coast, food, shopping and much more… To support our conversation, I had a delicious piece of cake and to keep my mouth hydrated (only because hydration is the key to a healthy lifestyle 😉 I had an iced tea followed by a Violette tea which has become one of my favorite when I go there.