I am not a very sportive person, in fact last weekend I decided to try a yoga class in the park and although I really did enjoy playing the contortionist under the sun, I am still reeling from the pain. Yep, I have spent the whole week walking like a grandma while moaning every 5 minutes!

What I do really love instead, is doing sport without actually exercising. That’s why I love biking around or roller skating! To tell you the truth, I haven’t been skating that much for a while but as the weather was so pleasant last Sunday, I thought I would dig into my old boxes and retrieve my beloved blue and yellow rollers!

These babies date from the period I was living in London, so about 6-7 years ago. My friends and I just discovered that cool Roller Disco place near Kings Cross station and immediately fell in love with the concept of skating and dancing while listening to good music. There were even roller skate dance battle! Which I wasn’t pat of, don’t worry 😉  Now I don’t know if that place still exist but it was my place for a long time…

Anyway, I bought those online as I wanted to continue skating outside the club and take it to the park on sunny days, which I did and luckily still do to this day! I stayed in tune with the color of my skate and paired them with my new favorite summer tee which I found a few weeks ago on Zalando. As you can see, yellow is definitely one of my favorite color! At first I was hesitating with this yellow dress but I got the top instead… Who knows, maybe I’ll get it later as they are so many good things on their site.

What about you? What is your favorite “exercise free” sport?

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Top: Naf Naf from Zalando ~ Jeans: Koral ~ Roller: Blazer (similar here) ~ Sunglasses: Courtesy of Gucci [hr]

Photos by Fikera Studio 😉

You all know my love for visiting ateliers and discovering how objects of desire are made… If I could chose, I would probably spend half of my time visiting ateliers all around the world and the other half, putting into practice what I learned…

In my opinion, a product isn’t just an object, it is much more than that. It is about the people behind it: the people who envisioned it, those who designed it and more importantly the one who actually made it! When purchasing something, we often forget that behind it there was a woman or a man who thought about each details, carefully putting each piece together to make it ours. And more often than not, especially since the rise of mass market, we tend to diminish the value of this hard work and craftsmanship…

This is why I really enjoyed my trip to Wonders’ land or in other words, the Wonders Shoe factory!

Two weeks ago, I was invited to the Wonders headquarters in Elche, south of Spain, to visit the birthplace of my favorite ballerinas! No need to say how thrilled I was to be part of this Fashion With Soul adventure, with the 4 others bloggers & fashionistas invited: Monica Parga, aka Miss at la playa, which blog I had been following since my early days of blogging, Marie Zamboli, the bubbly south Italian blogger, Lucia Pardavila, fashion journalist and expert & the lovely Patricia Gonzalez, also journalist and organizer of the Fashion Blogs Day.

We started the day by visiting the design and prototyping studio where each of the Wonders shoes were created, each material carefully selected, basically where each model was born! Then we had a tour into the huge machine area where we witnessed how patterns and leather skins were cut and how later on the seamstress would skillfully assemble them.

It was really interesting to see how many steps the simplest pair of shoe had to go through before it could even reach the stores! Starting from the research and ending with the wrapping, the interventions were endless! In the end, I really loved meeting all the people involve in this tremendous team work, plus what’s better than spending your morning surrounded by shoes?

No wonder(s) they called it Made with Love!! Next week, I will be sharing with you the rest of my day with the Wonders Team.

Thanks again to Marisa, Belén, Lorena and Ruben for the amazing experience!!! xxx