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THIS IS YOUR LIFE.

DO WHAT YOU LOVE, AND DO IT OFTEN.

IF YOU DONT LIKE SOMETHING, CHANGE IT.IF YOU DONT LIKE YOUR JOB, QUIT.

IF YOU DONT HAVE ENOUGH TIME, STOP HANGING OUT ON FACEBOOK.

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE, STOP; THEY WILL BE WAITING FOR YOU WHEN YOU START DOING THINGS YOU LOVE.

STOP OVER-ANALYZING, LIFE IS SIMPLE.

ALL EMOTIONS ARE BEAUTIFUL.

WHEN YOU EAT, APPRECIATE EVERY LAST BITE.

OPEN YOUR MIND, ARMS, AND HEART TO NEW THINGS AND PEOPLE, WE ARE UNITED IN OUR DIFFERENCES.

ASK THE NEXT PERSON YOU SEE WHAT THEIR PASSION IS, AND SHARE YOUR INSPIRING DREAM WITH THEM.

TRAVEL OFTEN; GETTING LOST WILL HELP YOU FIND YOURSELF.

SOME OPPORTUNITIES ONLY COME ONCE, SEIZE THEM.

LIFE IS ABOUT THE PEOPLE YOU MEET, AND THE THINGS YOU CREATE WITH THEM, SO GO OUT AND START CREATING.

LIFE IS SHORT.

LIVE YOUR DREAM AND SHARE YOUR PASSION.

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Book that I want....

The 400 page book is being released October 4, 2011. $100 (Amazon $63).


Product Description
"Carine, and her vision of French Vogue, embodies all that the world likes to think of as Parisian style: a sense of chic that's impeccable and sometimes idiosyncratic and which forever lives on a moonlit street as seen through the lens of Helmut Newton."--Anna Wintour. Karl Lagerfeld once said that if you close your eyes and imagine the ideal French woman, it would be Carine Roitfeld. She is a fashion visionary and a muse. Since the start of her career in the early 1990s, through her collaborations with the legendary photographer Mario Testino, Roitfeld has been credited with launching Tom Ford's career at Gucci, as well as turning French Vogue into one of the industry's most worshipped magazines.

This elegant volume is a visual history of Roitfeld's fearless career. A daring instigator, she is known for pushing the limits with her subversive styling ideas. Featuring a selection of 250 magazine tear sheets and covers from pivotal editorial shoots and advertising campaigns, as well as intimate visual ephemera, this book gives an inside view into Roitfeld's creative thought process and sensibility. A must-have for those interested in cutting-edge fashion and femininity, this book will empower women to follow Roitfeld's lead and take risks with their personal style.

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"confidence is the underlying foundation for everything: generosity, the willingness to take risks, clarity of thought, being persuasive and charismatic to others—it all comes down to confidence"

via: Business Insider

L’Amour Fou...............

I cannot describe how excited i am about L’Amour Fou, documentary dedicated to the life and art collection of Yves Saint Laurent. Must watch the trailer:



I really like what Pierre Thoretton,the director,said about YSL "we all have certain assumptions of people who succeed in business -- that they are strong, callous, violent event. But Yves Saint Laurent was none of those things. He was fragile and shy and his success proves that this idea that you must be a callous individual in order to get ahead is just “silliness.”



"The film is structured around the sale of Yves Saint Laurent’s massive art collection. But in reality, it’s about so much more. Through a variety of interviews with people who had been close to Yves Saint Laurent, primarily his long-time life and business partner, Pierre Bergé, we learn about the man behind the icon. The film is about life and love with all its ups and downs, about growing up and growing older, about losing someone we love, about savoring the time spent together and making sense of it all."

Bill Cunningham ... must watch the documentary...

Bill Cunningham New York Trailer from Gavin McWait on Vimeo.

Bill Cunningham has been photographing street style since 1978. He is the main style photographer for the New York Ttimes and is, in fact, a legend. He got his big break when he luckily snapped a shot of Greta Garbo on the street, showed it to her, she loved it and thus started a new means of distributing fashion photography. Here is a scan of the image that started it all.

This week a documentary will be released about Bill entitled, “Bill Cunningham New York” - all about his life as a street style photographer (trailer above - so stoked).

“The main thing I love about street photography is that you find the answers you don’t see at the fashion shows. This was something I realized early on: if you just cover the designers in the shows, that’s only one facet. You also need the street and the evening hours. if you cover the three things, you have the full picture of what people are wearing.” - Bill Cunningham

How Can You Be Original Today?

“How can you be original today?” he asked.

In answer, he said, “You are original in your own identity.”


I believe originality is innate. You don't be original. You are original. Or you're not. It can take you time to bring it out, but yes, it's innate.

via: NY Times /Article / Stefano Pilati

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To have "style" is quite a rare thing. It's when someone's visual senses are heightened. Its instinctively knowing how to put one's whole self - clothes, shoes, hair, make-up, nails, etc., together in harmony and having the self-confidence to do it. It has absolutely nothing to do with money.-

Katy England, stylist

Interview with Emmanuelle Alt, The New Editor of Vogue Paris

...she has agreed to meet up and talk (just a little, not too much, she doesn’t want to give everything away) about what she plans to do with the—her—magazine. Her first issue is April.

On How She Sees Vogue Paris—For Now“I want to keep the quality, the photographers we work with—David [Sims], Mert and Marcus, Mario [Testino], and Bruce Weber. I don’t think there should be radical changes. The magazine should still be chic and sophisticated. It’s a bit like buying an apartment: Before you move in, you have all these plans of what you are going to do, but then you get there, and you realize it is better to spend time living in it, and transforming it over time. I’d like there to be more beauty trends; there was so much of that in Vogue back in the eighties. And how people are living; there are so many interesting, cool people here, and they should be in the magazine. More French girls, more French lifestyle. And I am going to keep shooting for the magazine—hopefully a story every issue. I do project myself in my pictures, even if I would never wear what I shoot. Actually, most of the time I definitely wouldn’t. I always want a relationship with reality: nothing too sexy, or provocative, or fashion victim. Even if I love to dream, I want the magazine to feature a girl who looks like she belongs in real life. We are French—we can show smoking, nudity. We have no boundaries, and it can be good to have them."

On Celebrity Covers“We don’t have a systematic point of view on it. But here in France we are back in a much more glamorous time. French actresses were respected, but not so evidently in the fashion world. Now we have Marion Cotillard, Charlotte Gainsbourg. I’d be very happy to put an actress on the cover if she is the right girl.”

On the Need for New Designers in Paris“No one has appeared, and you cross your fingers that someone will come through. It’s good that some people—like Bouchra Jarrar—are using the haute couture to get attention for themselves. You can’t create new talent just like that. America feels like it has become the place for young designers.”

On Her Own Style“I like vintage. Balmain. Givenchy. Chanel. I love jeans. I wear a lot of jeans. I have that French-girl thing of always wanting to wear a cashmere sweater with a pair of jeans. Mine are J Brand, Acne—and I like Topshop. I don’t want them to be “designed.” Jeans should be jeans. I rarely wear skirts. My daughter is just the same. I’ll try to convince her to wear a skirt, or a dress, and she’ll look at me say, ‘Why? You don’t.’ ”

via: vogue.com

Inspirationc : Lilac and Leopard

"This is fashion. People should be having fun." Alexander Wang
"Elegance is good taste plus a dash of daring?

"A new pair of shoes can change your whole life." Cinderella

Source: Photos by Wayne Tippets

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"We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage."

Albert Camus

Nobody captivated the world like Marilyn Monroe...

For me she was not just legendarry blonde woman, she was a wise woman and the world never saw that. Here are some of her quotes, which are my favorite….

"I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't."
"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they go right. You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart, so that better things can fall together."
"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left."
"I’m pretty, but I’m not beautiful,I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love."
"Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them."
"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition"
"Dogs never bite me. Just humans."

"Industrie" magazine

As i blogged couple of month ago, I am dying to read the magazine named "Industrie" which is as their website states "the first and only media title dedicated to presenting an independent, in-depth look at the fashion industry, going behind the scenes to chronicle the personalities, stories and defining moments in the world of fashion.Industrie aims to shift focus away from current collections and trends and provide a considered insight into the culture of fashion. Industrie documents the individuals who influence fashion and critically examines the ideas which shape it."

I really like the concept of the magazine because when it comes to fashion I am more interested in "intelectual" side of it meaning the process of creating something beautiful, the inspiration behind it, the input of the team, photographer, stylist, make up artist, and the business side of it as well. As you can see from the youtube video they have interviews featured with some of the if not top of the leading people in fashion industrie. I am really excited about the interview with Natalie Massenet the creator of Net-a-porter. I mean the woman created an enterprise with an annual turnover of GBP120 million, how can you not listen to her?

But unfortunatly couldnt find it in Dubai :( so I guess I just have to order it online.

Perfume Ad by Muiccia Prada

Muiccia Prada truly intellectual designer kind, only she could come up with such a beautiful perfume ad with an ancient poem that describes divine feminine nature. I can’t describe how beautiful is it!

The Thunder Perfect Mind

For I am the first and the last
I am the wife and the virgin.
I am the mother and the daughter.
I am she whose wedding is great,and I have not taken a husband.
I am the bride and the bridegroom.

I am senseless and I am wise;
Come forward to childhood,and do not despise it because it is small and it is little.
And do not turn away greatnesses in some parts from the smallnesses,
for the smallnesses are known from the greatnesses.

I am the one who is honoured and who is praised,
For I am knowledge and ignorance.
I am shame and boldness.
I am shameless; I am ashamed.
I am control and the uncontrollable.
For I am strength and I am fear
I am war and peace
I am the substance and the one who has no substance.
But I, I am compassionate and I am cruel.
Do not hate my obedience
And do not love my self-control.

I am the union and the dissolution.
But I am she who exists in all fearsand strength in trembling.
And I am an alien and a citizen.
I am the silence that is incomprehensible
and the idea whose remembrance is frequent.
I am the voice whose sound is manifold

For I am the first and the last.

This quote so represents my mood today.

"She wants to know if I love her, that's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet."
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

Quotes on Style

"Style" is an expression of individualism mixed with charisma. Fashion is something that comes after style.”
John Fairchild

“The difference between style and fashion is quality.”
Giorgio Armani

Fashions fade, style is eternal.”
Yves Saint Laurent

“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.”
Gore Vidal

"A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period."
Coco Chanel

"Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess."
Edna W. Chase

Quote by Coco Chanel

Coco Chanel, "A girl should be two things- classy and fabulous."