Garance illustrated.

I call this "The Illustrator Illustrated". 

I'm a huge admirer of Garance. 

She's an illustrator, she's a photographer, she's a parisian. 

She's has been one of my biggest inspirations to keep illustrating 

and to keep carrying my camera around.

And she seems like such a chilled and fun person...doesn't she?

So I decided to make an illustrator of The Illustrator herself. 

I mean she's photoghraphed by The Sartorialist on a daily basis,

but I haven't seen that many illustrations of her. 

Hope you like it! 

Welcome to Wonderland

painting the roses red!

If you have been keeping up with the Couture Shows that have taken place this week in Paris,

then you will surely recognize these illustrations.

This is my own rendition of Alexis Mabille's Spring Couture Wonderland, and while

it didn't get raving reviews the minute I saw the giant flower head-pieces I knew I had to draw them.

It's like the flower garden from Alice in Wonderland.

And yeah, maybe the clothes weren't so ground-breaking -nothing we've never seen before- it was the theatric air that gave the show a certain punch. Maybe it's just me and my love for theatrics (Yeah, that's why I loved Galliano) and perhaps that's why I look forward to the couture shows so much, because they're not just runways, they're real spectacles.

Hopefully one day I'll get to attend one.

A girl can dream...

Bombay-Paris

Chanel's epicness is back! 

To be honest I wasn't a huge fan of Chanel's latest collection.

The show was fantastic, the models coming out from the shell and Florence Welch singing live...

but well that's not a plus in a Chanel show, it comes with the package. 

But back to the collection, I felt it was  an incoherent show as though

as if Karl Lagerfeld wanted to portray so many ideas that it the clothes went in all sort of different directions and not in a good way. 

But this pre-fall collection that showed yesterday at Le Grand Palais in Paris 

was a completely different story. 

I completely loved it...the chains, the head accessories, the show...

and of course in contrast of all the prettiness a messy bun of dreadlocks and a 

massive dose of kohl eyeliner. Hell yeah!

I'm foreseeing lots of hindi motifs in our fashion future. 

Long live The Kaiser!

What did you think of the show?

come fly with me

Being honest, I have never payed a lot of attention when it comes to luggage. Except for being a sucker for vintage suitcases or trunks I'd like to use more like a decorating motif rather than checking it into a flight. 

As much as we love to travel, my family and I, I've got to admit we are not really practical when it comes to, well, a lot of things. Traveling is one of those things. 

I can confidently say I'm one of the worst people in the whole world, no, galaxy, when it comes to packing. 

Traveling light? What is that? 

Uh-uh, everytime I pack I don't know how but I always manage to end up packing clothes like I was going away for forever. Even when I'm going away for a week!!!

Last month when I left for Paris, I left home with a huuuge suitcase, and talked my way out of paying an extra fee for my extra baggage-kilos (yay me!) but after the mandatory summer shopping (sale season....) I ended up coming home with TWO full suitcases. 

So after taking 1 train and 2 long flights in one day (about 30 hours of traveling) hauling my luggage I came to two important (and obvious) conclusions: 

Get one of those chameleon-eye-like wheeled (a.k.a. I-move-wherever-I-want-whenever-I-want-it-like) suitcases, you know, those with the wheels move independently from each other. When you think of it, it's too obvious, how come they didn't think of that when they invented wheeled suitcases?! And why on earth I don't have one of those????

I think the time has come for me to start investing in practical luggage.  

And second, you know how they say that in Fashion September is the January of the year. The new year starts now, and under that pretext I'm setting a new-new year resolution: learn to pack light!!! 

Next time I travel, I'm gonna document my adventures and findings about packing...

Fasten your seatbelts!

Love, em. 

Paris, mon amour.

Paris photo diary.

Back from Paris!

After 1 train ride, three flights and about 30 hours of non-sleeping, I'm back home from Paris. 

Lots to come!

Bisous, bisous!

Louis Vuitton f/w'11

Models coming out of antique elevators!! Elevators!!!
How genius is that????????
And don't even get me started on the the music...............

xx, em.