Stromboli

A volcanic island situated between the Mediterranean and the Tyrrhenian sea that belongs to Italy, is one of my favourite places to escape to, from the excessive working lifestyle that we all have nowadays. You can set off from Sicily or Sardinia to enjoy the wilderness and quiet holidays that anyone well deserves! If you have not been there yet, I suggest you to book your e ticket right away...! To start warming up the vacational spirit, I also recommend you to watch the movie under the same name starring Ingrid Bergman, where she escapes the mundane surrounded by a dessert like setting full of anxiety aspects and uncertainty! A masterpiece inspired by and filmed on location, or you can also listen to Montgomery's album entitled like the island's name to get into the  summer mood. Come on, you know that Formentera is overrated, why not try something new?

Denim

Iselin Steiro´s glorious ensemble at Chloé Printemps-Eté 2010 catwalk in denim made me wanna dress up again in that material, and made me spend a fortune in that very same look. If you don´t have a piece of this classic yet casual fabric, I suggest you to run to the nearest Acne store or Cheap Monday official dealer, they have it and they do it like nobody else. Don´t be afarid of the double denim disaster effect, mixing up different washes or bleaches is the new cool. Workwear has never looked so chic!

Nico

Christa Päffgen was born in Cologne in 1938 and she has enlightened my days ever since! She first came to fame because of her modelling career, but that affair with fashion only lasted a few years, until smarty pantsies Andy Warhol convinced her to be his latest toy and work along his musical project "The velvet underground". Her off tone voice and sadness quickly catch the media attention and made her an indie star, her long gold locks and extremely long eyelashes made a statement on and off the stage, where she dealt with depression and unbearable love affairs, like the one she had with Alain Deloin and his bastard kid Arie. She appeared on films such as Chelsea Girls by Warhol, La Dolce Vita by Fellini or Strip Tease by Poitrenaud among others, but her true call was and always will be music. Nico, you may have a gay lover´s name, but your name is tatooed in my heart!

Vogue Paris

Warning: Adult content on the inside! The sexually explicit images may affect the readers sensibility. That should be the message on a sticker outside each cover of  the French glossy version of the cult classic Vogue. Thanks to la Roitfield, this monthly Bible(at least for me) has revamped and appeared victorious from the ashes thanks in part to the risky collaborators such as Hedi Slimane, Terry Richardson, Mert Alas and Marcus Piggot or Inez and Vinoodh and the saucy spreads featuring the "it" models of the season. Always with a gorgeous and carnal model on the cover(except for the Christmas issue, where a celebrity acts out as editor in chief) this publication is a wild ride on a sensorial sense! A fashionable vision with a hint of perversity and burgeois taste, always envisioned from a female perspective. Carine Roitfield, Emmanuelle Alt and Marie-Amelie Sauvé are the holy trinity of this church called Paris Vogue...Are you prepare to sin?

Le Baron

If you wanna dance like a maniac and be surrounded by the most beautiful creatures in the whole wide world, then Le baron is your place! Own by my dear friend André Saraiva(also entrepreneur of Hotel Amour and collaborator of Colette and Purple magazine) is one of the few places in Paris where is open till late and where you can also dance away to tunes from Daft Punk and Lido or hits by Sebastien Tellier and Phoenix among others. Killer music, knock out drinks and an interesting crowd in the city of lights... What else can you ask for? If you cannot pop onto the next flight to Paris, then buy its cd, "la compilation du baron", to warm up your best moves on the dancefloor... Au revoir my little party monsters!

Dorothy Draper

When you think of drapery and mouldings, there is only one person that comes to my head...Dorothy Draper. Irreverent and opulent lady who lunches that made her own interior design revolution by creating the first ever studio specialized on this matter in 1923. Born in Tuxedo Park in 1889, she was not your typical rich girl, she had major dreams and she was destined to follow them and succed while executing them. She created the "modern Barroque", a signature of hers, while writing books and magazine articles that unveils her confident sense of style. Her milestone and stroke of genius are the legacy of hotels she decorated, scattered all over the US geography, such as The Carlyle in New York or the Greenbrier hotel in West Virginia. Miss Draper you were like the Martha Stewart of Interiors, only infinitely better!

Model Snapshots

Oh models! They are usually youthful, gorgeous and outer worldly creatures whose perfect features and surreal measurements makes us dream on what it would be like to be one of them...If to this mere facts you add a perfect complexion and a sassy attitude in front of the camera, you round up a great picture, which only requires a blank background, like the snapshots shown above. Terry does it, Bruce loves it and Hedi sweares by it, so if this uber photographers do them, there must be quite a heavy reason why the model snapshoots are becoming more popular in blogs worldwide. Next time I have my picture taken, it will be in front of a white wall and with clean fresh face and starving attitude...Watch out girls!