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Sobriety is the new black

Street style and elegance at Milan Fashion Week

No more extreme looks in these streetstyle photos. Even if out of the fashion shows the most part of the fashion crowd is overdressed and weird looking there are few people that stand out for their attitude and their ability of being elegant.

I’m talking about [...]

How to find your perfect outfit

Have you ever thought about your perfect look?

To me the perfect look is the one makes you feel represented, highlighted and comfortable with yourself. So I deduce that we can’t find our perfect outfit, and this counts for curvy and plus size women as well, following canned [...]

Ana Juan’s illustrated covers for The New Yorker

“The New Yorker style was one of leisurely meandering understatement, droll when in the humorous mode, tautological and litotical when in the serious mode, constantly amplified, qualified, adumbrated upon, nuanced and renuanced, until the magazine’s pale-gray pages became High Baroque triumphs of the relative clause and [...]

Why everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon

Curvy evolution is underway. The message is completely clear in meaning: Vogue Italia creates a Curvy section, For.me by Elena Mirò hits the runway at Milan Fashion Week with a collection focused on intermediate sizes, advertising discovers self acceptance; Lady Gaga shows off her curvier body [...]

From the seacoast of Brittany to my sketchbook

The French marinière (the typical Breton sailor shirt) is essential piece in my wardrobe. A timeless classic, the striped nautical style reminds me quiet coastal towns, retro-looking bathing suits, romantic bathing-huts of the early 1900.

I envision myself walking somewhere on a French Atlantic Coast looking [...]