Naila Swimwear at MBFW Swim in Miami Beach.
It was the hottest week in July and what better than a swimwear runway show by the pool at The Raleigh?
Exclusive prints and eco fabrics, sexy european cuts (Brigitte Bardot St. Tropez anyone?) and more in my interview.
For more pictures … Stay tuned.

7 chic ways to rock bell bottom jeans like Jane Birkin

Serious attention to the effortless details is primarily required if you want to achieve that bohemian chic meets classic. They come natural to someone who’s so iconic that a Hermes bag has her name. 

There’s some advantage with having a badass boyfriend.

It may help to have some nothing-shorter-than-perfect bangs.

Keep it up and here we go: ingredients for the bell bottom a la Jane

- a hell of a lot of striped tops: tank, T-shirt, short sleeves, long sleeves, bateau neckline (free interpretation, the concept is to highlight that French Riviera flair);

- white blouse cotton gauze long sleeves 

- basket (it could be a tropezienne, it can be a sicilian decorated woven straw basket, and yes little bells hanging are allowed)

- espadrilles (wedges or flat, just don’t mess up with the length of the pants, if they are meant to be worn with wedges don’t roll them up. Hems exist and they have a reason why.)

- flats they can be ballerinas (Porselli should be the must, although Repetto are not a wrong choice) or horse bit loafers. As per the hem, read above, no kidding.

- turtle neck for a fall version

- silk scarf some “Flora” Gucci print, any horse bit by Hermes wrapped around head or used to cover the basket and avoid intruders inside the bag.

The Alice in Wonderland crash course on opening doors

Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
The Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.
Alice: I don’t much care where.
The Cheshire Cat: Then it doesn’t much matter which way you go.

golden gate to the Court

the doors in Paris have a special blue (+ golden here)

disheveled but still blue + golden accents

faded 

follow the line of blue doors and guess who’s at the end …

someone was here

window reflections

Look so smashing current & journalist flirting = such an ideal dream

The horsebit loafer: an affair to remember

It so happen I grew up in Tuscany and when I was in elementary school I remember day-dreaming to dress up as a grown-up with  corduroy pants, a “Flora” Gucci silk shirt, a pair of horsebit loafers (brown suede) and a Roberta di Camerino Bagonghi plush silk velveteen purse.

(image from www.robertadicamerino.it)

Truthfully, the only thing that belonged to me were the corduroy pants, the rest was my mother’s. 

This is 2013 and the Horsebit Loafer Collection is looking dapper and iconic at 60 years old. Worn by Hollywood’s who’s who in the ’50s, that double ring with bar element pilfered from the world of horseback riding became a symbol. Worn by Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver , Jane Birkin and Alain Delon, the loafer that takes up to two days to be produced has walked through the years reaching 

(image from www.gucci.com)

3 decades after playing dress-up, what’s left of those brown suede shoes are the two horsebits and a desire to own the loafers that go attached to them.