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Friday, January 30, 2015

F.O.: Chunky dark purple scarf

And here we go with another cold weather item...a dark purple chunky wool scarf, in a 100% wool yarn...
Simple, classic and easy to wear but in a non boring color!
The details are on my Etsy page as usual...

Ed eccoci con un altro pezzo invernale...una sciarpa di lana grossa, di un filato 100% pura lana viola scuro...
Semplice, classica, facile da indossare e in un colore non noioso!
I dettagli come al solito sono sulla mia pagina Etsy...







Thursday, January 29, 2015

Where I'm waisting too much time lately...

My oh my. As if Design Sponge and Apartment Therapy weren't enough already...I now discovered West Elm's design blog Front + Main.
I can get lost in there for hours...








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This site makes me want to redecorate my whole house. Not good. Sigh.

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Magical Mitteleuropa

The other night I finally saw my first Wes Anderson movie (I know, I know), which was The Grand Budapest Hotel. I've been told a milion times I should watch his movies but I hadn't had the chance to yet... I'm glad I finally did. I knew about his taste for beautiful, stylised and over the top photography and scenery so I was expecting that, which I did indeed love. What I wasn't expecting was the story to be so sweet, irreverently funny and entertaining. I loved it.
Somewhere the other day I read the title of an article that was something like: "The reason behind the symmetry in Wes Anderson's movies", or something along those lines. I never actually read the article but the title was enough to make me notice that eveything does infact tend to be symmetrical in his scenes, and this kind of drove me crazy during the whole movie... I had never noticed, but perfect symmetry can be slightly disturbing! I found that quite funny and for some reason it made me like the movie even more!
The next in line are The Royal Tenenbaums, Moonrise Kingdom, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Darjeeling Limited...

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L'altra sera ho finalmente visto il mio primo film di Wes Anderson (lo so, lo so), ossia The Grand Budapest Hotel. Mi hanno sempre consigliato i suoi film ma finora non ne avevo ancora visti, e sono decisamente contenta di esserci finalmente riuscita. Sapevo del suo gusto per le scenografie stilizzate e fantasiose, quindi mi aspettavo (come infatti è stato) di apprezzare quell'aspetto lì del suo cinema, quello che invece non mi aspettavo è stata la comicità raffinata e irriverente, la dolcezza dei personaggi e il ritmo incalzante della storia. Bellissimo.
L'altro giorno, non ricordo dove, ho letto il titolo di un articolo che diceva qualcosa tipo: "La perfetta simmetria nei film di Wes Anderson" o qualcosa del genere. Pur non avendo letto l'articolo in se', questo è stato sufficiente per farmi notare che in effetti le sue scene tendono ad essere quasi tutte simmetriche, e la cosa mi ha fatto un po' impazzire mentre vedevo il film! Non ci avevo mai fatto caso che la simmetria perfetta possa avere qualcosa di leggermente destabilizzante, e questa cosa, non so bene perchè, mi ha fatto apprezzare il film ancora di più.
I prossimi che voglio vedere sono The Royal Tenenbaums, Moonrise Kingdom, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou e The Darjeeling Limited...

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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

F.O.: Beige sweater with plunging neckline

I was seriously tempted to keep this one for myself, I have to admit! For this sweater I used an amazing peruvian yarn composed of 80% baby alpaca and 20% merino wool. It is so incredibly soft and decadently luxurious, and I am knitting a scarf with the remaining yarn!
The sweater is simple in shape but has a plunging rounded neckline to make it more interesting and garter stitch details around the edges and down the front.
And I love this soft beige color! It's classic, versatile and chic.
As always...details on my Etsy page, and if you want to read more about alpaca wool, take a look here.

Questa devo ammettere che ero molto tentata di tenermela. Qui ho usato una lava peruviana veramente incredibile, composta all'80% di baby alpaca e al 20% di merino. È di una morbidezza incredibile, veramente un filato di lusso, e con quello avanzato sto facendo una sciarpa che non vedo l'ora di finire!
La maglia ha una forma classica ma con uno scollo rotondo molto profondo per renderla più interessante, e dettagli a legaccio intorno ai bordi e lungo il centro del davanti. 
Anche il colore mi piace tantissimo, è un beige chiaro molto versatile e chic.
Come sempre, dettagli sulla mia pagina Etsy, e se volete qualche informazione in più sulla lana di alpaca leggete qui (è in inglese). 
 
 


Friday, January 23, 2015

In the Mood for Love and 2046

In the Mood for Love and 2046 by Wong Kar-wai are two of my favorite movies because of their beautiful photography, melanconic atmosphere, subtle yet intense acting, beautiful scenery, amazing soundtracks and, of course, gorgeous costume design.
In the Mood for Love (2000), is the story of a love affair, set in Hong Kong in the sixties, between the protagonist Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung) and his married next door neighbor Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung), and 2046 (2004) is ideally its sequel, where we see the protagonist years later as a writer living a more bohemian and nostalgic life. The first movie is more reminiscent of a theater play with a strong attention to the everyday lives of the characters and to the evolution of their discrete but intense love story, whereas the second one (which is probably my favorite) is a combination of the real life of the protagonist and the stories he writes, with a juxtaposition of images from his present day and from his futuristic novels. It is a truly beautiful movie. The music is incredible, especially La Polonaise by Shigeru Umebayashi, and don't make me mention the clothes! I have seen numerous fashion photoshoots inspired by these movies, William Chang, the editor and costume designer of the movies managed to take the already very elegant traditional chinese Cheongsam (Qipao) dress to a whole new level of sophistication, just look...







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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Ha! Love this.

What if popular literature classics had annoying click bait titles of the kind you read on facebook everyday?
It would look something like this...






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