Milan, 2011 fashion week

Emporio ArmaniIt was snowing heavily in Vancouver today, but Spring will be here soon. In Milan the 2011-2012 Women Fall and Winter collections show is in full motion. A bit confusing, I know, but this is how weather is behaving lately and this is how fashion works, showing collections several months in advance of the seasons. Today I could...

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Vicente Wolf and Vancouver

Patricia Gray, Vicente Wolf and Albarosa Simonetti at Buildex, Vancouver Convention CenterI may be the last to talk about Vicente Wolf visit to Vancouver  since already Peter of The Cross blog and Maria of Colour Me Happy blog were faster than me in putting together beautiful posts so last but not least here I am with my version: I joined...

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Midnight in Paris

A scene from “Midnight in Paris” (or afternoon in Monet’s garden in Giverny…)The new film by Woody Allen “Midnight in Paris” will open the 2011 Cannes Film Festival in May. The romantic comedy is described by the director of the Festival as “a wonderful love letter to Paris,”  adding: “It’s a film in which Woody Allen takes a deeper...

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For the love of cats!

Cats loooove cardboard boxes and cat lovers know well that their pets love to hide and spend time in areas not accessible to humans, but close enough so they can keep an eye on the situation. A brilliant Canadian company Loyal Luxe has created a series of little houses, dedicated to cats, in cardboard, to be easily assembled, inexpensive,...

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Sweet Valentine

Hard to resist to this beauty… San Valentino, on February 14,  273 AD, died as a Christian martyr's…little did he know about how this day would morphe into a crazy marketing of red merchandising, roses, lingerie, chocolate, same as in other celebrations, born on a religious belief and ended in a pagan ritual. But...

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I Saloni: 50 years young!

The Salone del Mobile in Milan, also called I Saloni,  is promoted this year with a touch of irony, a play on words referring to its spirit, always youthful and lively. Not even a square foot is available anymore, all the space is booked and I am sure it is the same for all the hotels in the city. From 12.100 visitors in 1961 to about...

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