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href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>136</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-5323658591047151695</id><published>2011-09-24T17:09:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-25T13:14:31.191+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Alber Elbaz'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friends'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lanvin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>It Happened In Paris</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IlPkHLHqJ9E/Tn3py37LZvI/AAAAAAAABpg/_MCm-YKhSzU/s1600/florelbaz001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IlPkHLHqJ9E/Tn3py37LZvI/AAAAAAAABpg/_MCm-YKhSzU/s400/florelbaz001.jpg" width="305" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Two times a year, in February and September, we travel to Paris for work, mainly to see the "Première Vision" fabric fair and do some shopping. Nothing much new at the fair for Fall/Winter 12/13 (the suppliers are playing it safe in this times of crisis), though there seems to be a return to classic tweeds and plaid patterns. Color wise, chartreuse and dusty mauve with warm earthy colors and a touch of bright vermillion had a certain mid-century feel, following the 40's and 50's trend.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Anyway, one exciting thing did happen during this trip: we were walking along St. Honoré and as we were looking at the Lanvin shop window there he was, Alber Elbaz in person, supervising and, yes, lending a helping hand. After a first moment of excitement we pulled ourselves together and entered the store calmly, keeping an eye on the window more than looking at the clothes. My friend Flor went up to him to tell him how much she admired him, and as we made our way out he waved good-bye at us. The nicest thing is that this man, who is undoubtedly one of the most important designers of our time, is down-to-earth enough to be involved even in the window display of his store. It takes real genius to be humble.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;And in a breach of my "no-street-style" policy I'm posting a picture of Flor, she was too lovely.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;***&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dos veces al año, en febrero y septiembre, viajamos a París por trabajo, principalmente a la ferie de tejidos "Première Vision" y para ir de tiendas. Pocas novedades en la feria para Otoño/Invierno 12/13 (los proveedores van sobre seguro en estos tiempos de crisis), aunque parece que hay una vuelta a los tweeds y cuadros clásicos. En cuanto a colores, "chartreuse" y malva con tonos tierra cálidos y un toque de bermellón tenían un aire retro, siguiendo la tendencia de los años 40 y 50.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bueno, una cosa emocionante sí sucedió durante este viaje: íbamos andando por St. Honoré y al mirar el escaparate de Lanvin allí estaba, Alber Elbaz en persona, supervisando y, sí, echando una mano. Tras un primer momento de excitación nos calmamos y entramos en la tienda tranquilamente, mirando de reojo el escaparate en vez de mirar la ropa. Mi amiga Flor se acercó a él para decirle cuanto le admiraba, y cuando salíamos él se despidió con la mano. Lo que me encanta es que esta hombre, que es sin duda alguna uno de los más importantes diseñadores de nuestra época, es lo bastante sencillo como para involucrarse hasta en el escaparate de su tienda. Hay que ser un genio para ser humilde.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Y rompiendo con mi política de "no-street-style" posteo una foto de Flor, estaba demasiado adorable.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eYaJu0Gg7lU/Tn3pMsHqbQI/AAAAAAAABpY/_oyBEUEoZGw/s1600/florparis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eYaJu0Gg7lU/Tn3pMsHqbQI/AAAAAAAABpY/_oyBEUEoZGw/s400/florparis.jpg" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Flor à Paris&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-5323658591047151695?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/5323658591047151695/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=5323658591047151695&amp;isPopup=true' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/5323658591047151695'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/5323658591047151695'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2011/09/it-happened-in-paris.html' title='It Happened In Paris'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IlPkHLHqJ9E/Tn3py37LZvI/AAAAAAAABpg/_MCm-YKhSzU/s72-c/florelbaz001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-1617980887974600413</id><published>2011-09-17T12:31:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-17T15:48:43.781+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Madrid Fashion Week'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Alvarno'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='runway'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>Alvarno SS12</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bXGNLrZdBpA/TnRrQNCb3_I/AAAAAAAABo0/pH4ZXO3rp3Y/s1600/alvarno004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bXGNLrZdBpA/TnRrQNCb3_I/AAAAAAAABo0/pH4ZXO3rp3Y/s640/alvarno004.jpg" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I've been impatient to write about it since I attended Alvarno's show Thursday evening, but I've been busy with a project I'm working on, that's another story I'll tell you about later. This show was the one (if not the only) event I was looking forward to in "Madrid Fashion Week". If I had a craving for glamour and luxury it is satisfied.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;One of the definitions of this collection was "the Spirit of Paris and the Light of Madrid". Spirit and Light, seduction and elegance, purity and luxury, dream and reality, magnetic poles that attract themselves in the beautiful designs of Arnaud and Álvaro, two designers with a brilliant career in fashion and that have created their own path together, shooting like a star in Madrid's (let's admit it) dull fashion panorama, but with their feet well on the ground.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The collections subtle and neutral colors -black, ivory, a very light soft taupe- highlighted the masterly draping and cut, the luxurious crêpe-de-chine and peau d'ange, keeping away from obvious references and focussing on an array of breathtaking cocktail and evening dresses. There was just the right touch of eccentricity in the accessories and details, made of a extremely fine metallic and glass bead crochet, bracelets, necklaces, brooches, shoulder pads (somewhat reminiscent of Balenciaga's "torero" jackets), even a transparent short dress made entirely using this technique, in soft peach and yellow, that achieved what seems almost impossible, to be at the same time absolutely sexy and elegant at the same time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Gratis Total has a great post with all these details at &lt;a href="http://www.trendencias.com/cibeles/alvarno-primavera-verano-2012-hay-moda-fuera-de-ifema"&gt;Trendencias&lt;/a&gt;, and don't miss &lt;a href="http://www.alvarno.com/"&gt;Alvarno&lt;/a&gt;'s official website for more information.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;***&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Estaba impaciente por escribir sobre esto desde que vi el desfile de Alvarno el jueves por la tarde, pero estoy ocupado con un proyecto en el que estoy metido, esa es otra historia que ya os contaré. Este desfile era uno de (si no el único) los eventos que más ilusión me hacía de la &amp;nbsp;"Madrid Fashion Week". Si tenía algún antojo de glamour y lujo ya está satisfecho.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Una de las definiciones de esta colección era "el Espíritu de París y la Luz de Madrid". Espíritu y Luz, seducción y elegancia, pureza y lujo, sueño y realidad, polos magnéticos que se atraen en los bellos diseños de Arnaud y Álvaro, dos diseñadores con una brillante carrera en moda que han creado su propio camino juntos, despuntando como una estrella en el (admitámoslo) aburrido panorama de la moda en Madrid, pero con los pies bien en el tierra.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Los colores sutiles y neutros de la colección -negro, marfil, un suave topo claro- resaltaban la maestría de los drapeados y los cortes, los lujosos crêpe-de-chine y peau d'ange, alejándose de referencias demasiado obvias y centrándose en una serie de arrebatadores vestidos de cocktail y noche. El toque justo de excentricidad lo aportaban los accesorios y los detalles, realizados en un fino crochet de hilo metálico y cuentas de cristal, pulseras, collares, broches, hombreras (con alguna reminiscencia de las toreras de Balenciaga), hasta un transparente vestido corto hecho enteramente en esta técnica, en suaves colores melocotón y amarillo, que conseguía lo que parece imposible, ser al mismo tiempo absolutamente sexy y elegante.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Gratis Total tiene un post genial con todos los detalles en&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.trendencias.com/cibeles/alvarno-primavera-verano-2012-hay-moda-fuera-de-ifema"&gt;Trendencias&lt;/a&gt;, y no os perdáis la web oficial de&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.alvarno.com/"&gt;Alvarno&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;para más información.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-1617980887974600413?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/1617980887974600413/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=1617980887974600413&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/1617980887974600413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/1617980887974600413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2011/09/alvarno-ss12.html' title='Alvarno SS12'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bXGNLrZdBpA/TnRrQNCb3_I/AAAAAAAABo0/pH4ZXO3rp3Y/s72-c/alvarno004.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-3237320409345204331</id><published>2011-09-09T12:52:00.012+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-27T21:56:38.487+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='books'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fashion history'/><title type='text'>Le Théâtre de la Mode</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;This is one of my favorite fashion book. Not only because of the beautiful clothes, but also because of the story behind them. I saw the "Théâtre de la Mode" exhibition in Paris more than twenty years ago, but it inspires me still to this day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;This book is the catalogue for the 1990 exhibition, with beautiful photographs by David Seidner and wonderful texts by Edmonde Charles-Roux, Herbert R. Lottman, Stanley Garfinkel and Nadine Gase, published by Du May in French and Rizolli in English.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;***&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Este es uno de mis libros de moda favoritos. No solo por los preciosos vestidos, sino por la historia que hay detrás de ellos. Ví la exposición del "Théâtre de la Mode" en París hace más de veinte años, pero a día de hoy me sigue inspirando.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Este libro es el catálogo de la exposición de 1990, con bellas fotografías de David Seidner y maravillosos textos por Edmonde Cahrles-Roux, Herbert R. Lottman, Stanley Garfinkel y Nadine Gase, publicado por Du May en francés y Rizolli en inglés.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bO74UxCknMU/TmnrL0iI6SI/AAAAAAAABoY/VfXlHHfH3_U/s1600/009695f.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bO74UxCknMU/TmnrL0iI6SI/AAAAAAAABoY/VfXlHHfH3_U/s320/009695f.jpg" width="226" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Fashion - as any form of human creativity - is an unstoppable force. It keeps evolving through the most difficult times in History, through the falls of empires, through revolutions, invasions and wars, and is shaped by&amp;nbsp; the unavoidable social changes these bring.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Probably nowhere has this been so true as in the modern history of France, ever since Paris became the center of fashion in the XVIIth century, due in part to the capital importance of fashion and luxury goods in French economy since the reign of Louis XIV, and in part to a certain French - or more specifically Parisian - spirit, which is not without some pride in it's (real or perceived) stylistic superiority.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Pre-revolutionary ideas influenced the clothing of the privileged upper classes of the Ancien Régime with their ideals of freedom and simplicity, and the increasingly maddening pace of changing fashions in the XVIIIth century didn't come to a stop during the revolution and the subsequent Reign of Terror, but seemed to increase in a frenzy of novelty. Napoleon's reign, the Bourbon restoration, Republics, the Second Empire, the Industrial Revolution were met with new styles and fads, focused on the even changing volume of the skirts in the second half of the XIXth century under the dictatorship of the first "couturier", Charles Frederick Worth. The Great War in 1914 put an abrupt end to the Belle Époque but not to fashion. A little milliner named Gabrielle Chanel was on her way to create the look of the new century.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;In June 1940, less than a year after the beginning of the Second World War, Paris was occupied with German forces. The most necessary things were scarce or lacking, simple things as coffee, stockings or chocolate became unatainable luxury items, and shortage affected fabrics and leather which were produced in less quantity and were needed for military supplies. Attired with their simple clothes, wearing hats made with imagination and whatever material was available, messenger bags swung across the shoulder, the chic "parisiennes" travelled through the city on their bicycles and attended dimly lit dinner parties where guests shared their meagre rationing coupons. Elegance was a brave and cheeky smile in the face of adversity, a proof that they may have been conquered, but not yet vanquished.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;***&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;La moda -como cualquier forma de creatividad humana - es una fuerza imparable. sigue evolucionando a través de las más duras etapas de la Historia, a través de la caída de imperios, revoluciones, invasiones y guerras, y es moldeada por los inevitables cambios sociales que estas traen.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Probablemente en ningún sitio ha sido esto más cierto que en la moderna historia de Francia, desde que París se erigió como centro de la moda en el siglo XVII, debido en parte a la capital importancia de la moda y los bienes de lujo en la economía francesa desde el reinado de Luis XIV, y en parte a cierto espíritu francés -o más específicamente parisino - no desprovisto de un cierto orgullo en su (real o percibida) superioridad estilística.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;las ideas pre-revolucionarias influenciaron la vestimenta de las clases privilegiadas del Antiguo Régimen con sus ideales de libertad y sencillez, y el acelerado ritmo de las modas cambiantes en el siglo XVIII no paró durante la revolución y el posterior "Reindo del Terror", si no que se incrementó aún un más en un auténtico frenesí de novedades. El reino de Napoleón, la restauración de los Borbones, repúblicas, el Segundo Imperio, la Revolución Industrial dieron pié a nuevos estilos y modas, enfocados al siempre cambiante volumen de las faldas en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, bajo la dictadura del primer "couturier", Charles Frederick Worth. La Gran Guerra en 1914 puso un abrupto final a la Belle Époque pero no a la moda. Una pequeña sombrerera llamada Gabrielle Chanel estaba encaminada a crear el "look" del nuevo siglo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;En junio de 1940, menos de un año desde el principio de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, París fue ocupada por las fuerzas alemanas. Hasta lo más necesario faltaba o escaseaba, cosas tan sencillas como el café, las medias o el chocolate se convirtieron en bienes de lujo inalcanzables, y la escasez afectaba a los tejidos o al cuero, que se producían en menos cantidad y eran necesarios para suministrar a los ejércitos. Vestidas con sus sencillas ropas, llevando sombreros hechos con imaginación y cualquier material que estuviera disponible, bolsos de bandolera cruzados sobre el hombro, las "parisiennes" chic viajaban a través de la cuidad en bicicleta y acudían a cenas escasamente iluminadas donde los invitados compartían sus cartillas de racionamiento. La elegancia era una valiente y descarada sonrisa frente a la adversidad, la prueba de que habían sido conquistadas, pero aún no vencidas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2JKUktmr0hM/Tmnso-Z_zAI/AAAAAAAABoc/7UZq5aaooRg/s1600/theatre001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="309" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2JKUktmr0hM/Tmnso-Z_zAI/AAAAAAAABoc/7UZq5aaooRg/s320/theatre001.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;In February 1945 Paris had been liberated for a few months already, but war was still raging in many parts of Europe, millions had died and many others had been left homeless. The winter was bitterly cold and fuel and coal were scarcer than ever. It was in this very moment of absolute deprivation that someone had an idea that only a frenchman could have. Raoul Dautry, the president of "l'Entraide Française", the organism in charge of distributing aid to the victims of the war, asked Robert Ricci, from the "Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture Parisienne" to plan an event that would show "the vitality that still existed in couture and the fashion industries, and that the same time would prove that these industries were committed to the plight of the needy, and ready to make a great effort to relieve them"*.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;Due to the lack of resources, it was finally decided to show the new creations of the couturiers on dolls, the small scale of which would use much less materials. The dolls, about two feet high, were designed by Eliane Bonabel, the body formed by a wire frame with plaster heads by sculptor Joan Rebull. The dolls were to be placed in sets created by important artists of the time: Christian Bérard, Jean Cocteau, Emilio Terry, Emili Grau-Sala, Louis Touchagues and many other. Seamstresses, milliners, shoe and glove makers started working eagerly, enduring the cold and the electricity shortages, making exquisite miniatures with real pockets and linings, lovingly finishing every detail of the outfits: tiny belts, brooches, flowers, umbrellas and even underwear.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;***&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;En febrero de 1945 París había sido liberada desde hacía unos meses, pero la guerra seguía desgarrando muchas partes de Europa, millones habían muerto y otros muchos no tenían hogar. El invierno era extremadamente frío y el fuel y el carbón eran más escasos que nunca. Fue en este momento de absoluta penuria que alguien tuvo una idea que solo un francés podría tener. Raoul Dautry, el presidente de "l'Entraide Française", el organismo a cargo de distribuir las ayudas a las víctimas de la guerra, le pidió a Robert Ricci, de la "Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture Parisienne" que planeara un acontecimiento que mostrara "la vitalidad que aún existía en las industrias de la costura y de la moda, y que a la vez probara que estas industrias estaban comprometidas con la situación de los necesitados, y dispuestas a hacer un gran esfuerzo para aliviarla"*.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Debido a la escasez de recursos se decidió mostrar las nuevas creaciones de los "couturiers" sobre muñecas, la reducida escala de las cuales emplearía muchos menos materiales. Las muñecas, de unos 70 cm, fueron diseñadas por Eliane Bonabel, el cuerpo formado por una estructura de alambre y con cabeza de escayola por el escultor Joan Rebull. Las muñecas se colocarían en decorados hechos por importantes artistas de la época: Christian Bérard, Jean Cocteau, Emilio Terry, Emili Grau-Sala, Louis Touchagues y otros muchos. Costureras, sombrereras, guanteros y zapateros empezaron a trabajar con entusiasmo, a pesar del frío y los cortes de electricidad, haciendo exquisitas miniaturas, completas con forros y bolsillos, acabando amorosamente cada detalle: minúsculos cinturones, broches, flores, sombrillas y hasta lencería.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RWwn-MpmO_U/TmnuGTdNeiI/AAAAAAAABok/6McliXR7npE/s1600/theatre002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RWwn-MpmO_U/TmnuGTdNeiI/AAAAAAAABok/6McliXR7npE/s320/theatre002.jpg" width="301" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Uk9ZkP8uRXg/TmnuF0xjHmI/AAAAAAAABog/jvG2gt6iFxk/s1600/theatre003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Uk9ZkP8uRXg/TmnuF0xjHmI/AAAAAAAABog/jvG2gt6iFxk/s320/theatre003.jpg" width="301" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;On March 27 1945 the exhibition opened at the Pavillon de Marsan. It was a huge success. It was visited by 100.000 parisians and it raised an important sum for the "Entraide Française" before travelling to London and the United States. The exhibition not only showed the vitality of French Couture to the world, to the public of Paris it meant much more, it showed them that, like a flower blooming after a long dark winter, in spite of the endless horrors of war, in spite of deprivation and loss, beauty was still possible, and it gave them back the confidence in their identity and the pride in one of their most revered national treasures: le chic parisien.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;***&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;El 27 de marzo de 1945 se inauguró la exposición en el Pavillon de Marsan. Fue un enorme éxito. Fue visitada por 100.000 parisinos y recaudó una importante suma para la "Entraide Française" antes de viajar a Londres y los Estados Unidos. La exposición no solo mostraba la vitalidad de la Alta Costura francesa al mundo, para el publico de París significaba mucho más, les mostraba que, como una flor que florece tras un largo y oscuro invierno, a pesar de los infinitos horrores de la guerra, a pesar de las penurias y las pérdidas, había sitio para la belleza, y les devolvió la confianza en su identidad y el orgullo en uno de sus más preciados tesoros nacionales: le chic parisien.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EtazHq-eS6A/TmnucEnv3aI/AAAAAAAABoo/AUKYSLqjPzk/s1600/balmainfeathers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EtazHq-eS6A/TmnucEnv3aI/AAAAAAAABoo/AUKYSLqjPzk/s400/balmainfeathers.jpg" width="288" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Balmain&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Almost half a century later the dolls were found in the Maryhill Museum in Goldendale, Washington, and in 1990 the exhibition was brought back to Paris, to the same Pavillon de Marsan. The light were turned on again in the faithfully rebuilt sets, and the magic of fashion triumphing over the hardships of war was alive again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;***&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Casi medio siglo después las muñecas fueron encontradas en el Maryhill Museum en Goldendale, Washington, y en 1990 la exposición volvió a París, al mismo Pavillon de Marsan. Se volvieron a encender las luces en los decorados fielmente reconstruidos, y la magia de la moda triunfando sobre las penurias de la guerra cobró vida de nuevo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OYihNAu6G9o/Tmnus0fEHfI/AAAAAAAABos/XlAZUMEn88c/s1600/proxy-2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OYihNAu6G9o/Tmnus0fEHfI/AAAAAAAABos/XlAZUMEn88c/s400/proxy-2.jpeg" width="282" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Jean Patou, "Fleurs du Mal"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-x9nfHGMUbzc/Tmnutrs9PcI/AAAAAAAABow/HW0YKH5Y3S0/s1600/proxy.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-x9nfHGMUbzc/Tmnutrs9PcI/AAAAAAAABow/HW0YKH5Y3S0/s400/proxy.jpeg" width="282" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"&gt;Marcel Dhorme&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;* Robert Ricci "Le Théatre de la Mode"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;All photographs extracted from the boon "Le Théatre de la Mode" (Du May/Rizzolli)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-3237320409345204331?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/3237320409345204331/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=3237320409345204331&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/3237320409345204331'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/3237320409345204331'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2011/09/le-theatre-de-la-mode.html' title='Le Théâtre de la Mode'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bO74UxCknMU/TmnrL0iI6SI/AAAAAAAABoY/VfXlHHfH3_U/s72-c/009695f.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-382139955292887638</id><published>2011-08-24T23:11:00.009+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-09T12:53:52.479+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grooming'/><title type='text'>Growing Pains</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Fly-EImyqGs/TlaKsRZsN0I/AAAAAAAABoQ/xSZkCLDXErw/s1600/LC1125-600Border.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Fly-EImyqGs/TlaKsRZsN0I/AAAAAAAABoQ/xSZkCLDXErw/s400/LC1125-600Border.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you've ever been through that awkward phase where you're trying to grow your hair you'll understand my plight. It's not short anymore, it's not long yet, it doesn't have any shape, you don't know if it's better to get a trim once in a while, even if that means it going to take longer to grow, or just live with it hoping someday it will become more manageable...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's the problem, my hair is unmanageable. No matter what. It's thin, coarse, straight and I have a lot of it (which, for a man my age is a heavenly blessing, that's the bright side). I can blow dry it, use a curling iron, gel it back, use hairspray, styling wax, and/or any combination of the aforementioned... and it will just go back to it's own rebellious natural state. And before you ask I also tried washing it and leave it dry naturally. It becomes a nice big fluffy cotton candy. The big truth is: it only starts looking good when I haven't washed it for two or three days, but I haven't managed to replicate the look with any of the products I've tried.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because that's another thing... the products. I don't know if it's my impossible hair or the products that fail to live up to their promises. "Flexible hold" is an euphemism for "barely any hold" as far as I am concerned, and a hairspray that claims to "Disappear at the stroke of a brush" also disappears as soon as I run my fingers through my hair. "Strong hold" gels give my hair the texture of glue-dipped straw if I use too little or turns my hair into papier-maché if I use too much (my head is hard enough like that, thankyouverymuch) without achieving the desired effect, which is holding my hair in place. Even an "Indestructible" wax that didn't go away after THREE shampoos (and that I ended up throwing away) failed miserably. And yes, I've tried many, expensive salon products (with fancy mineral bases and organic plant extracts) and supermarket over-the-counter stuff, all in vain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the end the dilemma comes down to this: one day I think "what the hell" and want to cut it short, and the next I decide to be patient and wait a few months more see what happens. Why long (well, I'm not talking about loooong like down to my waist, maybe around the jawline and then we'll see), and why now? Well, I don't know, I've been wearing it long on top for a while and I'm curious to see what the rest of it can become, and I've never had it long except for a short "Kurt Cobain" phase in the mid-90's... or am I wasting my time and should I cut it? Oh, here we go again!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Si alguna vez habéis pasado por esa incómoda&amp;nbsp; fase en la que queríais dejaros crecer el pelo entendereis mi situación. Ya no está corto, todavía no está largo, no tiene forma, no se sabe si es mejor hacerse un arreglo de vez en cuando, aunque signifique que tardará más en crecer, o vivir con ello esperando que algún día sea más manejable...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ese es el problema, mi pelo no es nada manejable. Haga lo que haga. Es fino, duro, liso y tengo mucho (lo cual, para un hombre de mi edad, es una bendición, es el lado positivo). Puedo usar secador, tenacillas, engominármelo, usar laca, cera, y/o cualquier combinación de los anteriores... y al poco tiempo volverá a su rebelde estado natural. Y antes de que me lo pregunteis, también he intentado lavármelo y dejarlo secar al aire, adquiere la suave textura del algodón de azúcar. La gran verdad es esta: solo empieza a estar bien cuando no me lo he lavado en dos o tres días, pero no he conseguido reproducir ese efecto con ninguno de los productos que he probado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Porque esa es otra... los productos. No sé si es mi pelo imposible o los productos que no consiguen el efecto que prometen. "Fijación flexible" es un eufemismo para "Casi ninguna fijación" por lo que he podido comprobar en mí, y una a laca que anuncia que "Se elimina con un simple cepillado" también se elimina en cuanto me paso los dedos por el pelo. Los geles de "Fijación fuerte" dan a mi pelo una textura de estropajo encolado si uso poco o convierten mi cabeza en papier-maché si uso demasiasdo (mi cabeza ya es lo bastante dura, graciasperonogracias) sin conseguir el efecto deseado, que es mantener mi pelo en su sitio. Hasta una cera "Indestructible" que no se iba ni con TRES lavados (y que acabé tirando a la basura) fracasó miserablemente. Y sí, he probado muchos, los caros de peluquería (con compuestos minerales y extractos de plantas orgánicas) y los de perfumería de toda la vida, todo en vano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Al final el dilema se reduce a esto: un día pienso "qué demonios" y quiero cortarlo corto, y al siguiente decido ser paciente y esperar unos meses a ver qué pasa. ¿Porqué largo (bueno, no me refiero a laaaaargo por la cintura, tal vez por la barbilla y luego ya veremos), y porqué ahora? Pues no sé, lo he llevado largo por arribe desde hace ya un tiempo y tengo curiosidad por ver qué pasa con el resto, y nunca lo he tenido largo excepto por una corta fase "Kurt Cobain" a mediados de los 90... ¿o estoy perdiendo el tiempo y debería cortarlo? ¡Oh, ya empezamos otra vez!&lt;/i&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Update:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--pHGrfwhRrQ/Tl39KzzNeaI/AAAAAAAABoU/CtAxOb8aVwU/s1600/3700194715984_8ozBottle_CremewithSilkGroom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--pHGrfwhRrQ/Tl39KzzNeaI/AAAAAAAABoU/CtAxOb8aVwU/s1600/3700194715984_8ozBottle_CremewithSilkGroom.jpg" style="cursor: move;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Thank you all for your comments, they're really helping me to go courageously through this phase. So I finally found something that actually helps: Khiel's&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.kiehls.com/Creme-with-Silk-Groom/262,default,pd.html?start=1&amp;amp;cgid=hair-styling-aids"&gt;Creme with Silk Groom&lt;/a&gt;. It tames the hair controlling the fluffiness and actually gives it that "second day" look without making it greasy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-style: normal; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Gracias a todos por vuestros comentarios, me están ayudando mucho a afrontar con valor esta fase. Al final he encontrado algo que funciona bastante bien:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.Kiehls.es/cabello/fijacion/creme-with-silk-groom.aspx"&gt;Creme with Silk Groom&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;de Khiels. Deja el pelo más manejable y controla el volumen, y consigue ese efecto "segundo día" sin engrasarlo...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-382139955292887638?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/382139955292887638/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=382139955292887638&amp;isPopup=true' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/382139955292887638'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/382139955292887638'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2011/08/growing-pains.html' title='Growing Pains'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Fly-EImyqGs/TlaKsRZsN0I/AAAAAAAABoQ/xSZkCLDXErw/s72-c/LC1125-600Border.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-5882495316750359290</id><published>2011-07-29T22:32:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-17T14:00:05.372+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Balenciaga'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friends'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>Balenciaga in Getaria</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NYwo2ZyqTME/TjMFTLP-DvI/AAAAAAAABnw/-6UeLKR7Vdg/s1600/balenciaga008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NYwo2ZyqTME/TjMFTLP-DvI/AAAAAAAABnw/-6UeLKR7Vdg/s640/balenciaga008.jpg" width="520" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;First of all, don't laugh, but I hadn't updated in such a long long time I had forgotten my password... anyway, I'm not going to indulge in my natural tendency to justify myself, I'll just say I was waiting for something really interesting to share with you. There. So, last week-end we did a quick jump to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Sebasti%C3%A1n"&gt;San Sebastian&lt;/a&gt;, which is of course a beautiful city with great food, friendly people and always a pleasure to visit, but our primary purpose was to share some time with a dear friend who's leaving on what we (or I, at least) believe will be a wonderful and exciting adventure in her life. Our secondary purpose, and the one I want to talk about here (because, my dears, you know I don't want this blog to be about my life) was to visit the newly inaugurated Balenciaga Museum in his hometown, Getaria.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Where does one start about Balenciaga? Actually, you know, what impressed me most was that his clothes were so real, so "down to earth" in reality. The art and genius of his creations is his unwillingness to compromise with anything that is not essential to a garment, his respect for the human form, his austerity. Even when a gown is literally covered with, say, heavy jet embroidery, it seems absolutely and without any doubt necessary. One of the most interesting parts of the exhibit were the wedding dresses, where his intention can be clearly seen. Luxurious but of an almost monastic simplicity, their aim is to showcase what is really important: the bride.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The museum not only displays the garments, it sheds light on his background, on how he was influenced (specially by Madeleine Vionnet whom he admired, and by how designers in the 1910's &amp;nbsp;and 1920's changed the way women related to their clothes) and how how he influenced others, those who worked with him (Courrèges, de la Renta, Ungaro) and those who didn't but were under his influence, like Givenchy. Influence and respect from his fellow designers and possible rivals. He was the only designer Coco Chanel respected and admired apart form herself, and Dior humbly said "We do what we can with fabric, Balenciaga does what he wants".&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;It is often said that Picasso killed art.&amp;nbsp;Maybe unwillingly (or not, hmmm) Balenciaga killed fashion, in a way. After him of course fashion has evolved in many ways, breaking gender and class stereotypes, and shifting form the bourgeois and aristocratic ruling class to street and youth culture, and giving fashionable uses for garments that were not intended to be fashionable (though Chanel had already done that, it was her revolution), but I don't think it has evolved that much in form itself, which is the main reason for the continuous resurgence of revivals that started in the late sixties. Because after all, can ther be anything more basic than a sack dress? It's just a straight thing with two armholes. A beautiful thing though.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;(I took pictures, but there was little light in the museum to preserve the dresses, they turned out a bit blurry, you'd better visit the &lt;a href="http://cristobalbalenciagamuseoa.com/Ingles.html"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;... or the museum if you have a chance.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Lo primero, no os riáis pero hace tanto tanto tiempo que no actualizaba que había olvidado mi contraseña... en todo caso, no voy a caer en mi tendencia natural a justificarme, solo diré que estaba esperando tener algo realmente interesante que compartir con vosotros. Ahí queda eso. Bueno, pues el fin de semana pasado hicimos un salto a &lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Sebastian"&gt;San Sebastian&lt;/a&gt;, que por supuesto es una cuidad preciosa, con comida buenísima y gente amable&amp;nbsp;a la que siempre es un placer volver, aunque nuestro objetivo principal era compartir este tiempo con una querida amiga que emprende lo que creemos (a yo, al menos, creo) será una preciosa y emocionante etapa de su vida. Nuestro objetivo secundario, y del que os quiero hablar (porque, queridos, ya sabéis que este blog no trata sobre mi vida) era la visita al Museo Baleciaga en su cuidad natal, Getaria.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;¿Por donde empieza uno a hablar sobre Balenciaga? Sabéis, lo que más impresionado es que sus prendas eran tan de verdad, tan "de pies en el suelo" en realidad. El arte y el genio de sus creaciones es su negativa al compromiso con todo lo que no era esencial en una prenda, su respeto por la forma humana, su austeridad. Aunque un vestido esté literalmente cubierto con, digamos, un bordado de azabaches, parece absolutamente y sin asomo de duda necesario. Una de las partes más interesantes de la exposición eran los vestidos de novia, en los que su intención queda clara. Lujosos pero de una sencillez casi monacal, su propósito es poner en valor lo que realmente importa: a la novia.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;El museo no solo expone las prendas, arroja luz sobre sus orígenes, sobre como fue influido (especialmente por Madeleine Vionnet a la que admiraba, y por como los diseñadores en los años 1910 y 1920 cambiaron la relación entre las mujeres y su ropa) y sobre como influenció a otros, los que trabajaron con él (Courrèges, de la Renta, Ungaro) y los que no pero estuvieron bajo su influencia, como Givenchy. Influencia y respeto por parte de sus colegas de profesión y posibles rivales. Era el único diseñador (lo siento, odio la palabra "modisto") al que Coco Chanel respetaba y admirada aparte de a sí misma, y Dior declaró humildemente "Nosotros hacemos lo que podemos con los tejidos, Balenciaga hace lo que quiere".&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Se dice a menudo que Picasso mató al arte.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;Tal vez sin querer (o no, hmmm) Balenciaga mató a la moda, de alguna manera. Después de él por supuesto la moda ha evolucionado de muchas maneras, rompiendo estereotipos de género y clase, y desplazándose de las clases dominantes burguesas y aristocráticas a la cultura de la juventud y de la calle, y dando usos en la moda a prendas que no estabas destinadas para ello (aunque Chanel ya lo había hecho, esa era su revolución), pero no creo que haya evolucionado mucho en lo que es la forma en sí, lo cual es la razón principal del continuo resurgir de revivals que comenzó a finales de los 60. Porque, al fin y al cabo ¿qué puede haber más básico que un vestido saco? Solo es una cosa recta con dos sisas. Una cosa hermosa, sin embargo.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;(Hice fotos, pero había poca luz en el museo para proteger los vestidos, salieron un poco borrosas, mejor visitad la &lt;a href="http://cristobalbalenciagamuseoa.com/index.php?idioma=1"&gt;página web&lt;/a&gt;... y el museo si tenéis ocasión)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-5882495316750359290?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/5882495316750359290/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=5882495316750359290&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/5882495316750359290'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/5882495316750359290'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2011/07/balenciaga-in-getaria.html' title='Balenciaga in Getaria'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NYwo2ZyqTME/TjMFTLP-DvI/AAAAAAAABnw/-6UeLKR7Vdg/s72-c/balenciaga008.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-3620735625448924695</id><published>2011-03-08T15:19:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-08T17:11:19.603+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bloggers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friends'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>Interview by Gratis Total</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-l0sUSOxM0_Q/TXY3O_TNckI/AAAAAAAABno/ENFU3Dq9zvY/s1600/fotogra.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-l0sUSOxM0_Q/TXY3O_TNckI/AAAAAAAABno/ENFU3Dq9zvY/s640/fotogra.jpg" width="425" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This is going to be a very short post. I am fortunate enough to know personally some of the best bloggers in Spain, and to have shared with them some very special moments. One of them, Raquel, from&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://raquel-gratistotal.blogspot.com/"&gt;Gratis Total&lt;/a&gt;, wanted to interview me, which is very flattering and also made me feel a bit bashful. You can read the interview &lt;a href="http://raquel-gratistotal.blogspot.com/2011/03/entrevista-con-alejandro-van-rooy.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. I am kind of speechless, so I just want to say thank you Raquel (for the interview and the pictures, she's such a good photogapher!), and everyone who left all the nice comments at her blog. ♥&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;(I will put the interview up on a page here and add an English transcript soon)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Este va a ser un post muy corto. Tengo la suerte de conocer personalmente a algunos de los mejores blogueros de España, y de haber compartido con ellos momentos muy especiales. Una de ellos, Raquel, de&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://raquel-gratistotal.blogspot.com/"&gt;Gratis Total&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;, quería entrevistarme, lo cual es halagador y a la vez me ha sonrojado un poco. Podéis leer la entrevista &lt;a href="http://raquel-gratistotal.blogspot.com/2011/03/entrevista-con-alejandro-van-rooy.html"&gt;aquí&lt;/a&gt;. Me he quedado como sin palabras, así que solo quiero dar las gracias a Raquel (por las entrevistas y por las fotos, ¡es tan buena fotógrafa!), y a todos los que habéis dejado comentarios tan amables en su blog. ♥&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;(Añadiré la entrevista en una página aquí en breve)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-3620735625448924695?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/3620735625448924695/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=3620735625448924695&amp;isPopup=true' title='15 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/3620735625448924695'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/3620735625448924695'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2011/03/interview.html' title='Interview by Gratis Total'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-l0sUSOxM0_Q/TXY3O_TNckI/AAAAAAAABno/ENFU3Dq9zvY/s72-c/fotogra.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>15</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-6305852377004763556</id><published>2011-03-02T23:08:00.020+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-08T15:24:46.263+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Galliano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dior'/><title type='text'>Le Scandale</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-C0djFZnWxWc/TXY8HZJP-uI/AAAAAAAABns/WIFXfbm9Tnc/s1600/diorJ015small.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-C0djFZnWxWc/TXY8HZJP-uI/AAAAAAAABns/WIFXfbm9Tnc/s640/diorJ015small.jpg" width="426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div face="Helvetica" size="12px" style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;I didn't really want to comment on the Galliano affair in itself, it's all we've been talking about these days and, yes, it's shocking, and yes, I have my personal opinion... but I think we just see the tip of the iceberg. And since I don't know Mr. Galliano personally I don't know if he was joking, serious, drunk (well, actually that seemed quite clear, right?), and/or if he has a substance abuse problem. For the moment he's checking into rehab, and his career at Dior is over.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div face="Helvetica" size="12px" style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;Sometimes when things like this happen we feel the need to stop and look back. First of all I don't want to give the idea that I am reveling in his disgrace. Whatever I think today about his work I have always thought, and what I may now think about his person is irrelevant. I don't like judging people without knowing all the facts. His situation is unhappy enough, however unfortunate his comments have been -and without really being able to know his true intentions- his punishment has been very hard. Secondly I also want to make very clear that I admire his talent, I think he is a great cutter, has a great sense of color, and of course has an inborn sense of show business. I have enjoyed his shows and been in awe of some of his dresses (I even chose one of them to illustrate a &lt;a href="http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-start-again-and-again-and-again.html"&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; recently) which I am sure are impeccably crafted, but the lingering doubt I always had is about his true contribution to the Maison Dior. Yes, his shows were the most talked about and the most photographed, sales for perfumes and cosmetics sky-rocketed and the doors for the multi-billion market of emerging capitalist countries have flung wide open. But there are other questions that arise behind this commercial success and media hype. Is it fashion, in the sense that his designs have helped push the boundaries forward? Or, is it elegant? Or, does it really matter that now Dior mostly attracts a flashy and nouveau-riche crowd? For me, and it a personal feeling that I understand you might not share, there was always an after-taste of parody, his shows sometimes gave me the impression of a troop of luxurious drag-queens mimicking Victoire and Dovima, and I often felt the uncomfortable feeling of not knowing wether the women in these shows were enshrined as goddesses or trapped like slaves in corsets and brocades. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div face="Helvetica" size="12px" style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div face="Helvetica" size="12px" style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;En realidad no quería comentar sobre al asunto Galliano en sí, no hemos hablado de otra cosa estos días y, sí, es un escándalo, y sí, tengo mi opinión personal... pero creo que solo vemos la punta del iceberg. Y ya que no conozco al Sr. Galliano en persona no sé si estaba bromeando, hablaba en serio, estaba borracho (bueno, eso sí parece que estaba claro ¿no?), y/o si tiene algún problema con el abuso de sustancias. Por el momento ingresa en rehabilitación, y su carrera en Dior está acabada.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div face="Helvetica" size="12px" style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;A veces cuando pasan cosas así tenemos la necesidad de pararnos y mirar hacia atrás. En primer lugar no quiero que parezca que me regodeo en su desgracia. Lo que pienso hoy sobre su trabajo lo he pensado siempre, y lo que ahora pueda pensar sobre su persona es irrelevante. No me gusta juzgar a la gente sin conocer todos los hechos. Su situación ya es lo bastante mala, y por desafortunados que fueran sus comentarios -y sin realmente poder saber sus verdaderas intenciones- su castigo ha sido muy duro. En segundo lugar también quiero dejar muy claro que admiro su talento, creo que es un gran cortador, que tiene un gran sentido del color, y por supuesto tiene un innato sentido del espectáculo. He disfrutado de sus desfiles y me han asombrado algunos de sus vestidos (de hecho elegí uno para ilustrar un &lt;a href="http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-start-again-and-again-and-again.html"&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; hace poco) que estoy seguro están impecablemente confeccionados, pero la pequeña duda que siempre he tenido es sobre su verdadera contribución a la casa Dior. Sí, sus desfiles eran los más comentados y los más fotografiados, las ventas de perfumes y cosméticos se dispararon y las puestas del multimillonario mercado de los países de capitalismo emergente se han abierto de par en par. Pero tras este éxito comercial y mediático se plantean otras preguntas. ¿Es moda, en el sentido que sus diseños han ayudado a empujar los límites? O ¿es elegante? O ¿realmente importa que ahora Dior atraiga sobre todo a un público de horteras y nuevas ricas? Para mí, y es un sentimiento personal que entiendo que no compartáis, siempre ha habido un regusto de parodia, sus desfiles a veces me daban la impresión de una tropa de lujosas drag-queens imitando a Victoire y Dovima, y a menudo he sentido la incómoda sensación de no saber si las mujeres en esos desfiles eran ensalzadas como diosas o atrapadas como esclavas entre corsés y brocados. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div face="Helvetica" size="12px" style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zltjORvhfW4/TW7FgeioOtI/AAAAAAAABlI/Xo6KCazDYoA/s1600/diorgallianopolas.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579614150103415506" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zltjORvhfW4/TW7FgeioOtI/AAAAAAAABlI/Xo6KCazDYoA/s400/diorgallianopolas.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 307px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div face="Helvetica" size="12px" style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;Of course his inventiveness in those collections was endless, and his technique incredibly skillful, but if you look closely at the original Dior designs you will see that the drapes, gathers, twists, fake collars, impossible sleeves and trompe-l'oeuil buttonings  were already there. Only Galliano exaggerated them and put them in the limelight, but in the process they lost something of their grace and elegance. M. Dior himself also appreciated a good show or a good scandal, and he knew how to use them, but more often than not his sartorial tricks were mysterious and hidden, and responded to an experimental concept, in which he constantly re-invented himself, going from the "New Look" to "Envol" to "Oval" to "H Line" and "A Line" before his untimely death. And I'm not saying that a designer must not dive in the archive of the house he works fo: Ghesquiére does it and even re-edits original Balenciagas, and Pilati keeps reinterpreting the classic Saint-Laurent motifs season after season, but I have the feeling that they go further in projecting those brands into the future, or at least the present.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div face="Helvetica" size="12px" style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;It might be expected after this terrible crisis (though after all maybe he was not all that happy at Dior, who knows) John Galliano will find a new path to express his talent. I hope so, sincerely.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div face="Helvetica" size="12px" style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Por supuesto su inventiva en esas colecciones era inagotable, y su técnica increíblemente precisa, pero si os fijáis en los diseños originales de Dior veréis que los drapeados, fruncidos, anudados, falsos cuellos, mangas imposibles y botonaduras de trampantojo ya estaban allí. Solo que Galliano los exageró y los puso bajo los focos, pero en el proceso perdieron algo de su gracia y su elegancia. El mismo M. Dior también apreciaba un buen espectáculo o un buen escándalo, y sabía utilizarlos, pero más a menudo sus trucos sartoriales eran misteriosos y ocultos, y respondían a un concepto experimental en el que constantemente se reinventaba, yendo del "New Look" a "Envol" a "Oval" a "LÍNEA H" a "Línea A" antes de su muerte prematura. Y no digo que un diseñador no deba bucear en el archivo  de a casa para la que trabaja: Ghesquiére lo hace y hasta re-edita Balenciagas originales, y Pilati reinterpreta los motivos clásicos de Saint-Laurent temporada tras temporada, pero tengo la sensación que van más allá proyectando esas marcas en el futuro, o al menos en el presente&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Es de esperar que tras esta terrible crisis &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;(aunque al fin y al cabo tal vez no era tan feliz en Dior, quién sabe) &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;John Galliano encuentre un nuevo camino para expresar su talento. Espero que sí, sinceramente.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-6305852377004763556?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/6305852377004763556/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=6305852377004763556&amp;isPopup=true' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/6305852377004763556'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/6305852377004763556'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2011/03/i-didnt-really-want-to-comment-on.html' title='Le Scandale'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-C0djFZnWxWc/TXY8HZJP-uI/AAAAAAAABns/WIFXfbm9Tnc/s72-c/diorJ015small.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-4758994580961106409</id><published>2011-02-21T12:25:00.015+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-21T17:16:16.644+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bloggers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Madrid Fashion Week'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='runway'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cocktails'/><title type='text'>Spongeblog / Blog Esponja</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wBnBa80_POA/TWJN2aPoHLI/AAAAAAAABkc/6UpgiHgRr6w/s1600/dsc0142ny-pola.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 334px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wBnBa80_POA/TWJN2aPoHLI/AAAAAAAABkc/6UpgiHgRr6w/s400/dsc0142ny-pola.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5576104885791235250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Yesteday I went to &lt;a href="http://www.ifema.es/ferias/cibeles/default.html"&gt;Cibeles Madrid Fashion Week&lt;/a&gt;, really just a cheap excuse to behave like &lt;a href="http://sharetv.org/images/absolutely_fabulous_uk-show.jpg"&gt;Edina &amp;amp; Patsy&lt;/a&gt; in between shows in the Grey Goose-sponsered "kissing-room", where we coined the phrase "&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FFFF99;"&gt;Spongeblog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;": write about fashion (optional) while drinking cocktails (necessary). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://di-pordior.blogspot.com/"&gt;Di&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://raquel-gratistotal.blogspot.com/"&gt;Raquel&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://lucio9chine.blogspot.com/"&gt;Lucio&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://nosoydemarte.blogspot.com/"&gt;Plutónico&lt;/a&gt;, Alejandra (on of the few actual buyers there) and myself were lather joined by &lt;a href="http://www.vivoenlaerapop.com/"&gt;ace76&lt;/a&gt;, amidst persistent rumors that the ever-mysterious &lt;a href="http://www.quemoderno.com/?zx=b8902f768ae1b54d"&gt;Mr. Q&lt;/a&gt; was in the room (rumors fueled even further by Plutónico being mistaken, intentionally or not, for him). Kina Fernández's after-show cocktail was quite nice, it had violet liqueur and cranberry juice (a purple Cosmo, if you will), and another ingredient I can't remember. I should have kept the recipe, since it was hanging on the cute little paper tag around the stem of the glass... anyway. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I did see one show since I managed to wriggle into Ana Locking thanks to a lovely young lady who's name I have unfortunately forgotten (I have to ask Raquel, I'm a disaster with names). The show... well, the color combinations were appealing and there were some nice ideas, specially the evening dresses that could be good red carpet options for a young actress. Some of the day wear (specially the men's) I personally found a bit far-fetched and not that wearable, a lot of color block and asymmetrical panels and pleats, a little bit Ghesquière/Elbaz-esque perhaps... or maybe I'm being picky. I wasn't that picky with what we were awarded with after the show: a vodka-kahlua concoction in a tall glass... Hm, I wonder if I can get a blogger pass next season so I can make a serious post about the Madrid Fashion Week cocktails... oh, and about the shows, of course...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ayer fui a la &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ifema.es/ferias/cibeles/default.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Cibeles Madrid Fashion Week&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;, en realidad una excusa barata para comportarme com &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://sharetv.org/images/absolutely_fabulous_uk-show.jpg"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Edina &amp;amp; Patsy&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt; entre desfiles en el "kissing-room" patrocinado por Grey Goose, donde acuñamos la frase "&lt;/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FFFF99;"&gt;Blog Esponja&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;": escribir sobre moda (opcional) mientras se toman cócteles (necesario).&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;A &lt;a href="http://di-pordior.blogspot.com/"&gt;Di&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;, &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://raquel-gratistotal.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Raquel&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;, &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://lucio9chine.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Lucio&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;, &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://nosoydemarte.blogspot.com/"&gt;Plutónico&lt;/a&gt;, Alejandra (una de las pocas compradoras presentes)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt; y un servidor se nos unió &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vivoenlaerapop.com/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;ace76&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;, entre persistentes rumores que el siempre misterioso  &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.quemoderno.com/?zx=b8902f768ae1b54d"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Mr. Q&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt; estaba en la sala (rumores alimentados aún más el confundirse, intencionadamente o no, a Plutónico con él). El cóctel post-desfile de Kina Fernández no estaba mal, llevaba licor de violetas y zumo de arándanos (un Cosmo morado, por decir algo), y otro ingrediente que no recuerdo. Debería haberme quedado con la receta, ya que estaba colgada en una mona etiqueta del pie de la copa... en todo caso.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sí que vi un desfile, ya que conseguí colarme en Ana Locking gracias a una encantadora señorita, cuyo nombre desgraciadamente no recuerdo (le tendré que preguntar a Raquel, soy un desastre con los nombres). El desfile... bueno, las combinaciones de color eran atractivas y había algunas ideas bonitas, sobre todo los vestidos de noche que podrían ser una buena opción para la alfombra roja para una joven actriz. Personalmente encontré algo rebuscados y no muy fáciles de llevar algunos de los conjuntos de día (especialmente los de hombre), mucho color block y paneles y pliegues asimétricos, un poco Ghesquière/Elbaz-esco tal vez... o estoy siendo demasiado puntilloso. No fui tan puntilloso con lo que nos dieron después del desfile: una mezcla de vodka y kahlua en vaso alto... Hm, me pregunto si puedo conseguir acreditarme como bloguero la temporada que viene para hacer un post en serio sobre los cócteles de la  Madrid Fashion Week... ah, y sobre los desfiles, claro...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-4758994580961106409?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/4758994580961106409/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=4758994580961106409&amp;isPopup=true' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/4758994580961106409'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/4758994580961106409'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2011/02/spongeblog-blog-esponja.html' title='Spongeblog / Blog Esponja'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wBnBa80_POA/TWJN2aPoHLI/AAAAAAAABkc/6UpgiHgRr6w/s72-c/dsc0142ny-pola.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-7053955198124677951</id><published>2011-02-10T15:19:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-10T15:27:09.472+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gucci'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Yves Saint Laurent'/><title type='text'>The African Connection</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Gyg7YperegI/TVPz_rZ4UEI/AAAAAAAABkM/90zJBLOjSXo/s1600/gucciYSL.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 350px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Gyg7YperegI/TVPz_rZ4UEI/AAAAAAAABkM/90zJBLOjSXo/s400/gucciYSL.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5572065439296016450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I know I didn't need to, but in a way I had to... On the left, Gucci, Spring 2011, as seen on the cover of Air France Madame magazine. On the right, Yves Saint Laurent, Spring 1967, worn by the divine Alek Wek at the 2002 retrospective show.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;No tenía porqué decirlo, pero lo tenía que decir... A la izquierda, Gucci, Primavera 2011, en la portada de la revista Air France Madame. A la derecha, Yves Saint Laurent, Primavera 1967, llevado por la divina Alek Wek en el desfile retrospectivo de 2002.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-7053955198124677951?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/7053955198124677951/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=7053955198124677951&amp;isPopup=true' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/7053955198124677951'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/7053955198124677951'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-know-i-didnt-need-to-but-in-way-i-had.html' title='The African Connection'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Gyg7YperegI/TVPz_rZ4UEI/AAAAAAAABkM/90zJBLOjSXo/s72-c/gucciYSL.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-3990400079569704301</id><published>2011-02-01T18:22:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-03T07:36:42.480+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gucci'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marc Jacobs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Stefano Pilati'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fashion history'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Yves Saint Laurent'/><title type='text'>Under The Influence</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TUhCAXYujqI/AAAAAAAABj4/7A6YpVl8awA/s1600/2-1582436_0x745.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TUhCAXYujqI/AAAAAAAABj4/7A6YpVl8awA/s400/2-1582436_0x745.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568773513288781474" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TUhCLWHCbMI/AAAAAAAABkA/EV3bsciyj8I/s1600/3-906668_0x745.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TUhCLWHCbMI/AAAAAAAABkA/EV3bsciyj8I/s400/3-906668_0x745.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568773701924711618" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TUhCAKOGFwI/AAAAAAAABjw/x0qIgUSRc4E/s1600/4-96635_0x745.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TUhCAKOGFwI/AAAAAAAABjw/x0qIgUSRc4E/s400/4-96635_0x745.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568773509754525442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TUhB_Rc6chI/AAAAAAAABjo/_zPqiNlte0A/s1600/7-823181_0x745.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TUhB_Rc6chI/AAAAAAAABjo/_zPqiNlte0A/s400/7-823181_0x745.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568773494515855890" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TUhB-mxWc_I/AAAAAAAABjg/e9148wUXJq0/s1600/14-1830493_0x745.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TUhB-mxWc_I/AAAAAAAABjg/e9148wUXJq0/s400/14-1830493_0x745.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568773483058852850" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial"&gt;As so often lately, when I saw this fashion story photographed by Steven Meisel for Vogue Italia I first loved it, but after a while the usual uncomfortable thought started to creep in. It is clear that Yves Saint Laurent's influence not only hasn't diminished after his death but it is every day stronger. Of course he put the pantsuit on the fashion map, and that can be considered a legacy, just as the leopard print (which he didn't invent, it was already used in the late XVIIIth century, but he certainly gave it a new life), the use of ethnic motifs and cultural references and his daring color combinations, only surpassed maybe by Lacroix in the 80's.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial; min-height: 14.0px"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial"&gt;Maybe Marc Jacobs is honest when he channels YSL (his &lt;a href="http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/2009RST-MJACOBS"&gt;Resort 2009&lt;/a&gt; collection is the clearest example, but not the only one), and maybe Frida Giannini's heavily influenced &lt;a href="http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/S2011RTW-GUCCI"&gt;Spring 2011&lt;/a&gt; collection for Gucci (1967's african collection collection, anyone?) had nothing to do with rumors at the time of Stephano Pilati's insecure position in the house (which fortunately for him turned out to be unproven), but aren't some designer going too far? Where is the line between a heartfelt tribute and a merciless re-hash? What is wrong with fashion that we can't envision something without resorting to the safety of past decades? Opinions, please.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Arial"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:Georgia, fantasy;font-size:16px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Como tan a menudo últimamente, cuando vi este editorial fotografiado por Steven Meisel para Vogue Italia primero me encantó, pero al rato se fue infiltrando el mismo pensamiento incómodo de siempre. Está claro que la influencia de Yves Saint Laurent no solo no ha disminuido después de su muerte sino que es cada día más fuerte. Claro que él impuso el traje de pantalón, y se puede considerar un legado suyo, como el estampado de leopardo (que no inventó, ya se usaba a finales del siglo XVIII, pero sin duda le dio una nueva vida), el uso de motivos étnicos y referencias culturales y sus atrevidas mezclas de color, tal vez sólo superadas por Lacroix en los 80.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Puede que Marc Jacobs fuera sincero cuando reinterpreta a YSL (su colección &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/2009RST-MJACOBS"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Crucero 2009&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt; es el ejemplo más claro pero no el úncio), y puede que la tremendamente influenciada colección &lt;a href="http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/S2011RTW-GUCCI"&gt;Primavera 2011&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt;&lt;i&gt; de Frida Giannini para Gucci (la colección africana de 1967, ¿os suena?) &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;no tuviera nada que ver con los rumores que circulaban de la insegura posición de Stephano Pilati en la casa (que afortunadamente para él resultaron no demostrarse), pero ¿no van demasiado demasiado lejos algunos diseñadores? ¿Donde está la línea entre un sentido homenaje y un despiadado refrito? ¿Qué está fallando en la moda actual para que no seamos capaces de ver algo sin recurrir a la seguridad de décadas pasadas? Opiniones, por favor.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-3990400079569704301?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/3990400079569704301/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=3990400079569704301&amp;isPopup=true' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/3990400079569704301'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/3990400079569704301'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2011/02/under-influence.html' title='Under The Influence'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TUhCAXYujqI/AAAAAAAABj4/7A6YpVl8awA/s72-c/2-1582436_0x745.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-2144113064422966084</id><published>2011-01-26T15:56:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-04T07:58:08.914+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Galliano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dior'/><title type='text'>A New Start (again and again and again)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TUA2NwrDAjI/AAAAAAAABio/SL83ruStqWw/s1600/diorrr.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566508749461586482" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TUA2NwrDAjI/AAAAAAAABio/SL83ruStqWw/s640/diorrr.jpg" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Maybe just because we're already a few weeks into the new year and it feels like it's time to shake off the dullness that has invaded me for most of 2010, or because sometimes when sad things happen it can also be a lesson that we have to appreciate all that what we have. It's not that this past year has been specially bad, but it hasn't been that good either, or at least it has been... confusing. You know, the whole "what am I doing?", "where am I going?" thing. Which of course has included this blog, as in "what is a blog for?".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Well, finally it has become clear to me, though it should have been so obvious from the beginning. It's to communicate oneself. It doesn't have to impress, it doesn't have to have the most visits (or, one doesn't need to stress out or feel guilty for not updating, hehe), it doesn't need to be the most trendy, or clever or glamorous. It's just a slice of life, one's thoughts, inspirations and emotions that one shares. In this case that I share with you, with pleasure, as always.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Tal vez es porque llevamos unas semanas ya en el nuevo año y me parece que ya es hora de sacudirme la desidia que me embargado durante casi todo el 2010, o porque a veces cuando pasan cosas tristes puede ser una lección para que apreciemos todo lo que tenemos. No es que este año pasado haya sido especialmente malo, pero tampoco ha sido tan bueno, o al menos ha sido... confuso. Ya sabéis, todo este rollo de "¿qué estoy haciendo?", "¿adonde voy?". Lo cual por supuesto ha incluido este blog, es decir, "¿para qué sirve un blog?".&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bueno, finalmente se me ha encendido la bombilla, aunque lo tenía que haber tenido claro desde el principio. Sirve para comunicarse. No tiene que impresionar, no tiene que ser el que más visitas tiene (o, uno no tiene porque estresarse o sentirse culpable si no actualiza, jeje), no tiene que ser el más trendy, o inteligente, o glamuroso. Es sólo una rodaja de vida, los pensamientos, las inspiraciones y las emociones de uno y que uno comparte. En este caso que yo comparto con vosotros, con mucho placer, como siempre.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-2144113064422966084?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/2144113064422966084/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=2144113064422966084&amp;isPopup=true' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/2144113064422966084'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/2144113064422966084'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-start-again-and-again-and-again.html' title='A New Start (again and again and again)'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TUA2NwrDAjI/AAAAAAAABio/SL83ruStqWw/s72-c/diorrr.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-8672120881344282658</id><published>2010-12-04T11:07:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-04T12:49:16.552+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><title type='text'>Asian Impressions</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TPoTMMuzC4I/AAAAAAAABiA/Hvd4tLUnKrs/s1600/asia.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 323px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TPoTMMuzC4I/AAAAAAAABiA/Hvd4tLUnKrs/s400/asia.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5546766991357053826" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;pictures &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14877275@N03/sets/72157625525883058/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; - fotos &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14877275@N03/sets/72157625525883058/"&gt;aquí&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I just came back two days ago from a long trip to Asia for work - visiting suppliers and all that - which took us not only to Hong Kong and Hangzhou where I had already been, but also to Korea, in spite of the alarming news we were assured it was completely safe: the usual fighting about their borders and a bit of a media hype, it seems. In any case everybody in Seoul seemed unconcerned, but you never know with Asians... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ah, yes, stereotypes, don't we all fall in the same trap? For us the East is mysterious and at first glance everything (and let's be frank, everybody) looks kind of the same, but you just need to pay a little attention for this veil of uniformity to fall off. Of course there are cultural differences that make understanding sometimes difficult, even with the people we know quite well, like our Asian colleagues from our Hong Kong office, but it's just as difficult for them to deal with us. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;And obviously every place you visit is different (the people, the food, the cities). Hong Kong is perhaps the most easy to grasp because the British have been there for so long and so many foreigners live there. Hangzhou, in China, shocked me the most, it's a pretty drab industrial city for all I have seen (but I've probably missed the "real" Hangzhou), and the stark contrast between the "new" China of luxury cars and Chanel stores (literally) next to maimed and disfigured beggars is very hard. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;And I had never been before in Seoul, and it seemed very interesting, though we stayed three days. Very modern, dynamic, and we were lucky one day to finish our meetings earlier than scheduled and quickly visit the Changdeokgung Palace and the Myeong-Dong shopping district. Koreans seemed at first a bit more serious than the Chinese, but in the end, when communication flows, we are all the same: some friendly, some touchy, some with a sense of humor, some shy. I think that's what I like most about traveling: getting to know the people.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Acabo de volver hace dos días de un largo viaje por Asia por trabajo - visitando a proveedores y tal - que nos llevó no solo a Hong Kong y Hangzhou donde ya había estado, sino también a Corea, a pesar de las noticias nos dijeron que era completamente seguro: las peleas usuales sobre sus fronteras y noticias algo exageradas, parece ser. En todo caso todo el mundo en Seúl parecía muy tranquilo, pero con los asiáticos no se sabe...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ah, sí, estereotipos, ¿no caemos todos en la misma trampa? Para nosotros el Oriente es misterioso y a primera vista todo (y seamos sincero, todos) parece igual, pero solo hay que fijarse un poco para que caiga este velo de uniformidad. Claro que hay diferencias culturales que hacen la comunicación a veces difícil, incluso con gente que conocemos bastante, como nuestros compañeros asiáticos de la oficina de Hong Kong, pero es igual de difícil para ellos entendernos a nosotros. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Y obviamente casa sitio que se visita es distinto (la gente, la comida, las ciudades). Hong Kong es tal vez la más fácil de asimilar ya que los británicos has estado allí tanto tiempo y viven muchos extranjeros. Hangzhou, en China, es la que más me impresiona, por lo que he visto parece una ciudad industrial y triste (aunque probablemente no he visto el Hangzhou "verdadero"), y el extremo contraste entre la "nueva" China de coches de lujo y tiendas de Chanel (literalmente) al lado de mendigos mutilados y desfigurados es muy duro. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Y nunca había estado en Seúl, y me pareció muy interesante, aunque sólo estuvimos tres días. Muy moderno, dinámico, y tuvimos la suerte un día de terminar nuestras visitas antes de lo previsto y visitar rápidamente el Palacio de Changdeokgung y la zona de shopping de Myeong-Dong. Los coreanos parecían a primera vista más serios que los chinos, pero al final, cuando fluye la comunicación, somos todos iguales: algunos simpáticos, algunos susceptibles, algunos con sentido del humor, algunos tímidos. Creo que es lo que más me gusta de viajar: llegar a conocer a la gente.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-8672120881344282658?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/8672120881344282658/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=8672120881344282658&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/8672120881344282658'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/8672120881344282658'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2010/12/asian-impressions.html' title='Asian Impressions'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TPoTMMuzC4I/AAAAAAAABiA/Hvd4tLUnKrs/s72-c/asia.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-7669861010944052864</id><published>2010-11-16T22:07:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-01T18:20:48.558+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deadly sins'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='men'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><title type='text'>Lust</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TOLy09cIT6I/AAAAAAAABh4/zhwuI_dwf-g/s1600/tiarrones.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 337px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TOLy09cIT6I/AAAAAAAABh4/zhwuI_dwf-g/s400/tiarrones.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540257483278798754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;bigger drawings &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14877275@N03/sets/72157625325222242/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt; - dibujos en grande &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14877275@N03/sets/72157625325222242/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;aquí&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I recently read a french blog (sorry, I lost the link, somebody posted it on Facebook) where they recommended - to assure a continuous flow of visitors to your blog - to talk as crudely as possible about sex, and if about your own experiences, the more pathetic the better. Yeah, OK, it's not like I'm going to do that, besides my mother reads this blog (hi ma), so... no. Mind you I might write about &lt;i&gt;dating&lt;/i&gt; some day, because &lt;i&gt;that's&lt;/i&gt; an interesting topic I know a couple of things about. Carrie and her friends made us believe that being single and (way) over thirty in a big city is glamorous and fun, but maybe we should give this a second thought, with the help of a couple of Cosmopolitans (or Flirtinis).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Anyway, I have to continue my series of the Deadly Sins, and I &lt;i&gt;have&lt;/i&gt; to talk about Lust sooner or later so let's get it over with. My first idea was to post a video of the Kirkpinar Turkish Oil Wrestling festival... well, men in leather shorts and dripping with olive oil trying to get a grip on each-other sounds interesting, but as usual reality doesn't live up to fantasy. In any case if you are &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; interested go &lt;a href="http://www.google.es/images?hl=es&amp;amp;expIds=17259,26691,27103,27640&amp;amp;xhr=t&amp;amp;q=turkish+oil+wrestling&amp;amp;cp=0&amp;amp;client=safari&amp;amp;rls=en&amp;amp;um=1&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;source=og&amp;amp;sa=N&amp;amp;tab=wi&amp;amp;biw=1219&amp;amp;bih=834"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. I decline all responsibility.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Still, I needed to illustrate this post, and just the other day, cleaning up some drawers I came across these drawings I made a few years ago (probably just doodling at some tedious meeting with a lot of numbers, percentage bars and pie charts which overwhelmed my blondness) and actually I think they're not all that bad, considering. The drawings, I mean.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hace poco leí un blog francés (lo siento, perdí el enlace, alguien lo puso en Facebook) donde recomendaban - para asegurar un flujo continuo de visitantes en el blog de uno - hablar lo más crudamente posible sobre sexo, y si ere sobre las experiencias propias cuanto más patético mejor. Sí, vale, no es que yo lo vaya a hacer, además mi madre lee este blog (hola ma), así que... no. Aunque bueno, podría escribir sobre las &lt;/i&gt;citas&lt;i&gt; un día, porque &lt;/i&gt;ese&lt;i&gt; un teme interesante sobre el que sé un par de cosas. Carrie y sus amigas nos hicieron creer que ser soltero y tener (mucho más) de treinta años en la gran ciudad es glamuroso y divertido, pero deberíamos pensarlo mejor, con la ayuda de un par de Cosmopolitans (o Flirtinis).&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;En todo caso, tengo que seguir con mi serie de los Pecados Capitales, y &lt;/i&gt;tengo&lt;i&gt; que hablar de la Lujuria antes o después, así que vamos a ello. Mi primera idea era poner un video del festival de Lucha Turca con Aceite de Kirkpinar... bueno, hombres en shorts de cuero y untados en aceite de oliva intentando agarrarse unos a otros suena interesante, pero como siempre la realidad no está a la altura de la fantasía. Pero en fin, si &lt;/i&gt;de verdad&lt;i&gt; os interesa pinchad &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.es/images?hl=es&amp;amp;expIds=17259,26691,27103,27640&amp;amp;xhr=t&amp;amp;q=turkish+oil+wrestling&amp;amp;cp=0&amp;amp;client=safari&amp;amp;rls=en&amp;amp;um=1&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;source=og&amp;amp;sa=N&amp;amp;tab=wi&amp;amp;biw=1219&amp;amp;bih=834"&gt;aquí&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;. Yo declino toda responsabilidad&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Aún así tenía que ilustrar este post, y justo el otro día, limpiando unos cajones encontré estos bocetos que hice hace unos años (probablemente en una reunión tediosa con muchos números, barras de porcentajes y gráficos de quesitos, demasiado para mi rubiez), y de hecho pienso que no están tan mal, bien mirado. Los dibujos, digo.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-7669861010944052864?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/7669861010944052864/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=7669861010944052864&amp;isPopup=true' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/7669861010944052864'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/7669861010944052864'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2010/11/lust.html' title='Lust'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TOLy09cIT6I/AAAAAAAABh4/zhwuI_dwf-g/s72-c/tiarrones.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-2402065240595370037</id><published>2010-10-24T19:44:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2010-11-16T22:03:37.861+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><title type='text'>36 Hours In Venice...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TMRwstHaFaI/AAAAAAAABho/6_wsTQxs1iI/s1600/venice.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 311px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TMRwstHaFaI/AAAAAAAABho/6_wsTQxs1iI/s400/venice.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5531670155645031842" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;bigger pictures &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14877275@N03/sets/72157625106882577/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;  - fotos más grandes &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14877275@N03/sets/72157625106882577/"&gt;aquí&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;As it sometimes happens when one travels for work, I was in Venice and I didn't see the Piazza San Marco, the Bridge of Rialto, the Bridge of Sighs, the Palazzo Grassi or Santa Maria della Salute, I haven't been to the Caffè Florian or to Harry's Bar... all I saw were a few streets and small canals between the Largo Santissimi Giovanni e Paolo and the Campello Santa Maria Nova. We went there to shoot a catalog, spent he whole day working and were taken back to our hotel, which used to be a monastery on a tiny island between La Guidecca and Il Lido, and in a way it was a little absurd, almost as if the city was just a backdrop for the pictures and we hadn't really been there. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Other hand it's just as good, because I hadn't even been in Venice and I always thought that the day I would go it would be for some special and romantic reason (yes, sometimes I have funny ideas like that). But I must say that the little I saw during the day and on our boat trips from and back to the airport made a strange impression on me. Of beauty, of course, and decay, and wonder at how would anybody in their right mind want to live in a house which front door is at a hand's breadth from the water. The feeling I had was of uncertainty - e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:arial;font-size:small;"&gt;ven the paved streets don't feel like dry land (they're not), but as if walking in a drifting barge - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:arial;font-size:small;"&gt;as if the buildings were slowly crumbling, with their peeling stucco and staircases immersed in the greenish water of the canals, but also a feeling that the very fact of falling apart for hundreds of years was the secret of the city's longevity.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:arial;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:arial;font-size:small;"&gt;Because in reality what does permanence mean, and does it matter at all? In some billions of years the earth won't exist anymore, and much before that all the things that we care for or hold for sacred (Venice among them, and art, and philosophy, and love, and the smell of coffee in the morning) will have disappeared with our race. So, well, I guess what I'm trying to say is this: this is the present and it's what we have, so let's enjoy it as much as we can, e domani si vedrà.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:arial;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Como a veces sucede cuando se viaja por trabajo, estuve en Venecia y no he visto la Piazza San Marco, el puente de Rialto, el puente de los suspiros, el Palazzo Grassi o Santa Maria della Salute, no fui al Caffè Florian ni a Harry's Bar... todo lo que vi fueron unas callecitas y canales entre el Largo Santissimi Giovanni e Paolo y el Campello Santa Maria Nova. Fuimos a hacer las fotos de un catálogo, nos pasamos el día trabajando y nos llevaron de vuelta al hotel, un antiguo monasterio en una islita entre La Guidecca y el Lido, así que fue un poco absurdo, casi como si la cuidad solo fuera un decorado para las fotos y no hubiéramos estado allí realmente. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Por otra parte casi mejor, porque no conocía Venecia y siempre pensé que el día que iría sería por alguna razón especial y romántica (si, a veces tengo estas ocurrencias). Pero debo decir que lo poco que vi durante el día y en los viajes en barco desde el aeropuerto y de vuelta me causó una extraña impresión. De belleza, por supuesto, y de decadencia, y asombro que alguien en su sano juicio quisiera vivir en una casa cuya puerta está a un escaso palmo del agua. La sensación era de incertitud - inclusa las calles pavimentadas no parecen tierra firme (no lo son)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;, sino como si se andara sobre una balsa a la deriva - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;como si los edificios se estuvieran desmoronando lentamente, con su estuco pelado y sus escaleras inmersas en el agua verdosa de los canales, pero también la sensación que el mismo hecho de caerse a pedazos durante siglos era el secreto de la longevidad de la cuidad.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;¿Porque en realidad qué significa la permanencia, y realmente importa? En unos billones de años la tierra dejará de existir, y mucho antes de eso todo lo que amamos o tenemos por sagrado (la misma Venecia, y el arte, y la filosofía, y el amor, y el olor del café por la mañana) habrá desaparecido con nuestra raza. Así que, bueno, supongo que lo que intento decir es esto: esto es el presente y es lo que tenemos, así que disfrutémoslo todo lo que podamos, e domani si vedrà.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-2402065240595370037?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/2402065240595370037/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=2402065240595370037&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/2402065240595370037'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/2402065240595370037'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2010/10/36-hours-in-venice.html' title='36 Hours In Venice...'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TMRwstHaFaI/AAAAAAAABho/6_wsTQxs1iI/s72-c/venice.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-2640548964443670127</id><published>2010-09-08T20:51:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-09-08T21:05:09.993+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Yves Saint Laurent'/><title type='text'>Quiz</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TIfbULNiZvI/AAAAAAAABf4/sk_0M3B4U_Y/s1600/yslArlequin.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TIfbULNiZvI/AAAAAAAABf4/sk_0M3B4U_Y/s400/yslArlequin.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514617408391898866" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Yes, I know I've left this blog completely abandoned, partly because I've been away enjoying my holidays, and partly because I've been thinking over what this blog means for me and what should I really do with it... I'll let you know when I've come to a conclusion.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;In any case, to start this new season I have something I think might be be fun, a little quiz. Of course the gentleman in the picture is Yves, and the models beside him are Mercedes and Mounia... but &lt;i&gt;who&lt;/i&gt; is the little boy in the harlequin costume (I'll have to think of a prize for the first to guess... and those of you who know the answer beforehand please keep quiet!)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(Hint: this was published in July 1979... as if you didn't know that it's the Picasso collection!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sí, ya sé que he tenido este blog completamente abandonado, en parte porque he estado de vacaciones, y en parte porque he estado pensando en qué significa este blog para mí y qué debería hacer con él... ya os diré cuando llegue a alguna conclusión.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;En todo caso, para empezar la temporada tengo algo que tal vez os divierta, una pequeña adivinanza. Por supuesto el caballero de la foto es Yves, y las modelos a su lado son Mercedes y Mounia... ¿pero &lt;/i&gt;quién&lt;i&gt; es el niño vestido de arlequín? (Tendré que pensar en un premio para el primero que lo adivine.. ¡y los que lo sabéis de antemano por favor calladitos!)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;(Pista: esto de publicó en julio de 1979... ¡como si no supierais que es la colección Picasso!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-2640548964443670127?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/2640548964443670127/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=2640548964443670127&amp;isPopup=true' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/2640548964443670127'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/2640548964443670127'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2010/09/quiz.html' title='Quiz'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TIfbULNiZvI/AAAAAAAABf4/sk_0M3B4U_Y/s72-c/yslArlequin.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-4165195666143262975</id><published>2010-06-02T19:59:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-08T20:14:01.294+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Architecture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='friends'/><title type='text'>Paris</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TAacQwVzX1I/AAAAAAAABfE/U4nBl-4pz4c/s1600/paris_mosaic.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 329px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TAacQwVzX1I/AAAAAAAABfE/U4nBl-4pz4c/s400/paris_mosaic.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478237808410976082" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Bigger pictures &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14877275@N03/sets/72157624076324943/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;HERE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Fotos más grandes &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14877275@N03/sets/72157624076324943/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;AQUÍ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Of course I did more things in Paris than seeing the YSL exhibition, though it was a short trip. The most special and the other main reason was a re-encounter with a childhood friend whom I hadn't seen in... 20 years, maybe? It's funny because it was so easy, just as if we had talked the day before. Now she lives outside Paris, with her boyfriend and her child, in a lovely little "pavillon" with a huge garden that she leaves grow in a sort of wild natural way, with fruits trees and roses. I also saw another friend I started seeing again a couple of years ago. So I've know them both as children, and now we are all adults around 40, with our jobs, our houses, our relationships, and you know, talking with them has given me a perspective on what's important in life. We all had dreams and now we have reality, but, hey, that's how it is. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;And going back to the YSL exhibition, actually it made me remember why I chose this trade, the tortuous path of fashion. Unfortunately my job has little do with art or fashion in an elevated sense, but well, at least I'm doing something I like, and who knows if in the future I'll have better chances to express myself through my work.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;And for the rest... I haven't done much. Most of all I almost haven't set foot in a store, except Uniqlo, which was very disappointing because their size XS is like a size M at H&amp;amp;M so everything was huge, and another store which wasn't even a fashion store or anything but I found this cute little silver bracelet with the number 13, which I, if anything, would rather think of as a lucky number. The pink bag is a Prada limited edition (of only 25) at Le Printemps, in case you're interested.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Por supuesto hice más cosas en cosas en París aparte de ir a la exposición de YSL, aunque era un viaje corto. Lo más especial y otras de las razones fue un re-encuentro con una amiga de la infancia que no veía en... ¿20 años tal vez? Es gracioso porque fue tan fácil, como si hubiéramos hablado el día anterior. Ahora vive en las afueras de París, con su novio y su niño, en un bonito "pavillon" con un enorme jardín un poco salvaje, con árboles frutales y rosas. También vi a otra amiga a la que he vuelto a ver desde hace un par de años. Así que las he conocido a las dos desde niño, y ahora somos adultos alrededor de los 40, con nuestros trabajos, nuestras casas, nuestras relaciones, y sabéis qué, hablar con ellas me ha dado una perspectiva sobre lo que es importante en la vida. todos teníamos sueños y lo que tenemos es la realidad, pero oye, es lo que hay. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Y volviendo a la exposición de YSL, me ha hecho recordar porqué elegí mi oficio, el tortuoso camino de la moda. Desgraciadamente mi trabajo poco tiene que ver con el arte o la moda en un sentido elevado, pero bueno, por lo menos hago algo que me gusta, y quién sabe si en el futuro tendré mejores oportunidades para expresarme a través de mi trabajo.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Y por lo demás... no he hecho gran cosa. Sobre todo ni he puesto el pie en una tienda, excepto Uniqlo, que me decepcionó porque su talla XS es como la M de H&amp;amp;M y todo me quedaba enorme, y otra tienda que ni era de moda ni nada pero encontré esta monísima pulserita de plata con el número 13, que, de ser algo, me parecería más bien un número de buena suerte. El bolso rosa es una edición limitada de Prada (sólo hay 25) en Le Printemps, por si estáis interesados.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-4165195666143262975?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/4165195666143262975/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=4165195666143262975&amp;isPopup=true' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/4165195666143262975'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/4165195666143262975'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2010/06/paris.html' title='Paris'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TAacQwVzX1I/AAAAAAAABfE/U4nBl-4pz4c/s72-c/paris_mosaic.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-7754243948711829477</id><published>2010-05-30T23:33:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-17T14:00:55.489+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='illustration'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Yves Saint Laurent'/><title type='text'>Yves</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TANFZ3ZjP5I/AAAAAAAABew/OuAY0J7AELs/s1600/ysl001.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477297882482818962" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TANFZ3ZjP5I/AAAAAAAABew/OuAY0J7AELs/s400/ysl001.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 258px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TANFZkHTxjI/AAAAAAAABeo/u2HlboVMdR4/s1600/ysl002.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477297877306033714" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TANFZkHTxjI/AAAAAAAABeo/u2HlboVMdR4/s400/ysl002.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 258px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TANFZNAAZZI/AAAAAAAABeg/JQ7yIsZu74w/s1600/ysl003.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477297871101388178" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TANFZNAAZZI/AAAAAAAABeg/JQ7yIsZu74w/s400/ysl003.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 258px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TANFY0fEJjI/AAAAAAAABeY/b9gE38LanlA/s1600/ysl004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477297864520771122" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TANFY0fEJjI/AAAAAAAABeY/b9gE38LanlA/s400/ysl004.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 258px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Yves Saint Laurent said "I have always placed respect for this profession above all else - it is not altogether an art, but it requires an artist to exist."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Art or not, it doesn't matter, but there is no doubt that he was an artist. He didn't make dresses, he created emotions. Every dress in the exhibition at the Petit Palais had a story to tell, some had been part of the life of real women, others had been a dream, or a symbol, materialized through genius, hard work, the joy and anguish of creation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I usually don't get very emotional, but what I felt going through those rooms I can hardly explain, in my mind I compare it to listening to Bach's cello suites, something close to a spiritual experience maybe. "It's just fashion", you might say. Yes, but great fashion is made of the fabric, not of dreams, but of life.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I would have needed one whole week to take in everything I saw, I kept going back and forth through the rooms not wanting to leave! Not to mention two enormous pictures of my mother by Hans Feurer, wearing the 1971 "40's" collection as they came out in the newspapers causing a scandal. Since taking photos was not allowed I took some notes to try to retain at least those things that made a stronger impression: the gray wool "Trapèze" from his time at Dior, the famous jet embroidered cocktail dress worn by Mme. López-Willshaw, the simple "Belle de Jour"... and so many others. And suddenly, a simple white dress with a gazar coat, also white, trimmed with ostrich feathers, from 2001. There it was, so simple, so true, just a piece of cloth on a dummy, and yet... well, I guess this is Proust's madeleine for me!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Of course other things happened over the week-end, but I will leave that for the next post...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Yves Saint Laurent dijo "Siempre he puesto el respeto por esta profesión por encima de todo - no es en sí misma un arte, pero requiere a un artista para existir."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Arte o no, eso no tiene importancia, pero no hay duda que él era un artista. No hacía vestidos, creaba emociones. Cada vestido en la exposición en el Petit Palais tenía una historia que contar, algunos habían formado parte de la vida de mujeres reales, otros habían sido un sueño, o un símbolo, materializados a través del genio, el trabajo duro, la alegría y la angustia de la creación.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;No suelo emocionarme fácilmente, pero apenas puedo explicar lo que sentí al recorrer esas salas, en mi mente lo comparo a escuchar las suites  para violonchelo de Bach, algo cercano a una experiencia espiritual tal vez. "Sólo es moda", podríais decir. Sí, pero la gran moda está hecha con el tejido, no de los sueños, sino de la vida.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hubiera necesitado una semana entera para absorber todo lo que veía, ¡iba y venía por las salas resistiéndome a irme! Y por si fuera poco dos enormes fotos de mi madre por Hans Feurer, llevando la colección "años 40" de 1971 cuando apareció en el periódico causando un escándalo.&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt; &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ya que estaba prohibido hacer fotos tomé unos apuntes para intentar retener lo que más impresión me causó: el "Trapèze" de lana gris de su época en Dior, el famoso vestido de cóctel bordado con azabache que llevó Mme. López-Willshaw, el sencillo"Belle de Jour"... y tantos otros. Y de repente, un vestido blanco de satén con un abrigo de gazar, también blanco, bordeado con plumas de avestruz, de 2001. Ahí estaba, tan sencillo, tan verdadero, un trozo de tela en un maniquí, y aún así... bueno ¡supongo que esa es mi magdalena de Proust!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Claro que han pasado más cosas durante el fín de semana, pero lo dejaré para el siguiente post....&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-7754243948711829477?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/7754243948711829477/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=7754243948711829477&amp;isPopup=true' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/7754243948711829477'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/7754243948711829477'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2010/05/yves.html' title='Yves'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/TANFZ3ZjP5I/AAAAAAAABew/OuAY0J7AELs/s72-c/ysl001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-7608459404899091631</id><published>2010-05-26T07:22:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2010-05-26T07:55:05.500+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bloggers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Royal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marie-Antoinette'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fashion history'/><title type='text'>White</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S_ywQvvnBII/AAAAAAAABdQ/T4IhVkOgbG4/s1600/baudouinf1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 256px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S_ywQvvnBII/AAAAAAAABdQ/T4IhVkOgbG4/s400/baudouinf1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475445048716231810" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I was reading &lt;a href="http://raquel-gratistotal.blogspot.com/"&gt;Raquel&lt;/a&gt;'s post about the relatively recent use of the white wedding dress, and it made me think about how readily we associate a color with some form of symbolism, though the same color can have completely opposite meanings in different times and cultures. White wedding dresses were even considered to be a bad omen until the XVIIIth century (it was said that Marie Antoinette wore white. Her reign was certainly unhappy and hundreds of people died during a stampede during the wedding celebrations in Paris, but I didn't find data about the color of the dress so I'm not sure), and white is the color of mourning in many asian countries. The royal custom of white mourning was started by Mary, Queen of Scots, upon the death of her husband Francis II of France, and is still continued by many royal families, one recent example being queen Fabiola. C'est chic, non?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Besides, if a white wedding is supposed to represent purity, well, frankly, nowadays...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Estaba leyendo el post de &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://raquel-gratistotal.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Raquel&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt; sobre el uso relativamente reciente del vestido blanco de novia, y me ha hecho pensar con que facilidad asociamos un color con algún tipo de simbolismo, aunque el mismo color puede tener significados completamente opuestos en distintas épocas y culturas. Los vestidos de novia blancos incluso se podían considerar de mal augurio hasta el siglo XVIII (se dijo que María Antonieta iba de blanco. Sin duda su reinado fue desafortunado, y cientos de personas murieron en una estampida durante las celebraciones de la boda en París, pero no he encontrado datos sobre el color del vestido, así que no estoy seguro), y el blanco es el color del luto es muchos países asiáticos. La costumbre real del luto blanco fue iniciada por María, Reina de Escocia, a la muerte de su marido Francisco II de Francia, y todavía es practicada por muchas familias reales, recientemente por la reina Fabiola. C'est chic, non?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Además, si se supone que una boda blanca representa pureza, pues francamente, hoy en día...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-7608459404899091631?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/7608459404899091631/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=7608459404899091631&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/7608459404899091631'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/7608459404899091631'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2010/05/white.html' title='White'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S_ywQvvnBII/AAAAAAAABdQ/T4IhVkOgbG4/s72-c/baudouinf1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-4071700472380447503</id><published>2010-05-23T22:14:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2010-05-23T23:34:46.915+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='family'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S_mOSz3GlkI/AAAAAAAABcg/LfuXwAbqK9c/s1600/sart1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 154px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S_mOSz3GlkI/AAAAAAAABcg/LfuXwAbqK9c/s400/sart1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474563275855664706" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Just a little note to say that this picture of my mother and was posted on &lt;a href="http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/"&gt;The Sartorialist&lt;/a&gt; in the "Vintage Photo Contest". Ma thinks it was taken in 1972, but it seems to me I look small to be 3 or 4 years old... I don't know, I'm very bad at calculating children's ages. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Una notita para decir que esta foto de mi madre y yo ha sido posteada en &lt;a href="http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/"&gt;The Sartorialist&lt;/a&gt; en el "Vintage Photo Contest". Ma cree que es de 1972, pero a mi me parece que soy pequeño para tener 3 o 4 años... no sé, se me da fatal calcular la edad de los niños.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#0000EE;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-4071700472380447503?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/4071700472380447503/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=4071700472380447503&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/4071700472380447503'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/4071700472380447503'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2010/05/just-little-note-to-say-that-this.html' title=''/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S_mOSz3GlkI/AAAAAAAABcg/LfuXwAbqK9c/s72-c/sart1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-6095829321445357360</id><published>2010-05-21T07:33:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-05-23T11:22:18.827+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bloggers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Alexander McQueen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lady Gaga'/><title type='text'>Transgression</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S_YbUu7MyvI/AAAAAAAABbQ/Cwc9sPv9FDk/s1600/gagaALejandro.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 375px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S_YbUu7MyvI/AAAAAAAABbQ/Cwc9sPv9FDk/s400/gagaALejandro.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473592440123083506" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Yesterday Raquel &lt;a href="http://raquel-gratistotal.blogspot.com/"&gt;Gratistotal&lt;/a&gt; and I went to a couple of fashion events: the first one I will write about later, the second was a fashion school show (the &lt;a href="http://www.csdmm.upm.es/portal/site/institucional/menuitem.0a1286764e8a4162309bfa04dffb46a8/indexcd26.html?vgnextoid=c75b50e207822110VgnVCM100000fdbf648aRCRD"&gt;CSDDM&lt;/a&gt;, I think... ?). Of course the clothes were a bit over the top, but hey, they're young and haven't gone through the fashion industry grinding machine yet, and it was nice to see so much energy and all the proud mothers watching the show. Everything reminded us of Lady Gaga... or maybe the theme of the show was a tribute to Alexander McQueen? I don't know. The key word seemed to be "transgression". (As &lt;a href="http://lucio9chine.blogspot.com/"&gt;Lucio&lt;/a&gt; says in the comments, Raquel and I were also wondering why nobody "transgresses" with a nice jacket or something elegant and becoming.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;And what's this news about Lady Gaga applying for an internship at Philip Treacy?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ayer Raquel &lt;a href="http://raquel-gratistotal.blogspot.com/"&gt;Gratistotal&lt;/a&gt; y yo fuimos a un par de eventos de moda: sobre el primero escribiré más adelante, el segundo era el desfile de una escuela de moda (el &lt;a href="http://www.csdmm.upm.es/portal/site/institucional/menuitem.0a1286764e8a4162309bfa04dffb46a8/indexe3fc.html?vgnextoid=01404553ae9f1110VgnVCM100000fdbf648aRCRD"&gt;CSDDM&lt;/a&gt;, creo...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt; ?). Claro que la ropa era un poco extremada, pero oye, son jóvenes y todavía no han pasado por la trituradora de la industria de la moda, y estaba bien ver tanta energía y esas madres orgullosas viendo el desfile. Todo nos recordaba a Lady Gaga... ¿o tal vez el tema del desfile era un homenaje a Alexander McQueen? No sé. Por lo visto la palabra clave era "transgresión". (Como dice &lt;a href="http://lucio9chine.blogspot.com/"&gt;Lucio&lt;/a&gt; en los comentarios, Raquel y yo también nos preguntábamos poqué nadie "transgrede" con una buena chaqueta o algo elegante y favorecedor.)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;¿Y qué es esa noticia que Lady Gaga quiere ser becaria de Philip Treacy?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-6095829321445357360?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/6095829321445357360/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=6095829321445357360&amp;isPopup=true' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/6095829321445357360'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/6095829321445357360'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2010/05/blog-post.html' title='Transgression'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S_YbUu7MyvI/AAAAAAAABbQ/Cwc9sPv9FDk/s72-c/gagaALejandro.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-6516897824553643606</id><published>2010-04-21T07:02:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-04-21T07:19:40.722+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='men'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fashion history'/><title type='text'>The Tailor</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S86HLPXcZwI/AAAAAAAABbI/HM2mOJpkogE/s1600/Giovanni_Battista_Moroni_001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 314px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S86HLPXcZwI/AAAAAAAABbI/HM2mOJpkogE/s400/Giovanni_Battista_Moroni_001.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462452025220163330" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;"The Tailor" by Giovanni Battista Moroni (1565/70)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I think I'm in love, too bad this cute guy lived more than 400 years ago. The severe espression with just a shadow of an ironic smile, the tired eyes (yes, fashion is hard work, believe me) with that intense gaze, the strong yet delicate hands... and he's pretty stylish, too.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;"El Sastre" por Giovanni Battista Moroni (1565/70)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Creo que estoy enamorado, que pena que este chico tan mono viviera hace más de 400 años. La expresión severa con sólo la sombra de una sonrisa irónica, la ojos cansados (sí, la moda es un trabajo duro, creedme) de mirada intensa, las manos fuertes pero delicadas... y es estilosillo también.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-6516897824553643606?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/6516897824553643606/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=6516897824553643606&amp;isPopup=true' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/6516897824553643606'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/6516897824553643606'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2010/04/tailor.html' title='The Tailor'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S86HLPXcZwI/AAAAAAAABbI/HM2mOJpkogE/s72-c/Giovanni_Battista_Moroni_001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-9017089559577466303</id><published>2010-03-27T14:30:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2010-03-27T15:01:01.034+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deadly sins'/><title type='text'>Greed</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S64O4l5K5iI/AAAAAAAABbA/ltoPQJiDXDw/s1600/greed.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 304px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S64O4l5K5iI/AAAAAAAABbA/ltoPQJiDXDw/s400/greed.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453312564199613986" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Greed is "the inordinate desire to acquire or possess more than one needs or deserves"... well, I do need shoes, and I deserve them too!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;La avaricia es "el deseo desondenado de adquirir o poseer más de lo que uno necesita o merece"... pues yo necesito zapatos, ¡y también me los merezco!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-9017089559577466303?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/9017089559577466303/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=9017089559577466303&amp;isPopup=true' title='18 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/9017089559577466303'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/9017089559577466303'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2010/03/blog-post_27.html' title='Greed'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S64O4l5K5iI/AAAAAAAABbA/ltoPQJiDXDw/s72-c/greed.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>18</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-3139098273173686535</id><published>2010-03-12T22:15:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2010-03-13T10:56:52.324+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='family'/><title type='text'>Amara Willy</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S5ta0qIAwYI/AAAAAAAABZw/YGm9Uqg59i0/s1600-h/AmaraWIlly.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S5ta0qIAwYI/AAAAAAAABZw/YGm9Uqg59i0/s400/AmaraWIlly.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448048034942337410" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Yes, finally: yesterday, March 12 2010, at 2:06 a.m. in Los Angeles, California, my sister gave birth to her third child, a girl, beautiful little Amara Willy. Congratulations to the parents, Alegría and DaShaun, you did a great job (look at that hair!). My family and I are very happy, proud... as for myself... seeing this new little person in my life seems so amazing! (Sorry if I'm a bit incoherent, I don't have words to express what I feel)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sí, finalmente: ayer, 12 de marzo de 2101, a las 2:06 a.m. en Los Angeles, California, mi hermana dio a luz a su tercer hijo, una niña, la preciosa pequeña Amara Willy. Enhorabuena a los padres, Alegría y DaShaun, habéis hecho un buen trabajo (¡mirad ese pelo!). Mi familia y yo estamos felices, orgullosos... en cuanto a mí... ¡ver a esta nueva personita en mi vida me parece tan asombroso! (Perdonad si estoy incoherente, no tengo palabras para decir lo que siento)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-3139098273173686535?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/3139098273173686535/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=3139098273173686535&amp;isPopup=true' title='14 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/3139098273173686535'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/3139098273173686535'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2010/03/amara-willy.html' title='Amara Willy'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S5ta0qIAwYI/AAAAAAAABZw/YGm9Uqg59i0/s72-c/AmaraWIlly.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-8323025818740065365</id><published>2010-03-08T07:06:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-03-08T14:12:28.123+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Celine'/><title type='text'>Just saying...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S5ST5s-zxMI/AAAAAAAABZQ/vUHh19I0oyg/s1600-h/iphone3g_boss.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 196px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S5ST5s-zxMI/AAAAAAAABZQ/vUHh19I0oyg/s400/iphone3g_boss.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446140468934198466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Phoebe Philo's collection for Céline got a very good review on &lt;a href="http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/F2010RTW-CELINE"&gt;Style.com&lt;/a&gt;, and I know it's supposed they are paying her a compliment, but it looks so much like the "BOSS" logo that I can't help wondering if it was an unconscious coincidence, a (not so) subtle reference to 90's minimalism or if their web designer is an ironic undercover fashion critic. What do you think?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;La colección de Phoebe Philo para Céline tuvo muy buenas críticas en &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/F2010RTW-CELINE"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Style.com&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;, y sé que se supone que le están haciendo un un cumplido, pero se parece tanto al logotipo de "BOSS" que no puedo dejar de preguntarme si es una casualidad inconsciente, una (no tan) sutil referencia al minimalismo de los 90 o si su diseñador web es un irónico crítico de moda oculto. ¿Qué pensáis?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-8323025818740065365?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/8323025818740065365/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=8323025818740065365&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/8323025818740065365'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/8323025818740065365'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2010/03/just-saying.html' title='Just saying...'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S5ST5s-zxMI/AAAAAAAABZQ/vUHh19I0oyg/s72-c/iphone3g_boss.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-7474917450722117256</id><published>2010-03-06T09:51:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2010-03-06T11:25:51.100+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Balenciaga'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='family'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lanvin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Stefano Pilati'/><title type='text'>Waiting....</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;No, not waiting for Pilati (also), but for something much more important: we're about to welcome a new member in our family any day now, I'll keep you posted.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;In any case, I'm more and more into writing whatever I want, all this blogger competitiveness about how many daily visits you get and all that, phew... as Phillipe VI de Valois said: "Qui m'aime me suive". I keep saying how weary I am with fashion sometimes (really) and seeing all the shows, which is something I have to do for my work, is quite tiresome. I still think it is not as it used to be, fashion has become too much like corporate business and less like art, but still, once in a while true talent shines through to bring back some illusion into our lives.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;No, no estoy esperando a Pilati (también), sino algo mucho más importante: estamos a punto de dar la bienvenida a un nuevo miembro en la familia en cualquier momento, os tendré informados.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;En todo caso, cada vez estoy más por escribir lo que me da la gana, toda esta competitividad bloguera sobre número de visitas y todo eso, buf... como dijo Phillipe VI de Valois: "Qui m'aime me suive". No paro de decir lo aburrido que estoy con la moda (de verdad) y ver todos los desfiles, que es algo que tengo que hacer por mi trabajo, es bastante cansino. Sigo pensando que ya no es como era, que la moda es cada vez más un negocio y menos un arte, pero aún así, de vez en cuando brilla el talento verdadero para devolver algo de ilusión a nuestras vidas.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S5IXwp1TnYI/AAAAAAAABYs/UUUqOtKPZHM/s1600-h/AW11balenciaga.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 242px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S5IXwp1TnYI/AAAAAAAABYs/UUUqOtKPZHM/s400/AW11balenciaga.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445441024074947970" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Nicolas Ghesquière, the futurist. Beautiful colors, incredible materials, experimental cuts, but no suits, no evening dresses as such, almost nothing that can be considered a conventional item of clothing (not until it hits the stores in any case), nothing you can imagine on a red carpet. Still one knows it will be influential. It's strange, but it will be real some day. It's like trying to understand Einstein's theories. Don't try, just accept it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "&gt;Nicolas Ghesquière, el futurista. Preciosos colores, materiales increíbles, cortes experimentales, pero ni trajes ni vestidos de noche como tales, casi nada que se pueda considerar una prenda de vestir convencional (no hasta que llega a la tienda por lo menos), nada que te puedas imaginar en una alfombre roja. Aún así uno sabe que tendrá mucha influencia. Es raro pero un día será real. Es como intentar comprender las teorías de Einstein. No lo intentes, acéptalo sin más.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S5IXwd4j7nI/AAAAAAAABYk/_TFVLPyDyyw/s1600-h/AW11lanvin.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 242px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S5IXwd4j7nI/AAAAAAAABYk/_TFVLPyDyyw/s400/AW11lanvin.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445441020867374706" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Alber Elbaz, the magician. Creating a world of dreams with his feet well grounded in the real world, he explores his origins and the contradictions of the modern woman between glamour and power. His usual repertoire takes a new ethnic, tougher, turn. Who else could play this magic trick to make us see leopard when it is in reality lace? But this magic only works on this side of the looking-glass. As a future ambassador for UNICEF Elbaz might think, as we might, that a water pump in an african village is far more beautiful that the most beautiful of dresses. Frivolous? I don't think so. Dreams are necessary, reality even more so.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Alber Elbaz, el mago. Creando un mundo de sueños con los pies bien anclados en el mundo real, explora sus orígenes y las contradicciones de la mujer moderna entre glamour y poder. Su repertorio habitual toma un giro más étnico, incluso duro. Quién sino podría hacer ese truco de magia de hacernos ver leopardo cuando en realidad es encaje? Pero esta magia sólo funciona a este lado del espejo. Como futuro embajador de UNICEF Elbaz puede pensar, como podemos pensar nosotros, que una bomba de agua en un poblado africano es mucha más bonita que el más bonito de los vestidos. ¿Frívolo? No lo creo. Los sueños son necesarios, la realidad aún más.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-7474917450722117256?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/7474917450722117256/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=7474917450722117256&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/7474917450722117256'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/7474917450722117256'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2010/03/waiting.html' title='Waiting....'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S5IXwp1TnYI/AAAAAAAABYs/UUUqOtKPZHM/s72-c/AW11balenciaga.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-525225656873386277</id><published>2010-02-27T13:09:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2010-02-27T20:15:06.900+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bloggers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Prada'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Movies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Antonioni'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='models'/><title type='text'>Prada-realism</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S4kLeawtVEI/AAAAAAAABX8/cSMT-fBUSS8/s1600-h/pradarrealismo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 333px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S4kLeawtVEI/AAAAAAAABX8/cSMT-fBUSS8/s400/pradarrealismo.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442894241861555266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;OK, enough ego-trip for now. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;As &lt;a href="http://di-pordior.blogspot.com/"&gt;Di&lt;/a&gt; said, references more than five years old escape many people, so the obvious alleged "inspiration" (or whatever) for &lt;a href="http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/F2010RTW-PRADA"&gt;Prada&lt;/a&gt;'s show was "Mad Men"... "Mad Men"? Seriously? Why not "Gossip Girl"? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Di also &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/DiPorDior/status/9640622082"&gt;tweeted&lt;/a&gt; (and Eugenia de la Torriente &lt;a href="http://blogs.elpais.com/delitos-y-faldas/2010/02/sexo-en-la-cocina.html"&gt;wrote&lt;/a&gt;) that there is something in the formal and restrained sexuality of these clothes that reminds of Hitchcock's icy heroines, there are self-references to Prada's collections of the mid 90's -but more mature, with heavy tweeds and knits and retro prints that are more Lucienne Day than 70's wallpaper- and there is an ironic nod to those demure and sexy secretaries from the 50's (but still more "The Apartment" or Marilyn Monroe in "Monkey Business" than "Mad Men"). Somehow the first thing that came to my mind when I say the show was Antonioni's 1955 film "The Girlfriends", but also Annie Girardot in "Rocco and His Brothers" in the scene on the roof of the Duomo and Silvana Mangano's curves in "Bitter Rice".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Because this collection is about femininity and reality, by exploring her own past Miuccia Prada projects a new strong woman in the future, and she conveys this message not only with the clothes but with her choice of models: Lara Stone, Doutzen Kroes and Miranda Kerr are considered too curvy (aka fat) in this industry for anything except Victoria's Secret. Without gimmicks or extravaganza Miuccia Prada has made a quiet revolution that will have, I am sure, a long lasting influence. It was about time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;OK, basta de ego-trip por ahora. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Como dijo &lt;a href="http://di-pordior.blogspot.com/"&gt;Di&lt;/a&gt;, las referencias de más de cinco años escapan a a mucha gente, así que la obvia supuesta "inspiración" (o lo que sea) para el desfile de &lt;a href="http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/F2010RTW-PRADA"&gt;Prada&lt;/a&gt; era "Mad Men"... ¿"Mad Men"? ¿En serio? ¿Y porqué no "Gossip Girl"? &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Di también &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/DiPorDior/status/9640622082"&gt;twiteó&lt;/a&gt; (y Eugenia de la Torriente &lt;a href="http://blogs.elpais.com/delitos-y-faldas/2010/02/sexo-en-la-cocina.html"&gt;escribió&lt;/a&gt;) que hay algo en la sexualidad contenida y formal de estas prendas que recuerda a las gélidas heroínas de Hitchcock, hay auto-referencias a los desfiles de Prada de mediados de los 90 -pero más maduro, con tweeds y puntos pesados y estampados retro que son más Lucienne Day que papel pintado de los 70- y hay un guiño irónico a esas secretarias atildadas y sexy de los 50 (aún así, más "El apartamento" o Marilyn Monroe en "Me siento rejuvenecer" que "Mad Men"). De algún modo lo primero que me vino a la mente cuando vi el desfile es la película de Antonioni "Las amigas" de 1955, pero también Annie Girardot en "Rocco y sus hermanos" en la escena en el tejado del Duomo y las curvas de Silvana Mangano' en "Arroz amargo".&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Porque esta colección trata sobre femineidad y realidad, explorando su propio pasado Miuccia Prada proyecta en el futuro a una mujer nueva y fuerte, y transmite este mensaje no sólo son la ropa sino también con la elección de sus modelos: Lara Stone, Doutzen Kroes y Miranda Kerr se consideran demasiado curvilíneas (o sea gordas) en esta industria excepto para Victoria's Secret. Sin trucos fáciles ni extravagancias Miuccia Prada ha hecho una revolución silenciosa que tendrá, estoy seguro, una influencia duradera. Ya era hora.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style=" font-style: normal;  white-space: pre; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eINWOW6OWA4&amp;amp;hl=es_ES&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eINWOW6OWA4&amp;amp;hl=es_ES&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-525225656873386277?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/525225656873386277/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=525225656873386277&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/525225656873386277'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/525225656873386277'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2010/02/ok-enough-ego-trip-for-now.html' title='Prada-realism'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S4kLeawtVEI/AAAAAAAABX8/cSMT-fBUSS8/s72-c/pradarrealismo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-5975872287447460195</id><published>2010-02-27T00:48:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2010-02-27T00:58:28.228+01:00</updated><title type='text'>My 15 minutes...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S4hd8OR52eI/AAAAAAAABXs/VcP74FvW2lY/s1600-h/15minutes.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S4hd8OR52eI/AAAAAAAABXs/VcP74FvW2lY/s400/15minutes.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442703438883969506" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://raquel-gratistotal.blogspot.com/"&gt;gratis total&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.menstyle.es/"&gt;menstyle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"&gt;As Warhol said: "In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Como dijo Warhol: "En el futuro todo el mundo será famoso durante 15 minutos"&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-5975872287447460195?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/5975872287447460195/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=5975872287447460195&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/5975872287447460195'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/5975872287447460195'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2010/02/blog-post.html' title='My 15 minutes...'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S4hd8OR52eI/AAAAAAAABXs/VcP74FvW2lY/s72-c/15minutes.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-9013457444152739855</id><published>2010-02-22T19:05:00.028+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-21T14:38:30.732+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Louis Vuitton'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bloggers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Madrid Fashion Week'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marc Jacobs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='runway'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cocktails'/><title type='text'>Lomanissimo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 280px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S4WV6zBu9kI/AAAAAAAABXM/3A6vRU-JsIw/s400/DSC_1870.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441920562109544002" /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Last week-end I went to the Madrid Fashion Week, a little bit by accident because my friend Ana had invitations for Antonio Alvarado's show on saturday, and because &lt;a href="http://di-pordior.blogspot.com/"&gt;Di&lt;/a&gt; told me she would be there, and it turned out to be a blogger summit because Di told me that Raquel (&lt;a href="http://raquel-gratistotal.blogspot.com/"&gt;Gratis Total&lt;/a&gt;) would also be there, which was exciting because we had never met in person before. Anyways, one thing let to another and Di and Raquel gave me their invitations for the Miriam Ocariz show on the next day. I hadn't attended for a couple of seasons and this was a special occasion, I had a great time running into people I hadn't seen for a while and sipping after-show cocktails in the "kissing room". I was lucky because apparently some of those they had served earlier tasted like Listerine or like Snuggle...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;I also sat at a show with &lt;a href="http://micertificadodeexistencia.blogspot.com/"&gt;Casandra&lt;/a&gt; and ran into &lt;a href="http://doublecloth.blogspot.com/"&gt;Doublecloth&lt;/a&gt;, and missed &lt;a href="http://hummingbird-colibri.blogspot.com/"&gt;Hummingbird&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://missatlaplaya.blogspot.com/"&gt;Miss a la Playa&lt;/a&gt; by an inch because Manuel (from the cool menswear brand &lt;a href="http://www.garciamadrid.com/"&gt;García Madrid&lt;/a&gt;) and I where being whisked into Ana Locking's show -without invitations- by a friend. And I met &lt;a href="http://lucio9chine.blogspot.com/"&gt;Lucio&lt;/a&gt;! Lucio exists. Lucio is the new black. Di, &lt;a href="http://nosoydemarte.blogspot.com/"&gt;Plutónico&lt;/a&gt;, Lucio and I ended up having another drink and lively conversation about two very important topics, clothes and men. It's so funny because without knowing each other we knew each other (you see, what I mean, don't you?)...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Raquel took the picture above on saturday when we were leaving. We had been seeing celebrity socialite Carmen Lomana all day, on the front row of the shows and being photographed with every teen-ager/fashion-design-student, but I was too shy to ask (well, yes) though my friend Ana and I kind of wanted to. But then, just when stepped out we saw she was going towards her car and grabbed our chance. Though she was probably cold and in a hurry she obliged, and Raquel took this great snapshot of us. I must say Raquel is such a good photographer; I usually dislike myself in pictures, but well, I think I look reasonably good.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;And... it's not that I am strictly speaking one this lady's many fans, but I've seen interviews and I think she's clever, beautiful, rich, free and she does what she wants, and in a way I think there is a different person behind this very studied image, someone very intelligent and maybe also someone sad.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Oh, yes, the shows... I liked Antonio Alvarado, his palette was more restrained than usual, and shapes were interestingly architectural. Miriam Ocariz was nice, her usual cute style, very feminine and wearable, though the poor models were struggling with their shoes. And Ana Locking... I don't know, I think she has done some very good shows but this time I just... I didn't like it. It's just my opinion and it's pretty worthless, but some of my friends were hurt. Well, I'm sorry, maybe I was too harsh when I said that the long printed dresses reminded me of Matthew Williamson for H&amp;amp;M, but just look at the image below. On the left, Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton SS09, on the right Ana Locking AW11. Judge for yourself.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;In a way there's something wrong with Madrid Fashion Week (supposedly the fourth most important one in the world, which leaves either New York or London out, not to mention Rio, São Paulo or Mumbai): many of the designers who show their collections don't have any industrial or retail structure to back them up. I, as an anonymous designer in a large fashion company, have probably much more people wearing my designs than them. I am not saying this against the designers, if they have talent they deserve to have industrial backing, it's the whole organization that is absurd.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;Or eventually their show (which is partly paid with public money) is just a promotion for their booming licensing for anything from stationary to hand towels, because they have the right media and political connections. Oh, and don't even dare criticizing, it's... I don't know, unpatriotic. So if it isn't to promote Spain's fashion industry, what the hell is it for? I'm not saying that there isn't talented designers -unfortunately many of them are left out of this circus or have to go abroad to be acknowledged- or that Spain doesn't have it's contribution in fashion, you just need to think of Cristóbal Balenciaga, Loewe... or Zara. But until this event isn't a real showcase for Spanish fashion's industry and talent it is just as useless as... half a pair of Manolos.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;El fin de semana pasado estuve en la Madrid Fashion Week, un poco de casualidad porque mi amiga Ana tenía invitaciones para el desfile de Antonio Alvarado el sábado, y porque &lt;a href="http://di-pordior.blogspot.com/"&gt;Di&lt;/a&gt; me dijo que estaría, y resultó ser una cumbre bloguera porque Di me dijo que Raquel (&lt;a href="http://raquel-gratistotal.blogspot.com/"&gt;Gratis Total&lt;/a&gt;) también estaría, lo cual era emocionante porque no nos conocíamos en persona. En todo caso, una cosa llevó a la otra porque Di y Raquel me dieron sus invitaciones para el desfile de Miriam Ocariz al día siguiente. No había estado en un par de temporadas y esto era una ocasión especial, me lo pasé en grande encontrándome a gente no veía hacía tiempo y tomando cócteles en el "kissing room". Tuve suerte porque por lo visto algunos de los que habían servido antes sabían a Listerine o a Mimosín...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Compartí desfile con &lt;a href="http://micertificadodeexistencia.blogspot.com/"&gt;Casandra&lt;/a&gt; y me encontré con &lt;a href="http://doublecloth.blogspot.com/"&gt;Doublecloth&lt;/a&gt;, y no conocí a &lt;a href="http://hummingbird-colibri.blogspot.com/"&gt;Hummingbird&lt;/a&gt; y &lt;a href="http://missatlaplaya.blogspot.com/"&gt;Miss a la Playa&lt;/a&gt; por un pelo porque Manuel (de la "cool" marca de ropa de hombre &lt;a href="http://www.garciamadrid.com/"&gt;García Madrid&lt;/a&gt;) y yo estábamos siendo colados sin invitación en el desfile de Ana Locking. ¡Y conocí a &lt;a href="http://lucio9chine.blogspot.com/"&gt;Lucio&lt;/a&gt;! Lucio existe. Lucio es el nuevo negro. Di, &lt;a href="http://nosoydemarte.blogspot.com/"&gt;Plutónico&lt;/a&gt;, Lucio y yo acabamos tomando otra copa y charlando sobre dos temas muy importantes, ropa y hombres. Es gracioso porque sin conocernos nos conocíamos (¿sabéis lo que quiero decir, verdad?)...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Raquel tomó la foto de arriba el sábado cuando nos íbamos. Habíamos estado viendo a Carmen Lomana todo el día, en el front-row de los desfiles y siendo fotografiada con todos los adolescentes/estudiantes de diseño, pero me daba corte pedírselo (pues sí) aunque a mi amiga Ana y a mí nos hacía como ilusión. Pero entonces, justo al salir vimos que iba hacia su coche y aprovechamos la oportunidad. Aunque seguramente tenía frío y prisa accedió amablemente y Raquel tomó esta preciosa foto de nosotros.&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#CC6600;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Tengo que decir que Raquel es una gran fotógrafa; No me suelo gustar en las fotos, pero bueno, creo que estoy razonablemente guapo aquí.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Y... no es que sea -estrictamente hablando- uno de los muchos fans de esta señora, pero la he visto en entrevistas, creo que es lista, guapa, rica, libre y que hace lo que le viene en gana, y de algún modo creo que hay otra persona detrás de esta imagen tan estudiada, alguien muy inteligente y tal vez alguien triste también.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ah, sí, los desfiles... me gustó Antonio Alvarado, su paleta era algo más sobria de lo habitual, y las formas arquitectónicas eran interesantes. Miriam Ocariz estaba bien, su estilo mono de siempre, muy femenino y llevable, aunque las pobres modelos lo pasaban francamente mal con los zapatos. Y Ana Locking... no sé, creo que ha tenido desfiles muy buenos pero esta vez yo... bueno, no me gustó. Es sólo mi opinión y no vale mucho, pero a algunos de mis amigos les ha dolido. Lo siento, tal vez me pasé cuando dije que los vestidos largos estampados me recordaban a Matthew Williamson para H&amp;amp;M, pero mirad la imagen de abajo. A la izquierda, Marc Jacobs para Louis Vuitton PV09, a la derecha Ana Locking OI11. Juzgad por vosotros mismos.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;De algún modo algo no funciona en la Madrid Fashion Week (se supone que la cuarta más importante del mundo, lo cual deja fuera o a Nueva York o a Londres, sin contar con Rio, São Paulo o Mumbai): muchos de los diseñadores que muestran sus colecciones no tienen ningún tipo de estructura comercial o industrial. Yo, como diseñador anónimo en una gran cadena de moda tengo probablemente más gente llevando mis diseños que muchos de ellos. Y no digo esto contra los diseñadores, si tienen talento merecen tener apoyo industrial, es todo el tinglado que es absurdo.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;También puede ser que el desfile (pagado en parte con dinero público) sólo sea una promoción para sus boyantes licencias para cualquier cosa desde libretas hasta toallas, solo porque tienen conexiones en los medios y la política. Ah, y no se le ocurra a uno criticar, es.. no sé, anti-patriótico. Así que si no sirve para promocionar la industria de la moda española para qué demonios sirve? No estoy diciendo que no haya diseñadores con talento -desgraciadamente muchos se quedan fuera de este circo o se tienen que ir fuera para que les reconozcan- o que España no tenga su papel en la moda, basta recordar a Cristóbal Balenciaga, Loewe... o Zara. Pero hasta que este acontecimiento no sea un verdadero escaparate para el talento y la industria de la moda española es tan inútil como... medio par de Manolos.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S4WXK6a0LFI/AAAAAAAABXU/fc2xlgviCDQ/s400/cibelessss.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5441921938483326034" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-9013457444152739855?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/9013457444152739855/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=9013457444152739855&amp;isPopup=true' title='18 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/9013457444152739855'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/9013457444152739855'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2010/02/last-week-end-i-went-to-madrid-fashion.html' title='Lomanissimo'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S4WV6zBu9kI/AAAAAAAABXM/3A6vRU-JsIw/s72-c/DSC_1870.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>18</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-6933713709376922862</id><published>2010-02-17T23:47:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2010-02-24T19:53:27.286+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Halston'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='runway'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marios Schwab'/><title type='text'>Déjà-vu</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S3xy5SiHAjI/AAAAAAAABW0/N3yQ8GtUgDo/s1600-h/schwabHalston.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S3xy5SiHAjI/AAAAAAAABW0/N3yQ8GtUgDo/s400/schwabHalston.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439348778509730354" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I always thought that Marios Schwab was on of those talented London-based designers, someone with an real personal view, conceptual enough to keep his collections interesting  but still with a foot well set in the reality of this business. I can't say that his first collection for Halston was disappointing, it featured some of the house's trademarks: the colors, the fluidity, the draping. An other completely different question is if this house has enough identity to successfully be relaunched. However talented Roy Halston was his style was maybe too representative of a specific era, so as to say it is burdened from being so emblematic.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;And... I don't know if it's just me, but if you stand a couple of feet away from your screen and give it a side-eye, don't some of the designs remind you of what the designer of a very historic parisian house did a couple of seasons ago?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;(I'll let you guess.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Update: to be fair, I loved his own &lt;a href="http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/F2010RTW-MSCHWAB"&gt;show&lt;/a&gt; in London.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Siempre consideré que Marios Schwab era uno de esos talentosos diseñadores de la escena londinense, alguien con un visión propia, lo bastante conceptual para que sus colecciones tengan interés,  pero aún así con un pie firme en la realidad de este negocio. No puedo decir que su primera colección para Halston sea decepcionante, tenía algunas de las marcas de la casa: los colores, la fluidez, el drapeado. Una cuestión completamente diferente es si esta casa tiene la suficiente identidad para ser relanzada con éxito. Por mucho talento que tuviera Roy Halston su estilo era tal vez demasiado representativo de una época concreta, digamos que ser tan emblemático puede ser una losa.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Y... no sé si soy yo, si os alejáis un poco de vuestra pantalla y miráis de reojo, ¿no os recuerdan algunos de los diseños lo que estaba haciendo hace un par de temporadas el diseñador de una muy histórica casa parisina?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;(Os dejo que lo penséis.)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Actualización: para ser justos, me encantó su propio &lt;a href="http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/F2010RTW-MSCHWAB"&gt;desfile&lt;/a&gt; en Londres.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-6933713709376922862?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/6933713709376922862/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=6933713709376922862&amp;isPopup=true' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/6933713709376922862'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/6933713709376922862'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2010/02/deja-vu.html' title='Déjà-vu'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S3xy5SiHAjI/AAAAAAAABW0/N3yQ8GtUgDo/s72-c/schwabHalston.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-183176494964592097</id><published>2010-01-12T15:56:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2010-02-14T13:13:18.202+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kate Moss'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deadly sins'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='models'/><title type='text'>Gluttony</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S0yOamV75QI/AAAAAAAABWE/AjmOBii7Hf8/s1600-h/sushi_knitting.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S0yOamV75QI/AAAAAAAABWE/AjmOBii7Hf8/s400/sushi_knitting.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425868238694900994" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Gluttony is the sin of eating and drinking in excess, but our society has come to such a strange relationship with food that it could now mean something completely different. Nowadays food is no longer an unattainable necessity, and large parts of the population are overweight because the cheaper the food the greasier and unhealthy. On the other hand we are constantly bombarded with images of what is supposed to be the new ideal body, thin to the point of ethereal, it seems that the point is now to eat less, but much more expensive, more gourmet, more organic: anti-gluttony is the new gluttony. Actually, eating isn't fashionable. Kate Moss said that nothing tasted as good as feeling thin, Gemma Ward is done and over with because she decided to look like a normal person (oh no!) and Coco Rocha was told she "needed to loose some weight" at 108 pounds for 5' 10''.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;And this is a true story: I know a lady who serves lovely plastic cookies with her tea.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;La gula es el pecado de comer y beber en exceso, pero nuestra sociedad ha llegado a una relación tan rara con la comida que puede que ahora signifique algo completamente distinto. Hoy en día la comida ya no es una necesidad inalcanzable, y grandes sectores de la población tienen sobre peso porque cuanto más barata es la comida más grasienta e insana. Por otra parte estamos constantemente bombardeados con imágenes de lo que se supone es el nuevo cuerpo ideal, delgado hasta lo etéreo, parece ser que hay que comer menos, pero más caro, más gourmet, más orgánico: la anti-gula es la nueva gula. De hecho comer no se lleva. Kate Moss dijo que nada sabe tan bien como sentirse delgada, Gemma Ward está acabada porque ha decidido parecer una persona normal (¡oh, no!) y a Coco Rocha le dijeron que "tenía que perder peso" con 49 kilos para 1,79.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Y esto es una historia real: conozco a una señora que sirve unas monísimas pastas de plástico con su té.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-183176494964592097?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/183176494964592097/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=183176494964592097&amp;isPopup=true' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/183176494964592097'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/183176494964592097'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2010/01/gluttony.html' title='Gluttony'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/S0yOamV75QI/AAAAAAAABWE/AjmOBii7Hf8/s72-c/sushi_knitting.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-7954873765215234698</id><published>2010-01-02T06:10:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2010-01-02T19:52:48.845+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='plaid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='family'/><title type='text'>Country Life</title><content type='html'>&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 308px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/Sz7VYcrczAI/AAAAAAAABVk/4EfalIxLpjY/s400/plaidshirts.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422005617392667650" /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;As I said, I am spending a few days with my family. I stayed with my sister in L.A. and now I am with my parents, who live in Oregon, somewhere in the country near Portland. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;It's funny because I haven't been in the country (I mean like &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; staying in the country for some time, not just for a little day trip or week-end to a rural hotel) for a long time: I love it (the landscapes, the quietness, the ever changing sky, the actual smell of fresh air), in a way it brings me back to a sense of innocence (not that my childhood had anything to do with the country, but anyways....), and on the other hand I feel a bit like an alien, I'm too adapted to life in the city and end up with a "what would Carrie do?" sort of feeling. But, ah, I have my plaid shirts!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Como os dije estoy pasando unos días con mi familia. Estuve con mi hermana en L.A. y ahora estoy con mis padres, que viven en Oregon, en el campo cerca de Portland. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Es curioso porque no he estado en el campo (me refiero a estar en el campo de verdad por un tiempo, no a excursiones o fines de semana en casas rurales) desde hace mucho: me encanta (los paisajes, la  calma, el cielo siempre cambiante, el olor a aire fresco), en cierto modo es como volver a la inocencia perdida (no es que mi infancia tuviera nada que ver con el campo, pero bueno....), pero por otro lado me siento un poco como un bicho raro, estoy demasiado adaptado a la vida urbana y acabo con una sensación tipo "¿qué haría Carrie?". Pero, ah, ¡tengo mis camisas de cuadros!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/Sz7WlZc6mVI/AAAAAAAABV8/Cf2VuvBW5fE/s1600-h/blogcountry3.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/Sz7WlZc6mVI/AAAAAAAABV8/Cf2VuvBW5fE/s1600-h/blogcountry3.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 308px; " src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/Sz7WlZc6mVI/AAAAAAAABV8/Cf2VuvBW5fE/s400/blogcountry3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422006939376326994" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/Sz7WlOei5jI/AAAAAAAABV0/w9legEyIrqY/s1600-h/blogcountry2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 308px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/Sz7WlOei5jI/AAAAAAAABV0/w9legEyIrqY/s400/blogcountry2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422006936430372402" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/Sz7Wkxgrg2I/AAAAAAAABVs/nzpscdUdgnk/s1600-h/blogcountry1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 308px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/Sz7Wkxgrg2I/AAAAAAAABVs/nzpscdUdgnk/s400/blogcountry1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422006928654697314" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This is Oregon. I also posted them on my facebook but posting them here too just in case.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Esto es Oregon. Las puse también en facebook pero las pongo aquí también por si acaso.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-7954873765215234698?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/7954873765215234698/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=7954873765215234698&amp;isPopup=true' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/7954873765215234698'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/7954873765215234698'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2010/01/country-life.html' title='Country Life'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/Sz7VYcrczAI/AAAAAAAABVk/4EfalIxLpjY/s72-c/plaidshirts.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-2478159644831891603</id><published>2009-12-31T04:14:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2009-12-31T04:56:50.143+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy 2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SzwXbOJynwI/AAAAAAAABU8/bURO8-sqjTk/s1600-h/2010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SzwXbOJynwI/AAAAAAAABU8/bURO8-sqjTk/s400/2010.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421233807870304002" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Well, I really thought I couldn't let the year end without updating this blog... I know my last news was a long time ago, but I was without internet for three weeks, and when I finally got it back we were having the most stressful time at work, getting home late in the evening and even working on an occasional week-end. The trip I was going to tell you about last time was a three day trip to Delhi for work, in which all we saw was the (crazy) traffic and our (wonderful) hotel. I made a few pictures but it feels like old news now, it was a nice experience though, specially meeting the people who are so friendly. Anyways, a lot of traveling lately, but now I'm at my parent's place in the country (I've put pictures on my facebook), resting and enjoying the good food.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;So yes, another year has gone by, and a new one is about to begin, let's turn it into a chance for a fresh new start. HAPPY 2010!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bueno, no podía dejar acabar el año sin actualizar este blog... ya sé que mis últimas noticias fueron hace mucho, pero estuve sin internet tres semanas, y cuando finalmente lo recuperé estábamos teniendo una época muy estresante en el trabajo, llegando tarde a casa y trabajando algún que otro fin de semana. El viaje que os tenía que contar la última vez era un viaje de tres días a Delhi por trabajo, en el que todo lo que vimos fue el (enloquecedor) tráfico y nuestro (maravilloso) hotel. Hice algunas fotos pero ya me parece como algo pasado, aunque fue une experiencia muy interesante, sobre todo conocer a gente tan agradable. En todo caso, muchos viajes últimamente, pero ahora estoy con mis padres en el campo (he puesto fotos en mi facebook), descansando y disfrutando de la buena comida.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Pues sí, otro año que se acaba, y uno nuevo que empieza, hagamos que sea la oportunidad para un nuevo comienzo. ¡FELIZ 2010!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-2478159644831891603?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/2478159644831891603/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=2478159644831891603&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/2478159644831891603'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/2478159644831891603'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2009/12/well-i-really-thought-i-couldnt-let.html' title='Happy 2010'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SzwXbOJynwI/AAAAAAAABU8/bURO8-sqjTk/s72-c/2010.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-5278189503825927091</id><published>2009-11-07T21:08:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2010-01-02T06:45:45.421+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Offline</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SqfPtOJFJoI/AAAAAAAABTE/Fy77zHcNDg4/s1600-h/antionette_laptop.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379496655714592386" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 291px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SqfPtOJFJoI/AAAAAAAABTE/Fy77zHcNDg4/s400/antionette_laptop.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I don't have internet at home, so right now I'm sitting in a dingy cyber-place where they also sell Bollywood DVDs... nice music though. When you don't have internet you realize how neccesary/addictive it is... the other day I had to make an appointment (for some boring paperwork) and the only way was online. No telephone, no physical adress, only a web site. So wether you want to know the exact year of the battle of Crécy, book a plane ticket, make a hotel reservation or learn how to make tiramisu you need to be connected. A friend of mine is addicted to buying old books on amazon, my mother buys old jewelery on e-bay (which she recycles into beautiful pieces of her own), and I've found some of my childhood friends through Facebook (a blessing or a curse, depending). I've even dated people I've met on internet: sometimes it works and it's wonderful, sometimes it's a drag, but that's life. So anyways, I will post about wy trip soon, I hope to get my connection back next week, otherwise I'll drag my laptop to some place where they have wifi...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;No tengo internet en casa, ahora estoy en un cyber cutrillo donde también venden DVDs de Bollywood... hay que decir que la música está bien. Cuando no se tiene internet se da uno cuenta de lo necesario/adictivo que es... el otro día tenía que hacer una cita (para unos papeleos aburridos) y sólo se podía hacer online. Ni teléfono, ni dirección física, sólo una web. Así que tanto si quieres saber el año exacto de la batalla Crécy, reservar un billete de avión, hacer una reserva de hotel o aprender a hacer tiramisú tienes que estar conectado. Un amigo mío está enganchado a comprar libros antiguos en amazon, mi madre compra bisutería antigua por e-bay (que recicle en preciosos diseños propios), y he encontrado a algunos amigos de la infancia a través de Facebook (una bendición o una maldición, depende del caso). Hasta he salido con gente que he conocido por internet: a veces funciona y es maravilloso, a veces es un rollo, así es la vida. En todo caso, escribiré sobre mi viaje pronto, espero recupewrar mi conexión la semana que viene, y sino arrastaré mi portátil a algún sitio que tenga wifi...&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-5278189503825927091?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/5278189503825927091/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=5278189503825927091&amp;isPopup=true' title='16 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/5278189503825927091'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/5278189503825927091'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2009/11/i-dont-have-internet-at-home-so-right.html' title='Offline'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SqfPtOJFJoI/AAAAAAAABTE/Fy77zHcNDg4/s72-c/antionette_laptop.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>16</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-7742248414789498384</id><published>2009-10-26T04:17:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-10-26T04:24:21.376+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Just a quick note</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SuUWPK-k6eI/AAAAAAAABUs/G7fZtdkxi_U/s1600-h/overandover.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SuUWPK-k6eI/AAAAAAAABUs/G7fZtdkxi_U/s400/overandover.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396744178374076898" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I'm going away for work, quite far but only for a few days, I'll be back next week-end and report.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Me voy por trabajo, bastante lejos pero sólo por unos días, estaré de vuelta el fin de semana e informaré.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;(Ladybug, sorry about the music, I'm having some technical issues, I'll try to fix it... )&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-7742248414789498384?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/7742248414789498384/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=7742248414789498384&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/7742248414789498384'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/7742248414789498384'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2009/10/just-quick-note.html' title='Just a quick note'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SuUWPK-k6eI/AAAAAAAABUs/G7fZtdkxi_U/s72-c/overandover.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-4721930401496113508</id><published>2009-10-09T20:00:00.022+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-11T15:06:04.424+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Midnight'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Movies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Claudette Colbert'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mitchell Leisen'/><title type='text'>Identities</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="WHITE-SPACE: pre;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10;"&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CeNExIshMNc&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CeNExIshMNc&amp;amp;hl=es&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;During the time I've been away from this blog and since my return there 's been some activity in the anonymous area, not "trolls" really but still a bit puzzling. Mind you, I appreciate all comments and I can't say anything has been offensive, though anonymity makes me a tiny bit uncomfortable, but well, this is internet...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;First of all my mysterious spokespersons Lady Kennington and Mr. McRae: I keep wondering why someone would spend so much time with those very elaborate comments if he or she didn't know me. I thought at first that it might be a friend or acquaintance playing some kind of joke. I even thought I knew who it might be, but after consideration I think not. The story of my "marriage" to start with (poor Louise of Mountbatten would soon enough find out I eloped with the gardener), and it is my birthday soon but I am not turning 50, I still have a few years to go before that. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;Then there are those Taiwanese comments which, frankly, I delete because I don't understand them and I suspect they link to strange websites where they probably sell swallow's nests, rhinoceros horn powder or God knows what. Maybe Lady Kennington's posts and the Taiwanese ones are connected in some mysterious way? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;Also of late there has also been some new anonymous posters (two, I think) and one of them complained that I kept writing about dresses, shoes and stuff. Well, I'm sorry, this is my blog and nobody is forced to read it, though it is true I said I'd write less about fashion but I always seem to come back to the old tiresome topic...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;Since my mind works in a quite wayward ways making free associations all this reminded me for some reason of one of my favorite films, Mitchell Leisen's "Midnight", which I wrote about in my second &lt;a href="http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2007/12/midnight-medianoche.html"&gt;post&lt;/a&gt; in this blog. I won't repeat the whole plot, this scene is almost at the beginning of the movie, when Eve Peabody (Claudette Colbert) crashes into Stephanie's (Hedda Hopper) party using a pawn ticket as the invitation. This particular scene is just before one of the great lines in the film: when Flammarion (John Barrymore) tells how someone has got into the party uninvited, Eve -who is passing herself off as Baroness Czerny- casually says "I thought the big idea was to get away from this party, not into it!" This, my friends, is high philosophy if you think about it...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;The scene above is unusually slow for a comedy, but because it is actually a suspense scene under a light disguise and an introduction to the main plot of the story; as I already said the timing in this movie is as precise as a Swiss clock.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;(While looking up information about this film I read something rather depressing: Michael Arndt is going to direct a remake with Reese Witherspoon... why are they doing this?)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Durante el tiempo que he estado alejado de este blog y desde mi retorno ha habido cierta actividad en el mundo anónimo, aún llegar a ser "trolls" a veces un poco extraña. Bien mirado, aprecio todos los comentarios y no puedo decir que haya habido nada ofensivo, aunque el anonimato me inquieta un poco, pero bueno, esto es internet...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Para empezar mis misteriosos portavoces Lady Kennington y Mr. McRae: Me sigo preguntando porqué alguien querría pasar tanto tiempo escribiendo comentarios tan elaborados si no me conociera. Pensé que podría ser algún amigo o conocido gastándome una broma. Hasta llegué a pensar que tal vez sabía quien era, pero pensándolo bien, no. Para empezar la historia de mi "matrimonio" (la pobre Louise of Mountbatten pronto descubriría que he huido con el jardinero), y es mi cumpleaños pronto pero no cumplo 50, todavía me quedan unos añitos para eso.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Luego están esos comentarios taiwaneses que, francamente, borro porque no los entiendo y sospecho que enlazan con extrañas páginas donde venden nidos de golondrina, polvo de cuerno de rinoceronte o sabe Dios. ¿Tal vez Lady Kennington y los taiwaneses están conectados de alguna forma misteriosa?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Últimamente también ha habido nuevos anónimos (dos, creo), y uno de ellos se quejaba de que escribía sobre vestidos, zapatos y cosas por el estilo. Bueno, lo siento, este es mi blog y nadie está obligado a leerlo, aunque también es verdad que dije que escribiría menos sobre moda y al final vuelta la burra al trigo...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ya que mi mente funciona por caminos tortuosos haciendo asociaciones de ideas, todo esto me recordó por algún motivo una de mis películas favoritas, "Medianoche" de Mitchell Leisen, sobre la que escribí en mi segundo &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2007/12/midnight-medianoche.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;post&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt; en este blog. No voy a repetir todo el argumento, esta escena es casi al principio de la película, cuando Eve Peabody (Claudette Colbert) se cuela en la fiesta de Stephanie's (Hedda Hopper) usando una papeleta de empeño como invitación. Esta escena en particular es poco antes de una de las grandes frases de la película: cuando Flammarion (John Barrymore) cuenta como alguien ha entrado en la fiesta sin invitación, Eve -que se hace pasar por la Baronesa Czerny- dice como si nada "¡Pensaba que lo suyo era salir de esta fiesta, no entrar en ella!" Esto, amiguitos, es alta filosofía, si lo pensáis bien...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;i&gt;La escena que he puesto es inusualmente lenta para una comedia, pero porque en realidad es una escena de suspense bajo un ligero disfraz y una introducción a la trama principal; como ya comenté el tempo de esta película es tan preciso como un reloj suizo.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;i&gt;(Mientras buscaba información sobre esta película leí algo bastante deprimente: Michael Arndt va a dirigir un remake con Reese Witherspoon... ¿porqué hacen esto?)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-4721930401496113508?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/4721930401496113508/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=4721930401496113508&amp;isPopup=true' title='48 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/4721930401496113508'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/4721930401496113508'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2009/10/identities.html' title='Identities'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>48</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-2626144875151620752</id><published>2009-10-06T17:07:00.010+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-06T21:34:34.633+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Stefano Pilati'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='men'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Yves Saint Laurent'/><title type='text'>Well...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SstdUMqfgXI/AAAAAAAABT0/67D8gOjwC18/s1600-h/pilati_ss10.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389503980657148274" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 233px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SstdUMqfgXI/AAAAAAAABT0/67D8gOjwC18/s400/pilati_ss10.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I'm going to be completely honest: I'm not sure I really understood Pilati's last show for YSL, but then again maybe it's one of those collections that you need to see a few times before they sink in. I loved the shoes and some of the ensembles, specially the ones contructed around pencil skirts. A white tunic with a pink skirt was very elegant in a minimalist way. But I don't know, the strawberries and the knee-slits I thought a bit strange...&lt;br /&gt;In any case I am aware that seeing the clothes in the store is going to be something completely different (as I said before about Prada and Marni, for instance), the runway looks are very experimental but translate into very beautiful and wearable clothes. And he's good looking so I am going to forgive him. By the way, are those new tattoos on his arms?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;(And what was going on about Japan in the comments to my last post? I have to investigate this... )&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;Voy a ser sincero: no estoy seguro de haber entendido muy bien el último desfile de Pilati para YSL, pero tal vez sea una de esas colecciones que hay que revisar unas cuantas veces antes de que calen. Me encantaron los zapatos y algunos de los conjuntos, sobre todo los que giraban en torno a las faldas lápiz. Una túnica blanca con falda rosa era muy elegante de un modo minimalista. Pero no sé, las fresas y las rajas en la rodilla me parecieron un poco raras...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;En todo caso soy consciente que ver después la ropa en la tienda es algo totalmente distinto (como ya dije acerca de Prada o Marni, por ejemplo), los looks en la pasarela son experimentales pero se traducen luego en prendas llevables y bonitas. Y es guapo así que le voy a perdonar. Por cierto, ¿esos tatuajes en los brazos son nuevos?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;(¿Y qué pasaba con Japón en los comentarios a mi post anterior? Tendré que investigarlo... )&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-2626144875151620752?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/2626144875151620752/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=2626144875151620752&amp;isPopup=true' title='18 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/2626144875151620752'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/2626144875151620752'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2009/10/im-going-to-be-completely-honest-im-not.html' title='Well...'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SstdUMqfgXI/AAAAAAAABT0/67D8gOjwC18/s72-c/pilati_ss10.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>18</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-6303345926359207387</id><published>2009-10-02T13:33:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-06T17:35:40.597+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Martin Grant'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='models'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='H and M'/><title type='text'>Clothes, Not Fashion</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SsXlIPlA3fI/AAAAAAAABTs/e-VFT6PhZ2w/s1600-h/MGrant.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 247px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SsXlIPlA3fI/AAAAAAAABTs/e-VFT6PhZ2w/s400/MGrant.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387964459002158578" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I've said already that I was a bit tired about the whole fashion trend thing. We are now almost through the spring runways and of course we've seen some interesting things (we still have to see what our dear Stefano has prepared for us this time) but... I just find it tiresome in a way. One designer though that reconciles me with clothes is Martin Grant, I love the way his collections are so real, new without being extreme, and always elegant. He's maybe not going to change the history of fashion, but he sure makes some beautiful clothes. And another thing I love is that he shows them not on a twelve year old Russian model but on a real woman: British model Susie Bick is fourty and fabulous.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And something I read (which I thought was just a rumor but is apparently confirmed): Sonia Rykiel for H&amp;amp;M, what do you think?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ya he dicho que estaba un poco cansado de todo el rollo de la moda y las tendencias. Ya casi acaban las pasarelas de primavera y por supuesto hemos visto cosas interesantes (nos queda ver que nos ha preparado nuestro querido Stefano) pero... lo encuentro todo un poco cansino. Sin embargo si hay un diseñador que me reconcilia con la ropa ese es Martin Grant, me encanta lo reales que son sus colecciones, nuevas sin ser extremadas y siempre elegantes. Tal vez no sea él quien cambie la historia de la moda, pero lo que sí hace es ropa preciosa. Y otra cosa que me encanta es que no la presenta sobre una modelo rusa de doce años sino sobre una mujer de verdad: la modelo británica Susie Bick tiene cuarenta años y está estupenda.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; Y algo que he leído (pensaba que era un rumor pero por lo visto está confirmado): Sonia Rykiel para H&amp;amp;M, ¿qué opináis?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-6303345926359207387?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/6303345926359207387/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=6303345926359207387&amp;isPopup=true' title='17 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/6303345926359207387'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/6303345926359207387'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2009/10/clothes-not-fashion.html' title='Clothes, Not Fashion'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SsXlIPlA3fI/AAAAAAAABTs/e-VFT6PhZ2w/s72-c/MGrant.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>17</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-5580926805202066566</id><published>2009-09-21T16:48:00.012+02:00</published><updated>2009-09-28T21:58:49.900+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><title type='text'>Les Mystères de Paris</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SreSgwbfaKI/AAAAAAAABTc/F0UNsGeQsag/s1600-h/masks.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 303px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SreSgwbfaKI/AAAAAAAABTc/F0UNsGeQsag/s400/masks.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383932970998392994" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SreSgjRy4LI/AAAAAAAABTU/mqCCUrEflLk/s1600-h/gargoyles.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 303px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SreSgjRy4LI/AAAAAAAABTU/mqCCUrEflLk/s400/gargoyles.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383932967468064946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SreSgXSwL-I/AAAAAAAABTM/T-a1VJ4jBlE/s1600-h/face.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 303px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SreSgXSwL-I/AAAAAAAABTM/T-a1VJ4jBlE/s400/face.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383932964250857442" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;OK, it's been a little while but I have a (lame) excuse. I was in Paris last week (not this one but the one before), and as always when we travel when we came back we had to catch up with work. As usual we went to Première Vision, this time to see the fabric trends for winter 2010/11 (felt seems to be the big thing, but it's not something really new, is it?), and did some "shopping": buying garments for "inspiration" and looking at every seam, trim and cut of the stuff we can't afford (the really nice stuff, that is), or asking one of the girls (all but one of my colleagues are girls so I'll refer to them like that, as a group) to go into the fitting room and sneak some pictures... terrible, I know, but has to make a living, right? Anyways, Balenciaga and Marni had some really nice pieces and we went completely crazy at &lt;a href="http://www.cosstores.com/gb/site/home__start.nhtml"&gt;COS&lt;/a&gt;, I wish they opened a store here soon. Then on the other hand I can't stand Balmain anymore, if I see another stud or pointy shoulder-pad I think I am going to scream.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;But it wasn't all work, almost everybody at our office decided to go the previous week-end to enjoy the city by ourselves. My colleagues stayed at a hotel and I stayed with some dear friends of mine. I spent some time with my parisian friends and had dinner with the girls at Café Ruc -which by now has become a tradition- and then went for a drink, but didn't have much fun... I mean, the place was nicely decorated, the music was good, the people were good looking, but it was so &lt;i&gt;formal. &lt;/i&gt;We had some cocktails with strange names and even stranger colors (mine was a fluorescent "Blue Lagoon", the only ingredient I am almost sure about is Curaçao) served by an incredibly good-looking waiter. One thing has to be said, they don't know how to party as we do but they &lt;i&gt;are&lt;/i&gt; good looking. On sunday I met the girls again and we went to see the Madeleine Vionnet exhibition, I don't have words to say how interesting it was, if you go to Paris before January don't miss it. We came out with mixed feeling: on one hand we were impressed with the beauty and modernity of the clothes (most of them could be worn today), on the other we were a bit depressed when we compared it to the limitations of our work. Ah, well...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;One thing I like when visiting I city I know already (and Paris I think I know pretty well since I spent my childhood there) is to look at it from a different angle. When we passed the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B4tel_Lutetia"&gt;Hôtel Lutetia&lt;/a&gt; on our way out of Le Bon Marché I was told that it had been a nazi headquarter during the war, where people were imprisoned and tortured, and that it was believed to be haunted. Now, I don't believe in ghosts, but peeking into it's dark lobby and it's deserted "brasserie" did give me a bit of a chill. And Paris does have this slightly sinister history of graveyards, catacombs, underground phantoms, strange murders and hidden mysteries, and as I took a close look at it's beautiful architecture I couldn't help noticing the masks and gargoyles that lurk form the dark side of the City of Lights...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Vale, he tardado un poco, pero tengo una (pobre) excusa. Estuve en París la semana pasada (no esta sino la anterior), y como siempre cuando viajamos al volver teníamos trabajo acumulado. Como siempre fuimos Première Vision, esta vez para ver las tendencias de tejidos para el invierno 2010/11 (se impone el fieltro, pero tampoco es una novedad ¿no?), e hicimos un poco de "shopping": comprar prendas para "inspirarnos" y mirando cada costura, adorno y corte de lo que no podíamos comprar (es decir, lo más bonito), o pidiendo a una de las chicas (casi todas mis compañeras son chicas, así que me referiré a ellas así, en grupo) que haga unas fotos robadas en el probador... terrible, ya sé, pero hay que ganarse la vida ¿no? En todo caso, Balenciaga y Marni tenían cosas preciosas y nos enloqueció &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cosstores.com/gb/site/home__start.nhtml"&gt;&lt;i&gt;COS&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;, ojalá abrieran tienda aquí. Por otra parte ya no soporto a Balmain, si veo otra tachuela o hombrera puntiaguda creo que voy a gritar.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Pero no fue todo trabajo, casi toda la oficina decidimos ir el fin de semana anterior para disfrutar de la cuidad. Mis compañeras se quedaron en un hotel y yo con unas queridas amigas. Estuve con mis amigas parisinas y fui a cenar con las chicas al Café Ruc -lo cual ya se ha convertido en una tradición- y luego fumas a tomar una copa, pero tampoco lo pasamos muy bien... quiero decir, el sitio era bonito, la música era buena, la gente era guapa, pero era todo tan &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"&gt;formal&lt;/span&gt;. Tomamos unos cócteles con nombres raros y colores aún más raros (el mío era "Blue Lagoon" fluorescente, el único ingrediente del que doy fe era el Curaçao) servidos por un camarero increíblemente guapo. Eso sí hay que decirlo, no saben divertirse como nosotros pero &lt;/i&gt;son&lt;i&gt; guapos. El domingo quedé de nuevo con las chicas y fuimos a ver la exposición de Madeleine Vionnet, no tengo palabras para decir lo interesante que fue, si váis a París antes de enero no os la perdáis. Salimos con sentimientos ambivalentes: por un lado estábamos impresionados por la belleza y la modernidad de las prendas (la mayoría se podrían llevan hoy mismo), pero por otro estábamos un poco deprimidos al compararlo con las limitaciones de nuestro trabajo. Pues sí...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Una cosa que me gusta cuando visito una cuidad que ya conozco (y creo que conozco bien París ya que viví allí de pequeño) es verla desde otro ángulo. Cuando pasamos delante del &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B4tel_Lutetia"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hôtel Lutetia&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt; saliendo de Le Bon Marché me dijeron que había sido el cuartel general nazi durante la guerra, donde encerraban y torturaban a gente, y se dice que está encantado. Bien, no es que crea en fantasmas, pero mirando hacia su oscuro lobby y su "brasserie" desierta me dio un pequeño escalofrío. Y París tiene esta historia algo siniestra de cementerios, catacumbas, fantasmas subterráneos, extraños crímenes y misterios ocultos, y mirando de cerca su preciosa arquitectura no podía evitar ver las máscaras y gárgolas que asoman desde el lado oscuro de la Cuidad Luz...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;*Just a note to "anonymous": of course Ladybug is an honored guest at all my Tea-Parties, though you seem to know me (and maybe I start having an idea that I know you too) you ignore the fact that no lady can rival with her in titles, birth, rank and elegance. Voilà.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-5580926805202066566?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/5580926805202066566/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=5580926805202066566&amp;isPopup=true' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/5580926805202066566'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/5580926805202066566'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2009/09/ok-its-been-little-while-but-i-have.html' title='Les Mystères de Paris'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SreSgwbfaKI/AAAAAAAABTc/F0UNsGeQsag/s72-c/masks.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-1768169050671156218</id><published>2009-09-07T20:32:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2009-09-28T21:58:31.627+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='H and M'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SqVSlDT21vI/AAAAAAAABS0/aYtwwr4tJ2Y/s1600-h/HM.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SqVSlDT21vI/AAAAAAAABS0/aYtwwr4tJ2Y/s400/HM.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378796126461155058" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I bet you were thinking I was going to desert you and be another four or five months without posting, weren't you? Well, no, as you you can see. I had a terribly busy week-end, because everybody is back in town and it's like one has to meet and discuss the holidays, so it ends up in a string of lunches, dinners, Margaritas and Gin &amp;amp; Tonics (Hendrick's please, with a slice of cucumber)... yes, I know this sounds like something from &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answered_Prayers"&gt;"Answered Prayers"&lt;/a&gt;, only a little bit more prosaic, after all this isn't New York in the 50's...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;It wasn't all that frivolous, I've also been watching &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cries_and_whispers"&gt;"Cries and Whispers"&lt;/a&gt; with a friend and being happy they didn't have botox back then because there's no way they could have had such richness of expression. You see the faces in close-up, the fine wrinkles around the eyes, the slightly crooked un-whitened teeth, but still these women were beautiful. Nowadays we've become so perfectionist it's artificial, there's no place left for being... human.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;On saturday I also took a moment to visit the new H&amp;amp;M store that opened in what used to be the "Cine Avenida", one of the grand movie theaters that line the Gran Vía in Madrid. It was built in 1928 and the foyer and staircases have been preserved, but nothing is left of the auditorium itself, but because I think it was turned into a multiplex at some point in the 90's. I took the terrible picture above, sorry for the bad quality but I took it with my mobile phone without the security guards noticing. I was a bit disappointed by the store, but I must say the works were not completely finished -even the carpet looked like something temporary until they placed the real one-  and they had clothes racks along the corridors. I suppose when it will be completed it will be pretty impressive.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Oh, and I am completely intrigued by the anonymous comment to my last post...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Apuesto que pensabais que os iba a abandonar y pasarme cuatro o cinco meses sin escribir nada, ¿verdad? Pues no, ya veis. Tuve un fin de semana tremendamente ocupado, porque todo el mundo ha vuelto y parece que hay que quedar para hablar de las vacaciones, así que acaba siendo una serie de comidas, cenas, Margaritas y Gin-Tonics (de Hendrick's por favor, con una rodaja de pepino)... si, ya sé que parece sacado de &lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_Capote"&gt;"Plegarias Atendidas"&lt;/a&gt; solo que un poco más prosaico, al fin y al cabo esto no es el Nueva York de los 50...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;No todo ha sido frivolidad, también estuve viendo &lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gritos_y_susurros"&gt;"Gritos y Susurros"&lt;/a&gt; con un amigo y alegrándome de que no hubiera botox en esa época, porque nunca hubieran podido tener tanta riqueza de expresión. Se ven las caras en primer plano, las finas arrugas alrededor de los ojos, los dientes ligeramente torcidos y sin blanquear, pero aún así esas mujeres eran bellas. Hoy somos tan perfeccionistas que resulta artificial, no queda lugar para ser... humanos.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;El sábado también estuve viendo un rato la nueva tienda de H&amp;amp;M abierta en lo que era el "Cine Avenida", uno de los grandes cines que bordeaban la Gran Vía madrileña. Fue construido en 1928 y han conservado el vestíbulo y las escaleras, pero no queda nada de la sala en sí, pero porque creo que fue convertida en multicines en los 90. Tomé la horrible foto de arriba, siento que sea de tan mala calidad pero la hice con el móvil sin que se dieran cuenta los de seguridad. Me decepcionó un poco la tienda, pero debo decir que las obras no estaban terminadas -hasta la moqueta parecía provisional hasta que pongan la buena-  y tenían percheros por los pasillos. Supongo que cuando la acaben será bastante impresionante.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Oh, y me intriga muchísimo el comentario anónimo a mi último post...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;* Sr. Q., ya hablaremos de lo de la lima de uñas...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-1768169050671156218?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/1768169050671156218/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=1768169050671156218&amp;isPopup=true' title='16 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/1768169050671156218'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/1768169050671156218'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2009/09/i-bet-you-were-thinking-i-was-go-to.html' title=''/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SqVSlDT21vI/AAAAAAAABS0/aYtwwr4tJ2Y/s72-c/HM.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>16</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-3788935175733709815</id><published>2009-08-30T11:52:00.010+02:00</published><updated>2009-08-30T12:48:55.596+02:00</updated><title type='text'>A New Start (sort of)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SppMYloT3DI/AAAAAAAABSo/ylqoKKKAj8o/s1600-h/lookatstrangers.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SppMYloT3DI/AAAAAAAABSo/ylqoKKKAj8o/s400/lookatstrangers.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375693090521865266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Ok, now that summer is almost over it's about time to get out of survival mode and start living a little again. I think autumn is for me what spring is for most people.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;I hope you will excuse my absence. As you know work has been very tiresome and stressful (things have changed a lot at my job so I truly believe it's going to be better). And then... I've had this feeling of passing by the real things in life, it's as if I had fallen in some kind of superficial day-dream and forgotten to nourish my spirit. I know, it's as simple as keeping up with one's friends, reading good books, going to a museum once in a while, using one's talents, taking care of oneself, and even just observing life with open eyes. Easy to do but also easy to pass by in this world we live in. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;So anyways, here I am again. I just want to enjoy this and express myself, I don't want it to be a burden and force myself to be interesting, and maybe you'll notice I won't always be giving the images such an exquisite treatment... as I said, I'm taking it easy, sometimes being too much of a perfectionist only stops you from doing things...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Bueno, ahora que el verano llega a su fin va siendo hora de salir del modo supervivencia y empezar a vivir un poco. Creo que para mí el otoño es lo que es la primavera para la mayoría.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Espero que perdonaréis mi ausencia. Como sabéis el trabajo ha sido muy cansino y estresante (las cosas han cambiado mucho en my empresa así que de verdad creo que va a ser mejor). Y luego... he tenido esta sensación de pasar de largo las cosas importantes de la vida, como si hubiera caído en una especie de ensueño superficial y olvidado alimentar mi espíritu. Ya sé, es tan sencillo como estar pendiente de los amigos, leer buenos libros, ir a un museo de vez en cuando, usar los talentos que uno tenga, cuidarse e incluso observar la vida con los ojos abiertos. Fácil de hacer pero también fácil de olvidar en este mundo en el que vivimos. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Así que aquí estoy de nuevo. Solo quiero disfrutar de esto y expresarme, no quiero que sea una carga y obligarme a ser interesante, y tal vez notéis que no le doy a las imágenes un tratamiento tan exquisito... como digo, me lo tomo con calma, a veces ser demasiado perfeccionista sólo impide hacer las cosas...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;image: &lt;a href="http://ffffound.com/"&gt;ffffound&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial, fantasy;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial, -webkit-fantasy;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;Mensaje para el Sr. Q: es usted injusto, me escribe esos comentarios y yo no le puedo contestar, escudado como está en su anonimato. Dudo que ponga muchas fotos mías (vestido o no) aquí, para eso tengo el facebook...  ;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial, -webkit-fantasy;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-3788935175733709815?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/3788935175733709815/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=3788935175733709815&amp;isPopup=true' title='16 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/3788935175733709815'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/3788935175733709815'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2009/08/new-start-sort-of.html' title='A New Start (sort of)'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SppMYloT3DI/AAAAAAAABSo/ylqoKKKAj8o/s72-c/lookatstrangers.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>16</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-4560087143111590301</id><published>2009-05-10T22:14:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2009-05-13T07:16:40.839+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deadly sins'/><title type='text'>Wrath</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/Sghnh68jkQI/AAAAAAAABRk/Gai8DfroboU/s1600-h/cards.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/Sghnh68jkQI/AAAAAAAABRk/Gai8DfroboU/s400/cards.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334627591076942082" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Actually I was going to write about Lust, but some recent events got in the way so I'll write about Wrath. First of all I'd like to bring to your notice that I don't believe much in the concept of "sin", I believe in a life ethic that doesn't necessarily have much to do with the traditional concept of moral, but still, I do think that Wrath (and probably Greed) are the most harmful. Those two and the Mother of all Sins: Ignorance.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;So, yes, those recent events: I guess most of you know by now, but maybe some don't so you need to be informed about this. We usually assume that the fashion world is free from physical violence (verbal violence is a whole different matter, as Joan Crawford said in "The Women": "There's a name for you ladies, bit it isn't used in high society outside of the kennel"), so I was pretty shocked to read the incident between Jack McCollough (one half of Proenza Schouler) and Kiefer Shuterland at a Met Ball after-party hosted by Rodarte designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy last week. Apparently Jack accidentaly bumped in Brooke Shields (according to the actress it was "no big deal", she fell but she blamed it on her 6-inch heels) and Kiefer (who allegedly had a couple of drink too many and was in a violent mood) butt-headed Jack, who had to undergo surgery though fortunately his nose wasn't broken. Kiefer has been officially charged with assault so now this whole thing is going to court (and if I'm not mistaken I think he's already under parole for driving under the influence of alcohol).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Well, yes, there is wrath in all this, but nothing compared to Anna Wintour's anger, according to a spokesperson she is "FURIOUS that the Met Gala got upstaged by Kiefer doing something stupid at an after-party that wasn't even part of her event. Now that's all anyone is talking about, not HER party. And she is so genuinely fond of Jack, she has supported him and Lazaro for years, she really feels they are part of the future of American fashion. So she's doubly annoyed."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Oh, and it wasn't the only casualty that night: someone stepped on the train of Natalia Vodianova's vintage Fortuny dress and ruined it. Now THAT'S something to be angry about!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Update: In spite of the first informations, a Proenza Schouler spokesperson declared recently that Jack's nose was broken in three places and had to be "reset".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;En realidad iba a escribir sobre la lujuria&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;, pero a luz de los recientes acontecimientos escribiré sobre la Ira. Ante todo me gustaría decir que no creo mucho en el concepto de "pecado", creo en una ética de vida que no tiene necesariamente que ver con la moral tradicional, pero aún así pienso que la Ira (y probablemente la Codicia) son los más dañinos. Esos dos y la Madre de todos los Pecados: la Ignorancia &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Pues sí, esos acontecimientos: supongo que casi todos lo sabéis, pero alunos quizás no y tenéis que estar informados. Damos por hecho que el mundo de la moda está libre de violencia física (la violencia verbal es otro asunto, como decía Joan Crawford en "Las Mujeres": "Hay un nombre para señoras como ustedes, pero no se usa en la alta sociedad fueras de la perrera"), así que me chocó bastante leer sobre el incidente entre Jack McCollough (la mitad de Proenza Schouler) y Kiefer Shuterland en una "after-party" ofrecida por las diseñadoras de Rodarte Kate y Laura Mulleavy después del baile del Met la semana pasada. Por lo visto Jack tropezó sin querer con Brooke Shields (según la actriz "no fué para tanto", cayó pero le echa la culpa a sus tacones de 15 centímetros) y Kiefer (que presuntamente llevaba un par de copas de más y estaba de un humor violento) le dió un cabezazo a Jack, que ha tenido que someterse a cirugía, aunque afortunademente su nariz no estaba rota. Kiefer ha sido oficialmente acusado por agresión así que ahora el asunto pasa a los tribunales (y si no me equivoco está en libertad bajo fianza por conducir bajo los efectos del alcohol).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Bueno, sí, hay ira en todo esto, pero nada compardo con el enfado de Anna Wintour, según un portavoz está "FURIOSA que la gala del Met haya sido eclipsada por Kiefer haciendo algo estúpido en una "after-party" que ni siquiera formaba aprte de su evento. Ahora todo el mundo habla de esto, no de SU fiesta. Y aprecia sinceramente a Jack, le ha apoyado a él y a Lazaro desde hace años, cree que forman parte del futuro de la moda americana. Está doblemente disgustada."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Oh, y no fue la única desgracia esa noche: alguien pisó la cola del Fortuny "vintage" de Natalia Vodianova y lo destrozó. ¡ESO sí que es para enfadarse!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Actualización: A pesar de las primeras informaciones un portavoz de Proenza Schouler ha declarado recientemente que la nariz de Jack estaba rota en tres sitios y tuvo que ser "recolocada".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-4560087143111590301?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/4560087143111590301/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=4560087143111590301&amp;isPopup=true' title='48 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/4560087143111590301'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/4560087143111590301'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2009/05/wrath.html' title='Wrath'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/Sghnh68jkQI/AAAAAAAABRk/Gai8DfroboU/s72-c/cards.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>48</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-7858892479187034301</id><published>2009-04-19T21:01:00.009+02:00</published><updated>2009-04-20T19:28:33.359+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh Spring... at last!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/Set1C1sDHLI/AAAAAAAABRc/BEXdQnR1rJE/s1600-h/09polas.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 376px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/Set1C1sDHLI/AAAAAAAABRc/BEXdQnR1rJE/s400/09polas.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326479675927764146" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Yes, I know I am terrible, not updating in such a long time, I'm really sorry! I hate to seem like I'm always complaining about the same thing, but believe me, I've had so much work this last month that I was just too tired, and also I've been busy with more personal matters... and I must say that I'm not so motivated to discuss fashion (well, not exactly fashion, but trends) because it's what I do all day, so what if I write more about other things? Though of course fashion is always present in whatever I may come up with, even if tangentially.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;So anyways, the other day (or rather the other month, to be exact) I was talking to my cousin &lt;a href="http://www.robineggblue.blogspot.com/"&gt;Lee&lt;/a&gt;, who lives in Canada, and she was asking me what I thought was going to be fashionable this spring, and I couldn't give her an answer straight away, but I started thinking in a practical way what pieces could update the wardrobe of a real working woman, someone with a normal figure, a real life, a regular job, and a limited budget. Well, of course style is very personal, but anyways... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;First of all one of the essential pieces this season (and the next) is the blazer. The most stylish version is the "boyfriend" jacket, slightly oversized, which surprisingly, and against popular belief, suits well almost every figure. It works in the office, it can be casual with skinny jeans or dressy over a little black dress in the evening. Rolling up the sleeves will give the fashionable touch. There's also many cropped blazers, but maybe they're more difficult to wear and not as versatile... in any case there's definitely an emphasis on the shoulders, which will continue next winter with the 40's inspired looks.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;As for pants, slouchy masculine pants are very stylish, worn cropped and rolled up. Skinny pants are still there, but if you have them you have them, if you don't maybe it's too late to start. The "harem" pants, sarouels and jodhpurs are also still going strong, but i.m.h.o. they're maybe not such a good investment, I don't think they'll have a very long fashion life (but, hey, I might be wrong!). Not much happening with skirts right now, the newest shape is the narrow pencil skirt, but I don't know, skirts are a bit boring, maybe we men should start wearing them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Of course dresses are still very important, almost any kind of dress... as long as it's nice. There's a 20's and 30's influence, and a good idea might be finding a nice vintage piece. Another good vintage piece to invest in is a short leather jacket.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Probably "the" fashion color is "nude", which is a pretty silly name, since depending whether you are Lily Cole or Alec Wek "nude" can be anything from ivory to wenge. So well, in any case, nude. You must find the right shade though because it's a difficult color for the face, but it does look very good on some people. Marled grey (yes, just like that old sweatshirt) is also a very important color, it has that sort of sporty 80's feel to it, and it looks nice mixed with bright pastel or neon colors. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I was surprised to see that the "gladiator" sandal was still going on, not crazy about them myself. Wooden wedges are also a big thing, and anything with studs on it. I don't know if there's anything really new with bags, except for the death of the "it-bag", large soft clutches are nice, and the little Chanel type bags with the chain strap are cute, but must be worn with some irony and mixed with unexpected items. Of course if it's a real 2.55 it's super-cute.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Well, please comment on what you think is fashionable this spring, I'm sure I left plenty of things out, I'm in my dried-up brain phase. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;And check &lt;a href="http://raquel-gratistotal.blogspot.com/2009/04/gratis-total-on-marie-clairees.html"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; out, Raquel (Gratis total) interviewed in Marie-Claire, of course her blog is great and she deserves it... and she's so sweet she mentions this modest blog, I'm not so sure &lt;i&gt;I&lt;/i&gt; deserve such honor, but thank you so much, it means a lot to me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sí, ya sé que soy terrible, no actualizando en tanto tiempo, ¡lo siento de verdad! Odio que parezca que siempre me quejo de lo mismo, pero creedme, he tenido tanto trabajo este último mes que estaba demasiado cansado, y también he estado atendiendo asuntos personales... y debo decir que no estoy tan motivado para hablar de moda (bueno, no moda exactamente, tendencias más bien) porque es lo que hago todo el día, ¿así que qué tal si escribo más sobre otros temas? Claro que la moda siempre está presente en cualquier cosa que se me ocurra, aunque sea tangencialmente.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;En todo caso, el otro día (más bien el otro mes, para ser exactos) estaba hablando con mi prima &lt;a href="http://www.robineggblue.blogspot.com/"&gt;Lee&lt;/a&gt;, que vive en Canadá, y me preguntaba qué pensaba que iba a estar de moda esta primavera, y no supe que decirle en el momento, pero empecé a pensar de forma práctica en piezas para actualizar el vestuario de una mujer trabajadora real, alguien con una figura normal, una vida real, un trabajo corriente, y un presupuesto limitado. Claro que el estilo es una cosa muy personal, pero bueno... &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Para empezar una de las piezas clave esta temporada (y a que viene) es la blazer. La versión más estilosa es la chaqueta "boyfriend", levemente "oversized", que sorprendentemente, y contra la creencia popular, favorece casi a cualquier figura. Funciona en la oficina, es informal con unos vaqueros pitillo y arreglada encima de un vestidito negro por la noche. Remangarse le dará ese toque actual. Hay también muchas blazers cortitas, pero tal vez sean más difíciles de llevar y no tan versátiles... en todo caso hay un claro énfasis en los hombros, que continuará en invierno con la inspiración años 40.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;En cuanto a pantalones, los pantalones masculinos son muy estilosos, llevados cortos y con vuelta. Sigue el pitillo, pero si ya los tenéis los tenéis, y si no puede que ya sea tarde para empezar. Los pantalones morunos y jodhpurs siguen en la brecha, pero e.m.h.o. quizás no sean una muy buena inversión, no creo que les quede mucho tiempo (pero, oye, ¡puedo estar equivocado!). No hay muchas novedad en faldas ahora mismo, lo más nuevo son las faldas lápiz, pero no sé, las faldas están un poco aburridas, tal vez los chicos deberíamos empezar a llevarlas.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Por supuesto los vestidos siguen siendo muy importantes, casi cualquier tipo de vestido... mientras sea bonito. Hay una influencia de los años 20 y 30, y una buena idea puede ser encontrar uno bonito de 2ª mano. Otra pieza "vintage" en la que invertir es una cazadora de cuero.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Probablemente "el" color de moda sea el "nude", que es un nombre absurdo, ya que según seas Lily Cole o Alec Wek "nude" puede ser cualquier cosa desde marfil hasta wengé. Pues eso, nude. Hay que encontrar el tono porque es un color difícil a la cara, pero a alguna gente le queda muy bien. El gris jaspeado (si, como esa vieja sudadera) es también un color muy importante, tiene ese rollito deportivo y ochentero, y es bonito con colores pastel muy vivos o flúor. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Me sorprendió que siguiera la sandalia "gladiator", personalmente no es que me encanten. las cuñas de madera también están muy presentes, y cualquier cosa con tachuelas. No sé si hay algo muy nuevo en cuanto a bolsas, aparte de la muerte del "it-bag", las carteras grandes y blandas son bonitas, y los bolsitos tipo Chanel con cadenita son monos, aunque hay que llevarlos con cierta ironía y en mezclas inesperadas. Claro que si es un auténtico 2.55 ya es súper-mono.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bueno, por favor comentad lo que vosotros pensáis que se lleva esta primavera, me habré dejado un montón de cosas en el tintero, estoy en mi fase cerebro reseco. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Y mirad &lt;a href="http://raquel-gratistotal.blogspot.com/2009/04/gratis-total-on-marie-clairees.html"&gt;esto&lt;/a&gt;, Raquel (Gratis total) entrevistada en Marie-Claire, claro que su blog es genial y se lo merece... y es tan encantadora que nombra este modesto blog, no estoy tan seguro de merecer ese honor... pero muchas gracias, significa mucho para mí.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "&gt;Soundtrack: "ACE", by Lipstick std&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-7858892479187034301?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/7858892479187034301/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=7858892479187034301&amp;isPopup=true' title='21 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/7858892479187034301'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/7858892479187034301'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2009/04/yes-i-know-i-am-terrible-not-updating.html' title='Oh Spring... at last!'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/Set1C1sDHLI/AAAAAAAABRc/BEXdQnR1rJE/s72-c/09polas.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>21</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-8618997320657282596</id><published>2009-03-23T18:00:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2009-03-26T22:19:36.232+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Maintenance mode</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/ScfAWrMUJiI/AAAAAAAABRU/aVKTVjaDgog/s1600-h/ti085239_mo03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316429380918191650" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 267px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/ScfAWrMUJiI/AAAAAAAABRU/aVKTVjaDgog/s400/ti085239_mo03.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I was going to update this week-end, but I'm having some technical issues... sorry, I'll be back as soon as they're solved.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;(Thursday 26: solved but without time to update during the week, I promise I'll do this week-end!)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Iba a actualizar este fin de semana, pero estoy teniendo problemas técnicos... lo siento, estaré de vuelta en cuanto los solucione.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;i&gt;(Jueves 26: resuelto pero sin tiempo para actualizar durante la semana, ¡prometo hacerlo este fin de semana!)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-8618997320657282596?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/8618997320657282596/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=8618997320657282596&amp;isPopup=true' title='21 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/8618997320657282596'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/8618997320657282596'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2009/03/maintenance-mode.html' title='Maintenance mode'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/ScfAWrMUJiI/AAAAAAAABRU/aVKTVjaDgog/s72-c/ti085239_mo03.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>21</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-41036013871681206</id><published>2009-03-15T19:03:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2009-03-20T11:33:10.610+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Fashion... recession?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/Sb1C8TM36zI/AAAAAAAABQ8/ZfbVaIHtDCw/s1600-h/fashionpolas2%231.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 379px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/Sb1C8TM36zI/AAAAAAAABQ8/ZfbVaIHtDCw/s400/fashionpolas2%231.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313476739080907570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Well, the fall shows were not very exciting, were they? But it was to be expected, in these difficult times... and after all designers, talented as they may be, need to sell clothes if they want to keep their job. Of course we've seen beautiful clothes, but this is not a moment for risky fashion breakthroughs. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;If there was any evolution I think it was a different focus on the shoulder, specially at &lt;a href="http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/F2009RTW-YSLRG/"&gt;Yves Saint Laurent&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/F2009RTW-PRADA/"&gt;Prada&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/F2009RTW-LANVIN/"&gt;Lanvin&lt;/a&gt;, that reminded more the late 30's than the 80's. Actually these were my favorite collections, moving forward but staying in tune with the times, and well, real, if you see what I mean. I just loved the "gladiator" dresses at Prada and the combination of pinstripe and black leather at Saint Laurent. I didn't understand what Nicolas Ghesquière was trying to say at &lt;a href="http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/F2009RTW-BALENCIA/"&gt;Balenciaga&lt;/a&gt;, it reminded me of the dresses Linda Evans wore in Dynasty, but maybe I need some time to assimilate it. Apparently the buyers were very happy with the collection because it was commercial, so I don't know.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;On the other hand I'm pretty tired with some things. One of them is the Blondie /Grace Jones /Rock Chick /80's thing. I just can't stand it anymore, I mean, it's cute on the street but it's just not for the runway anymore. How long is this 80's revival thing going to last? In never really happens in the end anyways!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Another thing I'm a bit tired of is the British "enfant terrible" thing, meaning &lt;a href="http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/F2009RTW-JNGALLNO/"&gt;Galliano&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/F2009RTW-AMCQUEEN/"&gt;McQueen&lt;/a&gt;. For me it's becoming too theatrical: the corsets, the drag queen make-up, the 8 inch heels, the heavy headdresses, it's not even real clothes anymore. Yes, the workmanship is beautiful, the shows are stunning, and so what? Of course you will argue that sometimes fashion must be a dream, that real life is boring enough, but for me this dream is starting to look more like a nightmare, and in the end I get this uneasy feeling seeing this under-fed girls, deprived of their individuality, that can hardly breathe, walk or move their arms, wrapped in feathers and plastic. Why not barbed wire while we're at it? (hmm, better not give them ideas...). I must say though I'm grateful to McQueen because he has given us the opportunity of a healthy &lt;a href="http://todosigueiluminado.blogspot.com/"&gt;argument&lt;/a&gt; about fashion.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I know I'm straying away from my subject, but I didn't want to do a review of the collections in the first place... I think that some designers forget something: that they must dress women, not use them to project their fantasies. Mademoiselle Chanel, who was sometimes pretty grouchy, used to accuse homosexual designers (actually she was aiming at Dior) of doing just this, but of course she was simplifying matters (she &lt;i&gt;was&lt;/i&gt; a bit dogmatic sometimes). One the designers who respected women most, Yves Saint Laurent -who wanted his clothes to make them strong and beautiful and at the same time to be like a caress on their bodies, using only silk satin to line them- once said: "The most beautiful garment a woman can wear are the arms of the man she loves".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bueno, los desfiles de otoño no estaban muy emocionantes ¿verdad? Pero era de esperar, en estos tiempos difíciles... después de todo los diseñadores, por mucho talento que tengan, tienen que vender ropa si quieren mantener su puesto. Claro que hemos visto cosas preciosas, pero este no es momento para arriesgados avances. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Si hubo una evolución creo que fue un enfoque diferente del hombro, especialmente en &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/F2009RTW-YSLRG/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Yves Saint Laurent&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;, &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/F2009RTW-PRADA/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Prada&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt; y &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/F2009RTW-LANVIN/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Lanvin&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;, que recordaba más a finales de los 30' que a los 80. De hecho fueron mis colecciones favoritas, avanzadas pero a tono con el espíritu de los tiempos, y bueno, reales, ya sabéis. Me encantaron los vestidos "gladiator" de Prada y la combinación de raya diplomática y cuero negro de Saint Laurent. No entendí lo que Nicolas Ghesquière intentaba decir en &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/F2009RTW-BALENCIA/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Balenciaga&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;, me recordaba los vestidos de Linda Evans en Dinastía, pero tal vez necesito un tiempo para asimilarlo. Por lo visto los compradores estaban encantados con la colección porque era comercial, así que no sé.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Por otra parte ya me estoy cansando de algunas cosas. Una de ellas es el rollo Blondie /Grace Jones /Rock Chick /80. Ya no lo aguanto, quiero decir, es mono en la calle pero ya no es para la pasaela. ¿Cuánto va a durar esto del revival de los 80? ¡si en realidad al final nunca llega!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Otra cosa que ya me cansa un poco es el rollo "enfant terrible" británico, o sea  &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/F2009RTW-JNGALLNO/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Galliano&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt; y &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.style.com/fashionshows/review/F2009RTW-AMCQUEEN/"&gt;&lt;i&gt;McQueen&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;i&gt;. Para mí ya es demasiado teatral: los corsés, el maquillaje de drag queen, los tacones de 20 centímetros, los pesadísimos tocados, ya casi ni es ropa real. Sí, la confección es preciosa, los desfiles son impresionantes ¿y qué? Claro que diréis que a veces la moda tiene que ser un sueño, que la vida real ya es bastante aburrida, pero para mí este sueño ya empieza a parecer una pesadilla, y al final tengo una sensación incómoda viendo a estas chicas desnutridas, privadas de su individualidad, que apenas pueden respirar, andar o mover los brazos, envueltas en plumas y plástico. ¿Porqué no alambre de pinchos, ya que estamos? (Ejem, mejor no dar ideas...). Aunque debo decir que estoy agradecido a McQueen porque nos ha dado la oportunidad de una sana &lt;a href="http://todosigueiluminado.blogspot.com/"&gt;discusión&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://todosigueiluminado.blogspot.com/"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;sobre moda.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ya sé que me estoy alejando del tema, pero de todas formas no pensaba hacer un resumen de los desfiles... creo que algunos diseñadores olvidan algo: que deben vestir a las mujeres, no utilizarlas para proyectar sus fantasías. Mademoiselle Chanel, que a veces era bastante cascarrabias, acusaba a los diseñadores homosexuales (en realidad era un ataque a Dior) de hacer exactamente esto, pero por supuesto estaba simplificando el asunto (a veces era un poco dogmática). Uno de los diseñadores que más respetó a las mujeres, Yves Saint Laurent -que quería que sus prendas las hiciera fuertes y bellas, y a la vez que fuera una caricia para sus cuerpos usando sólo satén de seda para forrarlas- dijo una vez: "La más bella prenda que una mujer puede llevar son los brazos del hombre al que ama".&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-41036013871681206?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/41036013871681206/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=41036013871681206&amp;isPopup=true' title='24 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/41036013871681206'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/41036013871681206'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2009/03/fashion-recession.html' title='Fashion... recession?'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/Sb1C8TM36zI/AAAAAAAABQ8/ZfbVaIHtDCw/s72-c/fashionpolas2%231.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>24</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-3479337690027298064</id><published>2009-03-01T20:15:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-03-01T21:27:53.995+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deadly sins'/><title type='text'>Envy</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/Sarf1rSXYYI/AAAAAAAABQs/HAK8QPXw2XQ/s1600-h/envidia+asesina.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 277px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/Sarf1rSXYYI/AAAAAAAABQs/HAK8QPXw2XQ/s400/envidia+asesina.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5308301224055366018" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Those who know me know that I am not an envious person. I am usually happy about other people's gifts and achievements... until I opened a magazine and saw this picture of Isabel and Ruben Toledo's Manhattan "atelier d'artiste". I don't envy their success -I assume it is well earned with talent and hard work- or their glitzy bohemian lifestyle. I envy THEIR HOUSE, it's sheer murderous envy for that skylight and that view of the Empire State Building, even though I can well imagine that it is maybe as hot as a cruise ship boiler room in summer and nearly impossible to heat in winter... haha... oh, envy is really something very ugly...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;(You never know, this might become a serie of posts about the deadly sins... )&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Los que me conocen saben que no soy una persona envidiosa. Normalmente me alegro por los dones y los logros de los demás... hasta que abrí una revista y vi esta foto del "atelier d'artiste" en Manhattan de Isabel y Rubén Toledo. No envidio su éxito -doy por hecho que conseguido con talento y trabajo duro- o su estilo de vida bohemio-chic. Envidio SU CASA, es pura envidia asesina por ese ventanal y esa vista del Empire State Building, aunque bien me puedo imaginar que posiblemente en verano sea tan caluroso como la sala de máquinas de un crucero y casi imposible de calentar en invierno... jeje... ay, la envidia es realmente algo muy feo...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;(Nunca se sabe, esto se puede convertir en una serie de posts sobre los pecados capitales... )&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-3479337690027298064?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/3479337690027298064/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=3479337690027298064&amp;isPopup=true' title='23 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/3479337690027298064'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/3479337690027298064'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2009/03/envy.html' title='Envy'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/Sarf1rSXYYI/AAAAAAAABQs/HAK8QPXw2XQ/s72-c/envidia+asesina.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>23</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-8857500250832498215</id><published>2009-02-22T10:44:00.015+01:00</published><updated>2009-02-25T07:13:55.624+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Eugénie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Rose Bertin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Marie-Antoinette'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Metternich'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fashion history'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Worth'/><title type='text'>"Sous l'Empire des Crinolines"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SaEetDdM9GI/AAAAAAAABQU/wfO8WBxoHKI/s1600-h/CRINO01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SaEetDdM9GI/AAAAAAAABQU/wfO8WBxoHKI/s400/CRINO01.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305555595389891682" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SaEeokQqNSI/AAAAAAAABQM/A1Pw0HbPT-Y/s1600-h/crinowhite.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt; forgot completely to write about one of the most interesting things about our trip to Paris... on the day we went "shopping" we went first thing in the morning to see the exhibition "Sous l'Empire des Crinolines" at the Musée Galliera. We actually had to sneak out to go and see it, which I think is stupid, because I think it was a great source of inspiration, more than going to any silly shop, but anyways...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Me olvidé completamente de escribir sobre lo más interesante de nuestro viaje a París... el día que fuimos de "shopping" fuimos por la mañana a ver la exposición "Sous l'Empire des Crinolines" en el Musée Galliera. De hecho tuvimos que ir de tapadillo, lo cual me parece estúpido porque creo que era interesante e inspirador, más que ir a cualquier tienda chorra, pero bueno...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);  font-style: italic;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img style="text-decoration: underline;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 400px; " src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SaEeokQqNSI/AAAAAAAABQM/A1Pw0HbPT-Y/s400/crinowhite.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305555518296306978" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;I&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; must say I have been fascinated by crinolines ever since I first saw "Gone With The WInd", there's something with the billowing fullness of those skirts that I find just... beautiful. Of course they're uncomfortable and unpractical, but so are 8 inch high heels, no?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Debo decir que me han fascinado los miriñaques desde que vi por primera vez "Lo que el viento se llevó", hay algo en esas vaporosas y voluminosas faldas que encuentro simplemente... bello. Claro que son incómodas y poco prácticas, pero también lo son unos tacones de 15 cm, ¿no?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SaEeoiJ9djI/AAAAAAAABQE/WcZsaCLdo50/s1600-h/crinoivoryemb.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SaEeoiJ9djI/AAAAAAAABQE/WcZsaCLdo50/s400/crinoivoryemb.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305555517731337778" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;T&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;he interesting thing about this exhibition, apart from showing beautiful dresses, was that it put them in context, depicting a time (between 1850 and 1870) when the concept of fashion was changing into it's modern shape, though contradictorily retaining an aesthetic from the past. Those changes had started before the French Revolution: new fashions sprang up every year, colors were favored one season and shunned the next, fashion plates circulated to show the new trends, and fashion itself started to permeate through all social classes. It was said that in the late XVIIIth century even kitchen maids in Paris were "chic".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Lo interesante de esta exposición, aparte de enseñar preciosos vestidos, era que los ponía en su contexto, mostrando una época (entre 1850 y 1870) en la que el concepto de la moda estaba tomando su forma moderna, aún reteniendo de forma contradictoria una estética del pasado. Esos cambios habían comenzado antes de la Revolución Francesa: nuevas modas aparecían cada año, el color que enloquecía una temporada estaba pasado la siguiente, láminas de moda circulaban para mostrar las nuevas tendencias, y la moda en sí empezó a calar en todas las clases sociales. Se decía que a finales del siglo XVIII hasta las sirvientas en París eran "chic".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SaEeoaZweiI/AAAAAAAABP8/JOW7ymROcUY/s1600-h/crinogreen.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SaEeoaZweiI/AAAAAAAABP8/JOW7ymROcUY/s400/crinogreen.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305555515650112034" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;But the changes that  took place in the mid XIXth century were of a different kind. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;In earlier decades more and more clothing items could be purchased over the counter, and what we now know as "separates" started to be usual item's in a lady's wardrobe. The invention of the sewing machine and the new ways of manufacturing fabrics industrialized the clothing trade. This saw an even greater development with the opening of department stores. In Paris, at the same time that Haussmann was building a new dream city for the bourgeoisie, stores like "Le Bon Marché" (the first parisian department store, opened in 1838, two decades before the medieval city was torn down to make place for the new grand avenues), "Le Printemps" (1865) and "La Paix" (1869) catered the fashion-thirsty, bourgoises and noble alike, they even gave the illusion of "faux luxe" for the less fortunate. For those who couldn't afford the heavy silks from Lyon there were "éttofes-réclame", showy fabrics at lower prices, and these early temples of consumerism didn't sell fabrics only, but put under one roof everything that small "boutiques" had to offer: parasols, gloves, fabric flowers, ribbons, stockings, shoes, perfumes and what-not.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Pero los cambios ocurridos a mediados del siglo XIX eran de otro tipo. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;En décadas anteriores cada vez más artículos de vestir se podían comprar en tiendas, y lo que ahora se conoce como "separates" empezaron a ser comunes en el vestuario de una señora. La invención de la máquina de coser y las nuevas formas de tejer industrializaron el sector de la confección. Esto se desarrolló aún más con la apertura de los grandes almacenes. En París, a la vez que Haussmann estaba construyendo la cuidad ideal para la burguesía, almacenes como "Le Bon Marché" (el primer almacén parisino, abierto en 1838, dos decadas antes de que la cuidad medieval fuera derribada para dejar paso a las grandes avenidas), "Le Printemps" (1865) y "La Paix" (1869) atendían las necesidades de burguesas y nobles sedientas de moda, incluso daban la ilusión del "faux luxe" a las menos afortunadas. Para las que no podían pagar las pesadas sedas de Lyon había "éttofes-réclame", tejidos aparentes a precios más bajos, y en esos primeros templos del consumismo no se vendía sólo tela, sino que bajo un mismo techo se podía encontrar todo lo que las pequeñas "boutiques" podían ofrecer: parasoles, guantes, flores artificiales, cintas, medias, calzado, perfume y demás.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SaEeoMvuErI/AAAAAAAABP0/oFwI5T66UXI/s1600-h/crinocandy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SaEeoMvuErI/AAAAAAAABP0/oFwI5T66UXI/s400/crinocandy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305555511984132786" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Another change, on the opposite side of the spectrum, was the rise of the fashion designer as renown artist instead of obscure artisan (with the exception only of Rose Bertin, Marie Antoinette's "Ministre de la Mode"). Charles Frederick Worth was the first dressmaker to use models to show his creations, and the first to put a label with his name inside his garments. He was also the first to gain international fame, dressing not only the Empress Eugénie and princess Metternich, but also the fashionable and wealthy from as far as New York or Buenos Aires. It would be another few decades, however, until the time of Poiret and Chanel, that fashion designers could step up from the status of mere suppliers and gain enough social recognition to mingle with their famous clients. But that's another story...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Otro cambio, en el polo opuesto, fue el nacimiento del diseñador de moda como artista reconocido, y no sólo como mero artesano (con la única excepción de Rose Bertin, la  "Ministre de la Mode" de María Antonieta). Charles Frederick Worth fue el primer modista en usar modelos para mostrar sus creaciones, y el primero en poner una etiqueta son su nombre en las prendas. Fue también el primero en conseguir fama internacional, vistiendo no solo a la Emperatriz Eugenia y a la princesa Metternich, sino también a las ricas y elegantes que llegaban desde tan lejos como Nueva York o Buenos Aires. Aún así, tendrían que pasar varias décadas, hasta la época de Poiret y Chanel, para que los diseñadores ascendieran del status de meros proveedores y ganaran suficiente reconocimiento social para codearse con sus famosas clientas. Pero esa es otra historia...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SaEegHUnKAI/AAAAAAAABPs/QEEhCd0Ev-c/s1600-h/crinoworth.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SaEegHUnKAI/AAAAAAAABPs/QEEhCd0Ev-c/s400/crinoworth.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305555373089302530" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-8857500250832498215?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/8857500250832498215/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=8857500250832498215&amp;isPopup=true' title='235 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/8857500250832498215'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/8857500250832498215'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2009/02/i-forgot-completely-to-write-about-one.html' title='&quot;Sous l&apos;Empire des Crinolines&quot;'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SaEetDdM9GI/AAAAAAAABQU/wfO8WBxoHKI/s72-c/CRINO01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>235</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-3246322065207175032</id><published>2009-02-15T11:06:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2009-02-15T12:55:55.512+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Chanel'/><title type='text'>Oh là là, Paris!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Please excuse my absence, but this week I had to travel for work (again), this time we went to Paris, the usual biannual visit to Première Vision and, you know, "shopping"... anyways, with all this traveling, work, down-to-earth things like shopping and cleaning the house, trying to see friends and have some sort of social life one doesn't have time for anything, how do you guys manage, if you do at all?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;So, yes, Paris. The first days the weather was disgusting, rainy, windy and cold. The worst day of all was the one assigned for shopping around, which was more like hopping from one store to another escaping from the rain. Mind you, not bad if those stops are at Colette, Lanvin, Hermès, Chanel and YSL, with a little "café crème" in between. The new Zara store on Saint-Honoré is pretty impressive. On our way to Le Marais I took this picture of the "Hôtel de Ville" that looks more like something from a Gothic novel.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Disculpad mi ausencia, pero esta semana he tenido que viajar por trabajo (otra vez), esta vez a París, la acostumbrada visita bi-anual a Première Vision y, ya sabéis, "shopping"... en fin , con tanto viaje, trabajo, cosas prosaicas como la compra y limpiar la casa, intentar ver a los amigos y tener algún tipo de vida social uno no tiene tiempo para nada, ¿como os las arregláis, si es que lo conseguís?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ah, sí, París. Los primeros días hacía un tiempo asqueroso, lluvia viento y frío. El peor día de todos fue el que nos asignaron para ir de tiendas, que era más como saltar de una tienda a otra escapando de la lluvia. Bien pensado no está mal si esas paradas son en Colette, Lanvin, Hermès, Chanel e YSL, con un pequeño "café crème" entre medias. Por cierto, impresionante la nueva tienda de Zara en Saint-Honoré. De camino a Le Marais tomé esta foto del "Hôtel de Ville" que parece más bien algo sacado de una novela gótica.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SZfp3LBJBnI/AAAAAAAABPc/Mf33pUAKD5E/s400/paris0209_hoteldeville.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302964220311701106" /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The next day was sunny and beautiful, as you can see from this view from my hotel room... unfortunately we were going to the the fair so we spent it indoors. The fair was pretty dull, nothing much new, a lot of talk about the crisis and everybody whining. Well, at least one gets to see all the good looking italian suppliers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;El día siguiente amaneció radiante, como podéis ver en esta vista desde mi habitación del hotel... desgraciadamente íbamos a la feria así que lo pasamos ahí encerrados. La feria bastante sosa, pocas novedades, mucho hablar de la crisis y todo el mundo quejándose. Bueno, por lo menos hemos visto a todos los guapos proveedores italianos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SZfp3Mk8rwI/AAAAAAAABPU/RPhUIiqHxnM/s1600-h/paris0209_hotelview.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SZfp3Mk8rwI/AAAAAAAABPU/RPhUIiqHxnM/s400/paris0209_hotelview.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302964220730322690" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Actually, I found the colors of the "macarons" at Ladurée more inspiring. Buying them is another story, I wonder if all those japanese tourists actually sleep at the storefront to be first in line...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;De hecho, encuentro más inspiradores los colores de los "macarons" de Ladurée. Comprarlos ya es otra cosa, me pregunto si todos esos turistas japoneses duermes delante de la tienda para estar los primeros en la cola...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SZfp27eYa5I/AAAAAAAABPM/FqCRPBp8BNU/s1600-h/paris0209_laduree.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SZfp27eYa5I/AAAAAAAABPM/FqCRPBp8BNU/s400/paris0209_laduree.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302964216139377554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This time I didn't take much pictures of store windows (I know I'm going to be nagged bacause I'm supposed to), but most of the time the nice stuff was inside and besides they have these security guards at the door. I thought these Chanel dolls were kind of cute though.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Esta vez no hice muchas fotos de escaparates (sé que me van a reñir porque se supone que tengo que hacerlas), pero casi siempre lo bonito estaba dentro y ademas tienen esos guardias de seguridad en la puerta. Pero pensé que estas muñecas de Chanel eran como graciosas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SZfp26hZWRI/AAAAAAAABPE/bDzw90_5BtI/s1600-h/paris0209_chaneldoll.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SZfp26hZWRI/AAAAAAAABPE/bDzw90_5BtI/s400/paris0209_chaneldoll.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302964215883585810" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And then there's this typical old Paris that I love, away fom all the glamour and trends...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Y luego está este París típico y viejo que me encante, alejando del glamour y las tendencias...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SZfp2wGHgKI/AAAAAAAABO8/ZYb-gw3VrBk/s1600-h/paris0209_moutarde.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SZfp2wGHgKI/AAAAAAAABO8/ZYb-gw3VrBk/s400/paris0209_moutarde.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302964213084815522" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;And since some of my friends are not having an easy time right now, I send them a big big hug with all my love.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Y como algunos amigos están pasando por momentos difíciles ahora mismo, les mando un abrazo muy fuerte con todo mi amor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-3246322065207175032?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/3246322065207175032/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=3246322065207175032&amp;isPopup=true' title='19 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/3246322065207175032'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/3246322065207175032'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2009/02/please-excuse-my-absence-but-this-week.html' title='Oh là là, Paris!'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SZfp3LBJBnI/AAAAAAAABPc/Mf33pUAKD5E/s72-c/paris0209_hoteldeville.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>19</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-6112332426938084080</id><published>2009-02-03T23:36:00.008+01:00</published><updated>2009-02-15T12:56:13.475+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fashion history'/><title type='text'>Dear Darwin</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SYjHqbNFS8I/AAAAAAAABM8/-siGGfdsa48/s1600-h/RaquelWelchinOneMillionYearsBCenhan.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 329px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SYjHqbNFS8I/AAAAAAAABM8/-siGGfdsa48/s400/RaquelWelchinOneMillionYearsBCenhan.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298704493272452034" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The other day I was thinking about this evolutionary thing: Did mankind start having less body hair (well... some still have quite a lot) because they wore clothes, or did they start wearing clothes because they had less and less body hair? Animals with little or no hair only live in very hot climates, and it it usually admitted that that is where mankind originated, but why did such a physically unprepared species like us dominate the whole planet, under every possible climate? I suppose that as our ancestors migrated to colder areas they realized they could use skins of other animals to cover their bodies to protect them from the weather, but how did this idea originally come by? Many animals build shelters and nests, some even very complex structures (as complex as a skyscraper in some cases), all animals have some way of communication, some of them very close to language, but as far as I can think of we are the only species to cover or adorn our bodies. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;So here is my point: clothing is consubtantial to the evolution and very existence of mankind, and since clothing had to evolve somehow, mostly to avoid us from becoming extinct from sheer boredom, fashion itself is a key element of our evolution... and some still say it is shallow, ha!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Any anthropologist in the room?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;El otro día estaba pensando en esto de la evolución: ¿Empezó la humanidad a tener menos vello (bueno... algunos todavía tienen bastante) porque llevaban ropa, o empezaron a llevar ropa porque tenían cada vez menos vello? Los animales con poco o nada de pelo solo viven en climas muy cálidos, y está admitido que ahí está la cuna de la humanidad, ¿pero como ha llegado una especia tan poco preparada físicamente como nosotros a dominar todo el planeta, bajo cualquier clima posible? Supongo que nuestros antepasados, al migrar a zonas más frías, se dieron cuenta que podían usar pieles de otros animales para cubrir sus cuerpos y protegerlos, ¿pero como se originó esta idea? Muchos animales construyen madrigueras y nidos, incluso estructuras complejas (a veces tan complejas como rascacielos), y todos los animales tienes alguna forma de comunicación, algunas muy cercanas al lenguaje, pero que yo sepa somos la única especie que cubre y adorna sus cuerpos. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Así que esta es mi conclusión: vestirse es consubstancial con la evolución y la existencia misma de la humanidad, y como la vestimenta tenía que evolucionar de algún modo, más que nada para evitar que nos extinguiéramos por aburrimiento, la moda en sí es un elemento clave de nuestra evolución... y aún dicen que es frívola ¡ja!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;¿Algún antropólogo en la sala?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-6112332426938084080?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/6112332426938084080/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=6112332426938084080&amp;isPopup=true' title='20 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/6112332426938084080'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/6112332426938084080'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2009/02/other-day-i-started-thinking-about-this.html' title='Dear Darwin'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SYjHqbNFS8I/AAAAAAAABM8/-siGGfdsa48/s72-c/RaquelWelchinOneMillionYearsBCenhan.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>20</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-8747653656792135954</id><published>2009-01-27T21:24:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-01-27T22:18:32.948+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh, just another pair of SHOES...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SX9tg5D3ZgI/AAAAAAAABM0/sMawE6ENU80/s1600-h/allstarsHK.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296072098651268610" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 288px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SX9tg5D3ZgI/AAAAAAAABM0/sMawE6ENU80/s400/allstarsHK.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;I didn't shop much for myself in HK, though some things were cheaper: I bought stuff at Khiel's which is about half price over there for some reason (lip balm and a wonderful hair stuff, I'll tell you more about it), a belt, a couple of t-shirts, and these "patent" All-Stars, I wanted a pair of sneakers for winter, and these are kind of dressy and go with everything. Before you ask: they are not a knock-off, I bought them in a regular store. Some of my colleagues came back with fake Pradas and stuff like that but I'm just not into that ... I don't know, wearing something fake doesn't give me any pleasure, whether others think it's real or not isn't even the issue. Well, I'm the weirdo who actually pays for the music he downloads. So anyways, yes, another pair of goddam shoes...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;No compré mucho para mí mismo en HK, aunque algunas cosas eran más baratas: compré cosas en Khiel's que está a mitad de precio allí por algún motivo (un bálsamo labial y un producto estupendo para el pelo, ya os contaré), un cinturón, un par de camisetas, y estas All-Stars de "charol", quería unas playeras para invierno, y esta me parecieron como arregladas y que pegan con todo. Antes de que preguntéis: no son fusiladas, me las compré en una tienda normal. Algunas compañeras volvieron con Pradas falsos y cosas así pero no me va mucho ese rollo... no sé, llevar algo falso no me da ningún placer, que los demás piensan que es verdadero no es la cuestión. Bueno, yo soy ese tío raro que paga por la música que se descarga. En todo caso, sí, otro par de malditos zapatos...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-8747653656792135954?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/8747653656792135954/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=8747653656792135954&amp;isPopup=true' title='26 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/8747653656792135954'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/8747653656792135954'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2009/01/oh-just-another-pair-of-shoes.html' title='Oh, just another pair of SHOES...'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SX9tg5D3ZgI/AAAAAAAABM0/sMawE6ENU80/s72-c/allstarsHK.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>26</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-8862519137307357308</id><published>2009-01-22T06:54:00.010+01:00</published><updated>2009-02-15T14:35:57.360+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><title type='text'>Hong Kong</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I promise I wasn't trying to be mysterious, I just thought I'd tell you where I went after I came back. I've been in Hong Kong for work, very interesting, though exhausting... and I hardly even saw anything! Well, this was the view from my hotel room.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Prometo que no me estaba haciendo el misterioso, pensé que diría donde había ido cuando volviera. He estado en Honk Kong por trabajo, muy interesante, aunque agotador... ¡y apenas he visto nada! Bueno, esto era la vista desde mi habitación del hotel.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SXgMHxCT0BI/AAAAAAAABMo/1fDj6s4zlo8/s1600-h/hk_buildings2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SXgMHxCT0BI/AAAAAAAABMo/1fDj6s4zlo8/s400/hk_buildings2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293994689535660050" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;And this is the view from our HK office, where we spent very long meeting hours... I must say work went well (except for one meeting were a few sparks flew), and it was interesting to meet our Chinese suppliers, though it makes you wonder about the future of the fashion trade as we know it. Now it's all about speed, prices, margins and benefits, and where's design left in all that? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Y esta es la vista desde nuestra oficina en HK, donde pasamos largas horas en reuniones... el trabajo fue bien (menos una reunión en la que volaron chispas), y fue interesante conocer a nuestros proveedores chinos, aunque te hace preguntarte sobre el futuro de la industria de la moda tal y como la conocemos. Ahora todo es tiempo, precio, margen y beneficio, y ¿donde queda el diseño en todo esto?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SXgMHhra7ZI/AAAAAAAABMg/xXq22WIs79U/s1600-h/hk_buildings3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SXgMHhra7ZI/AAAAAAAABMg/xXq22WIs79U/s400/hk_buildings3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293994685413125522" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The first days all I got to see of the outside world was looking out from one of these. I don't know why taxi drivers always started talking to me in Cantonese, as if I understood, really strange.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Los primeros días sólo veía el mundo exterior desde uno de estos. No sé porqué los taxistas siempre me empezaban a hablar en cantonés, como si fuera  a entenderles, muy raro.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SXgMHa-7dPI/AAAAAAAABMY/HiDTSmkC5LY/s1600-h/hk_taxi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SXgMHa-7dPI/AAAAAAAABMY/HiDTSmkC5LY/s400/hk_taxi.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293994683615900914" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Finally we had &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;one&lt;/span&gt; sort of "day off", which was still work because we went shopping, but at least we were on the street and could visit a little (that's the day I took all the pictures, not that I was wearing the same outfit throughout the trip). As you can see it's pretty different at street level than when you see the breathtaking skyscrapers views.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Finalmente tuvimos una especie de "día libre", que era trabajo porque fuimos de tiendas, pero por lo menos estábamos en la calle y podíamos visitar un poco (es el día que hice todas las fotos, no es que llevara la misma ropa durante todo el viaje). Como podéis ver es bastante diferente a pie de calle que cuando se ven las impresionantes vistas de los rascacielos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SXgMG6xjJSI/AAAAAAAABMQ/mVoq9Mu1D4I/s1600-h/hk_me2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SXgMG6xjJSI/AAAAAAAABMQ/mVoq9Mu1D4I/s400/hk_me2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293994674969847074" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SXgL2m0mrqI/AAAAAAAABMI/XAEALXKmtfg/s1600-h/hk_street.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SXgL2m0mrqI/AAAAAAAABMI/XAEALXKmtfg/s400/hk_street.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293994394736045730" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SXgL2QAh6EI/AAAAAAAABMA/DqZDoSIG2Yg/s1600-h/hk_street3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SXgL2QAh6EI/AAAAAAAABMA/DqZDoSIG2Yg/s400/hk_street3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293994388612048962" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SXgL2cehi3I/AAAAAAAABL4/-EL5yYM-JS0/s1600-h/hk_street4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SXgL2cehi3I/AAAAAAAABL4/-EL5yYM-JS0/s400/hk_street4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293994391959079794" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;We were all so tired we didn't go out one single night (a pity because there's plenty of nice restaurants and clubs), a sandwich in the hotel lobby was as far as we got. If we add that at the office they brought either chinese take-away or pizza, I can't say this trip was a culinary experience. As for what was for sale on the street... I didn't have the courage.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Estábamos todos tan cansados que no salimos ni una noche (una pena porque hay un montón de restaurantes y clubs), un sandwich en el lobby del hotel era a lo más que llegábamos. Si añadimos que en la oficina nos traían tele-chino y pizza, no puedo decir que este viaje haya sido una experiencia culinaria. En cuanto a lo que vendían en la calle... no tuve valor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SXgL2NActQI/AAAAAAAABLw/IAQ9NqpEn7Q/s1600-h/hk_food.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SXgL2NActQI/AAAAAAAABLw/IAQ9NqpEn7Q/s400/hk_food.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293994387806401794" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Me getting ready for the Chinese New Year. 2009 is the Year of the Ox. As they say: "To achieve your goals this year, you'll need the patience, persistence and strength of an ox".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Yo preparándome para el Año Nuevo Chino. 2009 es el Año del Buey. Como dicen ellos: "Para conseguir sus propósitos este año, necesitará la paciencia, perseverancia y fuerza de un buey".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SXgL1g9veEI/AAAAAAAABLo/seLfQVUTGTo/s1600-h/hk_me.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SXgL1g9veEI/AAAAAAAABLo/seLfQVUTGTo/s400/hk_me.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293994375983888450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;(I've put up more pictures of myself on this trip on my &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=669097637&amp;amp;ref=profile"&gt;facebook.&lt;/a&gt;.. that's what it's for)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(He puesto más fotos mías de este viaje en mi &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=669097637&amp;amp;ref=profile"&gt;facebook&lt;/a&gt;... que para eso está)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-8862519137307357308?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/8862519137307357308/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=8862519137307357308&amp;isPopup=true' title='20 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/8862519137307357308'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/8862519137307357308'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2009/01/hong-kong.html' title='Hong Kong'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SXgMHxCT0BI/AAAAAAAABMo/1fDj6s4zlo8/s72-c/hk_buildings2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>20</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-6767963562090669434</id><published>2009-01-13T22:18:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-01-13T22:34:08.710+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Op-timistic</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SW0FZbs9lKI/AAAAAAAABKY/ch91fTD3vw8/s1600-h/mod.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 282px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SW0FZbs9lKI/AAAAAAAABKY/ch91fTD3vw8/s400/mod.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290891071721411746" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Just a very quick post. To say the truth lately I've had so much work I feel like I don't have a life anymore, and right now I have to pack my suitcase because I'm going to... well, I'll tell when I come back. Surprise. One of my new year resolutions is to go back to serious blogging and visit all of your blogs, I miss it so much!!!! Thank you as always for visiting, you know it means a lot to me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The picture is just because I when I saw it I was thinking how in the 60's the future seemed so bright and wonderful, all plastic and aluminum, and right now it just seems gloomy with the crisis and all the terrible things happening everywhere in the world. But one must be optimistic, which is one of the things I want to write about soon. And by the way what's the rumor about resuscitating Paco Rabanne with Paolo Melim Anderson?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Solo un post rapidito. A decir verdad últimamente he tenido tanto trabajo que me siento como si ya no tuviera vida, y ahora tengo que hacer la maleta porque me voy a... bueno, ya lo diré cuando vuelva. Sorpresa. Uno de propósitos de año nuevo es volver a bloguear en serio y visitar todos vuestros blogs, ¡¡¡¡lo echo tanto de menos!!!! Gracias como siempre por visitarme, sabéis que significa mucho para mí.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Lo foto es solo porque cuando la vi estaba pensando en como en los 60 el futuro parecía brillante y maravilloso, todo plástico y aluminio, y ahora solo parece deprimente, con la crisis y todas las cosas terribles que están pasando en el mundo. Pero hay que ser optimista, que es una de las cosas sobre las que quiero escribir pronto. Y por cierto qué pasa con ese rumor sobre resucitar a Paco Rabanne con Paolo Melim Anderson?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-6767963562090669434?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/6767963562090669434/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=6767963562090669434&amp;isPopup=true' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/6767963562090669434'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/6767963562090669434'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2009/01/op-timistic.html' title='Op-timistic'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SW0FZbs9lKI/AAAAAAAABKY/ch91fTD3vw8/s72-c/mod.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-2433755383009984436</id><published>2008-12-31T20:26:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-31T20:40:27.940+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy New Year</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SVvHewnvSpI/AAAAAAAABKQ/6GkZkHmNP04/s1600-h/meNewYear.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 288px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SVvHewnvSpI/AAAAAAAABKQ/6GkZkHmNP04/s400/meNewYear.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286037918910990994" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Since Mr. Q has been insisting, here is a picture of myself. The red background is supposed to be christmassy or something... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Yesterday it has been a year since I started this blog, a year of many changes, some good, some bad, but in any case I'm happy to have shared it with all of you, and I hope this new year that is about to start will bring all sort of happiness... we know it won't be prosperous, but hey, there are other things in life!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;Happy 2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ya que el Sr. Q ha estado insistiendo, aquí tenéis una foto mía. El fondo rojo se supone que es navideño o algo así...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ayer hizo un año desde que empecé con este blog, un año de muchos cambios, algunos buenos, algunos malos, pero en todo caso me alegro de haberlo compartido con vosotros, y espero que este nuevo año que empieza traiga todo tipo de alegrías... ya sabemos que próspero no va a ser, pero oye, ¡hay otras cosas en la vida!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Feliz 2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-2433755383009984436?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/2433755383009984436/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=2433755383009984436&amp;isPopup=true' title='28 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/2433755383009984436'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/2433755383009984436'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2008/12/happy-new-year.html' title='Happy New Year'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SVvHewnvSpI/AAAAAAAABKQ/6GkZkHmNP04/s72-c/meNewYear.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>28</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-2334439893118715217</id><published>2008-12-14T19:07:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-14T19:17:09.047+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SUVLXD9oLyI/AAAAAAAABKA/CbCUbnEq49c/s1600-h/cortocircuito_blog.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SUVLXD9oLyI/AAAAAAAABKA/CbCUbnEq49c/s400/cortocircuito_blog.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279708997734641442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ok, ok, I'm not going anywhere, I just need some time and energy and I'll back as soon as I recover from this "Dried-up Brain Syndrome" (Lucio, please don't be mad at me). This week I've been doing overtime and I had to go to work the whole week-end... as they say, an image is worth a thousand words.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Vale, vale, no me voy a ninguna parte, solo necesito un poco de tiempo y energía y vuelvo en cuanto me recupere de este "Síndrome del Cerebro Reseco" (Lucio, por favor no te enfades conmigo). Esta semana he echado horas y he tenido que ir a trabajar todo el fin de semana... como dicen, una imagen vale más que mil palabras.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-2334439893118715217?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/2334439893118715217/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=2334439893118715217&amp;isPopup=true' title='19 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/2334439893118715217'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/2334439893118715217'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2008/12/ok-ok-im-not-going-anywhere-i-just-need.html' title=''/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SUVLXD9oLyI/AAAAAAAABKA/CbCUbnEq49c/s72-c/cortocircuito_blog.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>19</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-4168902591027639100</id><published>2008-12-08T13:23:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-08T13:33:13.062+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/ST0SgyXNaGI/AAAAAAAABJw/94X9CkrlZJ8/s1600-h/MaurizioNannucci02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 342px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/ST0SgyXNaGI/AAAAAAAABJw/94X9CkrlZJ8/s400/MaurizioNannucci02.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277394692832323682" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;First of all sorry for leaving the previous post up for so long... it must have been like the torture scene in Fassbinder's "Lili Marleen" (if you've seen the film I think you'll know what I mean)...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;So anyways, I've been thinking of giving this a little rest. First off all -as I said in a recent post- I don't feel like I have much to say, and then I don't have the time and the energy to keep it up (too much work and too much whatever is going on with my life), and I want it to be fun, not a duty. I'm not closing it down, just taking some time, I hope you understand.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Of course you know how grateful I am to all of you for visiting and supporting me, it means a lot to me, and the best thing of having this blog has been to get to know you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;I've been considering Mr. Q's suggestion of posting a picture of myself in underwear, but it wouldn't be of much interest, so I've chosen a work of artist Maurizio Nannucci instead. And the music is Astrud Gilberto, "Aruanda"... now that sound like a nice place to get lost, Aruanda...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;En primer lugar perdonadme por dejarel post anterior tanto tiempo... tiene que haber sido como la escena de la tortura en "Lili Marleen" de Fassbinder (si habéis visto la peli sabréis lo que quiero decir)...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Bueno, pues he pensado en darle a esto un pequeño descanso. En primer lugar -como dije en un post reciente- no siento que tenga gran cosa que decir, y luego no tengo ni el tiempo ni la energía para mantenerlo (demasiado trabajo y demasiado lo que sea que esté pasando con mi vida), y quiero que sea divertido, no una obligación. No lo estoy cerrando, sólo tomándome un tiempo, espero que lo entendáis.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Por supuesto sabéis lo agradecido que os estoy a todos por visitarme y apoyarme, significa mucho para mí, y lo mejor de este blog ha sido conoceros.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;He estado considerando la sugerencia del Sr. Q de poner una foto mía en ropa interior, pero no tendría mucho interés, así que he elegido una obra del artista Maurizio Nannucci. Y la música es de Astrud Gilberto, "Aruanda"... eso sueno como un buen lugar para perderse, Aruanda...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-4168902591027639100?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/4168902591027639100/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=4168902591027639100&amp;isPopup=true' title='18 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/4168902591027639100'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/4168902591027639100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2008/12/first-of-all-sorry-for-leaving-previous.html' title=''/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/ST0SgyXNaGI/AAAAAAAABJw/94X9CkrlZJ8/s72-c/MaurizioNannucci02.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>18</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-1543147785634959361</id><published>2008-11-18T07:09:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-11-18T07:28:26.479+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='H and M'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Comme des Garçons'/><title type='text'>Kawakubing</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Just a quick one before I go to work: I couldn't find the Comme de Garçons for H&amp;amp;M TV commercial, but I found this sort of official video presentation, not that it matters much anymore because there's nothing left in the stores, haha... you can see all the previous H&amp;amp;M "guest designers" campaigns &lt;a href="http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2008/01/h.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;So who do you think is next? My bets are Marc Jacobs, Vivienne Westwood or Martin Margiela, but they will probably surprise us.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Uno rapidito antes de irme a trabajar: no encontré el anuncio de Comme des Garçond para H&amp;amp;M, pero encontré esta especie de video-presentación oficial, no es que tenga ya mucha importancia porque no queda nada en las tiendas, jaja... podéis ver las campañas anteriores de los "diseñadores invitados" de H&amp;amp;M &lt;a href="http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2008/01/h.html"&gt;aquí&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;¿Quién pensáis que será el siguiente? Yo apuesto por Marc Jacobs, Vivienne Westwood o Martin Margiela, pero seguro que nos sorprenden.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  font-style: normal; white-space: pre; font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:10px;"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tb7aNdaWR-A&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tb7aNdaWR-A&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-1543147785634959361?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/1543147785634959361/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=1543147785634959361&amp;isPopup=true' title='43 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/1543147785634959361'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/1543147785634959361'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2008/11/just-quick-one-before-i-go-to-work-i.html' title='Kawakubing'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>43</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-4542290828818630151</id><published>2008-11-14T20:09:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2008-11-15T00:17:36.966+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Cruel, me?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SR3ND2DbbHI/AAAAAAAABJg/r6AtplDQmtI/s1600-h/DiorBeauty.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 352px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SR3ND2DbbHI/AAAAAAAABJg/r6AtplDQmtI/s400/DiorBeauty.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268592605026544754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;The fascinating &lt;a href="http://itzelbunchen.blogspot.com/"&gt;Itzel&lt;/a&gt; Bunchen "acuses" me of being metaphysical lately, so let's talk a bit about fashion... as &lt;a href="http://todosigueiluminado.blogspot.com/"&gt;Haquiles&lt;/a&gt; quoted, I think fashion in itself is not frivolous, but most of the people who work in it certainly are, and somehow this shallowness permeates fashion itself and influences us. The other day I was talking with a friend and I said something like "well, Armani is soooo boring", so he looked at me and said "do you realize you just made a very cruel comment?". Obviously he doesn't know many people who work in fashion, because I am a little lamb, but I guess we get used to judge things that way, as Chanel said "Fashion is cruel because it dies young", or maybe it wasn't "cruel" and it was something else... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Anyways, I went to H&amp;amp;M yesterday afternoon to see if there was anything left from the Comme des Garçons collection... well there wasn't much, but I bought a pair of nice canvas plimsoles and a light blue shirt, but I'm not sure if I'm not going to return it because I didn't try it on until I got home, and I don't know if it's supposed to be oversize or what.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;(The pretty model in the picture is Alexandra Tretter, from Christian Dior's couture show, it's sort of visionary from Galliano to use this 20's influence, with the crisis and all that.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;*****&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;La fascinante &lt;a href="http://itzelbunchen.blogspot.com/"&gt;Itzel&lt;/a&gt; Bunchen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt; me "acusa" de estar muy metafísico últimamente, así que hablemos un poco de moda... como citó &lt;a href="http://todosigueiluminado.blogspot.com/"&gt;Haquiles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;, creo que la moda en sí no es frívola, pero la mayoría de la gente que trabaja en ella ciertamente lo es, y de alguna manera esta superficialidad lo impregna todo y nos influencia. El otro día hablaba con un amigo y dije algo como "bueno, es que Armani es taaaan aburrido", se me quedó mirando y me dijo "¿te das cuenta que acabas de hacer un comentario muy cruel?". Obviamente no conoce mucha gente que se dedique a la moda, porque yo soy un corderillo, pero supongo que nos acostumbramos a juzgar las cosas de esa manera, como dijo Chanel "la Moda es cruel porque muere joven", o a lo mejor no era "cruel" y era otra cosa...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;En todo caso ayer estuve en H&amp;amp;M por la tarde a ver qué quedaba de la colección de Comme des Garçons... poca cosa la verdad, pero me compré unas bonitas zapatillas de lona y una camisa celeste, pero no estoy seguro de si no la voy a devolver, porque no me la probé hasta llegar a casa y no sé si se supone que es "oversize" o qué. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(La guapa modelo de la foto es Alexandra Tretter, en el desfile de alta costura de Christian Dior, es como visionario por parte de Galliano, usar esa influencia de los años 20's, con la crisis y todo.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-4542290828818630151?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/4542290828818630151/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=4542290828818630151&amp;isPopup=true' title='19 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/4542290828818630151'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/4542290828818630151'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2008/11/fascinating-itzel-bunchen-acuses-me-of.html' title='Cruel, me?'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SR3ND2DbbHI/AAAAAAAABJg/r6AtplDQmtI/s72-c/DiorBeauty.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>19</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-4121525462838472966</id><published>2008-11-03T12:47:00.008+01:00</published><updated>2008-11-05T07:33:31.844+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zen'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Art'/><title type='text'>The Golden Age</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SQ7k2h7RWdI/AAAAAAAABJQ/6BZ2v83148s/s1600-h/etruscos01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264396639913728466" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 309px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SQ7k2h7RWdI/AAAAAAAABJQ/6BZ2v83148s/s400/etruscos01.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://todosigueiluminado.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://todosigueiluminado.blogspot.com/"&gt;Haquiles&lt;/a&gt; came to visit and took good care of me, I'm not completely recovered from my cold but at least I'm back to work. Anyhow, we spent a nice week-end,  we went to see the exhibition about the Etruscans at the CaixaForum, very interesting, beautiful jewels and sculptures, somehow when a civilization leaves so little written records it has the aura of a lost Golden Age. The picture is of the "Triclinium Room", which was reproduced in the 1830's by an Italian artist, and it reminds me of Plato's "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposium_(Plato_dialogue)"&gt;Symposium&lt;/a&gt;", where among a lot of wine drinking friendship and the nature of love are endlessly discussed. Times of change like those we are living sometimes bring these philosophical moods, so on one hand I follow ladybug's Zazen advice and go with the flow of things, and on the other I practice empathy, because to understand another's hopes and fears is ultimately to understand oneself. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Thank you all as always for being so faithful, even dear Anonymous who has passed by.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;(By now Barack Obama is the President of the United States of America, so you see, things CAN change.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://todosigueiluminado.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Haquiles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt; vino a verme y me estuvo cuidando, no estoy del todo recuperado del resfriado pero ya estoy de vuelta al trabajo. En todo caso, hemos pasado un buen fin de semana, fuimos a ver la exposición sobre los Etruscos en el CaixaForum, muy interesante, preciosas joyas y esculturas, de algún modo cuando una civilización deja tan pocos testimonios escritos adquiere el aura de una Edad de Oro perdida. La foto es de la "Habitación del Triclinio", reproducida en los años 1830 por un artista italiano, y me recuerda al "Banquete" de Platón, donde entre numerosas copas de vino se debate sobre la amistad y la naturaleza del amor. Tiempos de cambio como los que vivimos propician los pensamientos filosóficos, así que por un lado sigo el consejo Zazen de ladybug y me dejo llevar por la corriente, y por el otro practico la empatía, porque comprender las ilusiones y los temores de otro es en última instancia comprenderse uno mismo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Gracias como siempre por ser tan fieles, incluso el querido Anónimo que se ha pasado por aquí.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(A estas horas Barack Obama es el Presidente de los Estados Unidos de América, así que, véis, las cosas PUEDEN cambiar)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-4121525462838472966?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/4121525462838472966/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=4121525462838472966&amp;isPopup=true' title='15 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/4121525462838472966'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/4121525462838472966'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2008/11/haquiles-came-to-visit-and-took-good.html' title='The Golden Age'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SQ7k2h7RWdI/AAAAAAAABJQ/6BZ2v83148s/s72-c/etruscos01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>15</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-3137659655931617250</id><published>2008-10-28T07:16:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2008-10-30T20:38:35.357+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Et In Arcadia Ego...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SQaufE_UNAI/AAAAAAAAA4M/PZa59l70XcQ/s1600-h/AMarras_final.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: justify;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 275px; " src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SQaufE_UNAI/AAAAAAAAA4M/PZa59l70XcQ/s400/AMarras_final.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262085063567488002" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;So here I am, at home with a cold and finally a bit of time to post something... recently I was thinking about how difficult is is sometimes to have something to say, for me in any case; too self-centered right now to see anything outside my everyday life, too reserved sometimes to talk about my own things, there is not much left... I don't even feel much like discussing fashion, I think I already know the spring collections by heart I've seen them so much. And then there is real life, and time racing against us, and work, in the end one doesn't have a minute to return a call, answer an e-mail or leave a comment. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Actually yes, there is something I think about lately: that we are probably witnessing the death of Capitalism, the end of a historical cycle, and hopefully the beginning of a new (better) one. I leave you to meditate on this with this image from Antonio Marras' last show and the Adagio from Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Pues aquí estoy, en casa con un resfriado y finalmente tiempo para escribir algo... hace poco pensaba sobre lo difícil que es a veces tener algo que contar, para mí en todo caso; demasiado centrado en mí mismo para ver nada fuera de mi vida de cada día, demasiado reservado a veces para contar mis cosas, no quedan muchas opciones... ni siquiera me apetece hablar de moda, creo que ya me sé las colecciones de primavera de memoria, de tanto que las he visto. Y luego está la vida real, el tiempo que corre en contra, el trabajo, al final uno no tiene ni un minuto para devolver una llamada, contestar a un mail o dejar un comentario.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Bueno, sí hay una cosa en la que pienso últimamente: que probablemente estemos asistiendo a la muerte del Capitalismo, el fin de un ciclo histórico, y ojalá el principio de otro nuevo (mejor). Os dejo que meditéis sobre esto con esta imagen del último desfile de Antonio Marras y el Adagio del Concierto de Brandenburgo #1 de Bach.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-3137659655931617250?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/3137659655931617250/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=3137659655931617250&amp;isPopup=true' title='16 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/3137659655931617250'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/3137659655931617250'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2008/10/so-here-i-am-at-home-with-cold-and.html' title='Et In Arcadia Ego...'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SQaufE_UNAI/AAAAAAAAA4M/PZa59l70XcQ/s72-c/AMarras_final.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>16</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-4576054144824851332</id><published>2008-10-20T22:18:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-20T22:39:13.810+02:00</updated><title type='text'>"Like A Drug"</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Sorry for leaving the birthday post up for so long: too much work, to many parties and no time... I've been told to at least post something, even if it was just a Kylie Minogue video. I'm very obedient, so here it is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Perdón por dejar el post cumpleañero tanto tiempo: demasiado trabajo, demasiadas fiestas y nada de tiempo... me han dicho que ponga algo, aunque fuera un vídeo de Kylie Minogue. Soy muy obediente, así que aquí lo tenéis.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  font-style: normal; white-space: pre; font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:10px;"&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/M2DCsgw0mdE&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/M2DCsgw0mdE&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-4576054144824851332?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/4576054144824851332/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=4576054144824851332&amp;isPopup=true' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/4576054144824851332'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/4576054144824851332'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2008/10/like-drug.html' title='&quot;Like A Drug&quot;'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-2055865660769972702</id><published>2008-10-16T07:05:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-16T07:46:26.276+02:00</updated><title type='text'>40...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SPbL59xc61I/AAAAAAAAA2s/9FJabFDzg_o/s1600-h/beauty+after+forty.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SPbL59xc61I/AAAAAAAAA2s/9FJabFDzg_o/s320/beauty+after+forty.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257613811696593746" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Well, yes, today, October 16th, is my 40th birthday... good thing I found this article in an old magazine to help me through this difficult times... haha.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Anyways today is a very special day for two other reasons:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;- It's also my very dear friend Ana's birthday, except that she's much younger and prettier. Happy birthday Ana!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;- It's the 225th anniversary of Marie-Antoinette's beheading.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Have a wonderful day, and thank all you for being here.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;(And thank you &lt;a href="http://todosigueiluminado.blogspot.com/"&gt;Haquiles&lt;/a&gt; for your sweet post.)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Pues sí, hoy, 16 de Octubre, es my 40º cumpleaños... menos mal que encontré este artículo en una vieja revista para ayudarme en estos momentos difíciles... jeje.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;En todo caso hoy es un día muy especial por otras dos razones:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;- Es también el cumpleaños de mi querida amiga Ana, sólo que es mucho más jóven y más guapa. ¡Muchas felicidades Ana!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;- Es el 225º aniversario de la decapitación de María-Antonieta.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Pasad un estupendo día, y gracias a todos por estar aquí.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(Y gracias &lt;a href="http://todosigueiluminado.blogspot.com/"&gt;Haquiles&lt;/a&gt; por tu bonito post)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-2055865660769972702?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/2055865660769972702/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=2055865660769972702&amp;isPopup=true' title='26 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/2055865660769972702'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/2055865660769972702'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2008/10/40.html' title='40...'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SPbL59xc61I/AAAAAAAAA2s/9FJabFDzg_o/s72-c/beauty+after+forty.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>26</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-8514864200220461709</id><published>2008-10-09T18:01:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-11T10:22:16.040+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='street style'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SO4q-5hFtPI/AAAAAAAAA2k/zCE800yBjwU/s1600-h/rolled+up.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255185075267810546" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SO4q-5hFtPI/AAAAAAAAA2k/zCE800yBjwU/s320/rolled+up.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Haha, well, I don't think there will be a spin-off blog about Willy right now (sorry), but I'm sure she will delight us with one of her interesting stories once in a while, and keep visiting &lt;a href="http://groups.msn.com/MiniMadMod60s"&gt;Mini Mad Mod&lt;/a&gt;, which by the way is in the the process of becoming a full grown web site. I'll keep you informed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;So anyways... I don't know about you, but I haven't bought any new clothes this season, and with the crisis and all that it seems it's all about recycling. The interesting thing is that often fashion is more about details, and more about &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;how&lt;/span&gt; you wear things than what you wear. Wrapping a scarf the right way, rolling up the sleeves of your old blazer to make it casual, and just adding the right accessory, little things that can make you look modern and cool with no or very little expense... isn't that just what we need in this troubled times? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;In this spirit, I liked this way of rolling up your jeans (or your dress pants, for that matter) that turned up at the Milan fashion week: a narrower roll, folding them over twice. It looks new with a little 80's feel to it, it makes your pants look cropped, and it's great for lazy people like me who never sew the hems of their pants!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Jaja, bueno no creo que haya un blog "spin-off" de Willy por el momento (lo siento), pero seguro que nos seguirá deleitando de vez en cuando con sus interesantes historias, y seguid visitando &lt;a href="http://groups.msn.com/MiniMadMod60s"&gt;Mini Mad Mod&lt;/a&gt;, que por cierto está en el proceso de convertirse en toda una página web. Os tendré informados.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Así que... no sé vosotros, pero yo no me he comprado nada de ropa esta temporada, y con la crisis y todo eso parece ser que de lo que se trata es de reciclar. Lo interesante es que a menudo la moda es más el detalle, más &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;como &lt;/span&gt;llevas las cosas que realmente lo que llevas. Atando un pañuelo de una forma especial, remangando tu vieja blazer para que parezca más "casual", o añadiendo el complemento adecuado, pequeñas cosas que te hacen parecer moderno y "cool" sin gastar nada o casi nada... ¿no es lo que necesitamos en estos tiempos difíciles?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;En este espíritu me gustó esta forma de enrollar los vaqueros (e incluso pantalones de vestir) que se ha visto en la semana de la moda de Milán: más estrecho y doblado dos veces sobre sí. Tiene un aspecto nuevo, con un toque de los '80, el pantalón queda más tobillero, ¡y es ideal para vagos como yo que nunca se cosen el dobladillo de los pantalones!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-8514864200220461709?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/8514864200220461709/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=8514864200220461709&amp;isPopup=true' title='16 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/8514864200220461709'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/8514864200220461709'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2008/10/haha-well-i-dont-think-there-will-be.html' title=''/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SO4q-5hFtPI/AAAAAAAAA2k/zCE800yBjwU/s72-c/rolled+up.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>16</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-7062642729225373765</id><published>2008-10-08T06:49:00.007+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-09T18:03:27.665+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Willy van Rooy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Manolo Blahnik'/><title type='text'>L.A. Confidential</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SOw9Ywcji-I/AAAAAAAAA2U/l_N5ExcNtBo/s1600-h/with+Manolo+Blahnik2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254642360765352930" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SOw9Ywcji-I/AAAAAAAAA2U/l_N5ExcNtBo/s320/with+Manolo+Blahnik2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Our special reporter in the City Of Angels, Willy van Rooy, has sent us this story. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;MANOLO BLAHNIK GETS A STAR &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;ON RODEO DRIVE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;Los Angeles, the 25th of September, it's a very hot night and Myroslava and me are on our way to Beverly Hills to be witness to the honor bestowed upon &lt;a href="http://manoloblahnik.com/"&gt;Manolo Blahnik&lt;/a&gt; to get a Star on Rodeo Drive. A honor he of course deserves for making such beautiful shoes for such a long time. Wow, there was a lot going on, the street was closed off, lots of police and security, at least 50 of them, all dressed in black with cell phones in hand trying to keep order. A whole wall with Manolo's name where pretty girls and handsome boys would pose for the press before entering the party was heavily guarded so no uninvited person would enter. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;The party was beautifully set up with an exhibition of his shoes, projections of his now famous drawings, and the whole thing looked like a giant shoe store in gorgeous colors with plenty of flowers to match and delicious little snacks and drinks, one of them called the Manolo Mocho, a cocktail of rum and grapefruit juice with a leaf of mint. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;Finally Manolo appeared, looking good like always, and I must say he was very happy to see me, someone familiar in between mostly strangers. I have known Manolo since the early seventies and have admired his work since always... I could go on and on but it was just great to see him. He himself was very surprised  about all the fuss they made over him, the mayor of Los Angeles held a speech and pretty actresses thanked him and hundreds of pictures were taken. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;Manolo left the next day for N.Y. but the star will stay there for all to see&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;Nuestra reportera especial en la Ciudad de Los Ángeles, Willy van Rooy, nos ha mandado este artículo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;MANOLO BLAHNIK CONSIGUE UNA ESTRELLA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;EN RODEO DRIVE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;Los Ángeles, 25 de septiembre, hace una noche calurosa y Myroslava y yo nos dirigimos a Beverly Hills para ser testigos del honor otorgado a &lt;a href="http://manoloblahnik.com/"&gt;Manolo Blahnik&lt;/a&gt; de tener su estrella en Rodeo Drive. Un honor que por supuesto merece por hacer zapatos tan bonitos desde hace tanto tiempo. Wow, era un gran despliegue, la calle estaba cortada, mucha policía y guardias de seguridad, al menos 50 de ellos, de negro y móvil en mano tratando de mantener el orden. Una pared entera con el nombre de Manolo, donde posaban guapos chicos y chicas para la prensa antes de entrar a la fiesta, estaba custodiado para no dejar pasar a nadie que no estuviera invitado.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;La fiesta estaba preciosa, con una exposición de sus zapatos, proyecciones de sus ya famosos dibujos, aquello parecía una gigante zapatería en maravillosos colores, con muchas flores en los mismos tonos y deliciosos aperitivos y bebidas, una de ellas llamada Manolo Mocho, un cóctel de ron y pomelo con una hojita de menta.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;Finalmente apareció Manolo, con tan buen aspecto como siempre, y debo decir que se alegró de verme, una cara familiar entre tantos desconocidos. Conozco a Manolo desde principios de los setenta, he admirado su trabajo desde siempre... podría seguir así pero lo mejor fuesencillamente volver a verle. Él mismo estaba sorprendido de todo el lío que se había montado en torno a él, el alcalde de Los Ángeles dio un discurso y guapas actrices le daban las gracias y se hicieron cientos de fotos. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;Manolo salió al día siguiente hacia N.Y. pero la estrella sigue allí para que todos puedan verla.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-7062642729225373765?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/7062642729225373765/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=7062642729225373765&amp;isPopup=true' title='18 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/7062642729225373765'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/7062642729225373765'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2008/10/la-confidential.html' title='L.A. Confidential'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SOw9Ywcji-I/AAAAAAAAA2U/l_N5ExcNtBo/s72-c/with+Manolo+Blahnik2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>18</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-6703257577022072963</id><published>2008-10-05T15:01:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2008-10-05T22:32:49.712+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Valentino'/><title type='text'>The final bow</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SOi7QPSh4EI/AAAAAAAAA2E/UAW5TXXxrSw/s1600-h/00390m.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SOi7QPSh4EI/AAAAAAAAA2E/UAW5TXXxrSw/s320/00390m.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253654852984234050" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;It has been a persisting rumor, but now it is official: Alessandra Facchinetti has been replaced as creative director at Valentino by Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli. According to Valentino "they always demonstrated an enormous respect and love for my work. There is an existing archive with thousands of dresses where they can [...] take inspiration from to create a Valentino product that is relevant today. It is a shame that their predecessor didn't feel this need".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Well, isn't this an inelegant thing to say? It seems that Valentino's ego is as puffed up as his hairstyle and that he prefers to have puppets as heirs  than a designer... maybe someone should remind him what the word "retiring" means. In the meantime Alessandra Facchinetti smiles graciously as the takes her final bow at the show earlier this week, or maybe she's happy to take such weight off her shoulders... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;(I must add that of course I admire Valentino for his work, it just seems to me that this gesture is unworthy of his talent, some things, even if they are true, are better left untold...)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Ha sido un rumor persistente, pero ya es oficial: Alessandra Facchinetti ha sido reemplazada como directora creativa de Valentino por Maria Grazia Chiuri y Pier Paolo Piccioli. Según Valentino "siempre demostraron un enorme respeto y amor por mi trabajo. Existe un archivo con miles de vestidos en el que pueden [...] inspirarse para crear un producto Valentino que sea relevante hoy en día. Es una lástima que su predecesora no sintiera esa necesidad".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Bueno, ¿no es poco elegante esta declaración? Parece que el ego de Valentino está tan hinchado como su peinado y que prefiere como herederos a unas marionetas que a un diseñador o una diseñadora... tal vez alguien debería recordarle el significado de "retirarse". Mientras tanto Alessandra Facchinetti sonría dignamente en su saludo final en el desfile esta semana , o tal vez está feliz de quitarse tanto peso de encima...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(Debo añadir que por supuesto admiro a Valentino por su trabajo, pero me parece que este gesto es indigno de su talento, algunas cosas, aunque sean verdad, es mejor no decirlas...)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-6703257577022072963?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/6703257577022072963/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=6703257577022072963&amp;isPopup=true' title='16 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/6703257577022072963'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/6703257577022072963'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2008/10/final-bow.html' title='The final bow'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SOi7QPSh4EI/AAAAAAAAA2E/UAW5TXXxrSw/s72-c/00390m.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>16</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-3253546258897939215</id><published>2008-09-21T18:46:00.011+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-28T14:04:01.719+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><title type='text'>As Portas de Lisboa</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Dear fiends, I'm glad you enjoyed the interview, I'll put a link to it on the right bar so it will be easy to find in the future.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;So anyways, as I said I wanted to write something about our trip to Lisbon, I won't saturate you with informations about Our Lady of Pop's concert, just say it was great and an unforgettable experience. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Somehow I was fascinated with the doors we saw and couldn't stop taking pictures of them, and even though (as Ava Gardner used to say) "Deep down I'm pretty superficial", I'm not as cynical as I sometimes try to pretend to be, so I couldn't help finding some kind of symbolism in them. No matter how old and barred some seem I'm sure they all hide something good. Could those four bells on the first one be those of Understanding, Respect, Loyalty and Gratitude? And isn't the message on the last one something we all need to learn?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Queridos amigos, me alegro que hayáis disfrutado de la entrevista, pondré un enlace en la barra de la derecha para que sea fácil de encontrar en el futuro.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;En todo caso, como dije quería escribir algo sobre nuestro viaje a Lisboa, no os saturaré con informaciones sobre el concierto de Nuestra Señora del Pop, sólo decir que fue genial y una experiencia inolvidable. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Por alguna razón me fascinaban las puertas que veíamos y no pude dejar de hacerles fotos, y aunque (como decía Ava Gardner) "En el fondo soy bastante superficial", no soy tan cínico como a veces intento aparentar, así que no podía remediar ver algún tipo de simbolismo en ellas. A pesar  de que algunas parecen viejas y condenadas estoy seguro que todas esconden algo bueno. ¿Podrían esos cuatro timbres en la primera ser los de Comprensión, Respeto, Lealtad y Gratitud? ¿Y no es el mensaje de la última algo que todos necesitamos aprender?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SNZ7GlUA8sI/AAAAAAAAA1c/Q1uYDzWi0to/s1600-h/Lisboa_door01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SNZ7GlUA8sI/AAAAAAAAA1c/Q1uYDzWi0to/s320/Lisboa_door01.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248517768772383426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A Porta da Amizade&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SNZ7GtBYtMI/AAAAAAAAA1k/A7cTghi7pI8/s1600-h/Lisboa_door02.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SNZ7GtBYtMI/AAAAAAAAA1k/A7cTghi7pI8/s320/Lisboa_door02.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248517770841732290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A Porta de Humor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SNZ64oq9g4I/AAAAAAAAA00/dpqd-81gY8Q/s1600-h/Lisboa_door03.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SNZ64oq9g4I/AAAAAAAAA00/dpqd-81gY8Q/s320/Lisboa_door03.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248517529155765122" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A Porta das Lembranças&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SNZ65JgmQLI/AAAAAAAAA08/QQLdHLHZo2E/s1600-h/Lisboa_door04.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SNZ65JgmQLI/AAAAAAAAA08/QQLdHLHZo2E/s320/Lisboa_door04.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248517537970667698" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A Porta do Passado&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SNZ65S1uICI/AAAAAAAAA1E/2wcwlhPBDfA/s1600-h/Lisboa_door05.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SNZ65S1uICI/AAAAAAAAA1E/2wcwlhPBDfA/s320/Lisboa_door05.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248517540475183138" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A porta de Diversão&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SNZ657_HHJI/AAAAAAAAA1M/8IlyKgWjh4U/s1600-h/Lisboa_door06.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SNZ657_HHJI/AAAAAAAAA1M/8IlyKgWjh4U/s320/Lisboa_door06.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248517551520423058" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A Porta do Futuro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SNZ66ZYoYcI/AAAAAAAAA1U/Yfq4P5tOP0c/s1600-h/Lisboa_door07.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SNZ66ZYoYcI/AAAAAAAAA1U/Yfq4P5tOP0c/s320/Lisboa_door07.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248517559412089282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A Porta de Sapiência&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2644514473488429579-3253546258897939215?l=thepilgrim68.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/feeds/3253546258897939215/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2644514473488429579&amp;postID=3253546258897939215&amp;isPopup=true' title='53 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/3253546258897939215'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2644514473488429579/posts/default/3253546258897939215'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thepilgrim68.blogspot.com/2008/09/as-portas-de-lisboa.html' title='As Portas de Lisboa'/><author><name>The Pilgrim</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07191696615125719939</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0uEb0zUvFvs/TXTYB_N6HBI/AAAAAAAABnI/yIG0zBZaugU/s220/DSC_1020%255B4%255Dsmallmargin.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SNZ7GlUA8sI/AAAAAAAAA1c/Q1uYDzWi0to/s72-c/Lisboa_door01.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>53</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644514473488429579.post-5354121363796587245</id><published>2008-09-21T12:43:00.017+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-21T21:14:27.129+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Willy van Rooy'/><title type='text'>Interview with Willy van Rooy</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SNYluCPStJI/AAAAAAAAA0s/msivZnYkcKs/s1600-h/willy+for+SM+2+a+.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_xYWY5Dc4R1A/SNYluCPStJI/AAAAAAAAA0s/msivZnYkcKs/s320/willy+for+SM+2+a+.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248423888552113298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Well, this was feeling almost as if I had to feed the lions at the zoo! So finally here it is, the interview (thank you ma for your patience in answering my questions, I'm afraid I'm not such a good journalist). Please be aware that the next post will not be about the great Willy van Rooy but just about myself, I hope you won't be too disappointed... (haha)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;You can also read an interview with Willy &lt;a href="http://groups.msn.com/MiniMadMod60s/willyinterview.msnw"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; about her recent work for Vogue Italia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;¡Bueno, esto parecía casí como tener que dar de comer a los leones del zoo! Así que por fín aquí está, la entrevista (gracias ma por tu paciencia en contestar mis preguntas, me temo que no soy muy  buen periodista). Os ruego que tengáis en cuenta que el próximo post no será sobre la gran Willy van Rooy sino sobre mí mismo, espero que no estéis decepcionados... (jeje)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;También podéis leer &lt;a href="http://groups.msn.com/MiniMadMod60s/willyinterview.msnw"&gt;aquí&lt;/a&gt; una entrevista con Willy sobre su reciente trabajo para Vogue Italia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" font-style: italic;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" font-style: italic;font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Q&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -When did you start modeling?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -It took off in 1967 when I went to London but I had done some small things before in Holland, my country, but they don't really count and also before I went to London I worked in Spain, Barcelona to be exact, and that happened quite unexpectedly because I was walking down the street when a woman came running towards me to say she had a modeling agency (I forgot the name but it became later a big agency) and she could find me work as a model. Actually I was there to not spend the cold winter in Holland and to prepare a book with pictures of myself to take to London where I was planning to go. Mostly I remember to do a lot of TV commercials in Barcelona, for hair, for carpets, for anything. Sylvia Polakov, now a recognized photographer in her own right, was his assistant and I did a short movie with Pere Portabella, but officially you could say I started in 1967, I was 26. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Q&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -What was it like to be in London in the "Swinging Sixties"?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -It was exciting, it was buzzing, there was an explosion of creativity, you could feel it and see it on the streets. In any case it was so for me because I was living it. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Q&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -You've worked with some of the greatest fashion photographers (David  Bailey, Helmut Newton, Norman Parkinson, William Klein and many more),  I suppose some would be more demanding, others nicer to work with...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -Sometimes it could be demanding, it's easy to work with a good photographer because they know what they are doing but it could be more pleasant let's say to work with Newton because the editors and the stylists and the clothes would be more interesting and he gave you the feeling that you had some input. With Bailey was very easy and pleasant but sometimes there were photographers who did not know what they wanted and then it could be difficult.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Q&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -The photos Newton did of you with the airplane are very impressive,  how was that session? Did it take very long to make?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -Well,this was more or less the 4th time I worked with him for English Vogue and it took 2 days which were very demanding. It was very cold and after every shot we had to wait until pilot got down and then went up again and I had to run a lot up and down for Newton to get the plane and me in the right place. The roaring of the motor of the plane above my head was scary and later the pilot confessed that it was actually very dangerous because at a point when he was going down he could not see me. But you know I just wanted this pictures to be smashing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Q&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -Is there any other session you particularly remember (as being either fun or terrible)?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -Not really, sometimes it was very cold and you had to appear comfortable in a summer outfit or the other way around, in a fur coat when it was very hot, but one particular session that was really uncomfortable was in NY in 69 when in the morning, still in the studio, the other model gave me an acid trip which I took, she too, and then we went to the beach to make pictures for Bazaar. Once there the other model was sent home because she could not handle it and there I was all alone disappearing in the sand...it was really awkward and never did that again.There were many fun sessions but right now i can't think of any particular one.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Q&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -I know that back then models did their own hair and make-up most of the time, when did professional hair stylists and make-up artists become usual on photo shoots?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -Yes, we used to go around with a suitcase filled with wigs, gloves and even shoes and we could do our own makeup for which they gave you ample time, everybody smoking and chatting in the dressing room. I liked to do my own make up but the hair was always a bit of a problem because you usually had to do it their way. In the early seventies it became more normal to have hairdressers on the set, specially for important shoots. For beauty pictures there always was a make up artist but slowly it became normal to have one for any kind of job, but here I am talking already mid seventies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Q &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;-What agencies did you work for?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -When I started out in London I went to Peter Lumley, then the hottest agency there and when I went to Paris I was with Models International which was owned by  2 great ex models, Simone d'Aillancourt and Krista Fiedler, but when my model friend Janet Christijanson with her boyfriend John Casablanca set up Elite I went there. In Italy I was with Ricardo Gay, I think he is still there and in NY I was with Eileen Ford from the beginning because she looked me up in Paris and asked me, and not to forget Spain, in Madrid I was with Magda agency. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Q&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -You also worked with other models, who do you remember specially?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -There are many I remember specially because they made a big impression, like Jean Shrimpton, Donyale Luna or Lauren Hutton, others because you worked a lot with them, like Gunilla Lindblad or Christine Steidten or Janet. Again others because you remember them to have been specifically nice, like Maude Adams or Dayle Haddon and others because they became friends, like Veruschka or Wallis Franken.  I never worked with Veruschka but Wallis and I worked quite a lot together and often on location and she was always great fun, always seemed to be happy, I have great memories of her. Of course there were many others but can't name them all. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Q &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;-Was modeling very different then from now, before the supermodel hype of the 90's? And since we mention the supermodels of the 90's, how was working with Linda?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -I don't think modeling in itself is any different, there are good models and less good models and good photographers and bad ones, good stylists and bad ones..The cameras are different and a lot of it is digital with direct results but that does not change much for the model. Of course the hype was not there and except for the insiders of the business you did not become famous or got paid that much as in the nineties. Wish I had modeled then, haha. It was nice to work with Linda, she is super professional and knows how to look good and well, it is admirable how long she has been at it. I also liked working with the younger girls like Karen Elson, Iris and Guinevere very much, they are great models, know what they are doing and saw great pictures of them. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Q&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -Do you think there is more pressure on the girls nowadays? There is a lot of talk about models being too thin, what do you think?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -No, the pressure has always been the same, or do you think in the sixties or seventies you could be out of shape and work? Too thin is not healthy and some overdo it but it is always been like that, they just talk about it now. I must say fashion often looks good on very young thin girls (not too thin though because that looks scary) but it is of course not realistic. On the other hand does fashion need to be realistic? So let me say I don't know, some people look better skinny and some look better full, but when the too comes in, too skinny, too fat, neither is good I think.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Q &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;-Fashion editors were as powerful then as now, what was Diana Vreeland like? What other fashion editors did you meet?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -Oh, Diana Vreeland was something else, she was very powerful in America and when I met her I was very impressed. Later I sold her one of my Tunics, in red of course. My all time favorite was Polly Allen Mellen, who was Editor in Chief of the American Vogue in the eighties and gave me a lot of courage and good feelings. There was this great editor in London who worked for Nova, the hottest Magazine in the early seventies but cannot remember her name right now and as a matter of fact Francine Crescent, Editor in Chief of French Vogue, was a very special and creative person too. A few years ago I met Anna Wintour in Paris at the occasion of Helmut Newton's funeral.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Q&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -When you were in Paris you did many fashion shows, the Saint-Laurent couture shows are memorable, tell us something about Yves.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -To do the shows for Yves St Laurent was always a great pleasure, the ones I liked to do best. In the seventies the shows got more and more exciting, the music, the decors, the press and a very excited audience, it felt really good walking down the catwalk dressed by YSL and the music is going: Isn't she lovely, isn't she beautiful.......... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Q&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -You also did Fashion shows for young designers who were just starting, and in time became very big, like Jean-Paul Gaultier.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -Yes, really there was a sort of explosion of new, some young, designers. Apart from Jean Paul there was Thierry Mugler, Claude Montana, Issey Miyake, Chloe, Jean Claude Luca, Kenzo, Alaïa, Versace. Do I forget some one? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Q&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -Who are your favorite fashion designers, both personally and for their designs?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -Well, I think for me these two things go together, I don't think I would like someone and not like what he or she does or like what he or she does and not like the person. But I have a very special place in my heart for Yves St Laurent, for me the greatest designer I met and a very interesting, poetic person with lots of humor. Jean Paul Gaultier is also one of my favorites and definitely a very nice person. I love most of Lacroix, I never met him and never met Galliano but like his work very much too. Lagerfeld is a very generous person, I worked quite a bit with him, and what he is doing with Chanel is great. Then there are new ones but they have not proved themselves yet all the way, although some are very good, like Pilati.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; min-height: 14px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Q &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;-You have always been interested in fashion, and have created a style of your own, even making your own clothes, I suppose the transition to becoming a designer yourself was natural...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;A&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -There never was a transition, I designed and made my own clothes since I can remember and went to the Academy of Fine Arts for 4 years and studied Fashion but it was because I was good looking and people liked to take pictures of me that I became a model also. It is just an other part of Fashion and I love all of it. And what I really like and have not fully exploited yet is fashion Illustration, like I said &lt;a href="http://groups.msn.com/MiniMadMod60s/willyvanrooysstory.msnw"&gt;Fashion is my Passion&lt;/a&gt;, then, now and always.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;*******&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; "&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;P&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -¿Cuando empezaste a ser modelo?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;R&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -Empecé en 1967 cuando fui a Londres, pero ya había hecho algunas cositas antes en Holanda, mi país, pero no cuentan realmente, también antes de ir a Londres trabajé en España, Barcelona concretamente, y ocurrió de una forma imprevista cuando estaba andando por la calle y una mujer vino corriendo hacia mí y me dijo que tenía una agencia de modelos (he olvidado el nombre pero desde entonces se ha convertido en una agencia importante) y que me podía encontrar trabajo como modelo. De hecho estaba allí para no pasar el frío invierno en Holanda y preparar un book con fotos mías para llevar a Londres donde planeaba ir. Sobre todo recuerdo hacer muchos anuncios de TV en Barcelona, de peluquería, de alfombras, de cualquier cosa. Sylvia Polakov, ahora una reconocida fotógrafa por derecho propio, era su asistente, e hice un película con Pere Portabella, pero oficialmente se puede decir que empecé en 1967, tenía 26 años. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; min-height: 14.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;P&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -¿Como era estar en Londres en los "Swinging Sixties"?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;R&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -Era excitante, electrizante, había una explosión de creatividad, podías sentirlo y verlo en las calles. En todo caso eso me parece porque lo estaba viviendo.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; min-height: 14.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;P &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;-Has trabajado con algunos de los más grandes fotógrafos de moda (David  Bailey, Helmut Newton, Norman Parkinson, William Klein y muchos más),  supongo que algunos serían más exigentes, otros más agradables a la hora de trabajar con ellos...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;R&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -A veces podía ser duro, es fácil trabajar con un buen fotógrafo porque sabe lo que quiere, pero podía ser más agradable trabajar por ejemplo con Newton porque los editores, los estilistas y la ropa serían más interesantes y sentías que participabas más. Con Bailey era fácil y agradable, pero a veces había fotógrafos que no sabían lo que querían y podía ser difícil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; min-height: 14.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;P&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -Las fotos de Newton con el avión son impresionantes, ¿como fué esa sesión? ¿Tardasteis mucho en hacerlas?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;R&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -Bueno ,era más o menos la 4ª vez que trabajaba con el para el Vogue UK, y fueron dos días bastante duros. Hacía mucho frío y después de cada disparo había que esperar a que el piloto aterrizara y volviera a despegar, y yo tenía que correr mucho de un lado para otro para que Newton consiguiera que el avión y yo estuviéramos en el buen encuadre. El rugido del motor sobre mi cabeza era aterrador y más tarde el piloto me confesó que era realmente muy peligroso porque cuando bajaba no podía verme. Pero sabes, yo solo quería que las fotos fueran increíbles.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; min-height: 14.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;P&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -¿Hay alguna otra sesión de la que guardes un recuerdo particular (ya sea por divertida o terrible)?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;R &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;-No realmente, a veces hacía mucho frío y tenías que fingir estar cómoda con ropa de verano, o al revés, con pieles cuando hacía mucho calor, pero una sesión particularmente incómoda fue en NY en 69 cuando por la mañana, aún en el estudio, la otra modelo me dio un ácido que me tomé, ella también, y después fuimos a la playa para hacer una fotos para Bazaar. Una vez allí mandaron a la otra modelo a casa porque no podía con ello, y allí estaba yo sola hundiéndome en la arena...fue muy incómodo y no lo volví a a hacer nunca. Ha habido muchas sesiones geniales pero ahora mismo no recuerdo ninguna en particular.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; min-height: 14.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;P&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -Ya sé que entonces las modelos se peinaban y maquillaban ellas mismas casi siempre, ¿cuando empezaron a ser habituales peluqueros y maquilladores profesionales en las sesiones de fotos?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;R&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -Sí, nos paseábamos con una maleta llena de pelucas, guantes e incluso zapatos, y podíamos hacer nuestro propio maquillaje, para lo que nos tomábamos nuestro tiempo, todos fumando y charlando en el camerino. Me gustaba maquillarme yo misma, pero el pelo era más problemático porque tenía que ser como ellos querían. A principio de los 70 empezó a ser más habitual tener a un peluquero, especialmente para sesiones importantes. Para fotos de belleza siempre ha habido un maquillador pero poco a poco se hizo más habitual tener a uno en cualquier tipo de trabajo, pero estoy hablando ya de mediados de los setenta.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; min-height: 14.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;P &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;-¿Para que agencias has trabajado?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;R&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -Cuando empecé en Londres fui a Peter Lumley, que era la agencia del momento, y en París estaba con Models International, que era de dos grandes ex-modelos, Simone d'Aillancourt and Krista Fiedler, pero cuando mi amiga la modelo Janet Christijanson y su novio John Casablanca montaron Elite me fui allí. En Italia estaba con Ricardo Gay, reo que todavía sigue, y en NY estaba con Eileen Ford desde el principio porque me encontró en Paris y me lo pidió, y sin olvidar España, en Madrid estaba con la agencia Magda. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial; min-height: 14.0px"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;P&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt; -También has trabajado con otras modelos, ¿de quién guardas un recuerdo especial?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin:
