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MY PANTHERE BRACELET

I was travelling back to Madrid from London one year ago, reading a magazine and suddenly… I saw it ! It was my favorite bracelet, the one I use to wear everyday. It was “him”  but it was on Elizabeth...

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MY VERY FIRST LBD

April 2003, I had an invitation for a dinner in the house of the Norwegian Ambassador in Spain. I remember I was really confused and nervous: what are you supposed to wear for an occasion like that? It...

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LV+COMME, MY BAG

In my heart there will always be a place for a short jacket with big bell-shaped sleeves that I saw in a fashion magazine in the late eighties. I was just a kid haunted by fashion, the designer of the...

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MY VERSACE DIAMOND SKIRT

Gianni Versace is not my favourite designer: too baroque, too obvious. He was a star, that’s for sure. He simply represents the euphoria of the 80’s, an optimistic and savage moment we are all...

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MY JIL SANDER VEILED BEANIE

It is one of my last acquisitions. Raf Simons is one of my favourite designers ever and I thought it could be interesting to own a Jil Sander piece, not from his last collection, but from the one that...

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MY CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN SANDALS

Red is the colour of blood, passion and emergency. If you  know me a little bit, you would easily say that it should be my favourite colour, but I don’t use it normally. It doesn’t fit me at all. I...

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MY CHRISTIAN DIOR VINTAGE BALL GOWN

The dress, designed by Marc Bohan in the late sixties, belonged to the daughter of a French ambassador of United States that, probably, wore it in some kind of “debutante ball”. It was found in a dusty...

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MY MARY KATRANTZOU MILITARY PRINT VEST

After some years following the fashion shows, you start to see the connections, the influences. Off course you like outfits, you even fall desperately in love with some of them, but it is no easy to...

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MY TOM FORD FOR YSL TOP

I can remember the impact of  Yves Saint Laurent fall/winter 2003 collection. It was a real shock, a clear breaking point in the history of such an iconic Fashion House. It was a real war announcement...

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MY VLADIMIR KARALEEV LEATHER TOP

In Berlin-Mitte, where I live, there is a fashion shop that is completely empty. The door is open during usual working hours and the shop is huge, with an amazing storefront in a busy street but, it is...

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MY PRADA FLAME WEDGE SANDALS

When I bought this sandals last summer, someone told me “I think I will like them in a couple of years…”  and this is the exact point with Miuccia. She is always working right on the edge, maybe too...

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MY PRADA PRESCRIPTION GLASSES

LOLITA has been one of the most influential books of my life: love as an obsession, as illness, but beautiful in the end, even in its darkest side. To have myopia is one of the most strange situations....

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MY MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA DRAPED T-SHIRT

Maybe I was born wearing Maison Martin Margiela, and this is why I feel such a strong identification with this non-designer fashion house. I can not remember which was my first piece but roughly the...

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MY BRAND NEW VIVIENNE WEESTWOOD FOR MELISSA BOOTS

When I was a teenager  I could not wait to wear high heels. One day I found a way: low platform beach sandals, a pair of dark brown classic sandals that are still in my closet. Beautiful and cool but I...

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MY ADIDAS ORIGINALS X FARM T-SHIRT

Everybody is so healthy, happy, young, hipster, relaxed and cool in this blond, pale, tall, gentle neighborhood where I live. And all this is true, you can feel it clearly as passing by, but something...

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MY ALEXANDER MCQUEEN TOP

The dress is sustaining the body: the body is not totally alive. The girl has suffered: suffering has made her beautiful and strong. She is not human anymore: she is a fantastic creature. Romanticism,...

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MY BALENCIAGA WOOL JACKET

There are very few pictures of Marilyn where she looks real, a real woman. But some months before her dead in August, 1962, she began to be more natural, to reveal herself a little bit beyond her...

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MY VINTAGE CARTIER PIN

There was a time when costume and jewelry where the most important occupation for a certain kind of women and gentlemen were queuing at Cartier to get the most fabulous diamonds for their beauties well...

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MY MIYAKE PINK DRESS

To move, run, jump … dance: to dance! Pleats Please clothes are made for movement, can only be understood in movement. Issey Miyake developed the idea while designing costumes for a Dance Company in...

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MY JIL SANDER BLUE BAG

Blue is much more than just another color for me. In my mind, blue is lapis lazuli and the ancient Egypt with Queen Nefertiti wearing her tall blue crown. Her bust is made of limestone but seems to...

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MY MATTHEW WILLIAMSON SWIMSUIT

Going to the beach is like a little nightmare for me. The sun is not my closest friend, water is not my element, I find sunbathing dramatically boring and I do not really like any kind of swimsuit. If...

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MY SAINT LAURENT OXFORD SHOES

What is the aim of an unexpected cover, revealing or unrevealing the object underneath? A fully covered platinum and diamonds skull, is it something else than a skull? A Venetian palace covered with an...

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MY UNDERCOVER JACKET

The first time ever I saw this jacket it was many years ago. It was maybe during a weekend in 2009, in an outlet store in Berlin.  A little bit big for me, very expensive and very difficult to wear so...

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MY RAQUEL ALLEGRA T-SHIRT

Precious and fragile things need special handling. Hand crafted, made one by one with a laborious shredding technic, precious and fragile. How could I resist this t-shirt? I found a way to wear it...

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MY RED LONG GLOVES

Put the blame on Gilda, on her red hair, on those long black satin gloves driving all the attention to her perfect shoulders. Her self-confidence wearing that iconic strapless black dress, the way she...

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