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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...
View ArticleMY 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...
View ArticleMY 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...
View ArticleMY 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...
View ArticleMY 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...
View ArticleMY 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,...
View ArticleMY 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...
View ArticleMY 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...
View ArticleMY 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...
View ArticleMY 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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