Fashion, Style & Design

BY CM:HAND MADE T-SHIRTS!

2012-06-29T10:21:00.000-07:00

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La bella macchina: 500L: Simply More

2012-02-20T05:22:00.000-08:00

La bella macchina: 500L: Simply More: The Geneva Motor Show is the occasion for the world premiere of the Fiat 500L, the new extension of the 500 range that in the wake of ...

histoire de la cravate

2011-10-29T10:46:00.000-07:00

Η γραβάτα είναι σύμβολο της κομψότητας στην ανδρική ένδυση, παίρνει το όνομα της από το γαλλικό cravate.

Αυτό το όνομα προκύπτει από μια παραφθορά του ονόματος των Κροατών, Hrvat στα Σερβόκροατικά, που είχαν επισκευθεί τον Λουδοβίκο τον 14ο το 1660 για να εορτάσουν την ιστορική νίκη επί των Οθωμανών, οι κροάτες ιππότες διακρινόντουσαν για ένα χρωματιστό μαντήλι από μετάξι το οποίο το έδεναν στο λαιμό τους, αυτό άρεσε πάρα πολύ στο Λουδοβίκο που διέταξε την δημιουργία βαιλικής φρουράς με αυτά τα μεταξωτά μαντήλια που την ονόμασε “à la Croate” εξ’ου και Cravate, για άλλη μια φορά όπως άλλωστε συνέβαινε εώς τον 1ο παγκόσμιο πόλεμο η ανδρική ένδυση προέρχεται από τις στρατιωτικές στολές. Βέβαια αν και η Cravatte των μισθοφόρων έδωσε το όνομα της και ενέπνευσε διάφορα ανδρικά αξεσουάρ όπως η γραβάτα, το παπιγιόν,το μαντήλι και το άσκοτ, δεν ήταν ιστορικά η πρώτη φορά εμφάνισης αυτού του αξεσουάρ, στην αρχαιότητα π.χ. οι ρωμαίοι λεγεωνάριοι έδεναν στο λαιμό τους ένα παρόμοιο μαντήλι.

Υπάρχουν τέσσερις βασικοί τύποι κόμβων γραβάτας,

-Ο “Four in Hand” που παίρνει το όνομα του από το ομώνυμο gentlemen’s club του Λονδίνου, που με τη σειρά του υιοθετούσε το όνομα ενός τύπου άμαξας του 18ου και 19ου αιώνα, ο συγκεκριμμένος είναι ο πιο διαδεδομένος τύπος γραβάτας με μεσαίο μέγεθος και είναι ασυμμετρικός.

-Ο “Pratt” γνωστός και ως “Shelby” ή απλά “Pratt Shelby” παίρνει το όνομα του από τον Jerry Pratt που τον δημιούργησε αν και έγινε πιο γνωστός από τον Don Shelby 20 χρόνια αργότερα.Στον Pratt βασίζονται και άλλοι τύποι κόμβων όπως ο “Nicky”, ο συγκεκριμμένος κόμβος ήταν ιδιαίτερα διαδεδομένος στο Μιλάνο για αυτό και συνήθως αναφέρεται ως “nodo alla milanese”, αυτός ο κόμβος είναι μεσαίου μεγέθους και σε αντίθεση με τον four in hand είναι συμμετρικός.

-Ο Windsor παίρνει το όνομα του από τον Δούκα του Windsor αν και δεν τον δημιούργησε ο ίδιος, είναι συμμετρικός, ιδανικός για γραβάτες με χοντρά υφάσματα και είναι ο πιο ογκώδης.

-Ο Half-Windsor είναι συμμετρικός επίσης αλλά με όγκο που τον τοποθετεί ανάμεσα στον Windsor και τoυς four in hand & pratt shelby.

Υπάρχουν συνολικά σχεδόν 100 τύποι κόμβων, μερικοί άλλοι διάσημοι είναι οι Agnelli,Prince Albert και Atlantic, ο Agnelli είναι ένας από τους κομψότερους βασίζεται στο four in hand αλλά είναι προσεκτικά δεμένος και με τη πίσω άκρη λίγο μακρύτερη από την εμπρός σε αντίθεση με ότι συνηθίζεται στο κλασσικό four in hand ώστε να επιτευχθεί ο κομψότερος δυνατόν κόμβος δημιουργία ενός αρχέτυπου του ανδρικού στυλ του Gianni Agnelli.

Persol

2011-10-27T15:12:00.000-07:00

By Giuseppe Ratti 1917

Persol is an Italian eyewear company specializing in sunglasses. The name is derived from "per il sole," which, in Italian, means "for the sun." Formed in 1917 by Giuseppe Ratti, Persol originally catered to pilots and sports drivers. Presently, the company is famous for its durable sports sunglasses. Its trademark is the silver arrow, and several of the company's glasses feature this symbol.

Greta Garbo

Gabriele d'Annunzio flight vienna

pilots like italian writer and aviator Gabriele d'Annunzio at his legendary flight to Vienna in 1918 and racing drivers like legendary five times F1 world champion Juan Manuel Fangio wore Persol

Persol was a NASA supplier, with its "4 glasses" sunglasses, well ahead of it's debut in the United States in 1962

Steve MQueen 649

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Shoulder Bags

2011-10-20T06:00:00.000-07:00

Elsa Schiaparelli

2011-10-19T15:01:00.000-07:00

Elsa Schiaparelli (1890–1973) was an Italian fashion designer. Along with Coco Chanel, her greatest rival, she is regarded as one of the most prominent figures in fashion between the two World Wars. Starting with knitwear, Schiaparelli's designs were heavily influenced by Surrealists like her collaboratorsSalvador Dalí and Alberto Giacometti. Her clients included the heiress Daisy Fellowes and actress Mae West.

Schiaparelli did not adapt to the changes in fashion following World War II and her business closed in 1954.

Personal life

Schiaparelli was born at the Palazzo Corsini in Rome. Her mother was a Neapolitan aristocrat and her father a renowned scholar and curator of medieval manuscripts. Her father, Celestino, was Dean of the University of Rome and an authority on Sanskrit. She was a niece of astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, who discovered the canali of Mars, and she spent hours with him studying the heavens. She studied philosophy at the University of Rome, during which she published a book of sensual poems that shocked her conservative family Schiaparelli was sent to a convent until she went on hunger strike and at the age of 22 accepted a job in London as a nanny. Elsa led a refined life with a certain amount of luxury provided by her parents’ wealth and high social status. She believed, however, that this luxury was stifling to her art and creativity and so she removed herself from the “lap of luxury” as quickly as possible. Schiaparelli moved first to New York City and then to Paris, combining her love of art and design to become a surrealist couturier.

En route to London, Schiaparelli was invited to a ball in Paris. Having no ballgown, she bought some dark blue fabric, wrapped it around herself and pinned it in place. In London most of her time was spent visiting museums and attending lectures. Schiaparelli went on to marry one of her lecturers, Count William de Wendt de Kerlor a Franco-Swiss theosophist In 1921 they moved to New Yorkwhere Schiaparelli immediately responded to the modernity of the city. Her husband distanced himself from the city and had abandoned his family by the time their child was born. Maria Luisa Yvonne Radha de Wendt de Kerlor, better known as Gogo Schiaparelli, would become a noted socialite.

Schiaparelli was later introduced to Gaby Picabia, ex-wife of French Dadaist artist Francis Picabia and owner of a boutique selling French fashions in New York. Through her work there, Schiaparelli met artists like Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray. When Gaby and Man Ray left for Paris, Schiaparelli joined them

Fashion career

In Paris, Schiaparelli - known as "Schiap" to her friends - began making her own clothes. With some encouragement from Paul Poiret, she started her own business but it closed in 1926 despite favourable reviews. She launched a new collection of knitwear in early 1927 using a special double layered stitch created by Armenian refugees and featuring sweaters with surrealist trompe l'oeilimages. Although her first designs appeared in Vogue, the business really took off with a pattern that gave the impression of a scarf wrapped around the wearer's neck^] The "pour le Sport" collection expanded the following year to include bathing suits, ski-wear, and linen dresses. The divided skirt, a forerunner of shorts, shocked the tennis world when worn by Lili de Alvarez at Wimbledon in 1931.^]She added evening wear to the collection in 1931, and the business went from strength to strength, culminating in a move from Rue de la Paix to the Schiap Shop in the Place Vendôme.

A darker tone was set when France declared war on Germany in 1939. Schiaparelli's Spring 1940 collection featured "trench" brown and camouflage print taffetas. Soon after the fall of Paris on 14 June 1940, Schiaparelli sailed to New York for a lecture tour; apart from a few months in Paris in early 1941, she remained in New York City until the end of the war.^[ On her return she found that fashions had changed, with Christian Dior's "New Look" marking a rejection of pre-war fashion. The house of Schiaparelli struggled in the austerity of the post-war period, and Elsa finally closed it down in December 1954,the same year that her great rival Chanel returned to the business. Aged 64, she wrote her autobiography and then lived out a comfortable retirement between her apartment in Paris and house in Tunisia. She died on 13 November 1973.

Schiaparelli was an innovative woman and fashion designer. She had a lot of "firsts" in the fashion industry. Her career began with her introduction of graphic knitwear to the world of fashion with knit patterns and emblems. These led to her fanciful prints of body parts, food, and many more unusual themes. She was the first to use brightly colored zippers, appearing first on her sportswear in 1930 and again five years later on her evening dresses. Not only was she the first to use brightly colored zippers, but she was also the first to have them dyed to match the material used in her garments. She was the first to create and use fanciful buttons that looked more like brooches. They came in the shapes of peanuts, bees, and even ram’s heads. In Parisian fashion, she invented culottes, introduced Arab breeches, embroidered shirts, wrapped turbans, pompom-rimmed hats, barbaric belts, the “wedge,” a soled shoe that would trend through the 20th century and into the next, and mix-and-match sportswear, the concept of which would not be fully recognized for another forty to fifty years. While her innovations in fashion design were numerous, it was her creation of the runway show as we know it today that was most influential. Her modern idea of a fashion show included a runway with music and art, and the use of elongated, shapeless women as models. She believed that this boyish figure would best display the clothing. Many people do not realize the true sum of her impact on fashion and the fashion industry.

Marlene Dietrich was a fan of Elsa´s work

Nonsolomoda..

2011-10-19T04:40:00.000-07:00

È il programma più longevo di Mediaset ancora in onda, dal 1983 fino al 1985 su Rete 4 e poi su Canale 5. Così come dice il titolo, la moda non è che uno dei tanti argomenti trattati dal programma: si parla infatti anche di arte, architettura, viaggi, nuove tecnologie, approfondimenti sul mondo del cinema, dellatelevisione, della pubblicità e dei motori, con un particolare riguardo nei confronti di usi, costumi e tendenze della vita quotidiana. I servizi presentati nella trasmissione sono caratterizzati da un taglio dinamico ed elegante e dall'originalità delle scelte musicali che fanno da sottofondo ai servizi, rendendoli simili a dei videoclip. Il programma è stato tuttavia accusato di realizzare pubblicità redazionale tramite servizi su prodotti da sposorizzare; tuttavia, ciò non è mai stato verificato.

La conduzione è affidata tradizionalmente a volti femminili della televisione italiana: dal 1995 si sono succedute Roberta Capua Afef, Vanessa Incontrada e Michelle Hunziker. Dal 2002 al 2009, per ben sette anni consecutivi, il rotocalco è stato condotto da Silvia Toffanin, che dal febbraio 2010, dopo alcuni mesi di assenza del programma dai palinsesti, ha lasciato la conduzione a Valeria Bilello. Nell'ottobre del 2011, la conduzione della trasmissione viene affidata all'attrice Samya Abbary.

La collocazione del programma è sempre stata la seconda/terza serata della domenica, anche se per alcuni periodi è stato trasmesso al giovedì e al martedì. Dal gennaio 2011, invece, dopo ben 27 anni di trasmissione, abbandona la fascia notturna per inserirsi in quella del mezzogiorno, nella giornata del sabatoDalla seconda puntata stagionale, tuttavia, torna nella sua abituale fascia oraria nella giornata del martedì. La voce che fin dall'inizio commenta i servizi è quella di Daniele Sassi, già voce istituzionale di RDS. Fonico dal 1989 al 1994 è stato Adriano Pedersoli

Club Des Sports Jackets

VIVIENNE WESTWOOD FOR Green

2011-10-18T10:06:00.000-07:00

Ever more frequently the world of fashion is stepping up to lend its voice to social and environmental issues. A cause today supported by countless designers but whose pioneer is one of the most enterprising personalities of the international fashion scene: Vivienne Westwood. And now her boundless creativity is backing the GreenUp initiative. We are proud to present the original Tree-shirt, a YOOXYGEN exclusive for a greener planet.

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ext June world leaders will meet in Brazil to address the situation of the environment, at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development “Rio+20”. In view of this important event, GreenUp was born, a UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) initiative. GreenUp is intended to give rise to a new awareness and bring about new habits in the lives of Europeans, taking the issue of sustainable economies and development to the streets of the old continent. A program of smart monthly actions will be communicated via social networking through the GreenUp site, designed to be a real social hub.
The main supporter of this initiative of a ‘democratic’ and ‘activist’ spirit is Vivienne Westwood, who is unveiling her unique design at its launch (together with the European Climate Foundation) in Brussels on October 11th. The British designer has created the original ‘Tree-Shirt’ for yoox.com, supporting GreenUp’s European reforestation program.
Available in three styles: for him, for her, and unisex; in several colors and with a striking print à la Vivienne , the shirt’s motto is “buy a Tree-shirt, plant a tree!”
YOOXYGEN presents the fruits of Dame Westwood’s labor: the Tree-shirt is available exclusively at yoox.com and all proceeds go to GreenUp.

JAPAN’S GOT TALENT

2011-10-18T06:57:00.000-07:00

For the first time ever, yoox.com has teamed up with Japan Fashion Week (JFW) to promote fashion designers with an avant-garde aesthetic, making them available to its worldwide audience scattered in more than 100 countries.
Just like its counterparts in Paris, Milan, New York and London, JFW is the largest fashion organization in Japan that proactively pushes the country’s emerging talents to succeed in overseas markets via special events and projects.
So, to celebrate the Tokyo Fashion Week Spring Summer 2012 collections, yoox.com and JFW have selected a handful of most promising names whose edgy designs for men and women are on the rise.
Serving as a global showcase and retail platform, yoox.com will go live in October with confections by G.V.G.V., THEATRE PRODUCTS and tiny dinosaur in the women’s arena and ato and soe shirts for men.
Besides selected Fall-Winter looks, yoox.com has secured two online exclusives – a specially designed garment from the Spring-Summer 2012 collection and a video interview with each designer.

Buccellati!

2011-10-18T06:21:00.000-07:00

Mario Buccellati at the beginning of the century, Gianmaria Buccellati and Andrea Buccellati today, carry on the design capability, creating a link between the past, present and future.

Every piece is designed now by Gianmaria himself or by his son Andrea, who personally follows the process of realization, interacting with jeweler-artisans and giving them the right directions. This "personalization" of production, entrusted to artisan's manual skills, makes Buccellati jewels unique as well as incomparable.

Hidden behind a Buccellati jewel, there is a philosophy which expresses, like in art, an aesthetic choice, defining the canons of a style: discretion, class, harmony.

Buccellati is still a family enterprise with members of the second and third generations involved in many facets of the company's activities.

Gianmaria Buccellati currently leads the company and his three children are involved in it.

Andrea, artistic heir of the third generation, is co-designer with his father and manages the production of jewelry; Gino, manages the firm that produces silver items; Maria Cristina manages advertising, image and communication for the company.

Gianmaria's wife, Rosie, is active in the commercial department and in shops management.

DISTRIBUTION

UMBRELLA AND HISTORY

2011-10-17T07:11:00.000-07:00

n umbrella or parasol (also called a brolly, rainshade, sunshade, gamp or bumbershoot) is a canopy designed to protect against rain or sunlight. The term parasol usually refers to an item designed to protect from the sun; umbrella refers to a device more suited to protect from rain. Often the difference is the material; some parasols are not waterproof. Parasols are often meant to be fixed to one point and often used with patio tables or other outdoor furniture. Umbrellas are almost exclusively hand-held portable devices; however, parasols can also be hand-held.

The word umbrella comes from the Latin word umbra, meaning shade or shadow (the Latin word, in turn, derives from the Ancient Greek ómbros [όμβρος].)Brolly is a slang word for umbrella, used often in Britain, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, and Kenya. Bumbershoot is a fanciful Americanism from the late 19th century.

Middle East

In the sculptures at Nineveh the parasol appears frequently.^[ Austen Henry Layard gives a picture of a bas-relief representing a king in his chariot, with an attendant holding a parasol over his head.^[5] It has a curtain hanging down behind, but is otherwise exactly like those in use today. It is reserved exclusively for the monarch (who was bald), and is never carried over any other person.

In Persia the parasol is repeatedly found in the carved work of Persepolis, and Sir John Malcolm has an article on the subject in his 1815 "History of Persia."In some sculptures, the figure of a king appears attended by a servant, who carries over his head an umbrella, with stretchers and runner complete.^[] In other sculptures on the rock at Taghe-Bostan, supposed to be not less than twelve centuries old, a deer-hunt is represented, at which a king looks on, seated on a horse, and having an umbrella borne over his head by an attendant.

Ancient Egypt

n Egypt, the parasol is found in various shapes. In some instances it is depicted as a flagellum, a fan of palm-leaves or coloured feathers fixed on a long handle, resembling those now carried behind the Pope in processions. Gardiner Wilkinson, in his work on Egypt, has an engraving of an Ethiopian princess travelling through Upper Egypt in a chariot; a kind of umbrella fastened to a stout pole rises in the centre, bearing a close affinity to what are now termed chaise umbrellas.According to Wilkinson's account, the umbrella was generally used throughout Egypt, partly as a mark of distinction, but more on account of its useful than its ornamental qualities. In some paintings on a temple wall, a parasol is held over the figure of a god carried in procession.

Ancient Greece

In Greece, the parasol (skiadeion), was an indispensable adjunct to a lady of fashion in the late 5th century BCAristophanes mentions it among the common articles of female use;they could apparently open and closePausanias describes a tomb near Triteia in Achaia decorated with a 4th-century BC painting ascribed to Nikias; it depicted the figure of a woman, "and by her stood a female slave, bearing a parasol".Its use seems to have been confined to women. For a man to carry one was considered a mark of effeminacy.^[ In Aristophanes' Birds, Prometheus uses one as a comical disguise.

It had also its religious signification. In the Scirophoria, the feast of Athene Sciras, a white parasol was borne by the priestesses of the goddess from theAcropolis to the Phalerus. In the feasts of Dionysos the umbrella was used, and in an old bas-relief the same god is represented as descending ad inferos with a small umbrella in his hand. In the Panathenæa, the daughters of the Metics, or foreign residents, carried parasols over the heads of Athenian women as a mark of inferiority.

BY YOOX

2011-10-17T04:42:00.000-07:00

ROSAMOND BERNIER

A life of adventure between America and Europe; from Mexico, where she flew her own plane and raised a small zoo, to Paris, where she lived for twenty years. There she worked for Vogue and, in 1955, set up L’Oeil , a magazine dedicated to the most innovative and prestigious art of the era. Rosamond fell into the circle of the most important European artists of the period, masters such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Joan Miró, Max Ernst and Alberto Giacometti. Through the years she gained their respect, affection and trust, and she started to tell the story of their works in numerous conferences around the world. Conferences that attracted not just academics, but true enthusiasts such as Diana Vreeland and Jackie Onassis, and high caliber designers like Coco Chanel and Cristobal Balenciaga, personalities who would ordain her as a true style icon for her incredible charm and exquisite taste in clothes. Now living in New York for the last 40 years, in addition to her career as a lecturer, Bernier has acted as consultant for many art collections. In collaboration with her husband John Russell, chief art critic of The New York Times, she made hugely successful television programs dedicated to Henry Moore, Philip Johnson, Paul Mellon and Joseph Hirshhorn. Rosamond has also received numerous honors for her contribution to art and culture: she was made “Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” and “Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur” by the French government and awarded the “Cross of Isabel la Católica” by King Juan Carlos I of Spain.
Bernier’s lectures are important events in the art world, in which her love of everything beautiful and sense of the aesthetic shine through. Dressed head-to-toe in haute couture, she loses herself in anecdotes of artists’ lives, in intense impromptu narrations, an animated flow of images and captivating memories. And so Some of My Lives: A Scrapbook Memoir was born, a treasure-trove of unforgettable moments, photographs, sketches, portraits by Matisse, and dedications by Ernst, who details Rosamond’s life; the perfect blend of art, style and culture.

CHANEL

2011-10-16T09:46:00.001-07:00

The little black dress, the tweed suit, the quilted leather handbag, and the first-ever designer perfume these are just some of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel's lasting contributions to fashion. Little did she know when she opened her small millinery shop in Paris in 1913 that she was laying the foundation for what would become one of the world's most illustrious fashion houses. Offering a selection of sporty clothes alongside her cloches and toques, however, Chanel speedily became the rage among upper-crust mademoiselles eager to don her modishly boyish dresses made of unfussy jersey (a fabric that until then had been used primarily for men's underwear.)

World War I broke out the very next year, of course, but in the long run that only boosted the popularity of Chanel's new kind of chic, as women sought more comfortable garments to replace their restrictive corsets. Throughout the twenties and thirties, Chanel continued to revolutionize the way women dressed, particularly with the popularization of the Chanel suit, which for the first time gave women a social—or perhaps even work—uniform as simple and unimpeachable as a man's business three-piece. Chanel No. 5 was created in 1923 and is still the best-selling fragrance in the world all these decades later.

While Chanel's legacy is legendary, so was the public persona she constructed and promoted. Raised in a French orphanage, she rewrote the narrative of her life, cultivating an aura of privilege. "Coco," the persona known for her royal lovers, rotogravure friends, and rarefied tastes, became her own best advertisement.

Again buffeted by the winds of war, Chanel shut the doors to her atelier in 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. She didn't reopen the business until 1953, introducing the Chanel suit to a new generation of women.

The first lady of fashion died in 1971 at the age of 86 at the Hôtel Ritz in Paris, where she had lived for 30 years. While a design team kept the label on life support, it wasn't until 1983, when Karl Lagerfeld assumed creative control, that the house was reborn in all its glory. Today, the company is privately owned by Alain and Gerard Wertheimer, the grandsons of Pierre Wertheimer, who originally funded Chanel No. 5.

VOGUE FEMALE CURVE TRIBUTE

2011-10-16T08:46:00.000-07:00

style chic

2011-10-16T08:27:00.000-07:00

I have been up every night till 2 or 3am working on images since I arrived in Milan. As you can imagine I am pretty exhausted but the story that goes with this image is very cute so I will try to write it tonight or on the train to Paris.

On the Street.....Checks & Stripes, Milano

2011-10-16T06:44:00.000-07:00

Διαφορά ανάμεσα στον dandy και τον snob.

2011-10-16T06:40:00.000-07:00

Είναι σημαντικό να μαρκάρουμε καλά τα όρια που υπάρχουν ανάμεσα στον snob και τον dandy. Ο πρώτος είναι, όπως λέει η λέξη, ένας ψεύτικος αριστοκράτης, ένας sine nobilitate (της οποίας η λέξη snob είναι η συντόμευση). Ο όρος αυτός μπήκε στο κοινό λεξιλόγιο στις αρχές του 19ου αιώνα, στην Αγγλία, για να χαρακτηρίσει τους νεαρούς γόνους φοιτητές των ευκατάστατων αστικών οικογενειών. Ο snob είναι ένας καιροσκόπος χωρίς ατομική συνείδηση, που επιθυμεί να ανεβεί κοινωνικά με πλαστοπροσωπία ρόλου, τάξης και αρμοδιότητων πάνω από τα δικά του περιορισμένα προνόμια.Ο snob είναι ένας κοινωνικός αναρριχητής, που υποτιμά τους ομοίους του πιστεύωντας ότι έτσι ανεβαίνει ο ίδιος σε μια ανώτερη τάξη. Γίνεται υποχείριο των ισχυρών, εμπιστεύεται τη πρόοδο και τη πολιτική, γίνεται, για να αυταπατηθεί, ανδρείκελο που φορά ρούχα στην τελευταία λέξη της μόδας; αντίθετα με τον dandy, ο snob ντύνεται με αυτό που είναι καινούριο, είτε είναι άσχημο είτε όχι - δεδομένου ότι έχει προσωπικά γούστα που ορίζονται από τις τάσεις της μόδας - ενώ ο dandy προτιμά να συνδυάσει την ομορφιά με τη μόδα, δημιουργόντας το σωστό μείγμα πρωτοτυπίας και κλασικού στυλ που θεωρεί αναγκαίο για να μην περάσει στην εκκεντρικότητα ή το ηλίθιο trendy του snob της κυριακής...Ο dandy σαγηνεύει και λατρεύει να 'κάνει απολαύσεις'; ο snob δεν κοιτά κανένα στο πρόσωπο. Ο snob είναι ο πρώτος ξάδελφος εκείνου του πουριτανού αστού ενάντια στον οποίο ο Baudelaire και οι σύντροφοι του τοποθετήθηκαν; σήμερα ο αστός είτε είναι σε παρακμή, είτε, ανάλογα με τις απόψεις, εξελίχθηκε στον snob, μια βδέλλα που υπηρετεί την εξουσία και, μόλις έχει την ευκαιρία, κακομεταχειρίζεται τους πιο αδύναμους. Και, όταν το θεωρεί αναγκαίο, προσπαθεί να μιμηθεί τον dandy, ανωφελώς... Πιστεύει ότι του μοιάζει εκθειάζοντας ψυχρότητα και απόσταση, δείχνοντας ανωτερότητα όπως η γυναίκα-σφίγγα του Wilde: αινιγματική αλλά απολύτως δίχως μυστήριο. Αλλά ο dandy, παρ’όλες τις προσπάθειες του snob για να του μοιάσει, είναι πάνω από αυτόν και πάνω από εκείνους εμπρός στους οποίους ο snob ταπεινώνεται ελπίζοντας, μια μέρα, να τους αντικαταστήσει. Ο dandy ζει πάντα στο παρελθόν και, μερικές φορές, στο μέλλον; ο snob μοχθεί στο παρόν.

Mediterranean Sea

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creta aquarium

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This is where your experience exploring the Mediterranean sea world begins. Come face to face with hundreds of species and thousands of living organisms. Be fascinated by their behaviour as they reveal the wide variety of shapes, colors, habits and needs of their own world. Learn about them and reflect on what our common future may be.

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As fickle as it gets: My first post!

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As fickle as it gets: My first post!: Hi guys!!This is my first post(duh!!)I finally decided to jump on the fashion-blogging bandwagon,and I really hope it's a smooth and fun rid...

Dior games

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ANCIENT GREEK SANDALS

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MASERATI GRANCabrio Fendi

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