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        <title>Girl of the month, November 2011 </title>
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        <summary>* Agnès N @ VIVA Paris * all pics © Mara Zampariolo I shot these pictures of Agnès when she first arrived in Paris, back in July. I also recommended her to a couple of fellow lensmen. We are all enthusiastic about her. Agnes impressed me right away with her amazing sense of style (she is wearing her own clothes in these shots). When she started posing, I knew I was shooting one of these girls whose photogeny could be almost irritating, if I wasn't taking her picture ! You simply cannot get a bad picture of her. She is...</summary>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">* Agnès N @ VIVA Paris *</span></h1>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> <a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0162fcfd71c3970d-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0' ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="A_Agnes_Nabuurs_©Mara Zampariolo" class="asset  asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c0162fcfd71c3970d" src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0162fcfd71c3970d-500wi" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="A_Agnes_Nabuurs_©Mara Zampariolo" /></a><span style="font-size: 8pt;">all pics © Mara Zampariolo </span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">I shot these pictures of Agnès when she first arrived in Paris, back in July. I also recommended her to a couple of fellow lensmen. We are all enthusiastic about her.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Agnes impressed me right away with her amazing sense of style (she is wearing her own clothes in these shots).</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">When she started posing, I knew I was shooting one of these girls whose photogeny could be almost  irritating, if <em>I</em> wasn't taking her picture !</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">You simply cannot get a bad picture of her. </span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">She is so tiny and graceful in every movement, she made me redefine words like 'poise' 'femininity' and 'gosh I couldn't fit my pinkie in these shorts - not even holding my breath'.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Her face is a mix of classic features with a modern, elfish twist.</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As all the dutch ladies I met so far, she is also a delight to work with. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So what's left for me to say?</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Back in 1998, I thought dutch people were kinda cool because they let me stare at the same <a href="http://lalune-et-lesoleil.blogspot.com/2009/10/peinture-par-van-gogh.html" target="_blank">Van Gogh painting</a>* for 3 hours in a row, before gently pushing me towards the exit.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In fact, hey most definitely are cool people, and I no longer need  'shrooms to be mesmerized by their beauties.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">;)</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0162fcfd731a970d-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0' ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="B_Agnes_Nabuurs_©Mara Zampariolo" class="asset  asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c0162fcfd731a970d" src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0162fcfd731a970d-500wi" title="B_Agnes_Nabuurs_©Mara Zampariolo" /></a></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">* why did I stare at it for so long? Because I was counting the ants' . </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">** Yes, I am aware now these are no ants on this painting. </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">†</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ5hkUVDJ9k&amp;feature=related" target="_blank">Kids: Don't do drugs, 'mk? </a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">†</p>
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        <summary>† Valery K @ Marilyn † all pics © Mara Zampariolo Valery K @ Marilyn Paris wearing photogrpaher's own Thomas Burberry black wool coat Introducing Valery K, 17 y.o.newface from Marilyn, with some serious supermodel potential, in my opinion. Here she is in natural light with zero makeup. Valery is 17, from Russia, and when she showed up at my place she did.. with her mommy. † - † Here is the full story of our enconter, and of how I got my vampire ass busted despite my best effort to be more relatable. Dr. YouDontfoolMe or: How I learned...</summary>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>†  Valery K @ Marilyn  †</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Valery K @ <a href="http://www.marilynagency.com/v2/home.php?page=marilyn&amp;lang=fr" target="_self">Marilyn Paris</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">wearing photogrpaher's own Thomas Burberry black wool </span><span style="font-size: 11px;">coat</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Introducing Valery K,</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">17 y.o.newface from Marilyn, with some serious supermodel potential, in my opinion.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Here she is in natural light with zero makeup. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Valery is 17, from Russia, and when she showed up at my place she did.. with her mommy.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">†</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">-</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">†</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Here is the full story of our enconter, and of how I got my vampire ass busted despite my best effort to be more relatable.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Dr. YouDontfoolMe</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>or: How I learned to stop worrying and love mother Russia</em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Today I got to shoot another comp card for Marilyn, so I can afford my long distance - high maintenance lover and his caviar habit.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Baby girl showed up 50 minutes early, to find me brushing teeth in my pajamas, much to the horror of mother Russia in tow.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Oh, Aaaam so-wwy ! </span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I was able to say, lathering like an epileptic</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So, to make up for this terrific first impression, I decide to offer a real italian coffee with a huge smile, cookies, and make myself more relatable to mother Russia by wearing nice baby blue clothes, no studs or pins and no makeup whatsoever.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Now you tell me what am I supposed to do when pouring coffee to baby girl I hear mother Russia saying something that sounded just like</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"skgrovieglieyfr naganiesckegjije ghiyriuftiyene <em>goth fotografie</em> ! "</span></p>
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        <summary>Hi everyone ! Today I am bringing you another pearl from my casting sessions, Ileana Bernardini @ VIVA. As always, there are only 3 rules to this project: 30 seconds, 2 questions, 0 makeup. see more pictures of Ileana @ VIVA's website I have incredibly high expectations for this girl; my bet is that she will be a supermodel before Berlusconi turns his latest underage slut into a TV HOst. I'm posting two pictures I shot for her portfolio (the color one is actually her comp card) + this short video, which happens to be the very first one I've...</summary>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Hi everyone !</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Today I am bringing you another pearl from my casting sessions, Ileana Bernardini @ VIVA. </span><span style="font-size: 15.8333px;">As always, there are only 3 rules to this project: 30 seconds, 2 questions, 0 makeup.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">see more pictures of Ileana @ <a href="http://www.viva-paris.com/" target="_self">VIVA's website</a></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I have incredibly high expectations for this girl; my bet is that she will be a supermodel before Berlusconi turns his latest underage slut into a TV HOst.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I'm posting two pictures I shot for her portfolio (the color one is actually her comp card) + this short video, which happens to be the very first one I've ever made.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ileana is so versatile I just want to shoot her over and over again.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c013488f41750970c-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0' ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="_MG_6298" border="0" class="asset  asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c013488f41750970c image-full" src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c013488f41750970c-800wi" title="_MG_6298" /></a> <br /><span style="font-size: 10pt;">For this shot I asked Ileana to stretch like a kitty cat. What more can I say? Meow !</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">She starts off slow (not a morning person if you ask me: she won't say anything but <em>Nespressoooo What Elseee?</em> until 12,30) but once she gets it going she is going to blow your socks <em>and</em> your hat off.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">My argentinian wonder is sexy but very editorial, she is skinny with a perfect bumbum, she is blonde yet not dumb, and she smokes so charmingly I don't even care if shooting this video I got cancer!</span></strong></em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c013488f42288970c-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0' ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="_MG_6583" border="0" class="asset  asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c013488f42288970c image-full" src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c013488f42288970c-800wi" title="_MG_6583" /></a></span> <br /><span style="font-size: 10pt;">My portrait on Ileana's comp card</span><br /><br /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We recently worked together again for an editorial  will be out next month in Milkshake Magazine.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Now, before you think that my life is all about models, parties and champagne, here's what I've been up to lately.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">- I accidentally forwarded a virus to a potential client. Me, what a smart ass.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: 15.8333px;">- I visited my boyfriend's family in eastern France, which involved a lot more cheese and red wine than I expected. Gotta update my clichés.</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">- I ate. I drank. I ate more. I drank more. </span><span style="font-size: 15.8333px;">I tried to decline any additional saturated fat, but granny wouldn't accept any apology.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">- I made a huge Tiramisu to get even, but my boyfriend's teenage brother assaulted it at night. </span><span style="font-size: 14.1667px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I returned to Paris to find m</span><span style="font-size: 15.8333px;">y cats too got considerably fatter;</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14.1667px;"><em><span style="font-size: 15.8333px;"><strong>note to self: ask the person who feeds them not to, and possibly chase them around the flat with a taser.</strong></span></em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14.1667px;"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c013488f41b30970c-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0' ); return false" style="display: inline;"> </a><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c013488f42485970c-popup" onclick="window.open( this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0' ); return false" style="display: inline;"><img alt="_MG_6000" border="0" class="asset  asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c013488f42485970c image-full" src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c013488f42485970c-800wi" title="_MG_6000" /></a> <br /><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Hold on otno your boots, hon! Don't let your bf wear them!</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">- My boyfriend bought me a new pair of low boots because he hated my Demonia studded ones - he said I could get into a fight with some punks in his hometown for looking like a nazi.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Now he wants to wear them, and I can't stop him because we are both an EU 40.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Next time I'll ask for some motherf**** Louboutins.</strong></span></p>
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        <updated>2010-10-22T01:35:57+02:00</updated>
        <summary>3 rules only: 30 seconds, 2 questions, 0 make up. ...Madé @ VIVA NOTE: in my video &amp; pictures of Madé (and all the girls that will follow) she is wearing absolutely NO MAKEUP WHATSOEVER I know, it should be illegal looking like that. Ok ok, I realize last time I posted something onto this blog bleached eyebrows were IN, and I'm sorry, 'mk? I might be older, wearing a gardenia-print burgundy knit, which of course is covered in cat's hair, which have put up a few pounds themselves, I lost most of my hair dying it in platinum blonde,...</summary>
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<p style="text-align: center;">30 seconds, 2 questions, 0 make up. </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">...Madé @ <a href="http://www.viva-paris.com/" target="_self">VIVA</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>NOTE: in  my video &amp; pictures of Madé (and all the girls that will follow) she is wearing absolutely <strong>NO MAKEUP WHATSOEVER</strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>I know, it should be illegal looking like that.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em> </em></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ok ok, I realize last time I posted something onto this blog bleached eyebrows were IN, and I'm sorry, 'mk?</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I might be older, wearing a gardenia-print burgundy  knit, which of course is covered in cat's hair, which have put up a few pounds themselves, I lost most of my hair dying it in platinum blonde, had crusts falling off my scalp for weeks, then the rest of it fell off, so now I have an 8 y.o. boyscout hairdo and no time to do a washing machine, so I just stopped wearing socks altogether but guess what?</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">I'm back, bitches !</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0133f53fb02c970b-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="_MG_0167" border="0" class="asset  asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c0133f53fb02c970b image-full" src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0133f53fb02c970b-800wi" title="_MG_0167" /></a> <br /><br /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I started "testing" newfaces for top modelling agents here in Paris, which means taking their first shots to build up their portfolios. Some of these girls have so much potential I decided to film them in order to make all of you jealous and self conscious.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">-</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Their agent just want me to some pics (in next post I will tell you what kind of pictures they like and also what they <em>don't like</em> !!) but when a chick is really unforgettable she deserves a video too, before she becomes a supermodel and forgets how quirky and simple and not-a-diva-at-all she used to be when she shot her first pics @ my filthy spot here in Paris.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here's some of my pics from what her agent picked for her book. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">You can see the rest of her portfolio @ <a href="http://www.viva-paris.com/" target="_self">VIVA's website</a>. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0134885f88a2970c-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="_MG_0248" border="0" class="asset  asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c0134885f88a2970c image-full" src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0134885f88a2970c-800wi" title="_MG_0248" /></a> <br /><br /></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To me, she is a supermodel already. Will be shooting here next week in a real editorial. Until then, I guess I'll <em>really</em> have to do a washing machine.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Love,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Mara</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ps. Please, take a look at <a href="http://www.mara-photography.com/" target="_self">my new website</a>, will ya? C'mon, I work, like, for realz. It took me almost two whole hours to do it. Seriously.</span></p>
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        <summary>all pictures © Boris Ovini -----&gt; Click Onto Pics To ENLARGE ! &lt;----- - I'M WEARING - vintage styling: Inès Fendri; accessories and jewels: Baptiste Viry; dust and french cigarettes: courtesy of the photographer, who got me rolling on the floor and smoking - PART 1/ WHERE MY CHILDHOOD DREAMS COME TRUE : NOW I GOT SO HOT I GET PAID TO ROLL IN DIRT Hi everyone ('cuz someone's still checking out mi blog, 'aight?). Today I'm posting designer Baptiste Viry's SS 2010 lookbook to make up the late "distinct lack of posts". Baptiste is talented, french, dark and tall....</summary>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a8f92c44970b-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="020_285 copy" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c0120a8f92c44970b image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a8f92c44970b-800wi" title="020_285 copy" /></a></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">all pictures © <a href="http://www.borisovini.com/">Boris Ovini</a></span></span></strong></span><span style="font-size: 14px;" /></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">-----&gt; Click Onto Pics To ENLARGE ! &lt;-----</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">-</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">I'M WEARING</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">-<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">vintage styling: <strong>Inès Fendri;</strong> accessories and jewels: <strong><a href="http://www.baptisteviry.com/">Baptiste Viry;</a></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">dust and french cigarettes: courtesy of the photographer, who got me rolling on the floor and smoking</p><span style="font-size: 14px;" />

<p><strong><br /></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: 15px;">- PART 1/ </span><br /></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">WHERE MY CHILDHOOD DREAMS COME TRUE : NOW I GOT SO HOT I GET PAID TO ROLL IN DIRT</span><br /></strong></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" /></div><p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Hi everyone ('cuz someone's still checking out mi blog, 'aight?). <br /></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" /></span><span style="font-size: 14px;" /></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Today I'm posting designer Baptiste Viry's SS 2010 lookbook to make up the late "distinct lack of posts". Baptiste is talented, french, dark and tall. And no, he's not even gay. <br /></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">I've only realized this by the fifth meeting, making a huge ass of myself in front of the client (him).<br /></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">He<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> designs mens accessories for women, so he picked a boyish looking model to pose for him. He eventually realized my biceps looked trannylicious on film, so he's asked the photographer to airbrush the shit outta me.<br /></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">I totally dig the result.</span><br /></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" /></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Baptiste's work has been featured on ELLE and other magazines, and I was lucky enough to get paid to wear his stuff while tossing half nacked on the floor, as the photographer gently rubbed dust on my face<em>. </em></span></span></span></p>

<br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" /></span></span> 


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<p><strong><br /></strong></p><span style="font-size: 15px;"><strong>- PART 2/</strong></span><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>WHERE MY PRE-TEEN MEMORIES COME BACK TO HAUNT ME; I USED TO LOOK SO BAD THE TEACHER GAVE ME A COMB<br /></strong></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><br /></strong></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;">

<p><span style="font-size: 14px;">The Top Models from the Nineties are back. Claudia is back; Eva is back; Hélèna is back; Naomi, like herpes, <em>just won't go away.</em></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"> <br /></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 14px;">Back in the Nineties, I was no top model, but you know what?</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 14px;"> I remember my tragic first steps in the modelling industry, and I might as well share these with you, if you don't mind.</span></p>



<p><span style="font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-size: 14px;">I was 16 in 1996 (I'll spare you the maths: I'm 30 now), and my mother invited a friend over for dinner. </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">A  fashion photographer, Giorgio. He was dark, tall, and not even gay. And <strong>he was the first man besides my father to tell me that I looked hot. </strong><br /></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 14px;">How could I forget?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p></div>





<span style="font-size: 12px;" />

 
<p><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c01310f5fed9f970c-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="080_062 copy" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c01310f5fed9f970c image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c01310f5fed9f970c-800wi" title="080_062 copy" /></a></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14px;">I have reached my final height at age
12 (5' 8,5" /1,75 mt.), but my feet decided to grow faster; at the time
when usually girls borrow their mother's pumps and look all cute beause
they cannot walk in them, I could actually borrow my uncle's shoes, and
go hiking.</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"> <br /></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 14px;">My mother didn't wear heels anyway, but she looked amazing.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">I
remember the look on the face of men when she'd enter a room. An
all-italian beauty with long, black, curly hair and hazelnut eyes,
whose delicate features were covered in freckles, an whose voluptuous
body gave the shape of an hourglass to any potato sack she'd wear. <br /></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-size: 14px;">As
for me, <strong>I'd give the shape of a potato sack to anything she'd buy me.</strong></span></p><br /></div>

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<div style="text-align: justify;"><p><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;">
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14px;">The worst part is, she'd purchase mini-me versions of her own wardrobe,
so I got to see <em>exactly</em> how much worse<em> I</em> made look anything she owned.</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"> <br /></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 14px;">I
asked her one day: "<em>Mom? Why does this skirt look all droopy on me</em>?".
She  looked past her  book and she'd just
whisper softly "'<em>Because you have no hips, sweetpie</em>".</span></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">I tried to make my hips fuller by pulling them apart with my bare hands.</span></strong>
<span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 14px;">Despite doing so, the largest part of my body were still my knees.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p /></div><p><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a8f929f9970b-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="090_017 copy" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c0120a8f929f9970b image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a8f929f9970b-800wi" title="090_017 copy" /></a> <br /> </p><p><span style="font-size: 14px;">Back
then, <strong>I've looked like a homeless person as long as I could remember.</strong> <br /></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 14px;">My
mother would buy me clothes that were too big for me "<em>So you get to
wear them longer</em>", and I'd wear the same pair of pants until it got so
short I looked like Pinocchio.</span></p>
<p> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">She
used to braid my hair, and it actually looked cute for an hour or so.
Then my thin hair would turn into a gipsy-esque do, which would have been the perfect look for asking random people for  their spare change.<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">If I got to sleep at my fathers', he wouldn't undo my braids, so
the following day I'd just go back to school with the same hairdo. <strong>My
teacher gave me a comb one day. <br /></strong></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>She probably thought my parents
couldn't afford one.</strong></span></p><p> <br /><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c01310f5ff056970c-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="010_078 copy" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c01310f5ff056970c image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c01310f5ff056970c-800wi" title="010_078 copy" /></a> </p>

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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Then, one day <strong>in the summer of 1996, Giorgio said that I should start modelling.</strong> <br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-size: 14px;">Everyone laughed their heads off.</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The following day, mother took me to an agency in Milan.</span></p>




<div style="text-align: center;">-<br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">At Riccardo Gay, they got me waiting amongst heavenly creatures that were talking on their cell phones - which weighted more than themselves by then -  looking glamorously bored. <br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-size: 14px;">I tried to emulate them.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p>





<p><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a8f92d5d970b-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="070_082 copy" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c0120a8f92d5d970b image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a8f92d5d970b-800wi" title="070_082 copy" /></a></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">I knew for sure how to look bored - hours of Latin verbs conjugation became suddenly of some use - but I couldn't grasp <em>the fashion in it</em>. </span><span style="font-size: 14px;" /></span></p><p><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Pouting <em>while</em> applying lipstick, <em>while</em> crossing and un-crossing long legs, <em>while</em> whining on the phone, <em>while</em> flipping through a gossip magazine, <em>while</em> pointing at a picture...</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-size: 14px;">I've
never been <em>that</em> multitasking, so I just sank in the sofa and tried my best to look glamorously  bored until a gay, tanorexic guy came to
pick me up and bring me into a dark room.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-size: 14px;"> <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14px;">Next thing I knew, he was
measuring my ass with a taylor's  tape. He
told my mom that I had to lose weight on my hips and
buttock, if I ever wanted to start modelling.</span></p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" /></span><p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">So it turns out my hips </span><em><span style="font-size: 14px;">did</span></em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em> grow</em> somewhere between age 12 and 16, and  I wish I knew the darn day they hit the right size, 'cuz there must have been one</span></strong><span style="text-decoration: none;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">, right?!</span></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><br /></span></span></p></div><p><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c01310f5ff31b970c-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="090_022 copy" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c01310f5ff31b970c image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c01310f5ff31b970c-800wi" title="090_022 copy" /></a> </p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><br /></strong></span><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px;">- PART 3/</span></strong></p>

<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>WHERE I FINALLY GET AN AGENT, AND LEARN IMPORTANT STUFF ABOUT MODELLING</strong></span></p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><br /></strong></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">To make a long story short, I lost some weight and got myself an agency in Milan. </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">My main booker was Ricciarda, an old, skinny lady whose only gods were <em>Skinny</em>, <em>Skinnier</em> and <em>She Should Start Smoking, She'd Lose Some Weight. </em></span></span>

<p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" /><strong><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">She'd only eat bread-crumbs at lunch, so the girls nick named her Roach-arda.</span></span></strong></span></p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 14px;">

<p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The <em>other</em> booker was Gandhi, a gay guy who'd show us videos of top models to teach us the catwalk. <span style="font-size: 14px;">He'd always fast-forward on Claudia Schiffers' part,  because she walked like.... </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-size: 14px;">- "... a drunken milkmaid at the Oktoberfest"- <br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">"....The Mafia's given her some concrete shoes"</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-size: 14px;">- "... the runway is covered in ants, and she bet with Naomi she can crush'em all"</span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">- "...Catwalk is actually intended for cats"</span></span></p></div><br /></div><p>

<a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a8f92fb4970b-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="030_123 copy" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c0120a8f92fb4970b image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a8f92fb4970b-800wi" title="030_123 copy" /></a> </p><p /><div style="text-align: justify;"><p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14px;">My modelling career never took off for a few different reasons, and by <em>a few different reasons</em> I mean I invested on a degree instead of a nosejob.</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14px;">Thirteen years later I am  indeed a PhD, my nose grew<em> </em>bigger (but that don't cost a penny) and I keep getting modelling jobs out of nowhere !</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14px;">Back in 1998 nobody saw <em>avant-garde</em> when looking at me, but a chick with deep inset eyes, broad shoulders and an italian nose.</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14px;">In 2010 I still have the same face, and on top of this I am kinda old BUT NOW with a half shaved skull and a pair of studded Docs I have <em>unique features</em>, my body is androginous and f**ck it, let's just face it: </span><span style="font-size: 14px;"> my nose will keep growing until I pass.</span></p></div><p /><p><br />

<a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c01310f5ff35d970c-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="050_116 1 copy" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c01310f5ff35d970c image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c01310f5ff35d970c-800wi" title="050_116 1 copy" /></a> <br /> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-size: 14px;">Nevertheless, </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">I am now getting paid to wear Margiela's !</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" /></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>I'm currently wearing their latest runway collection</strong>, which includes
100% latex blouses, floating waistline pants, wolf fur coats and other
amenities, and I intend to write a post on the life of us girls at the
showroom. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">They have a tradition of wild casting, and by <em>wild casting </em>I mean picking up from the street  trannies, rockstars, punks and half-eaten bags of Cheesy Poofs.</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Soon enough you'll see some pictures of my girls.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">For now, don't worry: <em>most of us are just punks.</em></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">( I'm sorry Mara, you know I love you)</span><br /></span></p><p> </p></div>
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        <title>( Lacey Lorraine )</title>
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        <published>2009-12-26T18:31:06+01:00</published>
        <updated>2009-12-26T19:42:54+01:00</updated>
        <summary>.. all pictures © mara zampariolo - please ask before using -----&gt; Click Onto Pics To ENLARGE ! &lt;----- - LORRAINE IS WEARING: - Lace dress: vintage; Destroyed legging: Zoe's Tees; Black tunic: Agnès b; Shoes: New Look; I am currently in Italy for Christmas Holidays, staying at my father's. This means that I am force fed far too much italian food to make any sense in English anyway. I beg your pardon. As usual, my pictures have little to do with my writing but you know what? A slice of Panettone has enough carbs to put me in a...</summary>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p /><p /><p><span style="color: #ffffff; ">..</span></p><p /><p><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c01287681ae48970c-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="EW091209IMG_0790" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c01287681ae48970c image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c01287681ae48970c-800wi" title="EW091209IMG_0790" /></a> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>all pictures © mara zampariolo - please ask before using </strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 15px; ">-----&gt; Click Onto Pics To ENLARGE ! &lt;-----</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">-</span></font></p><p style="text-align: center;" /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 15px; "><span style="color: #482c1b; ">LORRAINE IS WEARING:</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;">-</p><p style="text-align: center;" /><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Lace dress:  <strong>vintage;</strong> Destroyed legging:  <strong>Zoe's Tees;</strong>  Black tunic: <strong>Agnès b; </strong>Shoes:  <strong>New Look</strong>; </p><p /><p /><p style="text-align: center;"> </p> <a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a77ed1c2970b-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="EW091209IMG_0690" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c0120a77ed1c2970b image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a77ed1c2970b-800wi" title="EW091209IMG_0690" /></a> <p /><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span></font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; ">I am currently in Italy for Christmas Holidays, staying at my father's. This  means that I am force fed far too much italian food to make any sense in English anyway. I beg your pardon.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">As usual, my pictures have little to do with my writing but you know what? A slice of Panettone has enough carbs to put me in a vegetative state for hours. This is as fashionable as I can get by now. I hope you can handle it.</span></font></p><p style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">-</span></font></p><p style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-size: 16px; "><strong>FUN FACTS</strong></span></span></font></p><p style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 17px;"><strong>-</strong></span></font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">This morning we went to the local bar to have a Cappuccino with pastries, and I took some time to observe the <span style="font-size: 17px; "><span style="font-size: 17px; "><span style="font-size: 18px; "><span style="font-size: 18px; "><strong>I</strong></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 17px; "><strong><span style="font-size: 15px; "><span style="font-size: 16px; "><span style="font-size: 18px; ">talian Bar Crowd</span></span></span>, </strong><span style="font-size: 14px; ">which included:</span></span></span></font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span></font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-size: 16px; "><span style="font-size: 15px; "><span style="font-size: 15px; "><span style="font-size: 15px; "><strong>- The</strong><span style="font-size: 17px; "><strong> </strong></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-size: 15px; "><span style="font-size: 15px; "><span style="font-size: 16px; "><strong>c</strong></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 15px; "><span style="font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-size: 15px; "><span style="font-size: 15px; "><span style="font-size: 16px; "><strong>hain-fighting couple</strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-size: 14px; ">,</span> which works as follows:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px; ">She is fighting with him --&gt; He isn't listening because he's on the phone with his mother --&gt; His mother seems to be reproaching him something as well --&gt; Their poodle is trying to copulate with his leg and he's hating the fabric of his boots</span></p><p><br /><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a77ed2e0970b-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="EW091209IMG_0706" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c0120a77ed2e0970b image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a77ed2e0970b-800wi" title="EW091209IMG_0706" /></a> </p><p /><p /><p /><p><span style="font-size: 16px; "><strong>- the Christ of Rio de Janeiro</strong></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Usually aged 65/85, the Christ of Janeiro is a very dangerous subject that can be found in many italian bars. He terrifies waiters and kids.</span></font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; ">This guy enters the bar, places himself in the very middle of it, and waits a couple of minutes before deciding to take off his coat. In order to do so, he suddenly spreads his arms in a T shape, like the statue on top of Rio, managing to knock over 5 pastries, 4 expressos, 2 cappuccinos, 1 waitress and a small kid, </span></span></font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; "><em>all at once.</em></span></span></font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; ">Thanks him, <em>I </em>do believe in miracles now.</span></span></font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><em><br /></em></span></font></p><p /><p /><p /><p><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c01287681ae85970c-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="EW091209IMG_0719" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c01287681ae85970c image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c01287681ae85970c-800wi" title="EW091209IMG_0719" /></a> </p><p style="text-align: center;">-</p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16px; "><strong>- Hoochie mama + Baby Snail</strong></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: 15px; "><span style="font-size: 14px; ">Hoochie mama was wearing barely enough fabric to clean up after her baby. </span></span></span></font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: 15px; "><span style="font-size: 14px; ">But she didn't.</span></span></span></font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; ">Instead, she'd let her slobbering Baby Snail reach small object from the counter (candies, lollipops, sugar cubes..), suck onto them, than she'd carefully put them back where they belong to. </span></span></font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; ">I didn't dare saying a thing because last time I came to Italy I witnessed a flight attendant begging a mama to curbe her son, who was decorating the front seat with a black marker.</span></span></font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; ">The mother replied that by no means she'd traumatize her son by repressing his creativity.</span></span></font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; ">Something tells me this young man will grow up to be the next Keith Haring. </span></span></font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; ">Or just another 18 y.o. brat with a Porsche, a fake tan, and Roberto Cavalli sunglasses, but only at night. The kind of person that thinks Donatello was a soccer champion in the Middle Age, and David was his lesser talented brother (albeit quite hot).</span></span></font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; ">Either one or another.</span></span></font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></font></p><p><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a77ed3b5970b-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="EW091209IMG_0742" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c0120a77ed3b5970b image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a77ed3b5970b-800wi" title="EW091209IMG_0742" /></a> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12px; ">Lorraine, giving her best Margiela face.</span></p><p><br /><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a77ed3ce970b-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="EW091209IMG_0761" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c0120a77ed3ce970b image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a77ed3ce970b-800wi" title="EW091209IMG_0761" /></a> <br />   <br /><span style="font-size: 12px; ">Lorraine jumped on the red lipstick bandwagon. Me thinks bleached hair + red lips + white lace is a weapon of mass seduction.</span></p><p><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><br /></span></font></p><p><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a77ed273970b-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="EW091209IMG_0786" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c0120a77ed273970b image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a77ed273970b-800wi" title="EW091209IMG_0786" /></a> </p><p /><p style="text-align: center;">-</p>  <br /><p style="text-align: center;">    ( I am kidding you fellow italians, you know I love you )</p><p /></div>
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        <title>( Métropolis )</title>
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        <published>2009-12-20T20:46:34+01:00</published>
        <updated>2009-12-21T17:09:43+01:00</updated>
        <summary>all pictures © mara zampariolo (Click onto pic to elarge it. Please ask me before using my pics) Paris, Sunday 6th, December 2009 - I'M WEARING: Destroyed T-shirt (prototype): Maison Martin Margiela; sweatear: Dries Von Noten; mens pants: Comme des Garçons; studded boots: Demonia, vintage leather blazer: Kenzo; snake ring: Estrosia; bag: vintage (Adom, Paris rue de la Roquette); scarf: Burberry; Have you ever read "Zazie in the Subway", a novel by Raymond Queneau? The story is charming. Zazie is a little girl who gets to spend the weekend at her uncle's in Paris, while her mama is screwing her...</summary>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p /><p><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a74e6200970b-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="©mara of Elegantly Wasted_091205_MG_9655" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c0120a74e6200970b image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a74e6200970b-800wi" title="©mara of Elegantly Wasted_091205_MG_9655" /></a> </p><p style="text-align: center;">  <strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">all pictures © mara zampariolo</span></strong></p><p /><p style="text-align: center;">(Click onto pic to elarge it. Please ask me before using my pics)</p><p /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Paris, Sunday 6th, December 2009</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">-<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;" /><div style="text-align: center;"><p><span style="color: #1b2c48;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">I'M WEARING:</span></span></p></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Destroyed T-shirt (prototype): <strong>Maison Martin Margiela</strong>;  sweatear: <strong>Dries Von Noten</strong>; mens pants: <strong>Comme des Garçons</strong>;  studded boots: <strong>Demonia</strong>, vintage leather blazer: <strong>Kenzo</strong>; snake ring: <strong>Estrosia</strong>; bag: vintage (<strong>Adom</strong>, Paris rue de la Roquette); scarf: <strong>Burberry</strong>; </p><p style="text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;" /><p /><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c012876516e94970c-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="©mara of Elegantly Wasted_091205_MG_9657" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c012876516e94970c image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c012876516e94970c-800wi" title="©mara of Elegantly Wasted_091205_MG_9657" /></a> <a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c012876516e94970c-pi" style="display: inline;"><br /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">Have you ever read "Zazie in the Subway", a novel by Raymond Queneau? The story is charming. </span></p><p /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Zazie is a little girl who gets to spend the weekend at her uncle's in Paris, while her mama is screwing her new boyfriend.  </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" /><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">All the girl wants is to take the underground.</span></span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Unfortunately, the subway workers are on strike, so she runs away from her uncle's apartment, angered with him and those lazy asses who "dare doing this to her".</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Since I moved to Paris, they dare doing this to me all the time.  When they don't, <strong>I take the subway and get to witness some interesting characters.</strong></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><br /></strong></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a74e628c970b-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="©mara of Elegantly Wasted_091205_MG_9678" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c0120a74e628c970b image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a74e628c970b-800wi" title="©mara of Elegantly Wasted_091205_MG_9678" /></a> </p><p /><p style="text-align: center;" /><div style="text-align: center;"><p><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Click Onto Pictures to ENLARGE 'em, you Punk!</span></span></span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></strong></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">So without further ado, I bring to you my RATP Horror Picture Show</span></span></span></span></strong></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">  <br /></span></span></span></span></span></p></div><p style="text-align: center;">( aka: <span style="font-size: 14px;">My Métro Memories </span>)</p><p style="text-align: center;">-</p><p style="text-align: center;" /><p style="text-align: center;" /><p style="text-align: center;" /><p style="text-align: center;" /><p style="text-align: center;" /><p /><p /><p><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">1 - </span></span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">the</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> <span style="font-size: 16px;">Chinese Esthetician. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">This woman sat right in front of me on line 2. First off, she cleaned up her ears with her bare hands. Consequently, she started clipping her nails.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">I suggested that she'd give me a baseball glove for me to catch her biological leftovers. <br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">She shrugged, spat on the floor, and got off.<br /></span></span></p><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"> <span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;"><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a74cc2d8970b-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="©mara of Elegantly Wasted_091205_MG_9760" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c0120a74cc2d8970b image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a74cc2d8970b-800wi" title="©mara of Elegantly Wasted_091205_MG_9760" /></a> <br /></span><br /></span></font><p /><p><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a74cb405970b-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="©mara of Elegantly Wasted_091205_MG_9728" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c0120a74cb405970b image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a74cb405970b-800wi" title="©mara of Elegantly Wasted_091205_MG_9728" /></a> <br /></span></font></p><font size="4"><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">2 - </span><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">the</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"> <span style="font-size: 16px;">Goth-est Employee on the Month</span></span></span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">.</span></span></span></span></p></font><p /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">I thought I checked into the RATP agency just to cancel my annual subscription. I didn't know I would get a free lecture on the following captivating subjects:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">-  The top ten of successful suicidal spots in the parisian subway, divided per line</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">-  Funkiest flasher ever*</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c012876517001970c-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="©mara of Elegantly Wasted_091205_MG_9748" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c012876517001970c image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c012876517001970c-800wi" title="©mara of Elegantly Wasted_091205_MG_9748" /></a> <br /></span></font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"> -  How to to interpret the messages from the voice over.  </span></font></p><p /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Because you deserve to know if you must wait because of a passenger who fell ill, a technical problem, or if actually somebody threw himself on the rails and they are collecting his bodyparts. </span></span></p><p /><p /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">* You want to know it, right? You sicko.</span></p><p /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">So it's a woman who wore nothing underneath her fur. She layed completely naked on the rails spreading her legs and screaming "Jesus Loves Me". They were able to rescue her. She is now maire in a small town in southern France. Not.</span></p> <p /><p><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a74e65ca970b-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="©mara of Elegantly Wasted_091205_MG_9852" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c0120a74e65ca970b image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a74e65ca970b-800wi" title="©mara of Elegantly Wasted_091205_MG_9852" /></a>  <span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></strong></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">- Madame Le Pigeon </span></strong></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span /></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Pigeon Lady would carry problably the ugliest living volatile on earth in her purse. And she'd whip it out inside the train; and she'd talk to him.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">-<br /></span></span></span></font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><span style="color: #c00000;">"Don't worry my dear, mama is with you. They don't understand you are handicapped, humans are mean, they are worth nothing. But you, my dearest, you have a heart of gold".</span></em></span></span></span></span></font></p><p style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><span style="color: #c00000;">-<br /></span></em></span></span></span></span></font></p><p style="text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">The Ugliest Pigeon on Earth, standing on his only leg, nodded diagonally with his mangy, twisted neck. Moved by this precious moment,  I drew my Iphone and shot'em both. <br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">They no longer suffer.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The parisian subway is actually one of the best I've ever tried. I grew up in Milan in the Eighties and by then all we had were two lines, the red and the green one. I guess only a color blind could get lost in it.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" /></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Today I live in Paris and I ride a bycicle.</span></span></span> Because God knows I'd rather be pedalling in the blizzard with no gloves, 10 kilos of litter hanging on each side of the handlebars, avoiding suicidal grannies while inhaling Co2 directly from your exhaust, instead of going underground ever again.</span><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" /></span></span></div><p /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></p> <a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0128764fceb2970c-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="©mara of Elegantly Wasted_091205_MG_9819" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c0128764fceb2970c image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0128764fceb2970c-800wi" title="©mara of Elegantly Wasted_091205_MG_9819" /></a> <br /><br /><p style="text-align: center;" /><p /><p /><p style="text-align: center;">(I am kidding Métro, you know I love you)</p> <p /><p /><p /><p /><p /><p /><p /><p /><p /><p /><p /><p /><p /></div>
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        <title>( Pont Neuf )</title>
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        <summary>all pics © mara zampariolo - please ask me before using ....ClicK oNTO PiCtuRE tO ENLARGE... - Friday, December 11th 2009 Paris, Pont Neuf - LORRAINE IS WEARING: Leopard print dress: Sinéquanone; belt: Primark; lace tights: Le Bourget; low boots: Zara; furry collar coat: vintage; arlequin print scarf: H&amp;M Introducing my dear friend Lorraine Cassen, photo stylist and notorious shoe addict. She will be regularly featured in this blog, modeling many of her amazing looks Lorraine believes in bleached hair, designer sales and red wine She also has a fashion interview in my old blog - Lorraine has the superpower...</summary>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p /><p /><p /><p /><p><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a74fbca2970b-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="EW091209IMG_0416" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c0120a74fbca2970b image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a74fbca2970b-800wi" title="EW091209IMG_0416" /></a> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong> </strong><span style="font-size: 12px; "><strong><span style="font-size: 12px; ">all pics © mara zampariolo</span></strong><span style="font-size: 12px; "> - please <a href="mailto:mara@brightband.it" /><a>ask me before using</a></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 15px; ">.<span style="font-size: 16px; ">...ClicK oNTO PiCtuRE tO ENLARGE...</span></span></span></font></p><p style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 14px;">-</span></font></p><p /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; "><span style="font-size: 15px; ">Friday, December 11th 2009</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 15px; "><span style="font-size: 15px; "><span style="font-size: 12px; ">Paris, Pont Neuf</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"> -</span></font></p><p /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 15px; "><span style="color: #482c1b; "><span style="font-size: 16px; ">LORRAINE IS WEARING:</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: Tahoma, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; "><p style="text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px; ">Leopard print dress: </span><strong><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Sinéquanone</span></strong><span style="font-size: 13px; ">; belt: </span><strong><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Primark</span></strong><span style="font-size: 13px; ">; lace tights: </span><strong><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Le Bourget</span></strong><span style="font-size: 13px; ">; low boots: </span><strong><span style="font-size: 13px; ">Zara</span></strong><span style="font-size: 13px; ">; furry collar coat: vintage; arlequin print scarf: </span><strong><span style="font-size: 13px; ">H&amp;M</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong> <br /></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a74fc046970b-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="EW091209IMG_0482" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c0120a74fc046970b image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a74fc046970b-800wi" title="EW091209IMG_0482" /></a> <br /> <br /></strong></p><strong><p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-weight: normal; ">Introducing my dear friend Lorraine Cassen, photo stylist and notorious shoe addict.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></font></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14px; "><span style="font-size: 15px; ">She will be regularly featured in this blog, modeling many of her amazing looks</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c012876529555970c-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="EW091209IMG_0426" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c012876529555970c image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c012876529555970c-800wi" title="EW091209IMG_0426" /></a> <br /> <br />Lorraine believes in bleached hair, designer sales and red wine<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-weight: bold; "> </span> She also has a <a href="http://fieldsoffashion.blogspot.com/2008/07/fabulous-encounters-1.html">fashion interview in my old blog </a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">-</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c01287651e8b4970c-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="EW091209IMG_0549" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c01287651e8b4970c image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c01287651e8b4970c-800wi" title="EW091209IMG_0549" /></a> <br /> Lorraine has the superpower of looking always expensive while wearing mostly vintage and small brands</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-weight: bold; "><span style="font-weight: normal;">I would pick this over invisibility <em>anyday</em>.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">-</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a74f9470970b-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="EW091209IMG_0478" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c0120a74f9470970b image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a74f9470970b-800wi" title="EW091209IMG_0478" /></a> <br /> <br /><span style="font-weight: normal; ">Can you believe these open toe ow boots are from Zara? Where was I at when they sold these puppies out?</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a74fc9d1970b-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="EW091209IMG_0488" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c0120a74fc9d1970b image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a74fc9d1970b-800wi" title="EW091209IMG_0488" /></a> <br /> <br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /> <br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 15px; "><span style="font-size: 17px; "><span style="color: #482c1b; font-size: 17px; ">(More of Lorraine's looks Coming Soon)</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></font></p></strong><p /></span><p /></div>
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        <title>( Eeny-meeny-miny-moe Catch a Model by the toe... )</title>
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        <summary>....... if she vomits let her go. all pictures © mara zampariolo - click onto the pic to enlarge it - Wedneday 9th, Dec 2009 @ my place, Paris 11 VICTORIA IS WEARING: L'Oréal lipstick N.710; PIMKIE marinière Tshirt; DNA-lottery winning body and face Today I had lunch with Victoria, my model friend. I had quinoa and veggies. She drank my blood. I love my model friend, even though she bites me on my neck and she makes me look uglier by comparison. Here's why: 1 - She can have my model-friendly lunch. Than also a ginourmous portion of Sicilian...</summary>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></font></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">....... if she vomits let her go.</span></span></p><p /><p><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a736a54c970b-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="EW091209__IMG0278 1" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c0120a736a54c970b image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a736a54c970b-800wi" title="EW091209__IMG0278 1" /></a>  </p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>all pictures © mara zampariolo</strong></span><strong> </strong> - click onto the pic to enlarge it - </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Wedneday 9th, Dec 2009 </span></span></font></p><p style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"> @ my place, Paris 11</span></font></p><p style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><br /></span></font></p><p style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="color: #c00000;">VICTORIA IS WEARING:</span></span></span></font></p><p style="text-align: center;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">L'Oréal</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"> lipstick N.710; </span><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">PIMKIE</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><em><span style="font-size: 14px;">marinière Tshirt; DNA-lottery winning body and face</span></em></span></font></p><p style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 14px;"><em><br /></em></span></font></p><p><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a736a59a970b-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="EW091209IMG_0299 1" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c0120a736a59a970b image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a736a59a970b-800wi" title="EW091209IMG_0299 1" /></a> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Today I had lunch with Victoria, my model friend. I had quinoa and veggies. </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">She drank my blood.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;" /><p /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> <span style="font-size: 15px;">love my model friend, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">even though she bites me on my neck and she makes me look uglier by comparison. Here's why:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;" /></span></font></p><font size="4"><h4><span style="font-size: 15px;">1 - She can have my model-friendly lunch.</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-size: 15px;">Than also a ginourmous portion of Sicilian Cassata. Amen.</span></span></h4><p /><p style="text-align: center;" /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" /></span></span></span></p><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></font></h4></font><p /><p><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a736a614970b-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="EW091209IMG_0328 1" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c0120a736a614970b image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a736a614970b-800wi" title="EW091209IMG_0328 1" /></a> </p><p /><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><strong>2 - She speaks in three different languages</strong></span>, none of which fully understandable.</span><br /></h4><p /><p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;" /></strong></p><strong><h4 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">She i</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">s</span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> <span style="font-size: 15px;">fluent</span> <span style="font-size: 15px;">in</span> <span style="font-size: 15px;">FRENCH; <span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">I'll give her th</span>at.</span></span></span></span></span></span></h4></strong><p /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">She'll text you stuff that needs </span></span></span><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">to be read out </span></span></span></em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> loud</span></span></span><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> in order to be figured out.</span></span></span></em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">  L<span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">ucky me; people </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">pay</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> for Sudoku books, I get this stuff for free.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p /><p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #c00000;">"Sallut Mara, je ne jouis pas disponibble dement kar mon agent ma dit dallé me faire au moin un castingue et c'est la crème-midi alors si on se voix dimanche on yra courir aussi, on est dakkar?"</span></span></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">In English it would sound like...</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span></font></p><p /><p><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c012876396216970c-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="EW091209IMG_0347" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c012876396216970c image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c012876396216970c-800wi" title="EW091209IMG_0347" /></a> </p><p /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><em><span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="color: #111111;">"Hi Mara, I won't be awaylovable toomorro be-cause may agency told me to go to go-Sea in the after-moon so why don't we go running on sundae insteady? Can we have a degree on this?"</span></span></em></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Sh</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">e </span></span></span></span></span></span></strong><strong><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">does</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></em></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> <span style="font-size: 15px;">UNDERSTAND</span> <span style="font-size: 15px;">ENGLISH</span>:</span></span></span></span></span></span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">She nods cleverly.</span></font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span></font></p><p style="text-align: center;" /><p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">She also speaks in perfect Model-Language </span></span></span></strong></p><p /><p /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">I do not understand a word of it, but I am positive they are planning to kill us all, we average looking people. Need some evidence?</span></p><p style="text-align: center; color: #111111;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span></font></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><em><span style="color: #0000bf;"><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="background-color: #111111;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="color: #fcfae1;"><span style="background-color: #111111; color: #fcfae1;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="color: #111111; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="color: #ff0000; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="color: #c00000; background-color: #ffffff;">"Uiscgi jiji siki dighitiii gusuu viini jikir atuu photo ELLE dinirujuini trikki laduiscghivikkitlii juvuschku jiguthukki lar a esijkilk Maquillage Prostitutka"</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></em></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">See?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> I am telling you, it's that ModelTopia thing; they want to eradicate mediocrity.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span></font></p><p style="text-align: center;" /><p style="text-align: center;" /><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c01287639623f970c-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="EW091209IMG_0350 1" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c01287639623f970c image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c01287639623f970c-800wi" title="EW091209IMG_0350 1" /></a><p><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c01287639623f970c-pi" style="display: inline;" /><br /> </p><p /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">3 - </span></span></span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">She will wear anything I need to put up on Ebay</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">And it will be sold for more that I actually planned. <span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">PayPal bless her legs.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span></font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">4 - She makes artsy videos of her grandma mumbling in ukrainian, <span style="font-weight: normal;">and all you can see is a cracked wall and the sink. </span></span></span></strong></span></font><font size="4"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="color: #111111;">Priceless.</span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></font></font><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></strong></span></font></p><p style="text-align: justify;" /><p align="center" class="asset asset-video" style="margin: 0pt auto; display: block;"><object height="313" width="384"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lP_6AgceK3Q&amp;fs=1" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="313" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lP_6AgceK3Q&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="384" /></object></p><br />

<p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;" /></span></font></p><font size="4"><p><font color="#111111" size="4"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span></font></p></font><p /><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="color: #111111;"><strong>5 - She is fabulous with nothing but red lipstick and a <em>marinière**</em></strong></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; color: #111111;">** <a href="http://www.punky-b.com/archive/2009/12/08/marre-iniere.html">euh Punky, moi j'en ai toujours pas marre</a> !</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font color="#111111" size="4"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;"><strong><br /></strong></span></font></p><p style="text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="color: #111111;"><strong><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 15px;">( Come on Vika, you know I love you )</span></strong></span></span></span></span></span></strong></span></font></p><p style="text-align: center;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">See a </span></span><a href="http://www.mara-photography.com/#/aforest/3303248"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">fashion spread</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> I shot starring Victoria on </span></span><a href="http://www.mara-photography.com/#"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">my website</span></span></a></span></font></p><p style="text-align: center;" /><p style="text-align: center;">Victoria V. is represented by Major in N.Y. and by <a href="http://WWW.STUDIOKLRP.COM/WD100AWP/WD100Awp.exe/CONNECT/WebStudio">Studio KLRP</a> in Paris.</p><p style="text-align: center;" /><p style="text-align: center;" /> <br /> <p /></div>
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        <summary>Follow my blog with bloglovin all pictures © mara zampariolo please contact me before using them Satuday 5th, Dec 2009 Simply Market, place Léon Blum, Paris I'M WEARING: fitted leather blazer: vintage Kenzo; nude fishnet knit: Maison Martin Margiela, line 1; beige sweater: Dries von Noten; destroyed T-shirt: Maison Martin Margiela, (prototype, eventually didn't get manufactured in this color); draped skirt: Rick Owens; checked scarf: courtesy of Korea Airlines. Ok ok, I stole it; studded boots: Demonia; snake ring: Estrosia (entering the aisle in a cowboy walk empowers me; seeing my complete lack of grace in still pictures a couple...</summary>
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<p><span style="font-size: 13px;">fitted leather blazer: vintage <strong>Kenzo; </strong></span><span style="font-size: 12px;">nude fishnet knit: <strong>Maison Martin Margiela</strong>, line 1; </span><span style="font-size: 12px;">beige sweater: <strong>Dries von Noten; </strong></span><span style="font-size: 12px;">destroyed T-shirt: Maison Martin Margiela, (prototype, eventually didn't get manufactured in this color)</span><span style="font-size: 12px;">; draped skirt: <strong>Rick Owens</strong></span><span style="font-size: 12px;">; checked scarf: courtesy of Korea Airlines. Ok ok, I stole it; </span><span style="font-size: 12px;">studded boots: <strong>Demonia</strong></span><span style="font-size: 12px;">; snake ring: <strong>Estrosia</strong></span></p>

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<p> </p><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a719b7a9970b-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="EW091205IMG_0094" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c0120a719b7a9970b image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a719b7a9970b-800wi" title="EW091205IMG_0094" /></a> <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: 12px;">(entering the aisle in a cowboy walk empowers me; seeing my complete lack of grace in still pictures a couple of hours later does not).</span></em></p><span style="font-size: 16px;"><em><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></em></span><p><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Going to the supermarket is one real pain in the ass*, and should not be taken lightly.</strong></span> </span><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">I have always managed to avoid malls if any of the following would be on my mind:</span></span><p><span style="font-size: 12px;">- I have 100 euros left on my bank accont, give or take 10 cents and a pack of Pringles</span><span style="font-size: 12px;">`</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 12px;">- I'm high. Soon enough I'll be craving chocolate</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 12px;" /><span style="font-size: 12px;">- Somebody else will eventually take care of my cats' litterbox, right?</span></p><span style="font-size: 13px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">The problem is yesterday <span style="font-size: 13px;" /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">I couldn't come up with a decent menu using what we had left in the fridge</span> </span><span style="font-size: 13px;">(half a rotten onion, vinegar, capers and some Vitamin C tablets).</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"> On top of it, my cats still won't learn how to clean after themselves</span>.<br /></p></span><span style="font-size: 12px;" /><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: 17px;">I had to go get some stuff.</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="5"><span style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 20px;"><strong><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a71d70fe970b-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="EW091205IMG_0110" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c0120a71d70fe970b image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a71d70fe970b-800wi" title="EW091205IMG_0110" /></a> <br /> </strong></span></font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><font size="5"><span style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 20px;"><strong><span style="font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">I wore my shabby chic look</span><span style="font-size: 12px;"> the</span><span style="font-size: 13px;">n grasping onto a Post IT note, I headed to closest Simply Market store, in the hopes of getting out fast and unnoticed. </span></span></strong></span></font></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">And by </span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">"getting out fast and unnoticed" I mean</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">thr</span>eathening the cashier </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;">with a golden foil laserbeam sword, trying all tights samples on my face, reenacting the forest sequence fro</span>m  "Crouching Dragon, Hidden Tiger" on shopping carts and eating white beans right out from the can. </span></span><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Two hours, 99 euros and one raging headheache later we got out, and by "got out"<span style="font-size: 13px;"> I mean </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">they kicked our fashionably clad asses out, i still cannot see why.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">We bought a bunch of crap that was not on The Original List</span></strong>, which included boring items such as toilet paper and milk. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Who wants toilet paper and milk if you can get fresh salmon eggs, a bottle of Martini and a life-size Barbie doll head and torso to let out your inner tacky chinese make up artist?</p>

<p> <br /> <a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0128761c1c62970c-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="EW091205IMG_0115" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c0128761c1c62970c image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0128761c1c62970c-800wi" title="EW091205IMG_0115" /></a> </p><p style="text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: justify;">So I didn't listen to anyone (Walter, the Original List, my guilty conscience speaking in Eric Cartman's voice) and I just kept packing my cart while giving my best angle to the camera and shouting directions through the racks stacked with italian Panettone:</p><p style="text-align: justify;" />

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<p>WHY DONT YOU TAKE A PICTURE OF ME FROM BEHIND, LIKE REALLY BOTTOM UP IN A SUPERWIDE ANGLE, AND PLEASE <strong>REMEMBER TO AIM THE AUTOFOCUS AT MY ASS</strong> OR ELSE IT WILL BE BLURRY, R U LISTENING ? &gt;&gt;</p>

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<p /><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a71c7801970b-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="EW091205IMG_0123" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c0120a71c7801970b image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0120a71c7801970b-800wi" title="EW091205IMG_0123" /></a>  </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Here's your unwanted piece of advice of the day: <em><strong>Don't ever let a photograper talk you into taking his picture; you are so going to regret it.</strong></em></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong><br /></strong></em></p><p style="text-align: justify;" /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><p style="text-align: justify;">Walter is indeed already regretting it, this but it's too late for him.<br /></p></span><p style="text-align: justify;">I made him sign in blood an agreement in which it is stated that I can use him as a living tripod / camera trigger to take my pictures until October 2066. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">In case you are wondering no, he's not a photographer, I am one so I gotta take care of everything but "pushing the button", ( camera settings, lighting, editing and artistic direction of the shoot).</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> I also get to retouch myself, which is quite a moment of acceptance of my humanly imperfection, now in 21,1 Megapixel of gross details to zoom into.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-size: 15px;">That's right, since I got the my Canon 5D mark II I have 7000 more pixels to hate myself, and my external hard drive just asked me a raise.</span><br /></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">So what's a girl to do? Check out a couple of  "plastic surgery gone wrong" videos on YouTube then finally Photoshop the misery out of my face before you guys get to see that I too have pimples and an interesting nose. God forbid.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0128761c26ee970c-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="EW091205IMG_0106" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c0128761c26ee970c image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0128761c26ee970c-800wi" title="EW091205IMG_0106" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: 12px;">No Martini? No hangover.</span></em></p><p style="text-align: justify;" /><p style="text-align: center;"><em><br /></em></p><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em><span style="font-size: 12px;" /></em></span><p /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0128761c1d7c970c-pi" style="display: inline;"><img alt="EW091205IMG_0246" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a0128761a59e0970c0128761c1d7c970c image-full " src="http://elegantlywasted.typepad.com/.a/6a0128761a59e0970c0128761c1d7c970c-800wi" title="EW091205IMG_0246" /></a> <em><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: 12px;">No, I want <strong>the other yogurt brand</strong>, the one with all the good bacteria and stuff which are going to turn me into the flawless goddess of un-constipation. <br /></span></em></p>

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<p><span style="font-style: italic;" /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;" /></span><em><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">I don't care if you have just three items, slightly bad hair day, dyslexia, your period and your dog is old and waiting for you outside in the rain. if you cut me in the line I'll cut your fingers off, bitch.<br /></span></span></span></em></p>

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<p>* the only worse "pain in the ass" places to go I could think of, besides the obituary of course, would be the dentist and a sunday trip to any IKEA in the world.</p>

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