LOLLIPOP LOLLIPOP

Just arrived to my Home in Milan... 
And already feeling homesick... 


Moreover tomorrow it's my last day of vacation before leaving for NY on September 19th...
Trying to cheer myself up with a lollipop!! 
:-)


My favorite is the CocaCola one!


What's yours??

PIXLROMATIC+INSTAGRAM

Oh Whah!!!

this morning I woke up very early... so I was in my bed and I didn't know what to do... I then decided to spend some time browsing on the Apple Store for some Apps for my iPhone.... and I found out some awesome apps specifically created for enhancing photos and pictures... "Pixlromatic" and "Instagram".

These apps are so cool!!! 

They help you in creating wonderful images with an old and ancient flavor starting from the photos you have in the photo-library of your iPhone.

Here you have two pictures that I enhanced thanks to these my brand new apps!!

Aren't they cute??!!

The good news is that you can also modify one photo with one app and then you can transpose the modified photo in the other app and create a totally original photo using a mix of the effects available in the two app!

THE NIGHT WE SAID GOODBYE

DESPERATE PETERWIVES

Purchase of the week #3

Speaking for desperate people... 
I was so desperate last week when I heard that Desperate Housewives was going to end with season 8th (which is going to be filmed) 'cos ABC and the producer Marc Cherry decided to end the show. 


I AM A REALLY HUGE fan of that series and I have all the original DVDs... so... as soon as I heard that Desperate Housewives was going to end I run into the first DVD shop and tried to cheer myself up buying the last DVD released in Italy (is the one of the fifth season)... 


To be honest I've already seen Season 6th and Season 7th (you can find them on the internet) but the DVD of the 5th Season was the one still missing to my collection...


I think is so uncool to end the show... I'm soooooo sad 'cos it is really a "cult" for me and I love every character... but at the same time I'm with the producer Marc Cherry  when he says that he wants to end the show when it is still on top.


I really hope that Season 8th will be amazing with a great ending that will blow our minds...
I think it would be the right end that this show deserves.

;-P

AUGUST 15th

365 days went by
Seems like yesterday to my heart
I love you more than ever, my dear grandma
Never let you fly away 

IF I SAID MY HEART WAS BEATING LOUD...

cos u...

feel...

like...

paradise...

and I need a vacation tonight... 

so if I said I want ur body now...

would u hold it against me?

Please listen to this wonderful raw version of Britney's "Hold it against me" without autotune...

I think it's fantastic!!

This voice here is both nostalgic, sad and sensual...

MEN LOVE BITCHES

PURCHASE OF THE WEEK #2

WHY MEN LOVE BITHCES by Sherry Argov

I was in the mood for reding a good book since a very long time (it's odd for me, since I usually don't like reading) but I couldn't find time to go to a bookshop and browse for something that could raise my attention.

Then finally, yesterday, I was able to escape from my work a little earlier and I knew that the time had come to look for a good book!!!

This was not exactly the kind of book I was looking for... let's say that I was more into a thriller, but as soon as I got into the shop this book was the first one that caught my attention and then I started reading it and I fell in love with it... 

IT'S SO CRAZY AND FUNNY!!!

Basically this woman explains why men always fell in love with bitches and not with good girls!! :-)

It seems really funny!!

Hope it won't disappoint me...

PURCHASE OF THE WEEK (part 1)

Extremely proud of my new ADIDAS! Blue, white and silver featuring an old school fashioned touch of style stolen from the 80's!! They look like they come from the 80's cartoon "Mila and Shiro". 

I usually find it difficult for me to find a pair of shoes that I fell in love with, but when it happens I can help myself from buying them, regardless their price. 

And when I saw them, in a corner, in ADIDAS flagship store in Milan it was love at first sight and I knew from the very first moment that I was going to go out of the shop with these shoes!!

I was very very very lucky! I bought the very last piece of that item that suited me perfectly!! 

THE MUSIC I LIKE

Another huge hit of my pre-adolescence that I will never forget!! Kim Luca's LET IT BE THE NIGHT...

Isn't it clear that I LOVE 90's dance music?? HIHIHIHI

BOOM DIGGY DIGGY DIGGY BOOM DIGGY BANG!

Oh Jeeeeeeees I'm seriously in love with this song!!!
Can we turn back time and come back to the 90's please???
THIS IS THE DANCE MUSIC WE WANT AND WE NEED!!
Makes me wanna dance, sweat and dance again!


Anyone else is in love with this music?
;-)


P.S. the real vocalist is not the black woman you see in the video. Actually is the Italian dance singer ALEXIA that, in 1994, was an unknown vocalist that was used to record the song but seldom perfermed live with ICE MC !! Chapeau ALEXIA! 

ISN'T IT LOVELY?!?!

Tomorrow morning I'm gonna go at my workplace wearing my watch... 

See what happen... 

Sure my ex boss (a beautiful, fashionable woman) will appreciate it!!

ANGELS

Working with my imagination, starting from my new watch!

MY NEW SWATCH

I knew this watch would be mine!!!!

I saw it for the first time two months ago in Milan, at Swatch Flagship Store in Corso Vittorio Emanuele and I fell in love with it from the very first moment.

I didn't want to buy it 'cos that day I had already spent loads of money in other useless things so I was not totally sure, but when I got off the shop I regretted it.

Then my watch broke so I thought that the time had come to buy that crazy white watch! :-) But when I came back to the flagship they told me that they were run out of it.... that's why I regretted even more!!!

Finally today in Parma I had the change to see it and I knew that I couldn't miss it! 
This piece is one of the 777 white winged swatch designed by the american designer Jeremy Scott.

So happy to have the opportunity to wear something special and unique that only other 776 people have in the whole world!
:-)

MOVES LIKE JAGGER

THUMBS UP 4 MY FAV SONG SO FAR!!!

this song is driving me crazy!!!

so fresh and perfect for the summer!!

think that this song is going to be a HUGE hit!!!

RELAX! DON'T DO IT!!!

THIS IS THE AMAZING VIDEO OF "RELAX" TAKEN FROM THE SOUNDTRACK OF "BODY DOUBLE".

IT FEATURES SCENES TAKEN FROM THE MOVIE!!

OH, I REALLY LOVE THIS SONG!!
I'VE BEEN SINGIN' IT ALL NIGHT AND DAY!!

GORGEOUS!!

BODY DOUBLE

It's AMAZING!! 
It's really AMAZING this Brian De Palma's masterpiece. Everytime I watch it  seems to me that I can find new meanings, new ways to interpret the movie and the story. 
BODY DOUBLE is absolutely my favorite movie and I consider it a real piece of ART.

Body Double talks about the cinema itself and makes you realize that, during a movie, you cannot never believe your eyes 'cos it's all about fiction and you're never gonna see the truth. 


Body Double is a movie within a movie which is, again, within another movie and each character always plays, at the same time, more than one role according to the perspective you're using to read the movie. 


Jake is one of those frustrated actors of a splatter 80's B movies (the first story) looking for fame and fortune who suffers from claustrophobia who find himself involved in a mysterious situation (which is the second story of the movie). He falls in love with a mysterious woman who strips every night in front of her open window until she's murdered. Jake, who used to watch the girl every night during her private show, is the witness of this murder and tries to solve the crime in which he's been involved.

During his journey he meets Holly Body, a rising star of the Hollywood porn industry.


But at the end of the movie Jake realizes to have played the part of the witness in another one's own story: the story of a friend who was interested in killing his wife and needed an alibi and a witness to prove his innocence, and the girl that Jake used to watch every night at the window was not the real Gloria (the friend's wife) but Holly who was a body double payed to play the part of Gloria and deceive Jake.


The movie is all about crossing the line between fiction and reality and the director is interested in making us realize and be always conscious that what we're always looking at is always fiction (a movie).


This De Palma's inspiring masterpiece, whose plot borrows from two of Hitchcock most famous movie (Vertigo and Rear Window), is really my favorite movie and every time I watch it, it blows my mind.

COINCIDENCE

Leaving my hometown for Milan, a pleasant coincidence occurred on the train.

I selected the random mode on my iPod. I wanted to be surprised.

The first track that my iPod played was the Soundtrack of Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" (the one also used in the intro of Lady GaGa's video "Born This Way"). This track is so powerful. It creates an incredible atmosphere of suspense.

Then the second track was a track taken from my favorite movie of all the time: Brian the Palma's "Body Double". The music is the one taken from the telescope scene when the protagonist Jake watches her neighbor stripping in front of her open window every night. This music recalls in my mind images of a mermaid who whispers and sings to seduce a man.

It's funny that my iPod decided to
make me listen these two tracks, one straightly following the other, 'cos actually they're taken from two different movies that are incredibly interconnected. Brian the Palma is obsessed with Hitchcock's movies and he loves to fill his movies with images and quotes inspired by Hitchcock and "Body Double" is an incredible manifesto of De Palma idea of "cinema" ("The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second.") whose plot actually starts and borrows from Hitchcock's "Vertigo" (La Donna che visse due volte) and "Rear Window" (La finestra sul cortile).

Think I'm gonna watch "Body Double" soon...

SUMMERTIME

So good spending some spare time relaxing in the garden away from the humdrum of Milan.

Sunbathing. 

Sleeping.

Listening to some good music.

I've got PEACE in my mind.

Trying to enjoy this little time when I can be totally selfish and take care of myself up to the very last moment, before coming back to Milan tomorrow evening and to work on Monday.

HOME SWEET HOME

Ohhhh... It's so good to come back to my hometown during the weekend.

It's a feeling of coming back to my origins, to be on holiday, have a rest and enjoy two days of genuine things.

When I come back home from Milan on Saturday noon me and my mom have this habit of having lunch with this "special saturday pasta".

My mom knows very well my passion for pasta so she cooks for us this special plate with pasta, tomatoes, aubergines and mozzarella that I REALLY LOVE.

MY NAME

I've just found out this exciting way to create headlines and writings...
SO COOL!

PEOPLE THAT INSPIRE ME

I'm seriously in love with K A T E L O V E S M E (http://www.katelovesme.net/), this fashion blog run by this guy called PELAYO DIAZ.

I'm following him since June 2010 and I totally love his style. 


I even copied one of his creations (he's also a fashion designer)... 


Take a look at this fabulous tee designed by Pelayo:

I have my own version in white that I wear sometimes when I'm not @ work! :-)

I LOVE NY

NYC is the most exciting place in the world.

Can't wait to be back for my 3rd time this year!

I'm coming soon!

MOVIE NIGHT

I've always loved watching my favorite movies again and again... 
Yesterday night I was in the mood for a horror sophisticated movie so I took out of my movie box "Bram Stoker's Dracula" from Francis Ford Coppola.

What can I say?.... One more time...WOW!! 

Even though Coppola significantly changed the subject compared to the original novel (which I really really loved and that I consider one of the best book I've EVER read) I really think that he did a great job. 

STUART DAVID PRICE

Jacques Lu Cont, Les Rythmes Digitales, Man With Guitar, Paper Faces, Pour Homme, Thin White Duke. 


In two words: STUART PRICE.


A British musician + DJ + Producer. 


It's incredible that most of my recent favorite album have been produced by him.


3 examples:


Madonna's "Confessions on a dance floor"


Kylie Minogue's "Aphrodite"


Take That's "Progress"


Isn't it enough? 
Well, he also was the musical director of 3 of Madonna's world tour: Drowned World Tour (2001) that I had the chance to see in Milan; the Reinvention Tour (2004) that I saw in Paris and the Confessions Tour (2006) that I saw in Rome.


Isn't he an inspiring guy?

WHEN ART IMITATES ART

Take a look at these Steven Klein's photos. 
I really think that they're truly AMAZING and inspiring.
It's funny that very famous artists tend to repeat themselves and fill their creation with constant references. 
They love to constantly explore and deepen the concepts that inspire them in many of their works.

The Equestrian Style

 

The Contortionist

 

The War and the Gun theme

The Woman in the iron Bed

Marie Antoniette

 

The Guy with the Golden Gun

 

90's REVIVAL

On my way to work I'm losing myself in 90's dance music. 


Have u ever heard of Gala? 
She's an Italian singer born in Milan who bacame very famous in the 90's all over Europe for her hits "Freed from desire" and "Come into my Life". 


I'm watching her "Let a boy cry" video. OMG, I love this song and this video so much! It's so 90's and I think it's so cool. Talks about rebellion and being brave enough to be different and express your identity and uniqueness as an individual.


"and they say say silver, I choose gold (whoa-oh-oh!) I've never done as I've been told (whoa-oh-oh!) "

The simplicity, the clearness of this Black&White video with those models wearing long hair reminds me of the 90's b&w Calvin Klein advt campaigns.  

I can feel that this need for simplicity and clearness, is increasing and growing day by day.


It's a revival of the 90's... You can see it in today's music that takes inspiration from the sounds of the '90s. You can see it in fashion and design and in the attitude of nowadays' real trendsetters.