Retrospective 2011 : From My Closet

If you are one of the few :) followers of my blog you probably know by now that my style is most of the times smart-casual-effortless-chic. I like to feel good in my clothes. I don't buy stretch, synthetic, uncomfortable clothes just because it's supposed to be in trends, but organic, easy to wear items with interesting, cute, chic designs. I have my style muses that I usually share monthly, I get inspired from magazines, from street style, from fashion bloggers, from brands' lookbooks, from things and people that catch my eye.

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Beau Bazar is a repository of fashion, perspectives, moods and ideas... as you can notice in the title. So, it's not a blog just about fashion. I usually don't post photos of myself in a narcissist way. Although, I use to take them because it helps me remind the way I used to dress, the evolution in time, the direction my style goes and also because whenever I am short in ideas of how to dress for an event or just for going to the office I take a look on these shoots.

Lately, I have received messages from you darlings asking me to post more photos of my outfits. So there they are! Please mind that they weren't taken for the purpose of making them public and please don't mind the sets and the image quality. My old I-Phone is not the best camera in the world!

Follow Rivers

I have a huge crush! This song is my new obsession and I can't get enough of the lyrics and beat! Also very keen on these Zara leopard glasses and taking silly photos.

Oh, I beg you, can I follow?
Oh, I ask you, wanna always
Be the ocean, where I unravel
Be my only, be the water where I'm wading
You're my river running high, run deep, run wild...

 

  

Trouble always comes on high heels!

Photoshooting by Diana Stancu.

One Saturday afternoon, a while ago, Claudia and I helped Diana for a shooting based on the story of modern women and their adventure through the city in high heels. If you are a woman living in a big city, always on the run, trying to look glamorous and to feel confort able, you surely know what I am talking about.

Rushing to work in the morning, with the bag in one hand, the coffee in the other, trying not to step in the hole in the pavement and not to split the coffee on the white shirt... well, that's just an ordinary morning in the lovely city.

When this happened to Diana, the idea of making a photo-shooting about women' obsession for shoes and fashion hit the camera lance.

 

When it comes to looking stylish and glamorous, nothing beats a pair of high heels. 

High heels work wonders for a woman’s figure, they make the feet appear smaller and the legs look longer with lower leg muscles more defined.  Overall they make a woman look slimmer, altering her posture, flexing the calf muscles, tucking in the tummy, lifting the bottom, and making the bust and buttocks more prominent.   High heels also alter a woman’s walk making hips sway and hypnotizing any male following her curves, so making a woman look sexy and confident.

 

 

Capri ... e poi mori...

 

Do you know the saying "Vedi Napoli e poi mori!" ? I would say "Vedi Capri e poi mori!" 

If Napoli is beautiful I consider Capri to be poetic and exceptionally amazing. By the end of this post you will tell me if I am right or wrong.

Our trip to Capri was nothing short of amazing. Italy’s most beautiful and chic island, Capri is a dramatic rugged mountain soaring out of the sea at the tip of the Sorrento peninsula. A haunt  for eccentric characters since antiquity (Roman Emperor Tiberius had his villa of pleasures, the villa Jovis), Capri has been the preferred retreat of artists, movie stars, and other VIP’s in modern times. 

The Ancient Romans especially loved this part of Capri and built panoramic residences in the area. In more recent times, the sunny southern coast of the island has been elected the favorite retreat of artists and writers from every corner of the globe, and it is here that a great number of Capri's most exclusive hotels and elegant private villas have been constructed. 

Giorgio Armani's House

 

Sophia Loren's House 

Marina Piccolla

This is the entry to the Grotta Azura. Because the sea was too angry to let us get in, I invite you to see the outstanding beauty of it. A magic no word or image could ever describe.

The Faraglioni are three immense, 80-100 meter high stacks, the impressive forms of which have been created by the erosive action of the wind and sea.It is said to be of great luck for lovers to kiss while passing through the middle Faraglione.

 

Capri extends east-west with its major town, Capri, on the eastern half, and its second town – Anacapri – on the higher western half. They are separated by the highest peak on the island, Monte Solaro. From the town of Capri you can descend to Marina Grande (the harbour with the ferry and hydrofoil docks) on the southern shore.

 

You can notice how the weather gets from sunny to rainy and then sunny and then rainy again in a matter of hours or even minutes. You never know how to get dressed in the morning and it's recommended to be cautious and wear sunnies but also an umbrella, just in case.

The picturesque town of Capri is the heart of life on the island, with extensive shopping as well as numerous hotels – many of them among the coast’s most glamorous – and a wide variety of restaurants and clubs. Social life radiates from the famous Piazzetta, a preferred spot for seeing and being seen. 

  

    

There is much that you can do here on foot by taking the old footpaths which were the only way to get around until very recently. They afford unique views and quiet. 

Have you noticed me? :)

In 1900 the German magnate Krupp financed a street for travel by foot that joined the Quisisana, where he lived, to the Marina Piccola. Built with admirable skill by the engineer Emilio Mayer, it has been called "the world's most beautiful road", thanks to the manner in which it hugs the rock and the appropriate use of local construction materials .

It proves "that even a road can be a work of art".

Beyond our imagination and hope that the weather will turn into anything but pouring rain, by the time we reached the top of the hill, God smiled at us and gave as the most stupendous sun. How surprising is that?!

 

Alla prossima!