Summertime Barça

             Barcelona... A perfect place to feel summer in its full. The city of the sun, the sea, palms, football, flamenco, Gaudi, sangira, paella, balconies with curtains and ideal perpendicular streets, where all crossroads seem the same. You can be lost easily and get found even easier :) Just 3 days and you are full of energy for months coming. With the people that can make you laugh and mad within two minutes, I mean siblings you can go wherever they say, but still Barcelona is the best.

            The background music of our trip was the soundtrack of Vicky Cristina Barcelona movie :) Two Woody Allen fans couldn't chose anything else than this. I think it is perfect for my blogpost too.

Soo here we go....

Oscar de la Renta

Fashion? Art? It's more like genius mix of two. Any woman who has a chance to wear an 

Oscar de la Renta 

gown may consider herself lucky in all fashionable and unfashionable ways... Just look at these and you will understand what I mean.

'I heart London' or 'A Day Off'

"Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."

— Samuel Johnson

London <3

What can I say? I love London...

Roman Holiday

“I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.”
— Audrey Hepburn


I want to belive in pink, in the fact that laughing is the best calorie burner, in kissing, kissing a lot, in being strong no matter what life gives you, that happy girls are the prettiest, that maybe tomorrow is another day and in miracles...

I'm sure lots of us want to believe in love, in beauty that Audrey Hepburn brought to this life, in her eyes of Bamby that shine through her characters in movies, in Gregory Peck with his smoldering appearances, in their chemistry in Roman Holiday (1953)...

A fairytale with an ending that is not expected in a black and white movie of 50s. A brief and pure love that grow in front of your eyes and that goodbye in front of eveyone's eyes but with feelings only for two...

Marilyn Monroe

After a long talk about iconic women with my life-long friend in this lovely summer evening  I decided to post these pictures that I had on my computer. Even though we mostly talked about Monica Belucci, that I consider the most beautiful woman of our time, this picture set is about Marilyn Monroe...

"No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't." - Marilyn Monroe

She is an icon. After so many years people consider her as one of the most beautiful women of all time. It is not just about her look. It is all about her that she could represent in a way that no one would dare to. A woman, that seemed fragile and weak on the outside but had a whole different world on the inside. A woman that has been admired for decades. A woman that has been imitated. A lot of people talked about her, many books were written. I just wanted to share my personal favourite photos of her. Maybe not the most famous ones, but still.

random 3

It is a tiny country on this big planet, and there are a lot of beautiful places out there but for us, the one that we call home is the sweetest. It is a place where we grew up, where we made our first steps, where we said our first words, where went to school, where we understood what motherland means and nurtured great love towards it inside of us not even being aware of it. The place you want to be when you're sad or happy, pictures of which comes to your mind while missing it, where you are surrounded with the ones you love. The nature, the weather, the wind, the sand, the sea, the sky of which is the best in the world for you and you will never find a place better than that. You will never call another place your real home. Maybe temporarily but not forever. It is precious, it is a part of you, it defines you...

minutes in Florence

Приезжаешь во Флоренцию, сходишь с поезда. Заселяешься в отеле поблизости, прямо в центре города. Ходишь по узким улочкам с трехэтажными домами и окнами со ставнями, где первые этажи либо пиццерии, либо сувенирные лавки. Выходишь на площадь с Duomo. Закупаешься сувенирами, пробуешь пиццу, затем gelato. Не смотря на двухчасовую очередь, заходишь в музей и поражаешься величественности 'Давида' Микельанджело. Но только обзорная экскурсия по городу на закате открывает перед тобой всю красоту местности и рождает в тебе эмоции, которые ожидал пережить при приезде. Проезжая по берегам реки 
 со средневековыми мостами или поднимаясь на зеленые холмы с желтыми виллами с видом на Флонецию тебя уносит далеко-далеко.  Ты там есть и тебя нет одновременно. Мысли витают далеко в облаках, смениваясь со скоростью смены пейзажа перед глазами; купола храмов, стена замка с многолетней историей, река с отражением заходящего солнца... Непередаваемо.

3 days in Scotland

I agree with this thought. Everybody wants to be happy (everyone in his own way), be loved and love, to travel all over the world. We want to get close to our dreams. As close as we can... I always begin with travelling, leaving other two points to the destiny :)

This time it was Scotland, UK...

Looking For Alaska - John Green

There are books that are considered classic and need to be read by everyone or books that are temporary, people read them today and forget about them tomorrow or books that are quite new to be considered classics and too good not to be remembered tomorrow. 'Looking for Alaska' by John Green is a book that people read today, young readers love it, quote it. Apparently it spoke to their hearts. Can't say anything about tomorrow, you never know. The book is about a boy, which doesn't have any friends changing his school to a private one and gets new friends there. Simple and cliche storyline you say, like any other teenage movie. But the thing about this book is, it talks about important things from the prespective of a teenager, that is making his first steps in this world with its ups and downs, gets to know the good and the bad. How a teenager interprets religion and applies it to his life. I don't know, but there are sentences that explain you, just the way it is. Like the author was in your head once. Like anonymous said on tumblr: '...it sometimes feels as though they were written with us in mind'. Ran into a lot of quotes by John Green on tumblr and decided to begin with this book of his, regret nothing :) I like to follow people's taste and try to understand why they love something, what for.

The quotes I picked (I read the book in translation):

CHANEL for men

I have an assignment for my Luxury Brand Management class, which I decided to do about possibilities for Chanel launching a new clothing line for men. Chanel adds a few looks for men to every ready-to-wear collection for over ten years. It shows that they have some kind of a concept and trying to show that Chanel can not be feminine only and has potential to explore men's fashion. Seems like Karl Lagerfeld has a certain view on how Chanel man should look like. These are the best looks I chose from previous shows: