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MM in the news

Here is the link for a NY Time article on Margiela.

Love love

Liza në botën e çudirave

One of my favorite fashion photographs. Natalia V. by Annie Leibovitz

An ode to my evenings with A.

I am talking about the great Pupi Avati and his miniseries Voci Notturne (directed by Fabrizio Laurenti, but written by Avati) with which A. and I have become obsessed. It started after we watched Regalo di Natale, a very interesting film about a poker game during which parts of the player's lives are revealed. Then we watched snippets of La Casa dalle Finestre che Ridono and the much later Hideout. Both are very good films, beautifully shot. For films of their genre, they are masterful and very layered both in terms of the plot and visuals. What is more charming about them is the atmosphere fragile, intense, musty and nostalgic.
Voci Notturne is certainly not a great work, but it is gripping and it is populated by complex characters in a well-develop-ing (I have not finished watching it yet!) plot.
Oh, and skeptics will be surprised to know that Pupi Avati collaborated on the script for Pasolini's Salo.

Missoni

Power Suit

I believe the suit is CK, and the photo was taken by The Sartorialist 2 NYFWs ago.

À bout de souffle

Metropolis

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MMM jacket

... and a beautiful girl. Source

Swinton as Casati

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Corbs - Villa Savoye

Le Corbusier / Villa Savoye from 0300TV on Vimeo.

via ArchDaily

Wardrobe - Work in Progress

There comes a time in a graduate student's life where the area known as wardrobe - if you are lucky to have one - turn into a black hole. Last night I had such a moment when A and I blissfully headed to ES for a couple of drinks and some oysters. A looked as magnificent as ever:
Fuzzy MMM jeans - check
MMM boots - check
MMM shirt - check
Raf Simons jacket - check
Random Italian
Old yet somehow cool
in a Euro way coat- check
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I love my man!
Now let's go on about yours truly: MMM sheer backless top worn under coat below while there was snow on the ground and some you know, cute, high-waisted pants that have certainly seen better days, and some Report MMM look alikes - you know not sufficiently similar to be called knock offs but still nodding towards MMM. Peasant hair and red lips.
I looked good! But... I was not satisfied. So now I am making a shopping list for planned acquisitions for my wardrobe in the coming months. The difficulty is though, that I am going on the profession this summer -- you know as some sort of apprentice, hopefully paid!-- an I need to look a bit.. ahem.. professional (not in the high-class hooker way, please although I would not mind, love the style!)

Here is the stuff... I'll try and keep it minimal:
via Revolve Clothing; already own

This darling leather leggings are a bit declasse and perhaps inappropriate for a young lady such as myself on many levels (i.e. they are fucking ubiquitous) but I would add them, although let's say they are a frosting and not a main course.
via Seven NY

Lovely MMM Tabi boots. The heel is great for a shorty like myself so I look edgy and not like my little pony
via Aloha Rag

Stained MMM shirt. Perhaps not very work appropriate... [not available in my size] via Anastasia
Jet black Acne Hex to replace my worn out pair

via Totokaelo
APC Breton top [no longer available; my 1960s Marimekko is good enough, though in flimsy cotton instead of cashmere; it is -5 degrees Celsius in Boston today)

Repetto Bolchoi to walk around B-town in:
via Bird LA

Comfy cardi to be layered under my waxed moto jacket:
via Bird LA

Some work appropriate gear to go with MMM jacket etc.
Vanessa Bruno tweed pants
via La Garconne
or Phillip Lim karate pants
via ShopJinny
Also this dress which promptly entered my dream box.

If I am going to have a T-shirt, forget Alex Wang. I want this. Or this dress.
These lovelies by Ilaria Nistri
via SSense

Finally 2 of these cheap and chic Gap flats that can do no wrong:
via the GAP

Ok. This is it. Of course I can cross the leather leggings of the list now. Frankly they are the most expensive and banal item. Let's see how the list fares. Pancetta get your belly ready!
P.S. For those who miss me: Big Kiss!

Christmas Eve with my love

Marienbad>>>>Bordeaux

Martin Margiela left the MMM to perhaps move to LA and become a painter. It is a matter of indifference to those interested in the Margilea design aesthetic, at least for the moment. The past few seasons the Maison has been moving on a markedly different direction. Unlike the critics, I am not hostile to the new MMM: Comparing the house's collection from the mid 1990's or so to the current collection, the difference is obvious (look at some of the earlier posts here and the post below). The new collections constitute a "watering down" of the Margiela aesthetic suitable for a wider market. The designs continue to be ingenious, and frankly are more interesting than most other collections produced recently.
The New York Times published a brief article on Margiela's interior design endeavors, specifically his design of the suite Ile aux Oiseaux at Les Sources de Caudalie near Bordeaux. A. compiled some images from which the suite decor might have been inspired form Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad and Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey.

via NY Times

Margiela

circa 1991, if i am not mistaken, via Catherine Pri

via the history blog

via art and hunger

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Snow.

The Overcoat