Obsessed??

Well maybe i'm just "a little" obsessed by Maison Martin Margiela, but this morning i couldn't skip the rumors about MMM being the next collaboration with H&M!!! 
The rumor turned out to be a real piece of news: the collection will be available in stores from november 15th 2012.

 I'm not a big fan of this kind of collaborations: i didn't buy any clothes from the previous projects that H&M did with other fashion designers, the last one was Marni. 
I didn't even buy anything from the collaboration they did with Comme des Garçons
and, so far, everybody knows that Rei Kawakubo is a guru for me!!!!
I think the clothes are still "poor" in terms of quality, although they try to use better materials such as silk or whatever,  at the end they still are H&M clothes and everybody knows what happens to an H&M clothe after few washes....
I also try not to buy too much from chains: that's for me a rule on regular bases and not only concerning clothes although, sometimes, i think that some of the clothing chains can save your life especially in these recession times.
So i don't know if, for the next F/W, i'll break my rules and i will be one of those people standing in line in front of an H&M store at 5 in the morning just to be between the first customers to put my hands on "MMM for H&M".
Temptation is strong!!!

Till then, enjoy the Margiela Channel on YouTube and check out the video for the MMM F/W 2012 which is always inspiring.


Some pics from the MMM Avant Premiere Collection:

Update!!!

I've just found out that the "Replica" fragrances by Maison Martin Margiela will be three!!!

 1: Beach Walk, will reproduce the emotion of walk on the sea shore in the full of summer and it will be loaded with citrus scent and pink pepper: mmmmmm sounds good!!!! 

2: Flower Market, with roses petals, freesia and jasmin will take us for a stroll thru  a parisian marché aux fleurs. 

3: Funfair Evening: more sugary, will bring us back to the childhood with scent of marshmallow, caramel, anis and apple: tres gourmand!!!! 

They will come in a glass bottle, very minimal, such as those used in pharmacy. 

The label, made of cotton fabric, will contain all the explanations about the origins, the functions and the époque of the reproduced scents. 

Well, i'm looking forward to july 30th when the Replicas will be finally available in stores!!!!

News from my favourite Maison....

Maison Martin Margiela is announcing its new web site, starting from june 2012, thru a short but interesting video accompanied by words  from T.A.Z.  the most important book written by the writer, poet and anarchist Hakim Bey .

The web site is not the only piece of news about MMM: there will be a new female fragrance to be realised in july 2012: Replica.

 
 The label on the bottle is like the one they fix inside their replica clothes, every MMM collection includes at least 4 or 5  replica garments and shoes.
It is supposed to be the bottled scent of a summer day at the sea in 1972 and i'm really looking forward to put my hands, but mostly my nose, on one of those bottles as soon as possible!!!!

Good bye David.

Today i want to pay a tribute to David Weiss of the artistic duo "Fischli & Weiss" that, few days ago, left this dimension at the age of 66.
The swiss duo was together since 1979 and they gained international success in 1989 with the art film "Der Lauf Der Dinge".
The 30 minutes film is a metaphoric and burlesque view about the nonsense of every day actions in our life.
"Der Lauf Der Dinge" is the most watched art film of all times. 


 Here you can see the first part of it:

 I've always been a huge fan of the duo and i'll definitely miss David.

Fishli & Weiss portraied by Pietro Mattioli in 1977

Got Shades???

Here we are: sun seems shining and rain, maybe, has stopped falling.
As every year at this time, i'm going on a mission: finding the perfect shades!!!!
Sunglasses are those kind of accesories that really make the difference: It doesn't matter if you are a rockstar, a diva or an intellectual: sunglasses always put the right accent on you, well the right sunglasses do....
There are so many different shades styles out there and that makes the mission almost impossible: wich one are the best for me????

Iconic

Simply cool

  
Are you a rockstar???

 Or a diva?

Round Up Baby!!!!

And now i have to make my choice: AWWWW!!!!!

Flowers got the power!!!

After days and days of non stop rain, in a time of the year when it is supposed to be all blooming out, i feel like i really need the regenerating power of flowers.
So i gladly realized that, beside the landscape that surrounds me, flowers are everywhere in S/S 2012 fashion.
I consider flowers as a divine gift and , although i'm more a noncromatic kind of person, prints and embroideries are the must of feminine and they definitely cheer me up!!!!

And this is me at the Halep suq enjoying Damascus Roses galore!!!!

Anemone graffiti on Tel Aviv walls