4 discoveries of the month

March 23rd, 2020 / by Alina Aliman / in: Cool things / No responses

Still March 2020. Still #home. Therefore, let’s have a look on the wide world web and see what’s new, what’s cool and what we should follow for more. Here they are: my 4 discoveries of the month. One for each week. Stay chill and have fun!  1. The new Diesel spring collection for ...

#whitemood: absolute romanticism in CHANEL fall/winter 2020 collection

March 19th, 2020 / by Alina Aliman / in: Cool things / No responses

“A very simple, very pure momentum. Romanticism but without any flourishes. Emotions but without any frills,” explained Virginie Viard, the designer of house Chanel, the moodboard for Chanel fall/winter 2020 collection. And romanticism we saw - a lot of white, clean cuts, classic ...

Art Safari Bucharest 2020: 10 art works to see

March 16th, 2020 / by Alina Aliman / in: Exquisite experiences / No responses

Art Safari is back in 2020 with cool surprises and new names: the one and only Guerilla Girls group will be present in Bucharest, an interesting collection of works signed by Sabin Bălașa, new Romanian artists (the Bucharest School) and one pavilion of Gheorghe Petrașcu works. I think Art ...

Brâncuși, love and a hint of history: a jewellery collection signed by Claudia Florentina

March 11th, 2020 / by Alina Aliman / in: Dazzling stories / No responses

I was expecting a story about the beautiful, extremely interesting pieces of jewellery, built as a complicated architecture. I received, in Claudia Florentina studio, (as a well deserved bonus!), a fascinating story about re-interpretations of Brancusi's works and some forgotten Romanian motifs, ...

My (CHANEL) beauty kit for a travel month

March 9th, 2020 / by Alina Aliman / in: Cool things / No responses

Remember the classic imagination exercise with… what would you take with you on a deserted island? Well, I am not going to an island, but I will #ontheroad most of the March. Therefore, the questions still stands: what beauty products would I take with me in a trip? The answer is simple: a very ...

London Fashion Week’s obsessions for fall/winter 2020

March 6th, 2020 / by Alina Aliman / in: Cool things / No responses

Long, clean silhouettes, checks all over, exaggerated collars, geometrical figures: this season, the designers from London Fashion Week were very focused on some details. Burberry had the classic British pattern, JW Anderson put some huge volumes on clothes, Christopher Kane seemed into with ...

Louis Vuitton Time Clash – here is the new fall/winter 2020 collection

March 4th, 2020 / by Alina Aliman / in: Cool things / No responses

What if the history of fashion wouldn’t be linear? What if all the major trends could co-exist? What if… 200 important characters, costumed in outfits from the 15th to the 20th century would be in the same room? Well, “I wanted to imagine what could happen if the past could look at us”, ...

5 coats from Milan Fashion Week FW2020 I put on my autumn list

March 2nd, 2020 / by Alina Aliman / in: Cool things / No responses

If New York is all about cool people and interesting new designers, if London is about experiments and installations, Milan Fashion Week will be always about elegance, big names and clothes to put on the shopping list. Therefore, here they are: the clothes that stole my heart. 5 coats from Milan ...

11 artists that I loved at Art Madrid 2020

February 29th, 2020 / by Alina Aliman / in: Exquisite experiences / No responses

Incredible colours, surreal photographies, paintings that are transformed as closed as I  came closer, art works that function as social statements: this was, for short, the landscape of the 15th edition of Art Madrid 2020. And these following are those 11 artists that I loved. (Photo up ...

Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk, the exhibition to see right now

February 25th, 2020 / by Alina Aliman / in: Exquisite experiences / No responses

Some kimonos from the ancient Japan history. A costume created by Alexander McQueen for Björk for ‘Homogenic’. And some original Star Wars costumes inspired by - of course - kimono. The major exhibition from Victoria & Albert Museum is a gorgeous display of one of the most loved item in ...