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Following the steps of Gabrielle Chanel

September 23rd, 2019 / by Alina Aliman / in: Cool things / No responses

The name is recognisable everywhere. The scent, too. In 2019, the fragrance GABRIELLE CHANEL ofers two new ways of perfuming: a Twist and Spray and a Hair Mist. Have you tried them yet? Two new products to enrich a line that already features a Foaming Shower Gel, a Moisturizing Body Lotion and a ...

Stockholm Fashion Week was cancelled. For a sustainable future

August 23rd, 2019 / by Alina Aliman / in: Cool things / No responses

It is correct. One of most expected international fashion weeks, the Stockholm one, scheduled to be take place between 27th and 29th of August 2019, was cancelled. Swedish Fashion Council named sustainability concerns and desire to move away from the traditional fashion week format as driving ...

Ground rules: COS & the fall-winter 2019 campaign

August 19th, 2019 / by Alina Aliman / in: Cool things / No responses

Nothing says better “fall” than a day in the English countryside: the light, the mood, the sweet colours of the landscape. Add to that a very talented photographer, Mark Borthwick, some cool models as Khadim Sock, Lina Zhang and Giedre Dukauskaite and you can see the entire picture of a very ...

15 best street style looks from Copenhagen Fashion Week SS20

August 16th, 2019 / by Alina Aliman / in: Cool things / No responses

I’ll know what I will wear next summer. At least I am pretty sure what I will have in my luggage for a sunny trip in Copenhagen. A lot of white and blue shirts, skirts with clean cuts and some asymmetrical pants, loose fabrics and the most summerish cotton dresses. Of course, and some ...

DZHUS’ anatomy: a look at the collection for fall/winter 2019/2020

August 12th, 2019 / by Alina Aliman / in: Cool things / No responses

It’s a little bit weird, I know. It’s a mix of some geometry and a lot of calculated architecture in Irina Dzhus’ clothes. It’s about order. And it’s black and white. Add to that an enormous amount of talent and beauty. Three years after I have discovered her designs, I am still amazed. ...

Magic and sustainability: into the world of Feeric Fashion Week 2019

August 9th, 2019 / by Alina Aliman / in: Cool things / No responses

At Sibiu Feeric Fashion Week is never only about fashion. It’s about the magic of the atypical places seen along with the beautiful collections, the touching messages revealed by the designers and, of course, about the amazing people that make this event possible. How was the 12th edition of ...

Make-up in black & white: CHANEL fall/winter 2019 collection

August 5th, 2019 / by Alina Aliman / in: Cool things / No responses

“Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony”, said Gabrielle Chanel. And, as a girl white a black & white obsession (at least when it comes to clothes), I couldn’t be happier. ...

5 reasons to love the new MINI Electric

July 19th, 2019 / by Alina Aliman / in: Cool things / No responses

Spoiler alert: it looks like a MINI, it tastes like a MINI (drive), it is #ChargedWithPassion. I was happy to see, at the worldwide lunch, the new MINI Electric. And it was just perfect. 3, 2, 1, Start. Get MINIfied.  OK, I have to confess that I cannot imagine myself living without a car, ...

MDVTM 2019 Fashion Gala: it was all in the name of fashion

July 15th, 2019 / by Alina Aliman / in: Cool things / No responses

Sometimes, the fashion months is not in March. This year, the fashion month started at UNARTE Bucharest, continued to Cluj-Napoca, then to Timișoara and (probably) it will stop at Feeric Fashion Week. And, as in any fashion month, one of the weeks is more poetic and other more artistic. This ...

5 looks I loved from CHANEL fall winter 19/20 haute-couture collection

July 5th, 2019 / by Alina Aliman / in: Cool things / No responses

It was about time, I would say, to move fashion where it suits best: in a library. This season, at CHANEL fall winter 19/20 haute-couture collection show, Grand Palais was transformed into a grand circular library complete with walkways. An eternal book lover, Virginie Viard, the successor of ...