Come outside and see a brand new day
The troubles in your mind will blow away
It’s easy to believe they’re here to stay
But you won’t find them standing in your way

Se a vida e’, I love you
Come outside and feel the morning sun
Se a vida e’, I love you
Life is much more simple when you’re young
Come on, essa vida e’
That’s the way life is
That’s the way life is
Come on, essa vida e’
That’s the way life is
That’s the way life is
Se a vida e’, I love you
Come outside and feel the morning sun
Se a vida e’, I love you
Life is much more simple when you’re young
Se a vida e’

Instead of trying to write on this blog in a regular basis - what is quite impossible - I will try to start posting images from my life in London. Single details from the city, things I buy to the house, landscapes, etc. So I can be more or less secure that I do have things to share in case anyone care. lol.

Those are my fairy lights, from Candem Town. I love lights, I love balls (lol) and I looove colours. Perfect combination, isn’t it? They are decorating the kitchen. You can have it as well, they sell online in the UK.

http://www.blaze-on.com

It’s quite complicated to find a great TV show here in Italy; ok, not only in Italy - everywhere else but in the UK.

There is a TV channel named QOOB, a kind of MTV but much more experimentalist. The great thing about QOOB is that the ads are short movies and animation, most of them French, from young artists.

One of my favourites is The Other Half, by Nick Scott, graduated from the London Academy of Film and TV.

It’s about two ex-lovers reminiscing about their relationship, whilst nostalgically revisiting the places that hold shared memories. Considering their time together making them reconsider the reasons why they fell apart.

According to Nick, “the actors in the film were a couple in real life when we shot the film but have since broken up, and neither of them can really watch it!” Curious, isn’t it?

Filmed in an old super8 camera, I loved it!

Fashion promoted modernist trends in music in the early twentieth century, mainly in France. The new aesthetic approaches were related to fashion in a manner that was perfectly attuned to the tastes of the jazz age.

Coco Chanel is a good example of woman that influenced composers such as Igor Stravinsky and Les Six, determining what was counted as chic and elegant. Chanel revolutionized haute couture replacing the traditional corset with the comfort and casual elegance of simple suits and dresses.

I’ve recently seen the term “Kate Moss effect” in the internet and was curious about it.

Based on a survey commissioned by Freeview Playback the term was coined because Kate is blamed for rising emphasis on designer clothes on music festivals. Music festivals today are more about designer wardrobes than the acts on stage, according to new research out.

A third of the women, admitted in the survey that they had to shop for a completely new wardrobe for their festival weekend.

What I can’t understand is why they are spreading so loud the strong influence of fashion on music festivals and the results of this survey. (more…)

First, it was the huge success of Kate Moss creations on sale at TopShop. It was expected that her clothes would fly off the rails within days - what happened indeed.

Kate posed in the window of TopShop on Oxford Street to launch her own clothing range on April 30, 2007 in London.

Then, the italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli is creating his own collection for TopShop - not yet on sale.

TopShop is a fabulous brit high street fashion store and my favourite store is located in Oxford St.

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L’Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier’s Tale), by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz “is the Faustian story of a young soldier who sells his soul to the Devil in return for infinite wealth.”

Perhaps then, it’s no coincidence that it was created by Stravinsky, alongside writer Ramuz, in a Switzerland surrounded by the ravages of World War I.

First time I’ve listened to the Stravinsky’s music theatre piece, The Soldier’s Tale, was in Campos do Jordão Music Festival, in Brazil. It was in 2004. John Neschling was the music director and the Narrator. I have never seen anything as extraordinary as this - so far.

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It was quite usual to walk around the city alone, when I lived in London. Perhaps that was the most introspective experience of my entire life.

Besides walking along the river bank in the end of the day, one of my favourite places in London is Brick Lane street. At least once a week I took the tube towards Aldgate East station to visit the East End.

Brick Lane’s neighborhood is a very interesting place. The Spitalfields market, the Whitechapel gallery, many Bangladeshi restaurants, coffee shops, designers’ studios… they are all popping up in Brick Lane!

One special place is a second hand clothes store named Absolute Vintage.

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Vou inaugurar meu blog (finalmente me rendi aos “tempos modernos”) escrevendo sobre um dos eventos mais glamourosos em que já estive: a premiére do filme “The Phantom of the Opera”, em dezembro de 2005. É claro, isso foi em Londres.

A idéia veio porque acabei de ler o livro “The Devil Wears Prada”, que basicamente fala sobre o mundo da Moda numa grande revista americana e de uma jovem que tenta sobreviver nesse meio ditador de tendências e padrões estéticos. Além do glamour, os dois acontecimentos tem em comum uma pessoa - minha amiga Marina - que foi quem me convidou para a premiére e quem tb me presenteou com o livro no meu último aniversário.

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