The other day one of my music-loving friends asked me which places I’d take Kevin Parker, leader of the band Tame Impala, if I were his guide during Primavera Sound. It was pretty clear that he wanted to test my knowledge of the city after living in Barcelona...
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I think the first time I saw something from Juniper Ridge might have been last year when I arrived to L.A. Some incense sticks on the supermarket caught my attention because the whole package and graphic image was too cool to be just ordinary incense sticks. Handmade drawings...
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Last Saturday we decided to go visiting Getty Center. Located on the top of a hill, the museum offers -besides great exhibitions and some really privileged views of the whole city of L.A.- free concerts in the open air once a month.
The other day we could enjoy Danish-band Quadron playing, which turned out to...
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Remember the photoshoot we did with that beautiful dress by Stolen? Well, I am so excited to bring you some news about the brand once again. Specially when the news are about its new campaign and -even more- specially when the campaign is this beautiful!
Singapore-based designer Elyn Wong has teamed this time with local...
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It is impossible not to be in love with Ojai. In our short but great getaway last month not only we enjoyed this Californian little town and the nature surrounding it but we also discovered -besides the coolest motel- what I consider the most amazing used-book store I have ever seen to date.
Bart’s Books...
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Yes, trust me, sometimes in L.A. you do need a thick knit sweater, some other times you even need a scarf and sometimes -just a few times- you even need both of them together! The funny thing is, since this is an extraordinary phenomenon that only happens in rare occasions and never more than -I...
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Ojai Rancho Inn must be, by far, one of the coolest motels I have ever stayed in. A very relaxed, cozy and warm atmosphere wraps this motel, composed of little wooden cabins, in which we spent two nights when we went to Ojai for the weekend.
It is located within a walking distance from...
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Hope you have amazing plans for the weekend! We are expecting sunny and hot weather these days in here so after some surfing sessions, hopefully, we will be able to enjoy some of the stunning sunsets in Venice Beach while sipping on a nice glass of red wine -to say something…- on the rooftop...
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What happens when you have been here for a while is that you have already visited all the basics: San Francisco, San Diego, Las Vegas, Palm Springs… You name it. And, although this places are surely worth visiting more than once, you don’t want to repeat the trip yet because you know that you...
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To be sincere, I never considered this a fashion blog, actually. Not exclusively a fashion blog, I mean. When I first opened it almost five years ago it was no other thing than a place where to share the things that inspired me. By that time I was both working...
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Remember Pulp Art Book, that super cool project in which Neil Krug took pictures of Joni Harbeck with a very cinematographic mood? We talked about it in here two years ago (does time also fly for you that fast!?) when they were just presenting it in New York and today they will be opening...
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It was not my intention to be absent for such a long time, actually, but something like a pretty cool flu has gotten me, curled up in a ball, shifting from the bed to the sofa during the last week.
It is not that negative as it may sound and even when it seems you...
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LoveGold celebrated a beautiful pre-Oscar cocktail soirée honoring vintage jewelry designer Fred Leighton at Chateau Marmont last Thursday to which was a delight to attend.
The event took place at Selma House, the same venue chosen for the pre-Golden Globes lunch with Francesca Eastwood last month, and once again the decoration and ambiance were...
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The new printed scarves collection by SuTurno for this Spring/Summer 13 is named Blondell after actress Joan Blondell and gets inspiration from Elsa Schiaparelli’s surrealism, glamour in the 30s’ and the spectacular rising in lipstick purchases after the crash in 1929. You can visit their online shop in here.
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La nueva colección de pañuelos estampados...
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The beautiful new Miu Miu S/S13 campaign by photographers Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin displays an intriguing, mysterious and very attractive story including a well-varied cast of beauties. Models Malgosia Bela, Bette Franke, Martha Hunt, Doutzen Kroes, Adriana Lima, Arizona Muse and Tamara Weijenberg interact in a very intimate setting while wearing soft and...
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The nice thing about starting following a brand from the very beginning is that you get to appreciate its evolution as it has been my case with Scandinavian jewelry brand Bjørg. Since the very first moment I discovered their pieces, always wrapped in a dark an esoteric aura, by the year 2009 I became...
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Italian designer Paolo Coppolella showed last October, during the sixteenth edition of the International Fashion Show of Chinese city Ningbo, his most recent collection .Zero S/S 13, a proposal with a very graphic mood in black and white, mostly, including flashes of red and also some stripes and dots motifs.
From images by Elena...
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You may remember Singapore-based brand Stolen and the beautiful minimal dresses created by its designer Elyn Wong from this project called I Stole Paris in which I took part some months ago and for which I did this photoshoot and this other one.
As they announced on the beginning of the project...
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It recently took place in Los Angeles the 22nd edition of Photo L.A. -an international photographic show that gathers more than 300 exhibitors and which includes seminars and conferences- that takes place every year in this Californian city since 1992. A great chance to discover some new talents behind the lens and to reencounter...
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Mercedes and Elena are two sisters based in Madrid that last year founded Zubi, a brand that creates printed bags following a very romantic and fond of traveling idea, just as we like it.
Each of their pieces is a little remnant of their own trips, a portion of memory captured for eternity in a...
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