A day in poetry V - Lana

Everything is gone now,
Let's the leaves fall away.
All our thoughts made up now,
All our words are said.
No one cares for us, no,
Just be whoever you may,
Go away with me now,
Let the rain wash away.

It never was about the friends or the foes,
For us there's only luck, for us there's only luck.
It never was about the kisses or the plays,
For us there's only love.

Everything is calm now, 
Let's the clouds settle down.
All our love made up now, 
All our prays are played.
No one can relate, no,
Let them far away,
We are no more here now,
Let the voices die away.

It never was about, the parties or the games,
For us there's only luck, for us there's only luck.
It never was about, the death or the gods,
For us there's only love.

Cause we are religion.

Based on Lana del Rey, "Religion".

xo

Amy

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Mill at Limetz, Monet

Today I wanted to share with you an art piece by one of my favorite artist of all time, Claude Monet. Curiously, even if I've spent three years studying Art History at university, I never saw this painting. I actually stumbled upon it while scrolling down on Tumblr. Isn't it funny? Studying for years and finding your favorite painting of one of the artist you admire the most on Tumblr? Sometimes events surprise me, and since it feels like I wasn't meant to study this canvas, that it wasn't my destiny to have a teacher telling me everything about it, I decided to tell you about "Mill at Limetz" with an eye different of the one of the art historian that I am. It will just be the eye of a girl who stumbled upon a painting that just pleased her, captivated her, and finally moved her. So I'm not going to do what we call in a barbarous way an "eksphrasis", here I just want to declare my love to this painting, and to tell you all of its reasons, but by keeping quite the historian in my head to let talk the mesmerized girl in my heart. 

    I was back at home, sitting in the living room, trying to find inspiration for my next article on Tumblr when I saw the picture of this painting. Of course I did recognize Monet, my eyes have been trained for that kind of job, but I had never saw this canvas before. And so in a second I became obsessed with it. I needed to find the title, to find other pictures, details, I needed to learn more about it. Useless to say that I spent my whole evening on Google trying to find this one in an ocean of Monet paintings. But finally, when I started to desperate of finding it one day, it appeared on the screen. "Moulin de Limetz", as his original title. Oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm, 1888. But who really cares about that except from the art historians? When you face a master piece sometimes you don't want to know too much about it, too afraid that something will kill the magic, kill the feelings, and so it will just be one more paintings in your memory, but not anymore that special one. I guess it is the colors. Green, purple and pink, this audacious but mesmerizing mix between the shades that just lead to one of the most beautiful painting of this period of time. We are not sure of what we see, there are so many color stains, the tree hides the landscape, but we can catch sight of the watermill, in a quite place, surely located in the French country side, around Paris. I just watched that canvas and stop myself for asking all of the questions coming to my mouth. It is just beautiful, poetry on a canvas. We can almost feel the wind in the leaves, hear the water falling of the mill, the river's sound, be blinded by this Summer sun. Monet is poetry, we sure know that, but this painting seems different. It has to stay untouched, uncommented, it has just to be watched, and we just have to cry or to smile while watching it, because isn't it the goal of art? Making us feel the beauty? So stay quite, stare and feel. This is certainly what Monet would have want us to do, as every poet does. 

xo

Amy

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Capture your style, Aimee Song

Bloggers. They are everywhere; just see, here I am, writing a new article. Blogs. All over the web, about fashion, about lifestyle, interior, food, makeup, beauty, everything. Wait, I said on the web? Not anymore guys. Now, blogs come to life. Garance Doré set the trend, and now she is followed by many others, Kristina Bazan from Kayture for instance. And so in this post I would like to tell you about another blogger that you for sure know that I love by now, Aimee Song from Song of Style. Her book came out last 20th of September, and obviously since I'm in love with her blog and her Instagram I rushed into Waterstones bookshop to get my very own copy. Let's resume my feels: I love this book. But wait, this is not an usual "blogger publication". Aimee, instead of focusing on her life path (much more like Kristina Bazan look) or to put on pages her blog (like Garance Doré did last year), decided to focus on what she knows best: Instagram. With over 4 millions followers she dedicated her book to this new social platform and so gives us her best advices to help us succeed like she did. Capture your Style is so in some kind of ways "Instagram handbook", a manual to succeed on this competitive social media, how to take the perfect pictures, how to edit them, how to promote them; but it is more than that. Capture your Style is also about fashion, about photographs and about carrier, with foreword by Diane van Furstenberg. Aimee shows her perfect style, outfits, make up, bags, and let us dream about that perfect famous blogger life. Well, Capture your Style is her Instagram grid in a book, all about prettiness but also edition. Let me introduce you to Aimee's book. 

Aimee puts a lot of effort in the edition of the book, trying to make it look like her blog but also taking some distances from it. And her we are, the prettiness of the pictures I was talking about.

This book is not only about how to have the perfect Instagram, it is also about how to take the perfect picture. On this page the blogger gives us a tutorial for the perfect selfie. 

If you ever took a look at her Instagram account, you might know that Aimee is the queen of flat lays. So of course she gives us all of her tips and advices to capture the perfect one.

Once you have the perfect picture, the perfect flat lay or selfie, you need to edit it the right way. Apps, filters, you'll learn every secret of her flawless pictures. 

If you follow Aimee on Snapchat or Insta Stories you might know that she loves to share what she is eating, and so does she on her Instagram grid. So in this chapter she explains us how to perfectly capture our lunch/brunch/breakfast/coffee break. Yummy!

As you might know, Aimee started her blog by posting interior pictures, since she actually wanted to become an interior designer. It is still part of her life, and so of her Instagram as shows this beautiful grid.

Here's the link to get yours!

xo

Amy

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Paris Fashion week: street styles

Finally, fashion week is over, and like every time after it has ended, we still have a lot of things to look at, since a short week wasn't enough to lurk at every single little thing. Of course we have seen the shows, from romanticism at Chloé to internet at Chanel, but did you take time to take a look at Paris Fashion Week awesome street styles? Now fashion is no more about the runway, it is about the sidewalk. And if we go to fashion weeks to discover what is going to be "in" next season, of course we check the street styles to see what is trendy at the moment. To do so I took a look at the most important street style blogs but nobody has a fashionable eye such as Sandra Semburg, street style photographer for Vogue.com. So let's stop turning to the future for a second and just focus on the present. Because it is here, in the street.

Pumpkin and falling leaves, the perfect colors fort Autumn

Once again we go back to those basic Autumn shades, with large scarf and Converse just so to stay casual, which seems to be one of the word to define Autumn 16 street style

 Romanticism is still a thing like this shirt tends to tell us, but those metal pieces make it a little more grungy, all about mixing styles

Elegant and sassy at the same time, this darker look is perfect to awake the rebel inside of you while keeping it classy

Autumn at the top, still Summer at the bottom. Mixing seasons in one look

Remember the Song Sisters from New York Fashion Week? Here they are in Paris, heading to the Dior show, with style, as always

Before the Chloé show, all in the details and the delicacy

Sometimes all you need is a simple monochrome look and the perfect oversized Dior bag

Childish and classy at the same time, Paris fashion week style plays

Colorful automnal palette in here, with velvet and wool, layering and leather, we are slowly slipping into the colder season

Finally, the perfect combination: jeans, leather jacket, a Céline bag and a man. Just Paris Fashion Week

xo

Amy

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Self love

In this week editor's letter I wanted to talk about self love. It feels like the lack of self confidence and self love is the disease of our times, just take a look at Tumblr and you'll understand what I say. People are desperate, they hate themselves, focus on their flaws and always find better the girl on the other side of the road. Everybody has insecurities, everybody has flaws, but everybody also deserves love; and the first person that can give it to you is yourself. I'm not here to judge or to "telle you what to do", because I also have to deal with insecurities, I also tend to compare myself to others, I also see only my flaws when I look into the mirror, but in this post I would like to talk about it and to give you some tips that I still have to learn to apply for myself. There are not mine, but those tips are some that I took from my family, my friends, my boyfriend, books, and most of all my therapist. There's no shame to see one, it will just help you to look at yourself and see the world in a more objective way. 

    To learn to love yourself is an everyday job. Every look in the mirror is an exercise. You look at yourself and you see everything you think is wrong. Ok, let's notice your flaws, and let's just kick them in the a**. Look at yourself and say out loud "I accept my flaws, I accept myself the way that I am". But self love is also about taking care of yourself. If you don't treat yourself, who else would like to do so? Take care of your body, eat well, work out, try to reach your goals, wether they are about your body, your mind, your projects. To have a goal is the best way to do hard work and so to accept yourself the way you are, but also to become the one you want to be. We have to be honest here. Of course, you have to accept your flaws, of course you have to accept your curves as an example, but if you want to get rid of it, if you want to look different, there's no shame, it is just fine. Accepting yourself is also a journey about changes, becoming the true "you" is what will make you truly happy. Also, treat yourself. You deserve this sweater/cake/lipstick/book/shoes/bra/beddings. And take time for yourself! A pamper night, a good book or a movie, a cake and some chocolates, it will feel good to take time for you, exclusively, and just relax or do the thing that makes you happy. One of the most important point is this one: stop comparing yourself to others in the bad way. It is good to compare yourself if it helps you to get motivated, to change in the right way, but most of the time when we compare we just lower our value to see in the girl on the other side of the road the perfect one. And so you go on walking feeling like a piece of sh*t. Stop doing that. The girl on the other side of the road is stunning? Ok, maybe you could copy her style if it fits you and if you really like it, maybe you could have a similar haircut, but girl, seriously, just be yourself. Do you sometimes wonder how many girls on the other side of the road look at you and think, "waw, she's stunning and I'm a piece of sh*¨t". We are all the same, so walk on, keep on smiling, and love yourself. "

xo

Amy

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