If the answer to that question is yes!, as it was mine, never think you will be able to find one at H&M, go to the nearer supermarket.

That's the lesson I've learned last thursday, when I naively thought I already had a Maison Martin Margiela for H&M candy clutch among my hands, dabbler's mistake.

Here is the story.

Wake up at 6 am, bus at 7, one hour later I was in front of the store entrance. A girl dressed up as a butcher gave me the bracelet that allowed the entrance to the sale event, it was blue, I love blue, I think it's a great color and it standed out on my wrist but, what did it mean for my purchase? You'll enter the store with the third group - the butcher said. What?! Since when so many people are mad for Margiela, I thought it was a niche brand, wasn't it? Ok, don't worry, remain focused on the goal, the re-edition of the Spring Summer 2010 candy wrapped clutch could still be yours. Second dabbler's mistake.

Twenty minutes later, which meant that the first group made use of its ten minutes time to raid everything and ten extra minutes to pay it all, my turn was approaching, when a young girl paraded proudly by my side: Oh nice bag, how many like this are left? - I asked her. She answered with a quite pleased chuckle: none, they are already sold out! - and continued even more pleased - you know I arrived at six in the morning. Are you looking for applause? (By the way, this bag is really too big!!) C'mon, it is certainly a misdirection attempt, stay focused. Third dabbler's mistake.

Once inside the store, determined that no bags were left, I regretted that I had always avoided videogames: Super Mario's ability to face invasions would have been quite helpful to escape from salesmen's attacks.

End of the story.
Any reference to actual events and/or real people is to be considered purely accidental.

A well-written screenplay, suitable to be performed in Venice as well as in Milan and in every city around the world, a mechanism reharsed and replicated several times, always equal to itself, a certainty. The gap between the purchase and the acknowledgement, by most of the people, that they will never use those items is every time closer, within a couple of hours products are on ebay three times the original price. Everybody keep on not knowing Maison Martin Margiela.

All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players, what's your point of view?

*kisses*

Giulia

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To be continued...

The story of a candy, a castle and many brave knights.
Of a bloody battle, for a limited edition award and a bittersweet defeat.

*kisses*

Giulia

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If it is true that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, it is also true that absolute beauty is hardly recognizable, I mean something universally accepted as such and without reservation.

Let me explain.

As much as I appreciate a fashion show as a whole, there are always a few looks that I wish I could change, call it arrogance or just human instinct, I think it is quite the same principle that occurs in football, when nobody feels completely satisfied with the choices of the coach.

   

All this was partly confirmed by an exhibition I saw during my brief stay in Milan, set up for little less than a month at the Triennale. On top a bag, the Lady Dior, which has marked an era and has contributed to build a status, on the background a dialogue between established artists who have recorded its popularity over the years and young emerging artists who gave it a modern and very personal interpretation.

Probably the maison Dior recognized the rectangular shape and the cannage stitching as elements able to perfectly convey the idea of extreme refinement and couture: now, among several other hands, the bag has become molten metal , rubber and iron curtain, unstructured in its explosion, trapped in the ice as well as freed from the grip of the rock.

Undoubtedly a good attempt to bring out diversity, in an unusual world such as the fashion one, in which adhere to certain trends is a very impending risk: to replicate is quite simple, to renew it's definitely not that simple, but in the end it is the only way that repays the effort.

*kisses*

Giulia

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Beatles' fans will forgive me if I borrow part of their deserved nickname, but since I use it knowing its value, I do it for a good reason.

What I sayed in my second post about the unequivocal contribution of Gianni Versace widespread inside all his designs, a kind of imprint which makes us say this thing is just like he used to do, can be easily applayed to the New York based young designers Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough.

The duo belongs to the category of new players talented and conscious of their potential, as inventive as focused on details, materials and prints. These bags, the PS1s, are an evidence of what I'm saying: practical shape, refined aesthetic and high quality materials, ideal for both men and women.

I might be emotional but when I saw them in Milan I tought that a little piece of Big Apple was suspended a short distance from the italian ground. It was nice...

                                                                                                                                                  *kisses*

Giulia

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There's a reason why women love bags so much: they establish a relationship of deep confidence and belonging with these items, they choose them among many and then they feed them with all kind of just in case objects put inside, because you never know what you might need during your days.

Is it the same for men? Probably they are more practical and less sentimental compared to us, but don't they need a place to put their stuff in, do they?

Thinking about that, I made a patchwork of suggestions taken directly from the last Milan Fashion Week. I discarded shoulder bags, few men know how to wear them with confidence, and all the big handbags, to me useful for travelling but not so urban, and I found out that the technological evolution brought to us a new kind of men bag, in addition to tablets and netbooks. Flat, small size, discrete but with personality, able to make young men look more mature and adult men up with the times.

What do they put inside it? Who knows, that's part of the game. The exterior reveals part of the personality of its owner while the inside tells you his secrets.

                                                                                                                                                   *kisses*

Giulia

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