The view from Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House.
Think cabaret, think flirty, think stiletto. Add a trapeze, a Barbie doll in a black latex suit, a carousel, Dita Von Teese dancing burlesque and lots and lots of RED, then add even more RED! Guess what you get? The Christian Louboutin Exhibition of course. A celebration of Mr. Louboutin’s incredibly successful 20 year career, filled with shoes and even more shoes!
Louboutin is a man who loves to swing on his trapeze while working, a man who designs his winter collections in his chateau in Champgillon with no heating and his summer collection in Egypt, close to the Nile in order to get the best and most realistic environment possible. He has an incredible sense for what is sexy and what makes a women’s legs look long, almost never-ending and gorgeous at the same time! We girls, we like it, don’t we!
This Altuzarra heel has been around for a while, yet I still can’t get it out of my head. It’s just gorgeously TROPICAL!
I have finally made it to the Christian Louboutin exhibition in London’s Design Museum, which was coquettishly beautiful!
There will definitely be more shoe posts coming soon…
Polish Wyborowa Vodka, special edition bottle designed by architect Frank Gehry. He is well known for the ‘Walt Disney Concert Hall’ in LA, but to me mostly for designing the ‘Dancing House’ in my native Prague.
This fashion store is packed with the best independent jewelry designers who are very hard to find in the US. The obviously well travelled owners have stocked up on my favorite French and Italian designers as well as artefacts and jewelry collected from all around the world.
The shop has been in the heart of the Lower East Side for four years but remains a hidden gem. You still kind of need to know about it, so no tourists, only people who really know what they’re looking for and come to visit this place on purpose.
The interior is very artsy and you immediately start rethinking the interior of your own apartment. I love the cracked asfalt floors and the window in the back that looks into an air shaft, it makes for yet another deco piece with an old sink and flower pot arranged there.
Many of you’ve been asking what kind of DVD workouts I do… So let me dedicate this post to Grace, Serena, Patrick and many others…
It feels like I am revealing my biggest secret, my greatest exercise weapon, but Tracy Anderson is hardly a secret in the fitness industry, not least of all due to clients like Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow.
Tracy changed my life. I know it sounds cliche but she completely transformed my body, she sculpted me! Her DVD workouts called ‘Metamorphosis’ are designed to kick and lift your butt like there’s no tomorrow. When I started, I thought that once I got into her cardio programmes I would be a PRO, yet somehow she still makes me sweat like crazy and leaves me exhausted after every single workout. The program comes with a 30min dance cardio DVD as well as three workout DVDs, it’s geniously designed, she switches movement every three to four seconds, no repetition.
The 90 day program changes every ten days so it gets your muscles confused and that’s exactly what we want, remember?
Two powerful women, two different periods in time, two opposite opinions and one thing that connects them both… FASHION.
I can’t even describe how intrigued and curious I was to go and see this highly anticipated fashion exhibition at New York’s MET. So the day it opened the doors (well, a day later) I was there, excited and prepared to answer all the questions I had about this exhibition!
Obviously I had to do a bit of reading about these women before-hand, I guess I was seeking some fashion answers to my fashion questions? Not only did I find none, the research generated even more questions and my curiosity deepened.
Here were the questions I had, just to demonstrate my confusion… I guess I had my own internal ‘impossible conversations’, do not judge though, Prada is having conversations with Schiaparelli who’s dead: