A friend of mine just reminded me how much I love this song.

The Band, from "The last Waltz". Good night everyone!

Vintage shirts

Vintage clothing inspiration. Shirts from the 80's. Menswear. Thorough research on my mother's closet. ¿Os gustan?

Voilà some photos of Toulouse, France. I had the pleasure to spend two days there and I could realise how much I miss France, its culture and gastronomy.

Mon week-end a passé à toute vitesse, je suis contente d'avoir eu un week-end aussi bien rempli en bonne compagnie.

Toulouse

La Garonne, Toulouse

I could taste:

• Amazing Magret de Canard  in a cosy bistrot.
• Pains au Chocolat.
• Raclette (cheese, boiled potatoes, charcuterie :-) )
• Tapenade (smashed black olives with anchovy and olive oil)

Tapenade

Magret de Canard

I also went to the best fromagerie to take some cheeses back to Spain.

Fromagerie Xavier

I hope you enjoyed my photos from the weekend. bisou!

Hello! Today I have assembled some photos that symbolize one of my favourites styles of art : The Art Nouveau, a philosophy of art and applied art that were very popular between 1890-1910.
We can find it in architecture, glassware, furniture, drawings, etc. and it is said to have started in France and Belgium.

Architecture: Hector Guimard (France) and Victor Horta (Belgium). Guimard designed the Parisian Metro subway entrances in 1898-1901.

Hotel Tassel, bruxelles. Victor Horta

Solvay House, Horta

Castel Beranger, Paris

Furniture, Guimard and Louis Majorelle.

Furniture, Guimard

Meuble Bibliothèque, Majorelle, 1905

Salle à manger, Petit Palais, Paris

 The famous French glass artist Emile Gallé.

I particularly like the paintings of Alphonse Mucha. He produced posters, advertisements, and book illustrations, as well as designs for jewelry, carpets, wallpaper, and theatre sets. 

I hope you enjoyed the images. Have a nice evening!

I am wearing a coat from zara kidswear, it is cheaper than zara woman or trafaluc and clothes fit well. The skirt is also from zara kidswear for 13-14 years old. The shirt is from zara menswear, it seems im wearing everything except zara woman.....So today's post is about outfits, I guess there will be more like this, as I love fashion and work in the sector....

New blog aswell together with two friends of mine www.thebadbiscuits.blogspot.com. 

We will be talking about different things in the site, like in mine. All these new ideas thanks to the help of our friend  www.clochet.com, always showing amazing outfits in her blog. ;-)

 

Today I have been reading about the smog in London. Smog: combination of the words smoke and fog.

The thick fog was usually a mix of pollution from coal burned to heat homes and pollution from factories. These came together to create a toxic mix of sulphur dioxide and combustion particles.

During a week of smog in 1873 killed over 700 people in London. However, the largest air pollution disaster in Britain was the Great London Smog of December 1952 which killed approximately 4,000 people.

Smoke pollution, 19th century

Cartoon commenting on the pollution of the Thames, 1858

London, 1930s, image from The Guardian Archives

This reading has inspired me to draw.

Romance and bucolic scenarios and how they make me feel. These two first photos are taken by my favourite photographer, Elliot Erwitt, the first one in California in the 50s, the second in Paris in the 80s.

Elliot Erwit

Elliot Erwitt

Old Paris...le  romantisme du vieux Paris....

I have assembled some old pictures taken at the turn of the century. Some of them by the photographer  Eugène Atget, who created a great visual catalogue of Paris and the french culture for more than 30 years. We admire the vanishing remnants of the city's past preserved in the architecture, streets, shops, etc. Atget wanted to perpetuate the Paris at the end of the XIX, a Paris that was about to dissappear with the renovation proyects of the Baron Haussmann. He rejected modernity.

Cour de Rouen, 6ème arrondissment

Gobelins in the 20s

 

Rue des Ursins, 1923.

Quai d'Anjou. 1924. 6am

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rue de Turenne, 1911