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A Box of Delights: Valentino Couture Spring 2016
The couture shows are coming to an end in Paris – compared to fashion weeks proper, couture takes so little time that I almost miss it every year. But not quite. I love looking at these incredible displays of unnecessariness, season after season. It is for m..
The Winter Garden
I’m very much with Miranda Priestly on florals: “Florals for spring? Groundbreaking.” Traditional floral patterns in traditional context don’t seem that exciting to me – too predictable, too pretty, too not-statement-making.* Now, winter florals are a differ..
Early Winter
I have mentioned before that I tend to get strange bits of songs stuck in my head. Last time I talked about Pete Doherty, this time it’s Gwen Stefani – both have been hanging around in my brain for years now. Early Winter is not Stefani’s most famous song an..
The Quiet End of All Things
The end of the year is a time of stress and loudness and running around, sweaty and annoyed. Miraculously, I feel calmer and calmer as December approaches, quiet and serene. I’ve given up on achieving some things that no longer seem necessary. I’ve become al..
7 French Things That Made Me
I had in mind to post a rant about French style last Friday, but my sister’s piano arrived and intervened. Not surprisingly, I no longer feel like sharing my silly annoyances with the French lifestyle industry. I didn’t feel like writing anything at all, to ..
The New Shoe
I haven’t really fallen in love with shoes since this glorious pair of Roksanda heels I bought in July: either I’m becoming more restrained or this was simply a very tough act to follow. I’m willing to bet it’s the latter, I don’t really see that restraint t..
Gin in Teacups and Leaves on the Lawn
I’m not the world’s biggest Pete Doherty fan and quite frankly don’t know his music that well (the first is probably the logical outcome of the latter), but one of his phrases has been stuck in my head for years. In Babyshambles’ Albion, he sings: “gin in te..
Aldo Järvsoo’s Beige Perfection
My Big Boss asked me recently whether I’m blogging mostly about Estonian fashion. I said that not exclusively, but yes, quite often (in additin to topics not related to fashion at all, of course). Why, he asked. Well, partly because there are many people blo..
Long Leather Gloves
Every autumn, I buy a pair of elbow-length leather gloves. I’ve been doing this for something like 15 years and it still seems like an exceedingly good idea. I mostly need to keep buying new pairs because I keep losing the old ones, but occasionally, I encou..
The Instant Update: A Skinny Scarf
Do you ever get those urges to buy something, anything, simply because everything you already own seems entirely unexciting, useless and soooo last season? No? Oh, well. But in case you do, you know these are dangerous moods that in most cases have nothing t..