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Sales have arrived and as every year they create contradictory feelings. We love sales because they allow us to buy at much better prices both our “capricios” and big pieces of wardrobe, and we hate sales because they mean disorder, people and lots and lots of caos.
This last part can be eliminated if we buy online. There are no queues at the cashier, there are not three people fighting for a necklace, you don’t have to get up early, you don’t have to wear a scarf and gloves and the price is so good that sometimes you do not need any extra discount…
But what would January be without Sales? So vital, so social, so, basically, fun. But also dangerous, because to know how to buy on Sales is a real art. Some advice?
-Make a list of what you need. Impulses can be fun but they can leave you trembling. Buy with a mixture of head and heart.
-The best days are the first and the last ones.
-Invest in the good pieces. Buy this necklace that you have been wishing for months, the pair of boots that next year will be almost new, the tenth black blazer.
-Make sure you know which pieces are on sale: check that both the original price and the discount price are shown.
-Buy items that are never out of fashion: a strong ring, a necklace of one of the designers that you like most, a pair of jeans.
-For sure that you still have to get a present for somebody. This is the moment.
Once you know this: prepared, ready, go!
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PICK OF THE WEEK
Earrings with Swarovski crystals, Blanca collectiobn designed by Coral de la croix.
You will like them if you like: fashion jewelry earrings. These ones are gorgeous, full of details. If you like long earrings they measure 6,5 cm!
For women: who follow trends. Prada offered this type of earrings on the fashion show of Spring/Summer 2010
You can wear them with: light and pastel tones. The gold and white of Swarovski crystals illuminate the face.
Why do we choose them: because it is a limited edition, because you can only buy them here and because they make you feel beautiful… the key to every design.
We agree that it is more fun to sit in front of the computer and decide on our Christmas presents than to walk on the streets wrapped on a scarf and arriving home exhausted.
This does not mean that we have to go shopping in our pyjamas. To buy online can be a shopping experience as attractive as going to Top Shop in London, to the new Uniqlo in Paris or to Prada in Tokyo.
An example: I want to buy necklaces for my friends. And I am going to do it fully convinced to buy something nice. I will think about the stones that they like, which materials, what kind of life they have, on what occasions they will wear those necklaces… Because all this requires time I need to be at ease. I look for comfortable clothes: a big flannel shirt on top of a pair of leggings, or a man’s sweater, “robbed” from somewhere, on top of a pair of jeans, a cotton dress that I cover with a huge woolen jacquet. Any comfortable piece of cloth but that if anybody comes unexpectedly to visit you, you will not feel in panic.
So we now have our surfing clothes. For sure that now, because of the cold weather, we feel like having a drink while we are shopping for fashion jewelry for our friends. The perfect drink to have while buying online is tea. It is healthy, delicious, always inspires “warmth”. I love tea from Mariege Frères, reputed to be the best tea in the world. Even though they are from Paris, very much from Paris, we can also find them in Spain.
And what else do we need? May be some music. The great jazz women never let us down, so we open Spotify and we look for Sarah Vaughan. That’s it. We have the perfect ambiance. An afternoon of shopping.
PICK OF THE WEEK
Short necklace, Aros collection from Nadia Rabosio
You will like it if you like: the mixture of textures and materials. In this necklace, silver is combined with lava stone and the effect of silver with black works very well.
For women: who are not very timid; it is for sure that everybody will look at this necklace.
You can wear them with: any dress that you will use those holidays. With a silk top low-necked and a knot at the waist.
Why do we choose it: because it is one of the few accessories that you can mix with others of the same collection (like bracelets) without looking exaggerated. And because it is a limited edition.
Chaverdi is located in Banyoles (Spain). Everybody knows that Banyoles is nearby Figueres and Cadaqués. Everybody knows that those places are Dalí’s. Everybody knows that Dalí is one of the outstanding surrealist authors. And that Surrealism is one of the great movements of the 20th century. So far, everything is clear.
What not everybody knows is that in our way we wanted to pay a little tribute to Surrealism in a year where marvelous exhibitions are held to honor the creativity of this movement. For example, Pompidou in Paris exhibits up to January the 12th “The Subversion of the Images”, a review of pictures and surrealistic cinema. The MoMA in New York shows this movement with an erotic touch. The exposition is called “The Erotic Object” and you can visit it up to January the 4th.
And the theme of objects is of course very interesting to us. We aimed at designing a piece of fashion jewelry that is fun, that is a surprise, as if it would be a really weir, almost a surreal object. It is all about a double ring. It is an exclusive design, part of a limited edition, as everything we do.
Who said that one ring can only be for one finger?
Image: Man Ray. Painted hands. 1935
PICK OF THE WEEK
Silver plated ring with onix
Designed by Barbara Chimenti. Suite collection.
You will like it if you like: Elsa Shiaparelli ‘s dresses, strange and puzzling
objects from Meret Oppenheim.
For women: who keep a surprise on their fingers.
You can wear it with: nothing else. A ring is worn solo. Mix it with a balloon skirt,
with an up-to-the-ankle trousers, with a T-shirt of organic cotton. With a nice nail polish.
Why do we choose it: because it is an unexpected piece and we like to buy rings.
Image: Salvador Dalí. Teléfono Bogavante. 1937