5 days to Winter

It's almost July and although SPFW is showing us summer collections on the runway, there are still six long months of cardigans, , stockings, and gloves waiting for us. I hate to admit I feel a little depressed when reading international magazines I notice a good part of the world is ready to enjoy sandals, sunglasses and LWDs but the idea of having hot chocolates and blankets (not to mention the colorful scarves and the possibility of dressing all black even when the sun is shining) are my way to feel excited for the winter and learn to appreciate long city walks as much as I enjoy a sunny day at the beach.

My SPFW outift

Gloria Coelho's catwalk

Vintage glasses

The surprisingly good coincidence of finding out my sister was wearing very similar to me when I met her for lunch last Sunday.

Walking around town

There are lots of beautiful places in Sao Paulo and I specifically appreciate the architecture of the city center. Last week I had the opportunity to walk around and take some pictures as I visited Escher's exposition in a gallery there.

It was a sunny though cold day and I just loved to walk around all that old buildings as I am not used to seeing them in my neighborhood.

Stockings, winter shoes and the mix of brown and gray

Inside the gallery where I saw Escher's works

Farm

This weekend I've done a short visit to Farm store (which was near the place I had lunch) and I was amazed.

I've already seen the project in magazines but I've never really visited the store. It's full of green, the project is amazing and the clothes (no surprise) are as funny and colorful as they always were.

I could easily spend the day sitting in one of those enormous pillows of the changing room and looking to the trees around. It's not only a store, but a refugee in the middle of the city.

Catarina's Sunday look

Perfect colorful socks to welcome the winter

Fashion Mother

For a long time I've been in love with my mothers classic style and I guess one of the things that made me love fashion was watching the way she dresses every morning and how her closet is beautifully organized (something I hope I'll learn to do with my own some day...).

The day I saw her wearing this outfit (which includes handbag and shoe I am particularly in love with since I first saw) I decided to take some pictures.

Happy mother's day! :]

Partying vintage

A couple (or maybe a bit more) weeks ago, I had a sudden wish to photograph my friends during, before and after a saturday night party. Although wearing simple clothes, they kind of inspired me and moreover, proved that a good outfit has more to do with behave than accessories.

First picture: during the party

before the party

after the party

Asking why were we "Partying Vintage"? These amazing floral dress my friend was wearing was her mothers. What goes around, comes around!

Why? (I can't stop asking myself...)

There's one thing I have to write to you, as I am too confused to think about anything right now. (I guess I need some therapy or I'll just wait until my next philosophy class to be fine again).

As I was saying, be careful with your dreams and ask yourself if they are really worth your life (or may I say, are they a way to happiness?)

Is life really worth it all, anyway? The sun will keep rising when you die and everything will stay the same. Why all this effort to have things in our minds if we could just try harder to be who we are? How do I hate pressure...

Catching inspiration

Recently I asked myself about the different ways people can see the world. There are tons of people using their brain to reflect differently about what they see around.

Although my lack of inspiration to create my own stuff, my eyes are helping me to photograph nice things I see around and I started to appreciate street style and the way people can dress and live differently according to their personality. Therefore I am collecting all information I can find cause the world is inspiring me :]. Hope you like this post about some of my last week inspiration pictures...

first picture: nice shoes from south Brazil walking on a friday evening with their happy owner

Audrey Hepburn's face on a handbag bought in London

A cute (and pink!) bistrô

melted candles on rainbow colors on the way into a restaurant.

Breakfast on a rainy Sunday morning looks

I can't help loving party shoes with socks. What do you think?

I need some time

I've been extremely stressed due to the number of things I have to do every week. Not only I am having school exams terrifying enough to make me have nightmares and don't have time to post (thanks, chemistry); I try to manage good grades, quality time, sleep hours and art classes; and yet, I've been missing my sewing machine since ever.

As I am not having time to post anything better (although I'm dying to talk about long skirts!) these are some photos I collected this past month...

art classes homework

Nice shorts my friend was wearing

a wonderful view only one hour away from the city

people I liked to photograph while on traffic after school

long skirts! I just have to post something about it...

nice books I like to read at the bookstore

The first copy of Alexa Mulberry bag I saw in Brazil. The original one is this one

School is cool

Waking up every single morning would be way harder than it is if I didn't spice up my day with a little bit of fashion. Although I can't really wear what I want for school (talk about sunglasses, skirts, any kind of heels or dresses and they'd all call me crazy) the exercise of matching something wearable and accepted in a unfortunately too casual place like my school became one of the only fun parts of my demanding day of homework and classes.

The past week, while thinking about something to post about Brazil, I noticed the alarming different kinds of influence we have from all over the world in our way to dress (and even school uniforms are included when the game includes north american roots).

These are a very few (as it was a short one-week research) of all of the interesting things I found related to education (or dressing up while being educated).

First pic: My too casual school outfit that included a little bit of sparkle on my "Gorgeous" sweater.

The typical american school uniform that my sister wears. I guess I'll never get tired of this skirts matched with basic flats...

Havaianas, Jeans, sweater and Longchamp bag: Just another day I felt lost in the middle of the crowd of jeans and t-shirts...

For football practice, my sister's friend made me fall in love with the feminist edge the color pink gave to the shoes...

Converse and mini shorts are some of the summer traditional pieces around my school...

I simply felt in love with this school bag that I liked to describe as a modern cliché; which reminds me of the perfect school bag not usually seen around. My sister definitively is going to let me borrow this next week...

These are a few of my favorite things

Unfortunately, my NY posts came to an end (what means I'll have to find some Brazillian inspiration to post for a while) and as this is the last post from Big Apple, I decided to show you the things I like as much as "The Sound of Music" (Julie Andrew's amazing movie mentioned here and, if never watched, you must go to your house nearest Blockbuster and watch it this weekend).

fists pic: somewhere near the Statue of Liberty

Mini ice cream cones at the Limelight Marketplace

floral boots for less than 20 dollars

Snow covered chairs.

Could it be any cutter?

winter trees (something I really wish I had here...)