El Básico nº 2: La Camisa Blanca

La camisa blanca masculina o femenina, manga larga o corta, sencilla o con frunces, jaretas, encaje, con botones o con gemelos, abrochada o no.

versión masculina

versión hiper-femenina

Haircut

Words of
Wisdom
at the
Hairdresser´s

Why do we women concentrate so much in our weak
 points and not in our strong points or achievements?

Why are we our worst and cruellest critics?

Who will love us if we don´t love and respect ourselves?

 

 

So, don´t be so hard on your weight, big bottom, your dull brown eyes, love affairs, poor style, short   budget for shopping, chocolate addiction,...

Think about your smile, sense of humour, artistic picture-taking,  your  delicious fruit salads, your  beautiful shiny short hair and your unsinkable and unbreakable optimism.

 

 

Consuelo Castiglione el alma de Marni

Consuelo Castiglioni (born 1959) is a fashion designer. She is part Chilean and was raised in Italian-Swiss town of Lugano, Switzerland.
Though she has no training in fashion, she founded the fashion label Marni in 1994, and the line has recently risen to prominence. She is married to Gianni Castiglioni, who is Marni's CEO.Their daughter Carolina runs the online store.

In 2009 she worked with Kim Gordon on geometric designs for Marni. The brand now exceeds $100 million sales per year and is worn by celebrities such as Cindy Sherman, Kyra Sedgwick and Gwyneth Paltrow. Castiglioni was ranked in the 2010 “100 most creative people in business”.

^{taken from Wikipedia} 

La colección salío a la venta el pasado 8 de marzo (día de la mujer trabajadora) de 2012 y se vendió en menos de una media hora.

Según las revistas:

Ante la avalancha, muchos de los fans de la firma, fundada y dirigida por Consuelo Castiglioni, no han dudado en desprender la ropa de los maniquíes ni en desmontar los escaparates, como se ha podido ver en una tienda de la Gran Vía de Madrid.

"Ha sido tremendo, qué momentos tan intensos, la colección ha durado menos de cinco minutos en toda España", ha confirmado el responsable de comunicación de H&M.

"Vengo dispuesta a arrasar con esta colección. Soy de Bilbao y he llegado a las cuatro y media de la madrugada", ha comentado Eider Arechabala, de 22 años, a las puertas de la tienda de Gran Vía, 32 minutos antes de que abriera sus puertas.

My day has been like a ride on a rollercoaster. I got up quite early to finish some work I had been putting off. I didn´t mind getting up early. The house is alwasys very quiet  at 5 am and I have time to plan my day ahead. I left home as usual but driving and I got stuck in the rush hour. It might have been an accident because we didn´t move for at least ten minutes. I phone my school to tell I was going to be late. Inside the car I felt like an ant, like a water molecule in the sea, like a very small insect. I really hate traffic jams and detest being late for work.Ten minutes after the first class began I got to my high school feeling down but one of my students greeted me with a big smile in her face and I felt better. Then the rest of the classes went on smoothly. After the Easter break we are starting the third term and my goal is to get my students back to work at the right pace. I am a bit stressed because my junior classes have  many  underachievers who are just happy and not worried about their results. In Spain, Bachillerato students in state schools are allowed to repeat and stay as Juniors por another year. In one of the classes I have students over seventen when they should be  Seniors. They get low marks but they haven´t made any effort in order to change the situation. After classes I went to my parents¨flat and had lunch on my own because I usually finish classes at twenty past two and it takes me half an hour to drive to my parents´. So when I got there it was half past three. My father´s surgical operation has been a success and he is recovering fast. My mother is not so well because her heart has been damaged  somehow and... this makes me anxious, sometimes sad. Today I have not eaten diet food. Though dieting is very important to me right now. I need too things badly: my piece of mind and loosing  the  few extra pounds that are stealing my energy and drive. I want to fly not to limp.
In the evening I decided to use some saving coupons  to invest in cosmetics and hurry to get there in time. I failed, when I arrived it was alreadly closed so I changed my mind and went shopping for a good read. I love "La casa del Libro", a big book shop near my place. I  bought :

The summer without men, by  Siri Hustvedt
(quite promising)