I've been talking about it a lot * week 48 (I counted)

A string of opinionated random thoughts.

I want you to pay attention to this picture as a fine example of Italian style. Not French, not influecer-ed putting things together, because if you pretend to be Italian, we smell it from far away. It’s the borrowed from the boys, the disruptive element, no need for makeup or obnoxious long tip nails, but she, for sure, has her signature fragrance, she doesn’t owe pretty to anyone.

So here we need a plan, not for Thanksgiving only, but a recipe for survival.

A little bit of Anthony Bourdain with a little bit of Martha Stewart sprinkled with some Mary from RHOSLC, but remember Diana Vreeland when you get dressed. Not dressing up, just dressing please and use all your wardrobe.

I may have bought this cape at the Lessico Familiare sample sale over a couple of Whatsapp messages.

Xmas List of Gifts You’d Never Buy for Yourself (contd.)

• Fibershed Beanie Kit Do you know what Fibershed is? Have you heard of regenerative agriculture?

• The Aureola Axè headband from the Superduper Hats Archive Sale

• This is NOT a banana for $6.2 million

• Can you imagine volunteering to participate in a conservation safari in Africa? In my bucket list top 5s. Also, the founder, Yvette Ayala, is a friend.

• I am a collector of earcuffs and Carolina is the jewelry designer responsible for it.

• This is a gift for everyone mature enough to understand the need to use proper gender-neutral pronouns. I am thinking of a Thanksgiving gathering, for example, and anyone courageous enough to attempt to explain to the Karens of the world that it’s not that complicated, it’s actually as if we were to call them, I don’t know, chearenz or carina or key … they would make it a point to correct you.

Hate

• HOKA sneakers

• People ostentatiously tan give me toxic vibes. Now, if you are one, please graciously prove me wrong.

• I have this thing against the Belgian mocassins, not against people who wear them and spend their fortune in them and swear by them being chic or the ultimate sophistication, I can’t get by them esthetically. I don’t like them in a man nor in a woman, I am more fascinated by someone wearing some real Friulane with some chic af cashmere socks. IMHO

How do you say it in Italian?

Oh bellino!

When you know you are right and you need to shut someone up. It’s a notch before entering in a fight, it’s a gracious warning, said with a smile, that you are better stop the nonsense.