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 Minimalism vs prints.

Minimalism has always been my thing. I'm a true believer in the stament that: -less is more.- 

Therefore i have never been a huge fan of the 80's style or the 80's comeback that has been seen around in the fashion scene for the last couple of years. I'm not attracted to shoulder pads or big hair or any of those characteristic 80's trends (i must say i do love the stripped t-shirts and the blazers that came out of that era. I mean, i don't hate the 80's that much) so, seeing that sort of things in fashion magazines, over and over again made me want to stop buying them, however, i must confess that i didn't accomplished that goal (i did stop buying so many magazines, i just bought few of them) and i'm glad i didn't. Because reading fashion magazines is how i met the wonderful and unique: Phoebe Philo.

Phoebe Philo is truly one of the most talented designers of her generation. She is only 38 years old and has already created some of the most unforgettable items that Chloé had to offer. Because, she was the one behind the great recent years that the french house has had. But what she has done for “Céline” is something special (yeah, my dear Readers, even more special than the wonderful things she did with Chloé) something that is my list of most interesting creations of 2011. Who else is in that list? The creative Christopher Kane who made simple but very eye catching dresses with plastic! And they actually look great! I love the one that Alexa Chung wore at the MET’s Gala and the galaxy-print pieces from his collection showed that there is still a lot of originality within the fashion industry and, he made me want to wear prints! Even when, as I said in the beginning of this article, I’m not a huge fan of them!

To be honest, there was a time when I was a huge fan of prints, then I started to hate them and stop wearing them. I fell in love with minimalism and wore simple things, but after that I realize that I love flower prints (galaxy prints have become another obsession, thank you Mr. Kane!)  and I also love simple fabrics, so the solution was balance, I could wear something with a cute print and match it with something more simple. I thought that editorials that praised the 90’s minimalism (that oddly enough, isn’t a favorite era of mine) were boring and the ones who praised prints were too 80’s, until I saw Phoebe Philo’s collection for Céline and found the perfect balance between something simple, chic, beautiful, sexy, eye catching, all in one piece. The items that she created have a mysterious quality that makes you starred at them while you’re trying to figure out the inspiration that is behind them.

Did fashion teach me a lesson this year? Of course! It showed me that it continues to evolve, that there are plenty of talented people out there who can make us love things we always claimed we hate.

So long live, fashion on 2012!

Minimalism vs prints.

Minimalism has always been my thing. I'm a true believer in the stament that: -less is more.- 

Therefore i have never been a huge fan of the 80's style or the 80's comeback that has been seen around in the fashion scene for the last couple of years. I'm not attracted to shoulder pads or big hair or any of those characteristic 80's trends (i must say i do love the stripped t-shirts and the blazers that came out of that era. I mean, i don't hate the 80's that much) so, seeing that sort of things in fashion magazines, over and over again made me want to stop buying them, however, i must confess that i didn't accomplished that goal (i did stop buying so many magazines, i just bought few of them) and i'm glad i didn't. Because reading fashion magazines is how i met the wonderful and unique: Phoebe Philo.

Phoebe Philo is truly one of the most talented designers of her generation. She is only 38 years old and has already created some of the most unforgettable items that Chloé had to offer. Because, she was the one behind the great recent years that the french house has had. But what she has done for “Céline” is something special (yeah, my dear Readers, even more special than the wonderful things she did with Chloé) something that is my list of most interesting creations of 2011. Why? Well, here is my explanation:

To be honest, there was a time when I was a huge fan of prints, then I started to hate them and stop wearing them. I fell in love with minimalism and wore simple things, but after that I realize that I love flower prints (galaxy prints have become another obsession, thank you Mr. Kane!)  and I also love simple fabrics, so the solution was balance, I could wear something with a cute print and match it with something more simple.  I thought that editorials that praised the 90’s minimalism (that oddly enough, isn’t a favorite era of mine) were boring and the ones who praised prints were too 80’s, until I saw Phoebe Philo’s collection for Céline and found the perfect balance between something simple, chic, beautiful, sexy, eye catching, all in one piece. The items that she created have a mysterious quality that makes you starred at them while you’re trying to figure out the inspiration that is behind them.

Did Phoebe teach me a lesson this year? Of course! It showed me that it continues to evolve, that there are plenty of talented people out there who can make us love things we always claimed we hate.

In other words: I can’t wait to see Céline’s new collection on 2012!.

Make up. Every woman has a thought about make up. It might be negative, it might be positive, but you can’t find a woman who doesn’t know or think about make up. Even the ones who claim that make up is an unnecessary thing have an opinion about it.

For me, the importance of make up it (like fashion itself) says more about ourselves than anything else. When you look at somebody’s face you get an idea of who that person is. If she wears lots of black tones and a whiter foundation than her actual skin tone, she might be a fan of dark metal, if she wears lots of bright colors she might be a performer who is ready to take the stage or might be a music fan who is heading to a concert; who knows? And even when I barely wear cosmetics (I only eye shadow and lip-gloss) I love looking at the latest looks that make up artists create for fashion shows at Fashion Weeks. And since I tried to look at most of the make up looks created for fashion shows I think I can tell which wear my personal favorites. So here I go:

Vena Cava fall 2011: Christian McCulloch created an awesome look that completed the grunge inspired-pieces that Vena Cava presented. The glitter used in the eyes made this look a must-try in my list

Peter Som spring 2011: I have a thing for eyes. Probably my favorite parts of face are the eyes, because they express everything that (sometimes) we can’t actually say. So, when make up artists use some creative form of pointing them out, it gets into my favorites list.

In this case, the talented Tom Pecheux used an interesting eye linear color (yellow) for the models’ eyes who looked amazing alongside Peter Som’s clothing.

And those are my two favorite make up looks from 2011. It was a great year for cosmetics. Very interesting products were released: Givenchy’s Blush Gelée, for example. But for me, those two were my choices of favorite make up looks, why? Because they have two important features: 1 They’re simple, yet they’re total awesome runaway looks and 2 Anyone can try it and won’t look ridiculous with it. You don’t need to be an expert for creating them in your face.

Hope you like them as much as I did. Happy new year!

Debe de ser difícil tratar de iniciar tu propio camino cuando hubo alguien muy cercano a tí que ya lo recorrió antes que tú; tan cercano como...que tal...tus propios padres.

Ésa es una situación polémica y relativamente común en el medio artístico. Donde hijos de grandes artistas intentan dedicarse a lo mismo que sus padres. A veces lo hacen con éxito, a veces no, sin embargo, siempre llevan consigo un gran peso y un escrutinio mediático enorme que influye de una manera u otra, en su obra.

Yo misma he vivido esa situación. Claro, yo no soy hija de celebridades, sin embargo, mi familia ha estado ligada al mundo académico y científico desde hace varias generaciones. El ejemplo más directo es mi mamá, quien tuvo cargos importantes en museos y logró la construcción de un museo en Mulegé, Baja California Sur, para la difusión de la cultura de la pequeña y hermosa población. Entonces, cuando yo tenía cinco años tomé la decisión (si es que se puede tomar una decisión a esa edad) de que quería ser paleontóloga. Esa idea duró un par de años, en los cuales fui víctima de cierto escepticismo por parte de algunos miembros de mi familia (un tío mío es un biólogo y el otro precisamente paleontólogo, cada uno brillantes en su campo, especialmente el primero) Y era normal que dudarán de que mi deseo fuera duradero ya que yo sólo era una mocosa con ideas bastante fantaseosas; pero por otro lado, sus constantes dudas ayudaron a que finalmente encontrara mi verdadera vocación (aunque como buena adolescente que todavía soy, dudo mucho al respecto) y me alejara de un campo dominado por mi familia.

Estoy perfectamente de acuerdo, en que esa presión no se compara -en otras palabras: no les llego ni a los talones- en la carga que debió de haber sido para gente como Sofia Coppola (hija del fabuloso Francis Ford Coppola) o Michael Douglas (cuyo padre es el inolvidable Kirk Douglas) ¡ejemplos sobran! sin embargo, las dos personas que nombré con anterioridad han logrado tener éxito propio, incluso ocasionando que mucha gente olvide los nombres de sus célebres padres.

Sofia Coppola, por ejemplo, ha contado como el terrible escrutinio público la ayudó a olvidar sus múltiples ambiciones (había intentado actuar, tomar fotos, diseñar ropa e incluso tener su propio show de televisión) para concentrarse en el campo familiar que tanto había evadido: la dirección cinematográfica. Y fue ahí donde resultó ser tan talentosa como el padre.

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