First Look – “Validated: The Makeup of Val Garland”

May 15, 2018 by Raluca Stoica

In the backstage of fashion shows there is always a creative atmosphere, an ongoing process thought for months, where everything has to go perfectly according to the vision of designers and the makeup artists have to create the exact vision in a relatively short time. There is such a teamwork where coordination has to be perfect, and Val Garland, with her infinite creative genius, has been doing it for 30 years. We live in between two worlds, the tangible one […]

Categories: books, fashion, news • Tags: book, makeup, val garland, Validated The Makeup of Val Garland

Italian Cuisine – At The Table With Missoni Family

May 7, 2018 by Raluca Stoica

The Missonis are well-known for their colorful, vivid and dynamic vision of life which they all share and express so lovely through fashion. But they do have another passion – the love for cooking! It’s been in the making for seven years and now it has finally seen the light – The Missoni Family Cook Book at Assouline Editions– a gathering of 130 family recipes passed down for four generations. Francesco Maccapani Missoni, together with his gorgeous grandmother, Rosita Missoni and with […]

Categories: books, fashion, food, news • Tags: cook book, food, Francesco Maccapani Missoni, Italian cuisine, missoni, recipe, The Missoni Family Cook Book

This is Not a F*cking Street Style Book by Adam Katz Sinding

February 28, 2018 by Raluca Stoica

Born in San Francisco but based in Copenhagen, Adam Kats Sinding is a cult fashion week photographer, on the move 300 days per year, working with magazines like Vogue and W, gathering the material that now makes the subject of his book – This is Not a F*cking Street Style Book. The title is pretty succint – “Generally, street style is a lie yet people eat that shit up, believing that they are seeing something organic. But then we have the likes […]

Categories: art, books, fashion • Tags: adam katz sinding, fashion book, news, photography, street style, This is Not a F*cking Street Style Book

Sunday Readings – 3 Books That Will Change Your Life Perception

February 18, 2018 by Raluca Stoica

There are so many ways to enlarge our world and I believe that – along with travelling which I am addicted to, for it connects you instantly to the culture of the places and people’s customs – reading adds up a new value to our lives. What can be best than people sharing their life experiences with the  solid purpose of opening new perspectives and new doors towards our evolution? Always have been a reading lover and today I bring […]

Categories: books, thoughts • Tags: books, eck, eckhart tolle, personal development, rich dad poor dad, robert kiyosaki, the power of intention, wayne dyer

Art Has No Limits – Food Couture by Gretchen Röehrs

February 17, 2018 by Raluca Stoica

Meet Gretchen Röehrs, amazing artist and designer who’s illustrations become the subject of a book, and a quite interesting one –  “A Fashion Feast for the Eyes, From Banana Peel Jumpsuits to Kale Frocks”. Her work has been featured in famous publications like The New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, among others. Here is a sneak peak from her book, released on 13th of February 2018. Harper’s Bazaar Interview: What’s the story behind using food in your fashion illustrations? Gretchen Roehrs: It all […]

Categories: art, books, fashion

LouLou de la Falaise – A Fashion Icon and A Muse

October 27, 2014 by Raluca Stoica

LouLou de la Falaise – the eternal muse, and the first to have inspirited with her bold yet elegant style, was Yves Saint Laurent – a genius of the era, born in Algeria, with an almost inhuman sense of aesthetics and beauty. They first met five years after Yves and Pierre Berge, his life and business partner, opened up the eponymous fashion house – Yves Saint Laurent, back in 1963. She was his muse for thirty years, and became a close friend that […]

Categories: books, fashion • Tags: LouLou de la Falaise, Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni, Pierre Bergé, yves saint laurent

The Dress – A New Fashion Gift from Rizzoli

October 27, 2014 by Raluca Stoica

Publisher Rizzoli, New York, famous for its books about fashion, prepared another gift for all the aesthetes – this October they published The Dress. The book contains the most inspiring dresses in the history of modern fashion – Prada, Alexander McQueen and Chanel, the legendary white dress of Marilyn Monroe from “The Seven Year Itch,” Audrey Hepburn’s black Givenchy, Princess Diana‘s wedding dress, and others – a collection of 100 illustrations realised by Megan Hess ( The international fashion illustrator […]

Categories: books, fashion • Tags: illustrations, megan hess, Rizzoli, the dress

Westwood About Her Abusive Love Story

September 22, 2014 by Raluca Stoica

As i brought to your attention in a previous post, one of the most anticipated books of fashion industry, showcasing the life of controversary Vivienne Westwood is about to see the light. Inside the book Westwood talks about the emotional and physical abuse she suffered with her former love, and father of her younger son, Malcom McLaren, the manager of Sex Pistols. “Because he’s dead, I don’t mind saying this: he behaved incredibly cruelly. Professionally, personally, in every way. I […]

Categories: books, fashion, people • Tags: Malcolm McLaren, news, vivienne westood

Vivienne Westwood Unveils The Story Of Her Life

August 14, 2014 by Raluca Stoica

The british fashion icon, Vivienne Westood, decided to unveil the story of her life with a biographical book, for the first time ever, written by the designer herself with the contribution of renowed biographer, Ian Kelly. A controversal figure in the fashion and political world, Vivienne gathered together 464 pages of wild and glamorous life, with friends like Naomi Campbell, Pamela Anderson and Prince Charles contributing anecdotes during the two years needed for the writing of the book. The story begins […]

Categories: books, design • Tags: culture, Fashion design, Malcolm McLaren, Sex Pistols, vivienne westwood