Fashion Inspiration: WANESSA MILHOMEM for How to Spend it Magazine

How to spend it mag, Nov. 2010

Fashion Inspiration: GEORGIE BADIEL

Luxury African prints, hot colours + gorgeous looks of Georgie Badiel, a model from Burkina Faso who won the Miss Africa title in 2005, at the age of 17.
She has done shows for Oscar de la Renta, 3.1 Phillip Lim, and Bottega Veneta, Louis Vuitton, and Diana Von Furstenberg and a number of editorials in Vogue Gioello, Vogue Russia, i-D Magazine, Pop Magazine, and New York Magazine.
Here she's posing for Essence magazine, April, 2010.

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ALEK WEK for HOW TO SPEND IT Magazine

I have fallen in love with African fashion styles - huge spectrum of colours, bold prints, lots of massive jewelry, delicious fabrics, fanciful cuts and wraps! 











A huge fan of head wraps, me now revealing a surprising discovery about myself - I really like to have something BIG on my head! :D



Images via naturalbelleblog

{Arabian Cuisine} CHICKEN and SUMMER RADISH SALAD

This recipe is from one of my Arabic cookbooks and I like to make it once in a while. Only 3 main ingredients, but the salad is really delicious and filling.

1. Mix grated summer radish (it is advised to use an Asian sort, Daikon, as it has a milder flavor. But I always make it with simple green radish, very yummy!) and boiled chicken cut into thin stripes.
2. Decorate with walnuts and season with mayonnaise or thick yoghurt.
3. Salt to taste and sprinkle with black and white peppers.

Art Find: Noël Skrzypczak

Сomplicated tangles of drops, twists and streams of colour - I think, Noël Skrzypczak's paintings might be successfully used in colour therapy as well!

Cave Painting - 2006 - acrylic paint


Aqua - 2008 - Acrylic on canvas


My favourite one, Talking to birds (pink) - 2011 - Acrylic paint on canvas  

You might also like to read an interview with the artist on Design Files. I also welcome you to my Retro Lounge to see some lovely illustrations by Stephanie Levy.

A LOVELY HOUSE AT ALICUDI ISLAND

Today, let me take you away from all the dust and noise of the city life and welcome you to Alicudi, one of the 8 volcanic islands - Lipari (the largest one), Filicudi, Vulcano, Stromboli, Panarea, Basiluzzo and Salina - of Aeolian archipelago located in the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Sicily.

IN THE 80S, AN ITALIAN JOURNALIST AND WRITER GIOVANNA NIGI AND HER HUSBAND SETTLED AT ALICUDI WHICH SINCE THEN, HAS BECOME A PLACE OF THEIR PERMANENT RESIDENCE.

 A SUNLIT TERRACE OVERLOOKING THE BOUNDLESS SEA SURFACE...



 THE HOSTS DECIDED AGAINST ANY RENOVATIONS LEAVING THE ROOMS SERVE THE WAY THEY WERE MANY YEARS BEFORE.  MOST OF THE FURNITURE WAS BOUGHT RIGHT AT THE ISLAND ITSELF.

Some interesting facts about Alicudi: Alicudi offers just few facilities: a hotel with a restaurant, another restaurant, roads which are not clearly outlined, few grocery shops, a post office without fixed opening hours and a doctor. Life developed for a long time until the last decade of the last century, without electricity or television. You will be stunned by the simplicity of every day’s life of its 100 inhabitants. The island that some years ago was Mafiosi’s prison is today inhabited by farmers and fishermen. {via sicilia-by-divino}

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Images of the house: scans from Maison Française magazine. 
Photographer: Giorgio Possenti / Vega MG


P.S. You might also like to see my post about a cactus garden at Salina island here.

SONAM KAPOOR FILMFARE LOOKS

Did you miss fashion posts here? ;P Here's a stunning photo session of Sonam Kapoor for FilmFare magazine (in two parts(!) Just scroll down to see the second one).

I would say that, besides Aishwarya Rai, I can name Sonam as my favorite modern actress too. I like her in movies and watching her being interviewed or featured in printed media is also pleasant - she's got a sunny, light personality spreading positive vibes all around, very natural, and always very stylish and classy, as well.

SONAM KAPOOR FILMFARE LOOKS ~ II