the fashion bistrot: 2014

2014, beauty, blog, evening, fancy, fashion, fitness, food, hair, hairstyle, hairstyles, harry styles, healthy, life, lifestyle, love, makeup, onedirection, routine, style

Braided ladies!

1:26 AM

Simple, messy, french, dutch, braids are always a classy way to style your hair and bring that romantic feel to any look!

I personally love braided updos and they look fantastic when you're all dressed up for some fancy event or an important dinner: I still remember Mary Kate Olsen's iconic hair which used to hit the red carpet carrying such a chic 20s inspired elegance.

Here there are a couple of my attempts to style my hair in a braided look! I love to wear them like this because they're super easy to do and they look even better and with more texture when you have lighter and darker pieces of hair braided together.
They're also a great strategy to style second day hair!

Hope you enjoyed, x

V.

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2014, beauty, bloglovin, breakfast, dinner, fitness, food, greens, health, healthy, ideas, inspirational, love, lunch, meals, natural, regime, slim, smoothies, veggies

Healthy lunch/dinner ideas!

1:14 AM

Hi guys!
Lately I've been trying to eat healthier and choose types of food which provide more energy and give a boost to my metabolism!
Being aware of the different proprieties of the food we eat is really important and can help you from avoiding mistakes you don't even know you're making.
I decided to show you a few ideas which are both lunch and dinners that I've been eating lately: I tried to make them as healthy and balanced as possible!

Salads ideas:

1. boiled spinaches, avocado, stir fried yellow peppers and tuna

2. boiled spinaches, stir fried cherry tomatoes, avocado and cooked surimi with a sprinkle of parsley

Steamed spinaches mixed with egg whites and tuna and a side of stir fried mushrooms with onion and parsley

Egg with mushrooms and parsley and a side of oven baked asparagus and green beans

Stir fried red peppers and tomatoes with one egg with tuna on top

Whole pasta with homemade sauce: yellow peppers, tomato sauce, one melted anchovy, a few drops of aromatic vinegar, a bit of sea salt and olive oil to cook.

Optional: I also made a topping sauce to add more proteins to the whole meal! It's totally optional! You can make it with a bit of margarine, one teaspoon of cheese of your choice (I used fresh italian parmisan cheese but you can use any other cheese or tofu), two table spoon of any milk of your choice and a bit of sea salt and nutmeg. If you want it to be a bit more creamy you can add one single tea spoon of whole or plain flour (make sure to sift it out).

Steamed shrimps, egg whites omelette with pepper and nutmeg, avocado and a slice of whole grain bread

Cooked surimi, stir fried shrimps with parsley and boiled Brussels sprouts.

I hope you found this post useful and that you can be a bit inspired by my ideas!

love,
V. x

2014, best times, fashion, fashionblogger, fashioncafe, flats, get the look, harrystyles, inspiration, inspired, italy, lace, london, love, quotes, thoughts, trends, vintage

Fashion thoughts: from past to future

5:29 PM

Hi guys!

The other day I was thinking about some old fashioned memories that came in my mind after watching the style changes which happen these days.
Do you remember when our mothers or grandmothers told us not to throw away clothes because "maybe they will come back in fashion"? It happened all the time to me!
What we all used to do was probably throwing them in the bottom of a drawer and forgetting about them.

But of course, fashion industry is so unpredictable that decided to revive piece of clothing that we would have never thought to be even close to be seen around again. Just think about skater skirts, bow ties, sneakers combined with smart dresses and, expecially for us 90's kids, crop tops and bell-bottom pants!
I personally love this way of getting inspired by the past while creating the style of the present and the future; it's like adding a new story to every piece of clothing.
I've always liked wearing my mother's or my grandmother's clothes because it almost felt like wearing a piece of them and a piece of the experiences, laughs and emotions they lived and felt while wearing them.
As I once read in a book, it's like wearing the dress who has been to the ball and in which somebody danced all night.
Fashion is something that you can only live and create and you can't really explain but I think that keeping a piece of the past in some of our beautiful and new style ideas of the future will make them even more meaningful; at the same time I think that beside them there are fresh, unique, and more and more creative styles which have to be in the front row as well! They keep us from getting bored and from having lack of originality!
I got inspired doing a couple of moodboards for a scholarship contest, so I decided to share them here too! As you may notice one of them has personal pics taken by my family or by me!

Hope you enjoyed and let me know what you think of fashion revivals and which ones are your favourite!

V. x

2014, blog, fashion, harrystyles, love, onedirection, photo, photography, polaroid, thegoldenwear

My old Polaroid :)

1:46 PM

This morning I was trying to decide which new camera to buy and I started thinking about my old Polaroid: I remember when my brother and I were little and we used to take photos of everything with our Polaroids and hang them around the house.

I searched everywhere in my basement and I finally found it!
I can't wait to order the films from an online shop I found and start taking old school pictures.

In the meantime, enjoy a photo of my brother and myself in 1996 :)

2014, denim, diy, fashion, golden, inspiration, inspired, jacket, jeans, rock, rocker, shirt, spring, studded, studs, summer, vest, wear

DIY FEAT. OLD DENIM SHIRT!

4:38 PM

Today, while I was cleaning up my closet, I found an old denim shirt which was my mum's! I decided to use it to make a studded denim vest! Here are the pictures, step by step!

Hope you like it!

Take a (old) denim shirt

Cut off the sleeves

Make dots where you want to put the studs

Choose the type of stud you like the most

(I chose this one)

Apply the studs

And you're done!

Hope you enjoyed!
x

2014, blog, chanel, cheap, decor, diy, espadrillas, fashion, fashionblogger, flats, get the look, high, inspired, logo, love, luxury, ready, shoes, spring, summer

DIY CHANEL ESPADRILLAS!

4:27 PM

Hello! Today I have a DIY project for you: in the past months I've been loving all the espadrillas by Chanel, expecially the black ones with the straw sole and the leather logo and I thought they were funny to make! So here you find the tutorial step by step!

- Get a pair of espadrillas which are similar to the Chanel ones that you like the most

(local store, 15 €)

- Take a piece of fake leather and cut out two Chanel logos

-Do the same thing on a really thin fabric and make some fringes around the border to give a distressed effect
-Now sew them with the leather ones

-Glue them on the espadrillas with a hot glue gun

Et voilá!

Hope you enjoyed!
x

V.

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