Edita reads | To Die For By Lucy Siegle
To Die For: Is Fashion Wearing Out the World? Changed me? No. I have to admit – I am not the greenest fashion wearer. To say that this book completely changed the way I was buying fashion I also can’t....
View ArticleEdita reads | Fashion Babylon by Imogen Edwards-Jones
Sometime ago, a co-worker of mine came up to me and said: “You can’t like fashion and not have read this”. Afterwards, she slapped the book on my desk. So, we decided to do a book exchange. She handed...
View ArticleEdita reads | Eva Perón. The Woman with the Whip
Eva Perón is definitely an icon of something. Perhaps an icon of a woman who came from nothing and left life having everything. Reading up on her online, I have never seen such black and such white –...
View ArticleEdita reports | Alexa Chung’s It paperback launch and chat
“Do not leave until they kick you out. The later it gets, the better it gets.” Alexa Chung – It*To know a person doesn’t actually mean to know trivial or biographical facts about them, it is to...
View ArticleEdita reports | Meeting Diane von Furstenberg
“I’ve never known what I wanted to do but I’ve always known the kind of woman I wanted to be.” Diane von Furstenberg Success is when a complicated surname rolls off the tongue around the world without...
View ArticleEdita reads | Paris Street Style: Shoes by Isabelle Thomas and Frederique...
There was that one time when I was a bit feverish and I told my boyfriend: “Could you please find a zero brain work movie for us to watch? I need some mind numbness.” He then found a really bad Steven...
View ArticleEdita reads | Piaget
When I was a teen, I remember hating watches. I thought they were just plain ugly pieces that one was supposed to wear when he was older. I now know why I felt this way – I had no good examples to...
View ArticleEdita reads | Couture Wedding Gowns by Marie Bariller
We place so much expectation on a wedding dress. It has to be the “one”, “the” dress, the “most important dress a woman will wear in her life”. Sounds very stressful, if you ask me. Since we’re on the...
View ArticleEdita reads | The Art of Bedouin Jewellery by Heather Colyer Ross
This book is an amazing profile of Saudi Arabia and the jewellery pieces specific to each region of the Kingdom. What I personally enjoyed looking at was the map of how semi-precious and precious...
View ArticleEdita reads | Alexander McQueen – Genius of a Generation by Kristin Knox
I’m gonna tell you something you don’t want to hear I’m gonna show you where it’s dark, but have no fear. – Kavinsky – Nightcall I really wanted to write about the Savage Beauty exhibit at the V&A...
View ArticleEdita reads | Brooklyn Street Style by Shawn Dahl and Anya Sacharow
Brooklyn Street Style: The No-Rules Guide to Fashion by Shawn Dahl and Anya Sacharow is not really a book about Brooklyn and its style icons. No. It is a book about you, the reader. It is about how...
View ArticleEdita reads | Edie: Girl on Fire by Melissa Painter and David Weisman
Edie’s life was a dream. In the end she just had to wake up. I genuinely have no other way of describing it. If you are interested in the life and times of Edith Minturn Sedgwick, you won’t want to...
View ArticleEdita reads | Andrew Gallimore by Rankin
You know it’s a good coffee table book when you simply can’t put it down. There are no words, just visuals. Addictive, addictive visuals. I am talking about Andrew Gallimore by Rankin. If you are into...
View ArticleEdita Reads | Under Another Light: Jewels and Ornaments Gianfranco Ferrè
Flicking through the pages of Under Another Light: Jewels and Ornaments Gianfranco Ferrè felt like looking into a mirror. Here I see Ferrè without a certain consistency. Yes, the architect of fashion...
View ArticleEdita reads | Mario Valentino by Ornella Cirillo
Is Mario Valentino THE Valentino? You know, Valentino Valentino. Or is he a different Valentino? Is he maybe a rip-off Valentino? Or is he the Valentino from the catwalks? Also, what is this Valentino...
View ArticleEdita reports | Alexa Chung’s It Paperback Launch
“Do not leave until they kick you out. The later it gets, the better it gets.” Alexa Chung – It*To know a person doesn’t actually mean to know trivial or biographical facts about them, it is to...
View ArticleEdita reports | Meeting Diane Von Furstenberg
“I’ve never known what I wanted to do but I’ve always known the kind of woman I wanted to be.” Diane von Furstenberg Success is when a complicated surname rolls off the tongue around the world without...
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