Blow out your candles,dear! 'cause I'm wishing you sugar and spice and everything nice.. !

Today it's my BFF's, Kadri-Ann's birthday and I just called her. I'm so happy for her, she told me it was her best birthday ever as she was surprised last night with a party at her place!! I have always been a lover of these kind of things and it's sad I couldn't be there with everybody else. But we'll make it even. Anyway, we have been friends for already five years, but to me it seems like a life-time! She really is unreplaceable for me.

Here are some pictures of her/us, some of which are from our trip to France and Sardegna this summer!

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So honey, if you read this, I wish you again happy happy happy birthday, I wish you a delightful year, full of exitment and adventures, a little bit sillyness and mistakes, cause howelse would you learn? The excuse and the beauty of being young! Enjoy it!
Hope the next year we'll get to celebrate it together!
XOXOXO

Backstage versus Front Camera

It's calendar time. Again. This time it's Campari's turn.
I personally prefer the Campari calendar more to others, as I find the style more sophisticated and classy.

-It's the 11th calendar for Campari
-This year we admire Olga Kurylenko
-Scenes shot in Milan
-Photographer Simone Nervi

My all-time favourite calendar has been the one Salma Hayek made, until this year, I think I changed my fave. Last year Jessica Alba did it quite well but I didn't find it so versatile, the pictures kinda stayed in the same safety zone. Plus Jessica didn't seem to be so deep for it.
This year instead the shoots are really dynamic and edgy.I really like Olga, I liked her as a Bond girl and I think she definitelly fits in this role more, she has this perfect mysterious aura in her that fits the Campari world.
And there are backstage shoots which are so good that almost could be a calendar on their own. Really fresh and modern. What do you think?

Not a bad choice of shoes, huh?

"The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters."

First of all, I know I've been absent for some days.
As I live so far away from my school (like I need to take 4 different trains, metros and busses to arrive, - I know, I'm crazy), I decided to stay for few days in a week at my grandparents place and they live only half an hour from my school, in a lovely neighborhood called Garbatella, it's like a new Trastevere in Rome. The only bad thing there is.. they don't have web, and that's why my blog may suffer a bit for it. But don't worry, every weekend I will do at least 3 posts.


Today I wanted to write about letters. About receiving them, about writing them, about the people to who I write, and maybe most importantly about the people who write to me. I really like the process, it's so gratifing and so exiting.


Writing a letter is really a personal thing. You can't write to anyone, there are people who don't write letters, never have and never will, and people who DO. Fortunatelly I know many of them. I discovered it when I first left Tallinn, my birthtown, about four years ago. Later, with many of them I started emailing instead (super tecnological and so unpatient as we are) but with someone the traditional letter-writing thing still works.


Here are pictures of some letters my dear friend Kàrt has sent me. She has a really entertaining way to write them, or should I say, compose? or even better, "project". Her letters, but more often packs, are everything else than traditional. She sends me pictures cut out from magazines like vogue or I-D, then some sentences and quotations, drawings and photos of her everyday life. It really is like receiving a birthday present every time I get her letter, I never know what's inside. She sends me also CDs and little toys, food (okay, juts bisquits, but BISQUITS! in a letter!!).. I JUST LOVE IT! Better than kinder surprise! Once she sent me a cocktail glass she "borrowed" from an art gallery opening. It's sacredly standing on my shelf, holding my bracelets and earrings inside of it.



At this point I'ld like to talk about her work too, she's infact an artist and I find her works and paintings really, really really sensational. She really has got a talent. And I'm talking about The Talent, with big letters. Chech out her blog (click!)



Thanks goes also to (for keeping the contact):
Ahti, Helena, Kirsi, Eva, Anna-Liisa, Hannele and most importantly to my best friend Kadri-Ann.

Hello Halloween...

Hello, good Sunday morning to you all! I'm going to make a quick post, unfortunatelly, as I have to prepare myself for a party we're having tonight plus some homework needs to be done. As the Halloween is getting near (and this year I'm really feeling it coming) tonight we're having sort of a reunion to decide important topics like the theme, the food, the jokes, the everything. It's the third year I'm celebrating it with them and we have so much fun! We are so incasinati (messed) in this moment, as my mother is running around the house, trying to order it but without hope cause my sister is really helping her by taking all her toys out of the boxes and hiding them in all possible places (she is only two years old and likes to turn our house into a toyshop for once in a while- (could be a great idea for halloween- turning our home into a scary toyshop!)), Marco (mom's husband) is doing the cooking, more preciselly the focaccia (homemade white pizza, basically bread, but the italians have to name everything with different names) and the house is smelling like a bakery-shop, and I'm about to study physics.. god, it's hard in this mess. By the way, yesterday I went to see an exhibition in the contmporary art gallery: 60 New York artists for the first time exhibiting their works in Europe, it was fun, and great and I'm going to write all about it tomorrow, with pictures. Read about it here! (it's the italian version because it's got a photogallery, but for information just click on the english version)
What are you going to wear on Halloween? I've got some great ideas for myself but it all depends on the possiblities of realising them.. I'll let you know about everything later on this week!

In the meanwhile enjoy these pictures styled by Tim Burton for Harper's Bazaar, in the anticipation of his retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Shot by Tim Walker.

Hôtel Costes

Ranked as the coolest hotel in the world by TripAdvisor, it's time to make a post about the Hôtel Costes itself. I already wrote about the music- in the collaboration between this famous DJ Stéphane Pompougnac and the hotel have seen light a collection of the best chill-out lounge music in the world.(click for more!). But what about the hotel? Although it's more famous because of the music and the café in the courtyard (really lovely!) also the interiors are worth talking about.



Located in 239 rue St-Honore, in the first arrondissement in Paris and only few steps from the Ritz. Commissioned by the Costes brothers (limonadiers, French slang for café owners, the Costes family owns the best ones in town) to the designer and architect Jacques Garcìa in 1991. The hotel is now renowned as a den of opulence, the design maxim was "all things in excess".



"Napoleon III style revitalised in the purple and gold rooms. Splendid Italian style courtyard and lovely fitness centre. An extravagant luxury hotel, popular with the jet-set. The restaurant of the Hôtel Costes is a shrine to the latest lounge trend." - Michelin.



"This is the one place where the fashion crowd is sure to be, whether it be staying in the rooms, dining in the restaurant, or tersely sipping champagne or cocktails while people-watching in the Stygian darkness of the back bar."- New York Times.





".. a seductive haunt of mysterious corners and important rendezvous, a meeting place that has established itself as the center of the fashion world in Paris since it opened.."- TIME, CNN.





*In the Costes bar you can taste one of the ten best mojitos served in Paris (16.5 points out of a possible 20). It's 19€/per drink.
*To get a hint of the 12th album of HC go on their site. (click)