Lanvin...

As usual, Fashion Week is a hectic time in Paris: traffic, full restaurants, and lots of women using the latest trends.

This season I decided to attend only two events (I had to return to Buenos Aires for a few days): the  Alaïa exhibition at the Musée Galliera and Lanvin's runway show.

Alber Elbaz from Lanvin, as everybody knows, is one of my favourite designers, and his shows are always a big event.

It's a rule of courtesy and gesture of admiration to attend a show wearing something by the designer in question. In this opportunity, many took the massage-necklaces that have become the IT items of the season: Love, Help, Happy, Cool, Beyond, Lanvin. I've been using my "Happy" for a couple of months now and I love it. It's a nice, positive word. So there we went, my sister and I, both wearing Lanvin and our necklaces.

The collection was shocking, with extremely shinny fabrics, almost metallic. Some pants and jackets, very 80s (which for me was the worst decade in fashion).

Skirts under the knees, wonderful accessories (the work of the brilliant Elie Top), bags that looked as garbage bags (????) and much more...

These are the three looks I liked best. I'll have to wait to see how they look at the boutique.

Of course, we then went to congratulate dear Alber and madame Wang (the main stockholder of the brand). As usual, a great pleasure.

Emmys 2013: my TOP-FIVE looks...

( 1 )

Sofía Vergara, with a custom Vera Wang.

And the amazing emeralds of my friend Lorraine Schwartz...

( 2 )

Heidi Klum, in an Atelier Versace.

( 3 )

Claire Danes, by Armani Privé, with husband Hugh Dancy.

( 4 )

Robin Wright by Ralph Lauren

( 5 )

Padma Lakshmi, with a white Kaufmanfranco and Robert Lee Morris jewels.

Désirs et Volupté

Fall in Paris is usually the time for many exhibition openings... This week I had the Gala Dinner organized by Culturespaces at the Musée Jacquemart-André, which is quite near from home and it's one of my favourite locations. Challenging the early rains of these past days, I accepted the invitation to discover the English artists of the Victorian Era, who celebrated beauty above all things: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Sir Frederic Leighton, Edward Burne-Jones, the fabulous Dante Gabriel Rossetti, among others.

Les Roses d'Heliogabale, by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. An emblematic painting of the time.

Venus Verticordia, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

I know the paintings might look a bit kitsch or baroque, so different to the works by the Impressionists who, in those years, ruled in France; but they are the result of their time and icons of British art. Although forgotten for many years, it is now that these artists are beginning to be valued by critics and artlovers.

The exhibition will be shown also in Rome, on February 2014, at the Chiostro de Bramante, and will then travel to Madrid, to the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (June - October 2014).

It's worth visiting and use the oportunity to spend some time in this small museum, a true jewel of French architecture of the 19th Century...

Happy in New York...

As I had to return to Paris, I arranged everything to make a quick stop in New York and be able to attend Oscar de la Renta's show, who, as you all know, is one of my favourite designers.

I used to watch the collections online or at the trunk shows at Bergdorf, but this is the second time I can personally attend his show and it's been a true pleasure.

Chatting with Linda Fargo from Bergdorf Goodman, 
before the show.

What can I say of his Spring/Summer 2014 collection?

As usual, elegant, refined, so colorful. All models (among them, Karlie Kloss, stunning, 1.85 mts without shoes!) looked amazing and the music (a mix of  George Harrison's songs) sounded great. It all happened so fast: 52 looks in 15 minutes (I wish all did the same!).

Such a pleasure to see Oscar looking so well and happy...

The Gala of the Asociación de Amigos del MNBA...

Since 1931, the Asociación de Amigos del Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes colaborates to preserve and increase the collections of the Museum and make known Argentine art worldwide. 

For many years now, on the first Monday of September, the Asociación organizes its famous gala to raise funds. This time, it was not held at the Museum itself as usual, but at the Hotel Plaza.

The dress code was Art Decó and everyone worked hard to show up in original and fun looks. I made a personal interpretation of Art Decó, and decided to wear a dress by Reem Acra, an American designer. Marité de Jesús (María Teresa Alvarez de Jesús), my friend and photographer, was my personal stylist, creating the feather fascinator and the hairdo. I must say we had lots of fun in the process.

When we saw the incredible decorations of the salons of the Plaza, by Eduardo Acevedo and Gloria Cesar, we realized it was worth while working so hard on the preparations.

We felt like al a party from The Great Gatsby!

Almost all guests had a personal look and they even organized a contest to chose the best dressed of the night.

They were all stuning! And the men too: with tuxedos and top hats.

I shared a table with all beautiful women. We had a great time!

My week in Bs. As...

What a week!

So many things to do in Buenos Aires: social meetings, runway shows and even a Ballet Gala.

The 39th Edition of BAAM (Buenos Aires Alta Moda) began this past Monday. An average of 3 runway-shows a day, a total of 26 presentations, all of them impeccably orchestrated by Héctor and Manu Vidal Rivas.

I went to three of them (Teresa Calandra's, DOT by Laurencio Adot's and Clarin Mujer's) and, as usual, I had lots of fun. 

Summer looks, by Teresa Calandra.

On Tuesday night I went to the ACE Awards ceremony at the El Nacional theatre, where I had the pleasure of bumping into the greatest stars of Argentine theatre, such as Agustín Alezzo, Marilú Marini, Oscar Martínez, Cecilia Roth, Leonor Manso and many more. But mostly I had the chance to share the joy for the awards given to "Le Prenom", a production by RGB, which received the Best Comedy award and the Best Direction award for Arturo Puig. As I've witness, from the very start, the adventure of bringing to Buenos Aires this French piece, I felt proud of my brother-in-law's great job. Congrats Gustavo!

On Friday I've been at the 3rd Gala de Ballet de Buenos Aires, at the Coliseo Theatre, where we enjoyed the performance of a group of very young and talented dancers from around the world: the Russians Sergei Polunin and Daniil Simkiin, Argentines Luciano Barrirero, Pablo Fermani, Juan Pablo Ledo, Colombian Oscar Chacon and Canadian Jason Reilly, among others. All of them outstanding.

The theatre roared in applauses.

Ready to go to the Coliseo.

Finally, after such a hectic week, I spend this Sunday watching TV in my bed!!!