MILAN FASHION WEEK. Roberto Cavalli Otoño Invierno 2016/2017

MILAN FASHION WEEK

Roberto Cavalli Otoño Invierno 2016/2017

No hay duda de que Peter Dundas ha querido dar a Cavalli su impronta más personal. Y, para ello, nada mejor que inspirarse en su década favorita, los 70, para construir una colección barroca donde brocados,prints y terciopelos se mezclan de forma magistral para recrearnos lo mejor de los seventies.

Roberto Cavalli Otoño Invierno 2016/2017

 

Foto: Marco Severini

Roberto Cavalli Otoño Invierno 2016/2017

¿Qué pasa si en un desfile mezclas el toque Cavalli con el estilo de Peter Dundas y la década de los 70 como gran protagonista? El resultado es el desfile de este otoño invierno de la firma italiana. Un gran homenaje a este época donde están todos los estereotipos: terciopelos, brocados, pantalones campana, vestidos boho, cuellos de pieles... 

Y todo bajo una premisa: mas es más. Sin ninguna concesión al minimalismo. La preferencia por el lado más sexy de Dundas también está presente en este desfile, en el que los vestidos boho se hacen transparentes y los escotes se marcan en pronunciadas uves.

Y, por último, no faltan las concesiones al estilo más glam en brocados y paillettes bien elegidos, detalles que marcan el lujo y distinguen la ropa más comercial de un desfile en la semana de la moda de Milán.

Roberto Cavalli Otoño Invierno 2016/2017

Roberto Cavalli Otoño Invierno 2016/2017

Roberto Cavalli Otoño Invierno 2016/2017

Elsa Pataki subiendo al Himalaya.

ELSA PATAKY CONFIDENTIAL

Todos los detalles de mi gran aventura en el Himalaya

23 febrero, 2016  |  Por Elsa Pataky

 

Hola Confidentes, ¿qué tal el finde?

Como ya sabéis la semana pasada me embarqué en una aventura increíble. Tenía muchas ganas de contaros detalles sobre este viaje, sobre todo porque uno de mis sueños de siempre había sido ir al Himalaya, visitar los monasterios budistas y poder hablar con los monjes tibetanos e intentar comprender un poco más su forma de pensar, sentir y vivir.  Cuál fue mi sorpresa cuando Jesús Calleja me ofreció hacer ese viaje, añadiéndole además el reto de escalar una montaña de más de 5.000 metros de altura. Como ya sabéis, me pierde la aventura así que, allá que me fui sin pensarlo dos veces.

Nuestra primera parada fue en Goa, una región al borde del mar Arábigo donde va gente de todas partes del mundo,  para practicar yoga.

Nos alojamos en un hotel pequeño donde Jesús había estado hace años, muy austero y con mucho encanto, en el que todo es natural, desde el colchón de fibra de coco hasta la comida cien por cien orgánica. Jesús y su equipo nos sorprendieron con una grata sorpresa. Alquilaron unas motos Royal Enfield, las típicas motos de la India, para que fuéramos a dar una vuelta hasta una playa preciosa. ¡Nos lo pasamos en grande conduciéndolas, a pesar de que en la India el tráfico es un tanto caótico!

Paseamos y cenamos en la misma playa, pescado fresco y el famoso pollo tikka. ¡Buenísimo! A Chris y a mi nos encantó charlar y hacer unas risas con Jesús y todo el equipo. Son realmente encantadores.

A los dos días emprendimos viaje hacia Leh, una ciudad en medio del Himalaya, en la región de Ladakh, pasando de repente de bañarnos en la playa, al frío y la nieve de las montañas. La ciudad de Leh es un asentamiento muy interesante donde, por la altitud en la que está situada, unos 3.600 metros, la poca accesibilidad y las duras condiciones climáticas, en invierno se queda con tan sólo 1.500 habitantes. ¡Valientes!

Por el cambio tan brusco de altitud, el primer día sentíamos que todo daba vueltas, una sensación de mareo constante. Jesús nos advirtió que no hiciéramos movimientos bruscos con la cabeza y tampoco muchos esfuerzos, porque el cuerpo necesita aclimatarse.

Aún así, la misma tarde en que llegamos subimos al monasterio budista de Leh.

Impresionante no sólo por la riqueza ornamental, sino por sentir la gran espiritualidad que se emana en un lugar en el que los monjes budistas y la gente practican su religión con gran devoción.

Al día siguiente nos pusimos en camino hacia las montañas y el lago Tso Kar, una zona donde encontramos a los nómadas tibetanos que van moviéndose con sus tiendas y los pocos enseres que tienen en busca de pastos para sus animales.  Dimos bastantes vueltas hasta encontrar una tribu, una de las pocas que todavía viven en este lugar.

La vida de los nómadas es extraordinariamente dura, y como veis, todos los miembros de la familia ayudan en el trabajo, por muy pequeños que sean. El lago Tso Kar está a unos 4.200 metros, es un lago salado y está situado en un paisaje verdaderamente lunar.

También tuvimos la suerte de ver el punto en el que se juntan dos grandes ríos, el Indo y el espectacular Zanskar.

De tanto frío que hacía, el río estaba completamente helado, así que lo aprovechamos para transformarlo en una inmensa pista de patinaje.

Por la noche dormimos en un pequeño pueblo situado literalmente en medio de los picos de las montañas, con un frío que no os podéis ni imaginar, 25 grados bajo cero. Supongo que por la noche bajaría bastante más. Allí nos alojamos en casa de una familia tibetana.

Hasta nos animamos a rezar junto a ellos.

Bueno, mis queridos Confidentes, tengo tantas cosas que contaros que el resto lo dejamos para el próximo post.
Os deseo una estupenda semana.  ¡Un beso enorme a todos!

Vicky Martín Berrocal: Sin duda, blanco y negro… mi combinación preferida.

FEBRERO 25, 2016

EN BLANCO Y NEGRO…

Sin duda, blanco y negro… mi combinación preferida.

Blanco y negro son mis colores estrella a la hora de vestir, creo que aportan a la mujer un toque especial, favorecen siempre y en cualquier ocasión.

Pero hoy, con este look que os muestro, quería romper una lanza a favor de usar el color blanco en invierno y en cualquier prenda… ¿Por qué no para un pantalón? ¿Por qué no para un jersey? ¿Por qué no para un abrigo? En definitiva… ¿Por qué no blanco para invierno?

Tenemos un cliché que debemos hacer desaparecer ¡YA!… como en todo, hay que arriesgarse y, yo creo que combinándolo bien y ¡muy importante! eligiendo bien los tejidos, se puede obtener un outfit de nota 10.

¡Démosle luz a este invierno! ¿Os apuntáis al blanco?

Jersey de punto de MANGO, pantalón palazzo cropped MANGO, sombrero de ala negro de STRADIVARIUS,botines negros de Violeta by MNG y pulsera y anillos de Ágatha París y Joaquín Berao

Abrigo de Silvina Marotti y bolso de MANGO

Dan Jarvis says Britain MUST remain in the EU to keep our country safe

The Labour MP and former soldier says leaving the EU would make Britain's borders less secure

Mirror

Warning: Dan Jarvis says leaving the EU would not make the UK safer

Our country faces grave security challenges – from international terrorism, organised crime, the conflict in Syria and an increasingly provocative regime in Russia.

Our ability to meet those challenges is at stake in the forthcoming EU referendum.

Those who want to leave Europe believe the solution is to pull up the drawbridge. They think the UK would be safer going it alone.

In a world where a terrorist in Raqqa can instant message a teenager in Reading there is now no drawbridge to pull up.

Secure borders are rightly a key concern for people.

But leaving would make the UK’s borders less secure – with our UK border inevitably moving from Calais to Dover. How would this make the country safer?

PA

Safer: Dan Jarvis insists Britain will be safer it is remains in the EU

The threats posed to the UK’s security are just like the threats posed to the rest of Europe – from trafficking to terrorism.

We rightly work closely with our neighbours in the EU to ensure we are all safer. We shouldn’t risk jeopardising these networks.

The European Arrest Warrant for example means there is no safe haven in Europe for criminals and terrorists to escape justice.

Hussain Osman attempted to bomb the London Underground on 21 July 2005 – but because of the European Arrest Warrant and co-operation with our EU allies he was brought to justice.

This threat remains. We saw that with the tragic events in Paris last November, where 130 innocent people were murdered.

Our security services have foiled numerous attempts by the so-called Islamic State and other extremist groups to attack us.

PA

Foiled: Hussain Osman tried to bomb the London Undeground

Our ability to prevent these attacks is aided by close working and intelligence and data sharing with our EU partners.

The EU is also playing a key role in delivering a negotiated political solution to the Syria crisis.

A solution there would make us safer – so why leave the EU and undermine our ability to influence how we keep our country safe?

And on Europe’s border there is one person who relishes the possibility of us voting to leave.

Vladimir Putin and the Russian regime have had a long-term aim to weaken the EU. A Brexit would play right into his hands.

Long-term aim: Russian President Vladimir Putin has long wanted to weaken the EU

Around the world, countries like the US and China are mystified that we risk diluting our influence in the world by considering leaving Europe – they know that Britain’s power and influence is enlarged by being part of the EU.

We should also pause to reflect on the role the EU has played in helping to keep the peace.

Though taken for granted by some today, given the 70 years of peace enjoyed in Western Europe, we should listen to men like John Ainsworth, a 96 year-old veteran of the Battle of Normandy.

John saw first-hand the horror of European countries turning on each other and will be voting to remain.

Leaving the EU will not strengthen us, it will make us less safe and more vulnerable. Britain is stronger, safer and more secure in Europe.

Sex scandal BBC.Now we know – the BBC’s macho culture protected predatory men for decades

Male celebrities treated like kings, young girls dismissed as ‘groupies’ – this is a highly gendered sex scandal

‘Despite all the hand-wringing that’s gone on since Jimmy Savile was exposed, I’m still waiting for an acknowledgement of the single most salient fact.’

The charge could not be more damning: we now know that one of this country’s most admired institutions allowed a hugely prolific sexual predator to flourish in its midst for almost half a century. Dame Janet Smith’s report into the crimes committed by Jimmy Savile in connection with his work at the BBC has identified 72 victims, beginning with the rape of a 13-year-old girl in 1959. The DJ’s last known assault occurred during a recording of Top of the Pops in 2006.

Savile was not the sole beneficiary of a culture that regarded celebrities as untouchable; another report has found that the presenter Stuart Hall abused 21 victims, the youngest of whom was just 10 years old, at the BBC between 1967 and 1991. There is no doubt that the BBC was (and is) in awe of what’s called “talent”, or that a culture of deference towards celebrity has a lot to answer for. But despite all the hand-wringing that’s gone on since Savile was exposed, I’m still waiting for an acknowledgement of the single most salient fact: like most scandals involving sexual abuse on this scale, this is a highly gendered phenomenon.

Rape was as much a criminal offence in the 1960s and 70s as it is today – so was sex with girls under 16

We are not talking about an atmosphere at the BBC in which well-known women used their power to abuse teenagers and children. Dame Smith’s observation about a “macho culture” is the closest anyone has come to recognising that the BBC empowered male celebrities, placing them in positions where they had unrestricted access to very young girls and boys. From the standpoint of the 21st century, it was a nightmare scenario in terms of safeguarding procedures, failing to consider even for a moment what unscrupulous predators might do with that opportunity.

How different those old Top of the Pops clips look now we know what was really going on. Back in the 1960s, pop culture – characterised by teenage girls in knee-length white boots bopping to the latest top 10 hits – used to appear both modern and benign; it was a welcome reaction against the drab postwar world of the 1950s, when punitive attitudes towards sex forced many reluctant couples into early and unwanted marriages. The darker side of that seemingly innocent world of grinning DJs, rakish pop stars and adoring fans was kept inside the industry, where roadies remained silent about band members who habitually had sex with under-age girls.

When it did come out into the open, girls who slept with pop stars were described dismissively as “groupies”, following an age-old double standard that excuses adult men from responsibility for their sexual conduct. “All kinds of things went on and I do mean young girls throwing themselves at [pop stars] in their dressing rooms, at concert halls, at gigs, whatever,” said the celebrity publicist Max Clifford in 2012. Clifford – who is currently serving eight years for indecent assaults – added that he had been contacted by dozens of big names from the 1960s and 70s who were “frightened to death” of being dragged into the Savile scandal.

'Serious failings' at BBC let Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall go unchecked

Yet for all the talk of different times and attitudes, rape was as much a criminal offence in the 1960s and 70s as it is today. So was sex with girls under 16, the legal age of consent which has been enshrined in English law since 1885. The aim of that law was to protect vulnerable girls from predatory men, not the other way round, but pop culture created a free-for-all that held teenage girls responsible even for criminal behaviour.

In such circumstances, it was inevitable that victims would not be listened to, a prejudice that would surface in a different context – but with similarly disastrous outcomes – when very young girls were targeted by predatory gangs in Rotherham, Rochdale and other English towns several decades later.

Shocking though the Savile revelations are, they have to be seen in a wider context. His behaviour was enabled by a revolution in sexual behaviour that was supposed to liberate both sexes, but actually offered endless opportunities to unscrupulous men. Its effects were far-reaching, creating poisonous attitudes towards victims of sexual abuse that are still being recycled in rape trials today. But it has also prompted a feminist critique that is vital if we’re ever going to understand the context that men like Savile operate in, and stop them at an early stage in their criminal careers.