BOOTS OR NOT

Today the most interesting place we have been with Leo (after Laura's carnival in kindergarten) is actually an online store YOOX.  Beware, girls, its address is www.yoox.com but luckily they have got Halloween discounts now for loyal customers. That amazing opportunity could not have been missed by me, so a long searched black leather bag by Michael Kors is coming to mummy. The leather is butter soft and ages beautifully, this bag is mid-sized (I started hating spacy bags when things started to get lost in their bottoms). I think this one will accompany me to many places. And hopefully those little pockets won't be used for nasty parking tickets storage.

 YOOX is a dangerous place, really. They have got nearly EVERYTHING one may wish for. And they often do the reductions, so really dangerous place to check. But still in search for a perfect boot i was adoring some funny inventions by

D&G (didn't know what to put on for the cold party night?):

Mister Marc Jacobs (wanna be a gentlewoman?):

Kenzo (wanna shock?):

Still the boots that qualify for my search requirements are these Gaia Bardellis (elegant -tick, sexy - tick, useful - tick, comfortable - tick). I could wear them with LBD, with skinny satin trousers, with city shorts and with mini denim. Perfect.

I keep on reading Helena Frith Powell's book "All You Need to Be Impossibly French".  To be French (read "chic, classy, seductive") it takes only a few things, really. A lover and 2 lipsticks. One for day and one for night (the lipstick, of course!). Well, that was an introduction joke to the book, but it goes through those most important tricks chapter by chapter. So far I learnt it's important to:

1) be arrogant (trying, won't work for me)
2) wear matching underwear, no matter what and how, underwear is #1. (agree, 100%)
3) no obsession over sports, but taking a chance to move at any moment of time is a key (subconsciously i always did, but i love some heavy aerobic classes, though they are not too chic but i love to use my energy to full)
4) use cosmetics and believe in its power (it works, it really does. I started using a moisterizer at the age of 25 only which is terribly late for a French girl (author tells French girls start waxing their legs at the age of 11) and i started using day and night cream only at the age of 28. I notice immediately when i do not forget my morning and night routines for at least a week that my skin becomes glowy and smooth.) Currently my favourite products are Estee Lauder's Night Repair serum and eye cream which i use at night. Shop assistant warned me that i would fall in love with these products and they do make the difference. Or maybe it's a placebo effect, but at least i did not get any additional wrinkles.

I have to confess I have got one naughty habit of browsing the whole book ahead. So I checked that books every chapters beginning for those wisdom quotes that the author has put after every chapters heading. Here are the ones I loved:

"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaved no other time". Coco Chanel.

"Elegance is refusal". Coco Chanel.