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Catwalks already warned us about it: white is the new black, ideal for day and night wear. It is the best shade for high temperatures and that’s why some of our star garments and accessories of the spring-summer collection, such as the tailored jacket, show off dyed snow-white. As long as it is ideal for wearing a total and infallible look as an option to wear for work, celebs are addicted to white colour too.

They are the first risking and applying the trends; we’ve seen them in many public appearances in spotless, hiper chic and elegant white. Also perfect, white colour stands out combined with acid or pastel items that will always give a touch of joy and optimism.

Need more inspiration? Have a look at our lookbook in white Massimo Dutti’s fashion team.

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Every worthy summer look stands out with a tailored jacket, cotton tweed if possible. This mythical garment is updated to demonstrate that classic garments are always on fashion. Plain or printed, it is the perfect garment combined with skinny trousers, ballerina shoes and a t-shirt, and of course with a knee high dress, preferably ethereal fabric and pastel colours.

SHORT WHITE JACKET

The secret of any suitcase for holidays is not only what, but how. Much more important than what to carry is how to combine it. Trust experts’ words, such as Inés de la Fressange.

Any woman yearns for having that “je ne sais quoi” that qualifies Parisian girls, always perfect and fantastic. Now, thanks to Inès de la Fressange’s guide, “La Parisienne”, we can try… If you want to enjoy perfect holidays this summer, with the perfect look for any formal (or not that formal) occasion, you can do more than reading once and again the style tips of this ambassador of the Parisian chic from her teens and Karl Lagerfeld’s muse. It is to get the essential kit for perfect holidays that our fashion team reveals to us exclusively.

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‘Schiaparelli and Prada’: Impossible Conversations.

An exhibition that contrasts the talent of these two Italian that challenged the clichés with lasting and very different styles.

The title comes from some simulated interviews that the Mexican Miguel Covarrubias published in the 30s in ‘Vanity Fair’. This fictitious interview

is summarized in Baz Luhrmann´s video, which reflects the conversation between these designers’ garments about woman’s body and the changing idea of ‘chic’. 100 garments and dozens of accessories that are impossible to be catalogued: the dress with lips and the hat in the shape of lamb-chops that Schiaparelli and Salvador Dalí designed together. Also, the black velvet cape with a golden Apollo that the Italian designed in 1939. And from Prada, the Brown leather legionary dress that were shown in her collection of 2009, and the short dress with kitchen utensils inserted in her 2007 collection. Some people thinks she is close to her predecessor style and some others consider her freer to create. Schiaparelli and Prada are not as similar as they might seem at first glance. They both create, but with very different concepts about fashion. Schiapparelli owns a lot to avant-gardism and she is not a craftswoman but an artist. Prada is self-sufficient and has got a kind of trade instinct. She never wanted to collaborate with an artist in the catwalk nor even has accepted to be called artist. “Designing is creating, but it is not an art”, she says in the video.

Until 19th August

Metropolitan Museum, Nueva York

www.metmuseum.org
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Ambar Dutti

Just passing any Massimo Dutti store we appreciate a subtle touch of class. Ambar Dutti is the last version, more sensual, sweet and warm, which conquests from the very beginning thanks to its particular interpretation of elegance. The secret? Its warm atmosphere is thanks to African geranium, Mediterranean lemon, patchouli from Singapore and a slight touch of incense and vanilla.
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Lianne La Havas is one of the most interesting British hopes, becoming more and more popular in Great Britain and in France. BBC included her on its list of Sounds for 2012 and sponsored by Jools Holland. She is very young (1989) with a difficult to find strummed voice typical of old soul, and she is even plays the guitar as a perfect singer-songwriter. Nowadays she’s got two EPS published: Lost &Found (Labour Of Love, 2011), singed with Willy Mason, one of the best concerning Indian American songs, and Live from LA. Her first album, Is Your Love Big Enough is to be launched 9^th July in UK thank to Warner Brothers.

www.liannelahavas.com
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A Touch of Brightness

Linen is the fresher fabric for the summer, made of a natural vegetable fiber, almost three times smoother and harder that cotton. Some of the linen garments of the spring-summer collection, such as these sweaters, combine it with lurex for a touch of fantasy and sophistication.
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Strawberry and Chocolate

Strawberry, blackberry and cherry with Belgium chocolate in a chocolate created by an historic brand, the brand of the first praliné: Neuhaus. This supplier of the Belgium court also gives us a sweet and tempting proposal: Belgium chocolate and red fruit in three chocolates.

‘Schiaparelli and Prada’: Impossible Conversations.

An exhibition that contrasts the talent of these two Italian that challenged the clichés with lasting and very different styles.

The title comes from some simulated interviews that the Mexican Miguel Covarrubias published in the 30s in ‘Vanity Fair’. This fictitious interview

is summarized in Baz Luhrmann´s video, which reflects the conversation between these designers’ garments about woman’s body and the changing idea of ‘chic’. 100 garments and dozens of accessories that are impossible to be catalogued: the dress with lips and the hat in the shape of lamb-chops that Schiaparelli and Salvador Dalí designed together. Also, the black velvet cape with a golden Apollo that the Italian designed in 1939. And from Prada, the Brown leather legionary dress that were shown in her collection of 2009, and the short dress with kitchen utensils inserted in her 2007 collection. Some people thinks she is close to her predecessor style and some others consider her freer to create. Schiaparelli and Prada are not as similar as they might seem at first glance. They both create, but with very different concepts about fashion. Schiapparelli owns a lot to avant-gardism and she is not a craftswoman but an artist. Prada is self-sufficient and has got a kind of trade instinct. She never wanted to collaborate with an artist in the catwalk nor even has accepted to be called artist. “Designing is creating, but it is not an art”, she says in the video.

Until 19th August

Metropolitan Museum, Nueva York

www.metmuseum.org

Rose Marie Terenzio has waited more than a decade for writing («Fairy Tale Interrupted», Gallery Books). A tale written with more admiral than confidences about her personal experience as JFK Junior’s personal assistant, from 1994 to 1999. It coincides with his marriage with the stylish Carolyn Besette. The woman who married one of the most coveted single me of the 20th century; his fate was other than being the eternal outsider, resigned to the use of his surname for good purposes and to keep on being the protagonist of yellow magazines. A fully stylish couple who (when disappeared) was having his palatial mansion built in New Canaan, Connecticut, thinking of descendants. Even under these circumstances, the prince of American rejected paternity in favour of his more personal project: George magazine.

This young couple’s happiness lasted a very short time. Kennedy clan members, gorgeous, rich and beloved, catholic with Irish origins initially settled in Boston, suffered huge losses in the second half of that century. John and Carolyn’s one was one of the most famous. It was the third Kennedy generation, the “royal family” of the USA, who ran out of heir after John-John’s death.

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