Spanish Revolution,

So I've been very busy lately, with my internship, job and working in the project. But somehow, maybe because I was very interested in it, I found time to join the II Spanish Revolution we're working on here.

Tired of the political and economic situation of our country we kind of woke up and since 15 May thousand of hundreds of people are meeting in the principal squares of our country...

MADRID




BARCELONA






SEVILLA



VIGO




And of course in Valencia, we're meeting every single day in the Town hall Square, where we share ideas as in every other Assembly around the country...





And the amazing it's happening. People of all the ages, conditions or political affiliations are sharing a common believe: we're not happy, we're tired to be lied to and we let you "deal" with our situation and we're sick of you just worrying who would win the next elections... things could be better, and we're making them better... and slowly this feeling of indignation it's been spreading around the world.

AMSTERDAM





PARIS





And I keep getting more news of more and more cities: 700 people met in Brussels, Mexico DF, Helsinky, Rome...

Today I've heard someone refer to us as a virus... and hell take a look at the map... we're, and proud of it.


Because we give the politicians the power... and it's about time we act on their indifference and lies.

I've never felt so proud of being Spanish and a little part of it. Maybe it won't work, but we're trying. And always, a tryout, remains as a part of history. I can't believe I'm living history this way. I mean, I know every day something happens that our grand children would study... but the day of tomorrow, they would ask me where was I while this was happening and I could tell them: I was there, shaping your future with hundreds of thousand of people more.

The rest of our lives starts and it's being shaped right now...

First day of internship

So I had just started my internship in a Traditional Valencian Dressing Studio or wich is the same, a place where they do Fallera's typical dresses.

It's amazing.

I was kind of upset at first because I was supposed to do my internship with a Valencian fashion desingner, but I love the switch.

I'm learning how to do corsets (Which is the most important part of it) and I'm making my project joining two concepts: their traditional (and sometimes annoying) system; their fabrics, which are kind of similar to the foulard I'm wearing in the pictures and one of my favourite periodes in fashion design, the 80's.

Which would be something like joining this two pictures.





















I'll tell you about it in the future.

I know this summer is all about the 70's... but I like to stick as an outsider ;D.

We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves

Hoy Dani, me ha nominado para una meme, y aunque el pensaba que iba a ser un poco rollo me ha venido de perlas porque esta semana no he hecho mucho, mas que salir y hacer el guiri por Valencia con una amiga que ha venido de visita para ver las fallas.

Asi que ahi van las preguntas:

1. ¿Cual es tu reto?

Vivir algún dia de lo que me gusta.

2. ¿Que le dirías a tu jefe si te tocara la lotería?

Nada, si tuviese un buen trabajo que me gustase continuaria trabajando pero sin el miedo al despido o a llegar a fín de mes. Si fuese en mi trabajo actual le diria que le compro acciones de la discoteca que funciona bastante bien.

3. ¿Que harías si descubrieras que alguien te esta mintiendo?

Nada. Me daria tanta pena que lo ignoraria. Uno solo miente cuando se siente inseguro y no hay nada peor que sentirse inseguro.

4.¿Si se quema tu casa y sólo pudieras salvar una cosa, qué salvarías?

Mi máquina de coser Alfa de 1959 y mi libro de Historia de la moda del Instituto de Kyoto. Són dos regalos muy importantes, posiblemente porque me los hicieron sin preguntar que me apetecia tener y simplemente me los dieron pensando en mi.

5. Entras en un sitio con mucha gente, ¿qué haces?

Salir en cuanto pudiese, mido 1,56 asi que logicamente odio las aglomeraciones, siempre salgo herida.

6. ¿Ves el vaso medio lleno o medio vacío?

Siempre medio lleno, tengo la suerte que en cuanto las cosas van mal muy pronto se ponen mejor, asi que soy optimista por naturaleza... o por experiencia.

7. Te encuentras una lámpara mágica, ¿qué tres deseos pides?

El final de cualquier conflicto bélico que esté teniendo lugar, si, se que es típico, pero realmente lo pediria.

Que el PSOE volviese a ganar las elecciones pq la mera idea de ser governada por un partido que discrimina socialmente a colectivos de nuestro pais me aterra.

Y el tercero se lo daria a mi madre, que seguramente pediria que a todos sus hijos les fuese bien en la vida.

8. ¿Cuál es tu mayor miedo?

Decepcionarme a mi misma.

9. ¿Qué te hace feliz?

Vivir y la libertad de hacer lo que quiera, es decir, el libre albedrío otorgado al ser humano por nacimiento. Cursi, lo se, pero hay lugares donde no tienen la misma suerte que nosotros.

10. ¿Consigues sacar un minuto para ti cada día?

1, 10, 15, 20... soy afortunada.

11. Si pudieras reencarnarte en animal, ¿cuál serías?

Una vaca sagrada en la India o la siguiente mascota de Paris Hilton.

12. ¿Cuál es tu recuerdo más feliz?

No podria elegir sólo uno...

13. ¿En qué ciudad vivirías y por qué?

En Austin, Texas. Me encanta el clima y la mezcla de culturas. Es una ciudad cosmopolita a la par que familiar.

14. ¿En qué crees?

En mi madre.

15. ¿Qué sientes cuando creas?

Plenitud y excitación por ver el producto final.

16. ¿Te gustaría conocer tu futuro?

Soy una firme creyente en la continuidad lineal del tiempo, es decir, estamos en un punto y el siguiente se tiene que escribir, por lo que me alegro de conocer mi pasado a fin de que este afecte al punto siguiente.

17. ¿Qué otros nombres de blog te has planteado antes de decidir éste?

La verdad esque no lo recuerdo...

18. ¿Crees que se pueden hacer buenos amigos a través del mundo blogger que frecuentas?

He conocido a gente maravillosa.

19. ¿Qué libro quedará grabado para siempre en tu memoria?

Como han hecho Dani y Dunia algunos por época:

Un verano en el colegio (No recuerdo a que edad exactamente) nos hicieron elegir un autor de una lista y leer algunas de sus obras. Yo elegí a Maria Gripe... y no me arrepiento, cualquiera de sus libros son algo que todos los jóvenes deben leer, mis favoritos por orden fueron: El ciclo de las sombras, Hugo y Josefina y por supuesto Agnes Cecilia.

Durante la adolescencia, Los Pilares de la Tierra, Mrs. Dalloway, How the García girls lost their accents y La campana de cristal (The bell jar) me marcaron.

1984 y Farenheit 451 porqu me encantan las historias distópicos, y el último libro que me ha gustado ha sido On the Road, de Jack Kerouac.

Y ahora me toca nominar a 3:

Pitifú y Jose.

Lulila

Oh my dior

...I CARE SO LITTLE ABOUT GALLIANO'S DRUNK RAMPAGE THAT I ALMOST PASSED OUT...

.... cause I think the guy took a little bit far his whole doppelgänger game with Dalí...

one thing is that you look like him, the other one is that you need to actually loose your mind like him and start behaving like a complete ass**le...

So let's forget about this and enjoy two things.

The first one:

THURSDAYS ARE COOL&FUN IN VALENCIA NOW.

If you're around come and pay us a vissit...

And the latter, but not less important... The last thing I discovered from Israel,

They're AWESOME!!!

Valencia Fashion Week or how I managed to miss every single show I wanted to watch.

I kinda missed my favs. Yeah, I was around the VFW as usual, but I managed to miss some of my favourite designers.

The most important ones, were doing performances at 12:30 in the morning... and as much I had tried for years to be in time for the morning shows I never, absolutely never accomplished it... mostly if Jose isn't picking me up as usual.

And if you add up the fact that Absolut Vodka was the Sponsor of the Kissing Area... well, let's just say that I rather go with the online videos than actually try to remember whatever I saw... cause I had as many as possible FREE gin-vodkas I could... (Bloody Maries if it was lunch time)

So let's enjoy together a little bit of what I actually missed... or was... whatever...

GEORGINA VENDRELL



Obviously, whoever was recording this was following Diego alll around, he's the second to last guy. It's just the carousel but you can take a look to her upcoming A/W collection there and in the link above.

We fell in love with her collection when she was participating last year in Zona D.
We saw her collection, we fall in love with it, and afterwards we fall in love with her when she won and couldn't make a word. It was just amazing.

JUAN VIDAL



I just love his art....


GABRIEL SEGUÍ




And as favourites shows I managed to watch and enjoy I must make a mention to Julio Almiñana. I didn't know the guy but his idea of put a dancer in the middle of the catwalk and made the models look at her with hate totally rocked it...

Le freak Ole!
If you're Spanish you maybe know them from Trendtation. They were the closing, pretty good for being their first time in Valencia, uh?
They're a couple of amazing girls from Madrid. They mix tons of cultures in their designs and are able to spawn things as awesome as these:



And as usual, while this was happening I was in my way... in a bus... opposite direction may I add.



And of course, Siempre Es Viernes. Not only their collections are fun and refreshing, but the guys are awesome. They're unique. I had the chance to meet them last s/s and they were the most polite and nice designers in the backstage. There was tons of black in all of the collections, but they managed to give it the funny touch they give to all their clothes. REFRESHING! That's what we all thought... but the grannies that managed to screw the whole show with their comments about how everything was filled of holes, speaking about that... PLEASE, STOP GIVING INVITES TO OLD WOMEN... IF THE BUS ARRIVES TO THE PLACE WHERE THEY'RE INVITED FOR FREE YOU CAN BET YOUR ASS THEY WOULD BE ATTENDING!!!

And coming back to Siempreesviernes... amazing, uh?



And I spent a whole week fantasizing about the scarf/hood/whatever it was thing the models were wearing in their heads...

And I got inspired...

And this is what I came up with






Safety Pins + 1/2 x 2 meters of black cotton fabric.

You just need to join the ends with the safety pins...

Et voila, hope you like it ;D








P.D If you want to see more imgs of the VFW, click here