{Monument, Talks, Shopping}

The other day I jumped on a train and I reached Irene in Florence.

We walked through the little streets of her magic city visiting vintage stores and talking talking and talking without realizing it was already the time to come back home. 

L'altro giorno sono saltata su un treno per Firenze per raggiungere Irene.

Abbiamo camminato per le viuzze della sua magica città entrando nei negozietti vintage e parlando, parlando e parlando senza rendersi nemmeno conto che era già arrivato il momento di tornare a casa.

When you visit a city what do you do?

You visit monuments ( actually we saw them from outside...) and Florence is a monument herself!

Quando visiti una città cosa fai ?

Visiti monumenti ( in verità li abbiamo visti da fuori...!)

You visit nice stores ( we saw them inside!)

Visiti negozi carini ( li abbiamo visti anche all'interno!)

We found a very nice Vintage Store, one of the 100 we saw ...

Irene tried a very nice red dress. She's looking for something beautiful for her nice's Baptism!

Camminando ci siamo imbattute in uno dei tantissimi negozi vintage di Firenze.

Irene si è provata un vestitino rosso delizioso. Sta cercando qualcosa di carino da indossare per il battesimo della nipote!

The woman in red?

They have beautiful old wedding dresses, are you interested in it?

C'erano anche dei bellissimi vecchi abiti da sposa, nessuna di voi è interessata?

Gloves...I adore them. I always buy some new colors for winter... 

There are great stores, they have hundreds of style in every colors!

Guanti...li adoro! Ne compro sempre di colori nuovi per l'inverno. 

Ci sono dei negozi fornitissimi di guanti. Ne hanno di tutti gli stili e di tutti i colori.

Then, if you are lucky, you meet new people

 I met Francesca. Irene's dear friend.

She 's going to be married soon but I can't say nothing more!

Poi se sei abbastanza fortunata incontri anche nuove persone.

Ho avuto la fortuna di incontrare Francesca. Una carissima amica di Irene.

Si sposerà presto... ma non posso rivelare altro!

She run a dance school with her cousin.

I've tried a great emotions walking through the dance rooms. Parquets everywhere, walls covered with mirrors, bars and a big piano ...

Ho provato una grande emozione camminando per le stanze della scuola di danza. Parquet ovunque, specchi su tutti i muri, le sbarre che circondale le stanze, un pianoforte a coda...

When I was a kid I dreamt to be a "ballerina" but I didn't have what they call 

"le phisique du role"...

Quando ero bambina sognavo di diventare una ballerina ma non ho mai avuto quello che chiamano "le ohisique du role" ( collo del piede? Collo a cigno?....non pervenuti!)

Have a great day!

Thanks to my Cicerone/Guide!!!

Thank you Irene... see you soon!

Buona giornata ragazze!

Grazie al mio Cicerone...

Grazie Irene... ci vediamo presto!

Update: the vintage store is:
Pitti Vintage
Borgo degli Albizi 72 r
Florence

{Cosy details - part 2}

Few weeks ago, I've spent an entire day with Irene and her family. You can read here (More than a lunch - Part 1) how beautiful and intense that day has been!

This is the 2 part of that day....

After  lunch we went to Valdirose her beautiful Bed & Breakfast. A charming old villa that used to be her house when she was young. In 2007 the house has been totally renovated by her father and transformed in a charming Bed & Breakfast.

Actually it's very reductive calling it B&B. Do you know the "Chambre D'Hotes"? Well, they are charming villas all over France where you can rent a room and eat amazing food! 

Valdirose has nothing to envy to those "Chambre d'Hotes". Irene, Paolo, her husband and Irene's parents run this beautiful place with passion and love. Love that you can feel all over the house and the garden in every single details. 

Irene it's "obsessed" from details and that's one of the thing we have in common!

I couldn't take any pic of the cosy rooms...They were all occupied. A pity for me but a joy for them!!!

If you want to see them you can visit her website Valdirose.

Valdirose has a fantastic veranda where you can enjoy a good breakfast with homemade products!

Irene and Paolo serve breakfast every morning! They made all the efforts to make their guests happy and they try always to satisfy their requests! 

Flowers from her garden 

and pillows everywhere ...

In the kitchen beautiful porcelaine...

They have a cute wood stove just outside the house were they prepare Pizza every Saturdy for their guest!

They have an outdoor swimming pool too...

Just in front at Valdirose ther's her parent's home!

We spent few hours there talking about some renovation Irene wanted to do to the rooms and playing with Beatrice! I love her! She 's a fantastic girl! I'd love to show you some pics... I'll have to ask to her mom first!

That's enough for now! I could go on and on talking about it but I'm sure there will be soon another occasion to show you some good pics from Valdirose!

If you need and information about rooms, reservation and whatever else, write to Irene...

Tell her I've told you that !

Have a nice day!

{More than a lunch - 1 part}

It's the first time that I don't have any words to describe the lunch at Irene's house.

She lives not far from Florence and with a sunny day and the blue sky you can see the cathedral from her bedroom's windows. She lives a Lastra a Signa a very tiny "village" so carachteristics.
I can't say nothing bad about Tuscany...I'm from Tuscany too!

It's in the counry side, no traffic, no noise, and a beautiful surround. Totally immersed in the nature...

 Irene & Paolo welcomed us in their amazing enchanted garden... 

As soon as we entered in the path I've been overwhelmed from a huge Hydrangea's hedge.

As I've told you it's so difficult to write about them, their home and their Valdirose B&B.

All the things I could say they won't be enough to describe them and how we felt.

Irene is a fantastic girl. She seems to be so "shy" but she's strong, too modest, very generous and with a talent for receiving that let me speechless. I'm an aesthete and a perfectionist and as soon as you get inside their home it's seems to be in one of the famous home decor's magazine...

I won't show you their home, I don't want to violate their privacy...

But I want to show you something better... Her home's details that say more than thousand words.

you know that I have a thing for details. Faschion details or home decor details define a personality! 

And Irene has a strong defined personality!

But if you follow her blog you know that already!

The attention she put in all the things tell me so much about her, about her style and her natural and not artefact personality.  

I think that style, like class and elegance, are something that you can't build or create or even buy...

you can work on it...But if you don't have it... people will understand it.

And Irene has it, and a lot!!!

Paolo, her husband, her friend, her partner, her world is a genuine and pure person. Mr B is not known to be a very open person. Usually he likes to listen and to analyze who is in front of him. With Paolo something happened. They started talking from the first minute they met that Sunday. 

Irene and Paolo are a magic and real couple. They couldn't find a better person for each other. 

 

 

 

Only at the end of the lunch, when he served Champagne they told us that it was Paolo's birthday. 

He served the cake with a style... he made a design on the slice...HE!!!

whatever...He suffle on the candle with his little princess Beatrice.

She express a desire ..."I want to be loved by Dad" and I almost burst into tears...

 

 

I was so excited that I didn't took any pics at the kitchen. My favourite place. For me that I love to bake, to have people for dinner, to cook their kitchen is heaven. 

But all the rooms are amazing... 

 

You've already seen this pics on her blog... I like the place she found for the trunks...It couldn't found a better home!!!

What I've loved about their home is that even if is so elegant it's comfortable and it doesn't make you feel worried to sit on the sofas!

They've that elegance....

The lunch...

she knows how to satisfy your eyes, your mouth and your soul...

The food, the presentation, the table set were perfect!

Beatrice... 

 

 

she's an angel! Big blue eyes, dark hair, white skin with pink cheeks ...

 

 

her tattoo!

She get along with Denis... 

I played with her all day... she's a gentle spirit and she 's so mature!

This is it! for now...

I had a fantastic day, I wish I could do it again soon...

I won't tell you what we talked about, it's the treasure I want to keep just for me from that day.

But she gave me good advises and she helped me a lot to spend a carefree day that is something I need now.

I'm jelous of my things and of my friends but I  wanted to share with you 

her kindness, her grace and her world made of beautiful things.

This is what a friend does, don't you agree?

Share and complicity is what friendship is for !

Before to leave she gave me lots of hydrangea that I put all over my tiny! apartment...

I will tell you more and more about Valdirose that needs and entire post!

Don't miss my next Guest...she's so sunny!!!

 

Have a wonderful Week darlings!

{Men's Fashion - Pitti SS'11 }

Hellooo! . I'm in Florence for Pitti Men's Fashion Show. Actually tomorrow it will be the last day! It started tuesday.

This is my 4th experience at Pitti. My oldest brother Simone  has his own men's fashion collection "Laroom" and I help him during the shows.

 Simone (my brother) and Renata (his model girlfriend) ... They are quite the perfection toghether!
(I've another brother Jonatha and he's a photograoher...I'll talke later about him)

Pitti Men's fashion show is dedicated to the new season collection for men and it's the most important show for men!
The show it'a fantastic but stressful and tiring experience. But it's always very funny too. We enjoy it! From 9.00 am till 6.00 pm you talk and talk and talk with a lot of people that come from all over the world. You have meetings with your agent and you try to contact new clients!

The better thing it's to sit outside the stand looking at the people...

 

you see models, normal people,

  beautiful and elegants men .

Lots and lots of details and you know that I have a thing for them...They define a style...

La belle Garance,

and of course Scott Schuman aka The Sartorialist (Garance's boyfriend)

"...before you go give me a kiss and say you love me..." Scott to Garance in front of me ...I swear!

If you want to see more pics visit me on Facebook!

I hope to show you more pics on the next days...