PEARLS OF WISDOM

April 26, 2019 By Noemi Leave a Comment

“The Crimson Petal and the White” is such a beautiful novel. If you haven’t read it, or you haven’t watched BBC miniseries starring Romola Garai (I haven’t), it’s the story of the social rise of a prostitute, Sugar, thanks to one of her rich clients, the heir of a cosmetics business, who purchases her from the brothel-keeper, which is also Sugar’s mother (if I’m not wrong, I read the novel years ago) to make her his own paramour. The novel is set in London, during the Victorian era.

Sugar is such a fascinating creature, one of those characters you get attached to. She’s beautiful, pretty cultured, and smart. She knows she deserves a better life and she manages to achieve it.

The words I chose for this post are beautifully and painfully true.

KARL LAGERFELD’S BEST QUOTES

February 20, 2019 By Noemi Leave a Comment

As you know, Karl Lagerfeld passed away. Kaiser Karl’s contribution to fashion is immense and he was never afraid to speak his mind, for better or for worse.

These are some great quotes by Lagerfeld. Some are controversial, and I love them for that. To me, he was a free man, forever young.

“I’m very impeccable and clean before I go to bed. It’s just like before I’m going out. When I was a child, my mother always told me that you could wake up in the middle of the night and be deathly sick, so you always have to be impeccable. I laugh about it, but I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.” – Karl Lagerfeld

“Be politically correct, but please don’t bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that’s the ending of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation.” – Karl Lagerfeld

“They are this horrible thing where you are distorted. The chin is too big, the head is too small. No, this is electronic masturbation.” – Karl Lagerfeld (referring to selfies)

“I’m a working-class person, working with class.” – Karl Lagerfeld

“Fantasy is often better than reality. It’s much more inspiring not to go to places than to go.” – Karl Lagerfeld

“When people talk about the good old days, I say to people ‘It’s not the days that are old, it’s you that’s old’. I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.” – Karl Lagerfeld

“Youthfulness is about how you live, not when you were born.” – Karl Lagerfeld

“Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.” – Karl Lagerfeld

“Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.” – Karl Lagerfeld

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A man larger than life. A force of nature. The original fashion guru on the future’s edge. Thank you, Karl, with love forever from your team.

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THREE NEW YEAR’S QUOTES

January 1, 2019 By Noemi Leave a Comment

Three new year’s quotes that are not cheesy, because I admit starting the year with a post about quotes is anything but original.

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PEARLS OF WISDOM

December 11, 2018 By Noemi Leave a Comment

These words by the American journalist and novelist immediately struck me, they’re so true. Do you ever feel like time flies and you are not capable to do all the things you’d like to do because of lack of time? Or because you fear you’re not capable and you blame the time, which goes too fast? I do.

So, these words by Hemingway are a good reminder that every day counts, that you can make a day count. And that it’s all about today.

PEARLS OF WISDOM

June 28, 2018 By Noemi Leave a Comment

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March 1, 2018 By Noemi Leave a Comment

These words by writer and teacher Ernest Agyemang Yeboah probably have a deep meaning and have nothing to do with clothes but they sounded perfect for the post of today, the 1rst of March, which is the first day of astronomical spring.

It’s freezing in Europe, it’s snowing a lot in many countries but I can’t help, I’m dreaming about spring. A lot of posts dedicated to this beautiful season are coming and, hopefully, better weather!

PEARLS OF WISDOM – HAPPY 2018!

January 1, 2018 By Noemi Leave a Comment

While I was looking for some quotes to write this post, the first of the year, I found these words by Melody Beattie. I know, starting the year with motivational quotes is a cliché, but I try to stay away from those super over-used ones. They’re impractical, sometimes even cryptic, and used so much they kind of lost their meaning.

But there’re a lot of words that still mean something and at the right moment they can speak to us.

I’m not one of those people who start the year with a list of good intentions, but I often see a new year as a new chapter. It’s kind of motivating. It makes me feel the way I used to feel when I was a child and I had to start a new exercise book, thinking “oh, I’ll write down everything is my best handwriting”. I hope some of you can relate, please tell me it is so!

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PEARLS OF WISDOM

December 6, 2017 By Noemi Leave a Comment

I read these words by Italian philosopher Tommaso d’Aquino (Thomas Aquinas) on Tumblr and they immediately struck me. I know their meaning is supposed to be deep, since d’Aquino was a Dominican friar, a theologian and a philosopher who lived in the XIII century but they can be related to many aspects of our everyday life.

It’s so true that what we love, who we love, define us.

PEARLS OF WISDOM

September 27, 2017 By Noemi Leave a Comment

I recently read these words on Tumblr (and I immediately pinned them) and I know they’re pretty unsurprising. Unsurprising but true.

In the era of social media, negative people seem to be everywhere, ready to virtually ambush you, sometimes without even understanding what you wrote, because they probably read one word out of three of your thought. Even if 99% of the times I don’t care about what strangers think about me, I admit that sometimes I take it bad. Not because I care, but because it makes me sad that such people exist, vote and reproduce!

The fact that there’s so much negativity, hatred and rudeness in the world, virtual and real one, makes me sad but one thing is sure. Negative people need other people’s negativity and I’m trying not to give them anything. Most of the time you can avoid them and that’s what I decided to do.

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PEARLS OF WISDOM… AND MY BLOG IS 5 YEARS OLD!

June 1, 2017 By Noemi Leave a Comment

We Believe in Style is 5 years old! I usually don’t care about birthdays and anniversaries but I decided to post a quote about style, since it’s the first thing I published in the blogosphere.

So, I chose some interesting words by Iris Apfel, a woman who knows the subject “style” very well.

These words immediately struck me. I was looking for quotes about style since I didn’t want to post something by Chanel or Yves Saint Laurent. I didn’t want something overdone and very predictable!

Clothes and accessories have always been a great way to express ourselves. The way we dress is a way to communicate. So I think Iris Apfel is right, a great personal style is the natural consequence of knowing ourselves very well and keep exploring!

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