- Since Brexit, buying online in England has been a drama. I miss the orders to Fortnum & Mason (the bag Mia Farrow is carrying in the photo). I look for the perfume of Penhaligon’s from the gardens of the new king of England, Highgrove Bouquet (geranium, lavender, lime), and shipping alone already costs more than forty euros. I will continue with the Nenuco.
- I have won the genetic lottery in three things: I sleep like a log, I am thin and after forty I still do not have gray hair. The counterpart: I am nervous, dwarf and fragile as a sparrow.
- This is very clean Cedric Groletthe tattooed pastry chef (what a plague) and addicted to refined luxury: Expensive sneakers, goofy Vincent Van Duysen minimalism, art collecting, ski mountaineering, natural wines, cheap spirituality. I’ve read quite a few interviews with him and he doesn’t seem very smart, but he has an undeniable gift for his stuff. In addition, I really liked his work philosophy, not because it is simple, less valid: to be polite and respectful with everyone.
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- It is very easy to like a stranger. A radiant sympathy emerges from us, uncontaminated by habit. With friends you confess, you trust yourself, you leave yourself, and miseries, weaknesses, errors appear. And we forgive everything, but we don’t forget.
- Josep Pla’s definition of selfish: «Paranoid about his interests».
- I love Bern Schwartz’s well-intentioned but incisive (and always pedigreed) portraits. For the next term I am going to do the curling of the Duchess of Marlborough, Rosita Spencer-Churchill.
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- With the savings that I have set aside for the curtains at home or the whim of my dreams, it happens to me like with the beginning of Up! and her always broken piggy bank: every few months they come between me and that coat from Lemaire, the dentist, the washing machine, the heater or the Treasury.
- Working by inertia and in a hurry we forget the most basic truth: without believing in what is done it is impossible to do it well.
- And to think that they made fun of Casa Milà (La Pedrera) because there were no straight walls and almost no furniture could be placed.
- The only bad thing about traveling to Japan (besides that it falls so far): having the feeling all the time of not measuring up.
- André Saraiva, a cool guy: Swedish-French, art director, entrepreneur, nightclub owner, film director… But what made him famous, since the eighties, was graffiti. Good; Leafing through a magazine I see that it shows his house, he is proud —you can see it in this carousel of photos below—, everything is very expensive and… do you notice anything? That’s it! Does the graffiti artist not have a single graffiti on the walls of him! He, who puts it big in his Instagram bio: Graffiti is not vandalism. Well, you know, André. Give four idiots a few sprays and invite them to freely tag your bedroom.
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- Wishes for this coming year. The only criterion for buying something: that it is not at the expense of anyone’s misfortune and that it makes my life happy. To be, like all the sensible ones, more of details than of revolutions. Treat the city with respect, be a good passerby. Walking a lot to reveal myself.
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At work, be guided by the ingenious solution, rather than by what the good office worker’s manual says. Long live the hotels, outside Airbnb of profiteers (those of individuals are cool). Never call someone older; There are only two clubs here: dead or alive, and the first are always from my team. Happy 2023 everyone!
Marta D. Riezu She is a journalist specializing in fashion communication. She has published two books: Water and soap (Terranova, 2021) and La moda justa (Anagrama, 2021).