Here's a small peak from a new, cool project by Statement Jewelry by Ioana Enache. Stay tuned for more updates on this subjects. If you're a statement jewelry lover like myself you'll be ecstatic about this!




Until then, find Ioana's designs on  Statement Jewelry.com and soon on  Molecule F


 D, this is for you!


See you tomorrow,
Ana



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Every now and then you get to see on High Street Cardigans different projects or stories about certain people.  "Every now and then" because I don't get to see often people that inspire me and this is not a copy/paste the press communicates type of blog. Nor a fashion journalism one. This is my online registry where I tell you guys the things from my day by day life that tell me a story.

So, be certain that when I choose to speak about a project it's because that project has in my opinion, a certain value.

I may be a hell cat but I respect you guys, my readers, and I don't wanna recommend or talk with you about all kinds of new shits which actually say or mean nothing.

Anyways, enough with the useless mumbling.

Dear people who are not working but reading blogs on the internet,

please welcome and be amazed by "The Book Cover Tee"!
Glamorously brought to you by Noemi Revnic and 109.


 The Book Cover Tee is a project which presents inspirational people putting their vision of a favorite holiday book on a summer tee.

Noemi and Marius, Razvan Firea (Le Petit Indigent - we talked about his modern countess like designs here) Antz &Carla Szabo, Robert Ratiu &Ioana Ulmeanu, Ovidiu Buta and last but not least the inspirational Valeria Moldovan, signed and designed the first Book Cover Tee's.

I choose to wear Ovidiu's version because Virgina Wolf is among the writers who helped me define certain values in life.

I loved his interpretation of Orlando's synopsis. You need authentic attitude and a naturally born easiness to be able to come up with the whole concept and presentation in only four minutes after you heard about the project you are invited in.

I learned from Orlando that it's better not to judge someone before walking a mile in his shoes. Ovidiu teaches me everyday that you are really happy in the moment you let go living for others.



And now, the proof that since I received it I never got out of it!







I hope you agree with my decision of speaking about this project.

It's one of the few projects that tell a story! And as I said it many times, we really need to be surrounded by great stories! It allows us to dream and smile with our hearts.

So guys,

I salute you!




You can buy the Book Cover Tee's from Anthony Frost library, Carturesti or Bastilia.





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And here we are, delayed a few days but then again, it's only Snobbish-er (?!) so it's all good.



Here's a thing about me and holidays. You cannot take me on a holiday and keep me there more than four days. I'm a freak control, I cannot delegate and most of all, I work in a field where the principal tool is ones creativity, I cannot send my assistant do what only I can do! Makes sense? Okk, maybe not but I said I'm a personal shopper not a mentally sane human being.

 Anyways, long story short, I love city breaks.
They are effective like an ibuprofen shoot and last max four days. Bliss!

But most of all, I love out of nowhere and totally unplanned city breaks. Those kind in which you are in a restaurant, having dinner on a Friday evening and in the next 20 minutes you are in your car driving God knows where.




Therefore (I think I always say "Therefore"), My Snobbish Advice this week is:

 Find that one place near you and make it yours. I shouldn't be an glam or hip in the usual kind of way. All the glamourousnes will come just from this, from the fact that it will be the place where you feel energized and totally relaxed. Where you don't care what the people near you drink or what kind of branded swimming suit you should wear, where you just go and enjoy being you in all the hedonist kind of ways. (that's hard shit for many of you, I know! Yes, I said YOU cause I'm a vain person, it's by default that I enjoy being myself. Don't worry, I have other flaws)

Since I discovered Balcik last year, it became that sort of place for me. I usually to go there in autumn but this time was my first choice when I had only 3 minutes to think to where should we head on last Friday evening.

I'm not gonna bore you with other "wow-s"  and stories of how cool was to have three days without a phone and social pressure (we all feel it, stop saying otherwise).

You should consider it - it close, it's not all that cheesy and tacky like our seaside and you can be You there, without internet and Facebook and Instagram and all the city social drugs.

For me it has one word: peaceful! And after all, as an evolved individual of this society, this is our supreme desideratum.





Peaceful stopped being an option on Sunday morning when I met my friend...The hungover! 

I never knew when to stop with all the gin tonics.
Alka-Seltzer - remind me, next time to take them everywhere.



I loved Lindsay Lohan in the last issue of LOVE. I loved her since Rachel made her a chic rock star and I kept loving her even when everybody else stopped. You cannot judge someone before knowing what she went through.

I love my mass market statement necklace too. I know, you got it already, I spammed you with it enough lately. But I love it, it's so Belle Epoque likeee, so let me be!




Ahh, I'm gonna tell you now, before I forget, or set my mind on to other useless things, my adventure with Instagram.

 I used it for the first time at the beginning of 2011, got bored and put it behind me until some time earlier this year. Since I'm a short memory, little person, I forgot that everything I edit through it gets instantly published. I was somehow left with the impression that I should first log in to be able to do that.

Therefore, I was editing pictures just to have them filtered like that in my I phone. Intimate pictures if you know what I mean - me, dressed only in underpants and other soft porn things like this. After two months or so, time in which I was publishing these sort of pics once / day at least, a friend of mine told me that they are  online and people can actually see them.

I'm only gonna tell you this: those several minutes that took to frantically delete them seemed an eternity!

There, now you my instagramized, deepest/darkest secret!
Now, I'm more responsible or at least I'm dressed!


You can check at  @highstreetcardigans (in case the picture wasn't specific enough)


Don't forget about the Moleskine notebook from Book Express! Read and follow the steps and it can be yours.


Au revoir,
Ana


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I've made up my mind, maybe I'm a different breed...the perfect hybrid!  

I love simplicity in fashion but hate simple thinking individuals, I crave certain brands but I don't make them my goals, I love this blog and all of you but there are certain people and events in my life that I keep to myself and most important of all, I gossip but very rare judge.

Ok, ok, relax, I'll stop bragging!

Moving on with our daily agenda... here's a new thing you should hear about! At least you can give me that...I tell you guys only the coolest things you should search for or invest in.

Now, you might tend to say here's another alternative fashion/cultural magazine...

Well my friend, you are positively right! Here's another alternative/fashion/cultural magazine! Started online, ended up in print. Great hell of a deal, I might say! (and I'm not a bit ironical)

They called it  ALL HOLLOW



If you are somehow related to this field - called here figuratively "fashion" - you have heard about ID, Numero, WWD, Purple, Love and so on.

Some of them don't actually say something meaningful, they sell themselves as an underground alternative to the mainstream ones.  But when we find one that actually does and on top of it it's a Romanian one, well my friend, that is a moment of glory!




I love what  Barna wrote in the editor's letter. Modesty in creative people is a very rare quality!


They aimed for non commercial and they actually did it! With common sense, originality and passion. I loved Veronica's daring and Monica Birladeanu proved that simplicity is only for the sophisticated ones. So did Oana and Bianca with the impeccable styling.


Go buy "Decat o revista" - you'll find ALL HOLLOW!
And stay tuned for their September issue!


Till then, for more interesting/artsy news check All HOLLOW's blog daily.



Before I go I have a surprise for you! - ha! And you were about to say that I'm not jolly anymore!

You all heard about Moleskine, no?

As documented by many art collections and museums, in the late 19th to early 20th centuries, these nameless notebooks became a prominent creative tool for avant-garde artists who enjoyed drawing and writing outdoors; putting down impressions on paper; painting from life in the streets and cafés; and capturing scenes, ideas, and emotions.
Among artists who used similar black notebooks were  Oscar Wilde, Picasso, Hemingway, Matisse and Van Gogh.
 



Well, Book Express is giving one of you a Moleskine notebook as a gift!


 All you have to do is:

- LIKE Book Express on Facebook


- Follow High Street cardigans through Google Friend Connect


We'll have a winner, on Friday, the 27th.

Till then visit their online library, from art and fashion albums to all sorts of books, you'll find everything! And their delivery services are among the most efficient I've seen in this field.
 



 Please note that if you will leave more than one comment it will be counted as one and make sure you follow all the steps before the deadline day.





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I love their AVON LIKES YOU campaign because it inspires us to be daring, sensual, powerful and sophisticated. To experiment with all the values of our femininity and act like true queens that we really are.

When they wrote me asking if I would like be a part of this project I was thrilled.

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Because the values that are spoken of in their campaign are the same ones that we always talk about on High Street Cardigans.

So, now, I want to show you guys three women that I LIKE and have those qualities which AVON encourages you to find in yourself.


Diana Ticiu - Life coach & psychologist 





 Mirela Bucovicean - owner Molecule F.com