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Monthly Archives: July 2010
Happy Birthday Max!!!
Max chose the Last Chukker to celebrate his birthday because he loves pizza!!! and so does the whole family! 🙂
I love watching the brick oven pizza and the guy making pizzas non stop!
My favorite salad and the family’s favorite too 🙂 Love the krunchy topping – Mrs. O Salad
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The Last Chukker December 17, 2008
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It all started with a juice stand in Palm Beach 50 years ago. Lilly, a young New York Socialite, had just eloped with Peter Pulitzer and settled in Palm Beach. Looking for a fun hobby, Lilly decided to open a juice stand featuring local citrus. Her business was a hit, but all the squeezing made a mess of her clothes, so Lilly designed a dress to camouflage the stains. The result: A comfortable sleeveless shift made of bright, colorful printed cotton in pink, green, yellow and orange–the Classic Shift.
Customers loved her dress and soon Lilly was selling more shifts than juice. She decided to stop squeezing and focus solely on selling her “Lillys.” Before long, Jackie Kennedy began wearing Lillys. Then, of course, everyone wanted one and Lilly Pulitzer® became a fashion sensation. Throughout the ’60s and ’70s, the Lilly Pulitzer line was the uniform of the affluent at play. Lilly Pulitzer stores sprang up in favorite resort towns of the jet set and Lilly’s pink and green colors became the banner of the resort lifestyle!
Lilly Pulitzer offers apparel for ladies, children and men, as well as ladies’ shoes, accessories and gifts. There are currently 75 retailers in Lilly-loving communities around the country recognized as Lilly Pulitzer via Shops as well as upscale specialty shops, resorts and clubs nationwide. Lilly Pulitzer is also sold in major department stores, including Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom and Bloomingdale’s, as well as upscale specialty shops and clubs nationwide. Its popularity continues to grow among those who knew it years ago and those who have just discovered its timeless fun.
This year, Lily Pulitzer is saving the planet one print at a time! This season’s Spring 2010 is inspired by all the colorful flora and fauna around us, Lily Pulitzer is dedicating their new collections to promoting a greener world. With prints featuring everything from ocean life, to plant life, to endangered wildlife, Lily Pulitzer is proving that you don’t have to harm Mother Nature in order to wear it. Check out their latest Animal-inspired prints, supporting our friends at the World Wildlife Fund.
This time around, those classic “Lillys” now add color to Manila’s style savvy as Rustan’s makes them available for Summer 2010. The new collection is inspired by all colourful flora and fauna and is also dedicated to promoting a greener world with prints featuring everything from ocean life, to plant life, to endangered wildlife. Lilly Pulitzer is proving that you don’t have to harm Mother Nature in order to wear it. Their latest Animal-inspired prints add zest to every ensemble and is also in support of the World Wildlife Fund.
This year also marks Lilly Pulitzer’s successful collaboration with another iconic American trendsetter LeSportsac. LeSportsac features a wide range of handbags, travel bags, totes, backpacks, small accessories, — perfect for a weekend away or a day in the sun.
Known for its collaborations with popular names like Jonathan Adler, Diane Von Furstenberg, Gwen Stefani, and Stella McCartney, LeSportsac’s partnership with Lilly Pulitzer, is the ultimate fit. As fellow designer Jonathan Adler shares, “Lilly Pulitzer makes everyone look happier…and more fun-loving than they probably are. Lilly Pulitzer equals sunshine.”
The two brands have meshed their creative juices that epitomize their mutual signature DNA: spontaneity, whimsy, and one-of-a-kind prints. The three co-branded prints center around endangered species, specifically Florida panthers, butterflies, and animals of the Everglades, generating environmental awareness in a colourful fashionable style still as part of the Lilly Loves Green campaign.
There are currently 75 retailers in Lilly-loving communities around the world and is recognized as Lilly Pulitzer via Shops as well as upscale specialty shops, resorts and clubs nationwide.
To date, Lilly Pulitzer offers a wide range of apparel from ladies, children and men, as well as ladies’ shoes, accessories and gifts.
Its popularity continues to grow among those who knew it years ago and those who have just discovered its timeless fun!
Lily Pulitzer is exclusively distributed by Rustan’s Commercial Corporation and is available in Rustan’s Makati.
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Mickey’s serves breakfast 🙂
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L’Artizan Bakery and Mickey’s Deli October 11, 2007
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Triennale Design Museum, Milan
Greta Garbo, the Swedish Sphinx, and Salvatore Ferragamo, The Shoemaker of Dreams, as his autobiography is titled, met in what was to be a small chapter in these two great figures’ historic lives. Their first encounter lasted just long enough for Ferragamo to create a pair of custom-made shoes. The year was 1927 and the place is Hollywood, before Salvatore returned to Florence to found his company in Italy. The star continued to buy her shoes at the Hollywood Boot Shop while it remained under Ferragamo’s ownership and later she went to Saks Fifth Avenue in New York. In August 1929, the pair met again in Florence. “As young as when I first met her”, Greta entered the shop with an old pair of cord sandals. “I don’t have any shoes,” she said. “And I want to walk”. In five sittings, Ferragamo designed a series of low-heel shoes, including a red calfskin sandal with an ankle strap that she particularly liked. She left the store with 70 pars of shoes, most of which differed only in color.
Two years ago, Garbo’s great-nephew, Craig Reisfield, was passing through Florence and stopped to visit Ferragamo and its fascinating museum dedicated to the founder’s history and his revolutionary shoes, located in the historic Palazzo Spini Feroni, the company’s headquarter’s since 1938. While speaking with the Museum Director Stefania Ricci, Craig (a direct descendant of the actress, as he is the son of her only niece, Gray Resifield) mentioned the extensive collection of dresses, hats, scarves, gloves, and countless pairs of pants and shirts that her family has carefully kept – Greta Garbo’s entire personal wardrobe, as no one has ever seen or studied it before.
THE LOOK OF NON-CONFORMITY
This is how the idea first came about for an exhibit on the legend of Greta Garbo beyond the silver screen, a show on one of the most mysterious icons of an era when the new art of film was just beginning to experiment with its ability to seduce and influence the masses. In 1929, Metro Goldwin Meyer assigned costume designer Adrian Adolph Greenberg to work with her, and the relationship they forged gave life to her unmistakable style which, even on set, embraced her personal taste for comfort and ease, and which above all, drew attention to her stunning face. Draped cowls, stand-away collars and very high necklines became the signature elements of Garbo/Adrian look, with resounding success. All over, her fans covered up, rather than baring themselves, creating a generation of Mata Haris in cinched-waist trench coats. Although Adrian’s tireless toil was meant for film, with magnificent costumes for movies like Queen Christina and Anna Karenina, the two influenced each other, as could be seen in Garbo’s personal wardrobe, which subtly changed when she decided to retire after the new look for Two Faced Woman (1941) proved to be an utter disaster, from the dresses to the perm mandated by Directory George Cukor and Hairdresser Sydney Guillaroff.
THE EXHIBIT
The show begins with a selection of film costumes recovered from the institutes, museums, and private collections that have had them since the dispersion of the MGM warehouses. The recovered pieces included a stunning dress with embroidered neckline worn in Inspiration, on loan from Drexel University in Philadelphia, and the dress work in Queen Christina (the Museum at Fit).
One section is devoted to Garbo’s face, which Roland Barthes called an idea today. Her portrait was painted by Clarence Sinclair Bull, among others, and Cecil Beaton shot the celebrated passport photo of her.
Everyday elegance brings together never before seen clothing and accessories that belonged to the star. The collection includes Louis Vuitton suitcases, one of which was entirely intended to hold shoes, as well as Valentina, Pucci, and Givenchy models, and Ferragamo shoes, including one of the creations that she was the very first to wear: a shoes with a stitchless upper, soft toe, and simple clasp.
The show also includes incredibly glamorous, yet simple sandal with a small round heel,
a velvet ballerina shoe for the evening and lovely lace up shoes whose small details – one pair has a slightly raised toe,
the other a special closure – underscore Ferragamo’s creativity in the custom designs for one of his favorite customers. All the shoes were created with simplicity and comfort in mind, the epitome of Garbo glamour.
In the Philippines, Salvatore Ferragamo is exclusively distributed by Stores Specialists Inc. (SSI) and is located at Power Plant Mall, Greenbelt 4, Rustan’s Tower, Rustan’s Makati, Alabang Town Centre and Rustan’s Ayala Cebu.
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I am enjoying playing around with this….I got this from my friend, Edward last year……No, not from Edward Cullen……..I wish 🙂
Thanks to my pretty models
Go to: http://www.photofunia.com/
to make your own from many to choose from
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The precious element of water forms the symbolic theme of Swarovski’s Spring/Summer 2010 jewelry and accessories collection.
“Water is the new expression of luxury in a world where increasing efforts are being made to protect the environment,” explains Nathalie Colin, Creative Director at Swarovski. “I wanted to explore this theme with this important seasonal collection, the second part of the “Beyond Nature” trilogy. This collection, which is extremely rich in forms and colours, pays homage to biodiversity and marine life. Crystals take on subtle tones and appear with new materials that evoke the effect of the changing reflections of the water’s surface. The pieces meander across the skin and appear to leave droplets of crystal and gleams of summer sun. An immense source of design inspiration, water also nurtures all of our desires in terms of wellbeing, exoticism, youth and joie de vivre.”
The Swarovski woman expresses herself this season via three aquatic variations. With a faint silhouette seen through the small window of a spa, she embodies the pursuit of wellbeing and the purification of the body with water via the “Beauty Drops” theme. With chic allure she appears on the bridge of a boat before a nautical landscape, revealing her true emotions and her insatiable desire to escape through the “Marina Blue” line.
The final chapter in this collection, “Sea, Light and Fun”, highlights the effervescent side of water, with its nautical theme providing light-hearted inspiration.
Beauty Drops
Playing a purifying role, water exhibits its sensory and limpid dimension in this line of ultra fluid jewellery pieces. “Levity” sees Swarovski return to its roots, demonstrating its expertise in delicate handcrafted beading. The theme plays with the moving and ever changing shape of the jellyfish. With a multitude of opalescent and coral-coloured crystals connected in various places to a long chain, the pieces offer a unique wave-like movement. Both mysterious and sensual, the “Beauty Drops” woman is transformed into an insatiable, contemporary siren.
Sea, Light and Fun
Without a care in the world, this summertime heroine happily dives into a fantastic sea filled with playful, joyous creatures, while focusing on accumulation. Extremely eye-catching with its small, mobile tail, rounded form and asymmetric fins, the “Lychee” fish pendant entertains with its large eyes in clear crystal and appears on a gold-plated chain. Available in both large and small sizes, this mischievous little fish is also the star on a matching ring and bracelet.
By combining poetry, sophistication, nature and humour, the “Out of the Blue” collection pays homage to water by exploring the wealth of this vital element, the qualities of which are incredibly close to Swarovski crystal. The multiple facets are representative of rays of sunlight reflecting on the surface of the water, and the ambivalence between solidity and liquidity is emphasized in this Spring/Summer 2010 jewelry and accessories collection.
Brief History:
In 1895, Daniel Swarovski I, a Bohemian inventor and visionary, moved to the village of Wattens, Tyrol in
Austria, with his newly-invented machine for cutting and polishing crystal jewellery stones. From this beginning that revolutionised the fashion world, Swarovski has grown to be the world’s leading producer of precision-cut crystal for fashion, jewellery and more recently lighting, architecture and interiors. Today, the Swarovski group, still family-owned and run by 4th and 5th generation family members, has a global reach with some 24,800 employees, a presence in over 120 countries and a turnover in 2009 of 2.25 billion Euros. Swarovski comprises two major businesses, one producing and selling loose elements to the industry and the other creating design driven finished products. Swarovski crystals have become an essential ingredient of international design. Since 1965 the company has also catered to the fine jewellery industry with precision-cut genuine and created gemstones. Showing the creativity that lies at the heart of the company, Swarovski’s own brand lines of accessories, jewellery and home décor items are sold through more than 1,800 retail outlets worldwide. The Swarovski Crystal Society has close to 350,000 members across the world, keen collectors of the celebrated crystal figurines. And in Wattens, Swarovski Kristallwelten, the multi-media crystal museum, was opened in 1995 as a celebration of Swarovski’s universe of innovation and inspiration. The Swarovski group also includes Tyrolit®, manufacturing grinding tools, Swareflex, for road safety reflectors and Swarovski Optik, producing precision optical instruments.
Swarovski is exclusively available in Rustan’s Makati, Shangri-la and Gateway.
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