Louis Vuitton and the Retro Dinosaur Window Displays

The French house Louis Vuitton inspired by the French Natural History Museum in Paris's Les Jardins des Plantes to create stunning new dinosaur-themed window displays to present their Pre-Fall 2013/ 2014 Collection.

Louis Vuitton is going so Retro Chic showing that Pre Historic animals can be very stylish and chic bring pre history into the future.

To showcase the collection, seven golden dinosaur skeletons are being displays in some stores alongside with their iconic handbags collection that includes the Speedy and Sofia Coppola, Noe and the Alma models. Also Mannequins will be "Interacting"with the dinosaurs.

Louis Vuitton explains what can be seen in the windows:

"The slow, spiny Dimetrodon, the oldest of the selection, dating from 290 million years ago, with its distinctive sail of spines on its back; the placid Stegosaurus, with plates across its backbone like a jaw full of wonky teeth; the gigantic, pond-paddling Brachiosaurus; the swift-footed, fast-thinking Velociraptor; the predatory Spinosaurus, the largest of the meat-eaters, even bigger than the Tyrannosaurus rex; and the three-horned Triceratops, the youngest of the bunch at a mere 65 millions years old."

The displays are organized and labeled in a Museum-style to make you fell inside a Natural History Museum with less frightening and more chic and welcoming dinosaurs.

The window displays can be seen until end of September 2013 in the following stores:

- Champs Elysées

- New Bond Street

- 5th Avenue

- Plaza 66

- 5 Canton Road

- Omotesando

- Munique

Its a must see!!!

Photos: courtesy Louis Vuitton 

K108 Hotel and Yum Yum Restaurant

Located in the middle of old Doha you will find one of the best kept secret places in Doha...a very different Hotel.... The K108...

Photo: K108 Courtesy

The K108 Boutique Hotel is a place I highly recommend for several reasons, but the most important one is because 100% of it's profit goes to charity!!!! Yes, I said 100% to Charity!!!  I could end up here, because for me, this is more then a enough reason to go, but no...there are more and I will tell you a bit of this great Hotel ...

Though its location, a bit far for the fancy spots of Doha's 5 star Hotel, K108 is a real pearl. On it's 10th floor you will find the Yum Yum restaurant with a perfect view of the city.

Yum Yum by Hugo Coudurier is one of my favorite restaurants for lunch, though the majority of their customers prefer to go for dinner to see the lights of Doha's stunning skyline.

Hugo Coudurier a young talented French- Canadian Chef that worked in many famous kitchens in Europe and United States and for the famous Michelin Starred Guy Savoy (Paris), accepted the challenge to open he's own kitchen and dinning concept at the Yum Yum.

What I love about Yum Yum is the fact they have a market style menu. Chef Hugo Coudurier explained me that the menu changes depends on the food market availability and freshness of the products, so you will always find new dishes in the menu.

He's cuisine is simple, uncomplicated with a mix of Asian and European flavors with the use of the best quality products you can find in town, the result is absolutely divine, delicious and unique.

With a excellent service, the staff is always friendly, attentive and professional making you fell at home and the best off all with incredible affordable prices for the quality you get.

This boutique hotel and restaurant was designed by Olivier Meynard Architects and has a very clean and modern decor white white, green, brown colors giving a very cosy environment.

K108 is definitely a place to go and recommend to friends coming to Doha...and most importantly because they donate 100% of their profit under Al Kamal foundation to charity and important causes.

And why not now that Ramadam is coming, go there and help to make a difference in this world while you enjoy a great experience in Yum Yum.

My Blue World #2

Around China.....

Super Heavy Light scarfs by Lines Lab

Super Heavy Light "is a group of delicate silk accessories that combine the light weight of a fabric with sophisticated printed graphics based on zoomed images of concrete."

I love, love, love scarfs...and just fall in love by Lines Lab new scarf creations, so light, delicate and different...and with blue....

Lines Lab is not only a brand, but also a contemporary venture based in Macau. "A creative agency on the global Lusophone Top 20 ranking by Monocle Magazine & A Must See according to the New York Times" created and headed by Manuel CS (Industrial & Urban designer) and Clara Brito (Contemporary fashion & product designer) with the vision to integrate objects, people and events.

Photo: the blue chic

The Super Heavy Light Scarfs idea, started as an experimental project to test and create new products and began with the design of a bag in Tyvek that was transformed into a mould for a line of products based in concrete surface images.

These beautiful silk scarfs have patterns based on "photo details from those 3D products where forms and textures made by Tyvek molds on the cement surface were photographed and printed on silk".

The result is stunning and different, giving a poetic soul to concrete images translated into beautiful scarfs. Exactly like Carlos José Morais says :"Concrete's dream is to reach the sky" and "I think on the clouds but I walk on concrete". 

Available in four beautiful different designs at Macau Fashion Link Pop Up Shop and here or at Facebook page here.

Photo: the blue chic

Photos: Lines Lab Courtesy

Fashion Style @ Macau Fashion Link Pop Up Shop

Pop Up Shop by Macau Fashion Link

Yesterday Macau Fashion Link in partnership with the Albergue SCM open a Pop Up Shop in the beautiful Albergue just in the heart of Macau.

The Pop Up Shop that will be open until 30 of June has the aim to help and promote renowened Portguese Fashion designers and new emerging local talented designers. 

Macau Fashion Link besides giving the opportunity to these local designers to show and promote their talent and work to the end consumer also help's in their internationalization among Asian Markets and Portuguese speaking countries the Lusophone markets, creating an interchange between them and designers from from countries like Portugal, Angola and Brazil.

In this June edition besides local designers you will find pieces by the internationally renowned Portuguese designer "Dino Alves" and also a sports causal wear from "A Forest Design".

During the days that this shop will be open there will be a Designer's Room day, dedicated to each designer where you wil be able to buy  their artworks with 25% discount!
How great don't you think? 

If you are in Macau or traveling there it's a great opportunity to buy different and unique artwork designed pieces...


POP UP SHOP - Macau Fashion Link
Albergue SCM
From 12 am to 10 pm

i carry your heart with me - E. E. Cummings

E.E. Cummings is one of my favorite poets, he has a unique visual style while using a simple language that I personally find enchanting.

This poem that looks like a sonnet "i carry your heart with me," is deeply profound and touching. The simple language that he uses makes it easy to understand and read,  he talks about deep and profound love, a love able to keep the stars apart and that can transcend the soul or the mind.

How beautiful....

i carry your heart with me 

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere

i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done

by only me is your doing, my darling)

i fear

no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want

no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)

and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant

and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows

(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud

and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows

higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)

and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)