We Love...

Pictures from Spell & The Gypsy Collective's blog,

such a perfect wedding, seriously, everything's in the details ;)

Bits of summer we don't want to leave...

The Crayola Mini Nail Polish collection, just awesome !
You can find it on FredFlare, love :)

The Fall 2012 Mulberry campaign stars a cool and fearless Lindsey Wixson and
her fluffy monsters-friends. So easy and playful, it kills !

Last but not least, a cute lil' video we shot this summer...

Love the track, it's by Frank Ocean :)

We met... Kadia

Hello Stradi Girls and Boys ☺

Here is our new rubric called REPORTS where we meet known and unknown people who want to share their taste for fashion, art or music with us. So don't hesitate to contact us to appear in this new rubric dedicated to YOU!

The other day, we met Kadia, Miss Suisse Francophone, in Lausanne for a girly afternoon. She took us to Zara, H&M and to a frippery. She showed us what she likes, or doesn't like. Then, we went to a bar that's called The Arches. It's a really cool bar where you can chill for hours drinking beer and coca cola ahah. We had some girly chat and a lot of laughs. 

Kadia told us that she participated to the contest Miss Suisse Francophone after that her friend enrolled her. She won the contest and continued her studies in parallel. We asked her some questions to let you know her a little bit better. Her favorite designer is Alexander McQueen, Kadia thinks he's kind of crazy and got a lot of imagination. She would looooove to wear that Lady Gaga's shoes designed by him. She's inspired by street fashion, art, music and loves sewing, reading and doing sport. 

When Summy asked her where does she her shopping Kadia answered: 

"In Broadway AHAH, no for real I like to go to the frippery because I can find a lot of original things that the other people don't have". 

Her essentials fashion's pieces are her jewelry, she considers them like babies.

We can definitely say that Kadia is a really friendly and funny girl and we loved that moment so much ☺

And thank you guys for following us, hope this post will pleased you.

Interview by Summy

Photos by Autumn

Books

Books have always been part of our lives, when we were kids our parents almost bought us every books we wanted ! We had fun sharing stories, borrowing books and then classify them in our bookcases. Seriously, it gives me chills to think about that period of life... Discovering words, characters, authors...
- and even the books' smell - truly are some comforting pleasures !

I hope you guys like books as well and that you would advice us your favorites :)

#readingbooksclub

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”  

Charles William Eliot

Here are some random books that we liked :

• Shoichi Aoki has pictured the best Japanese street-style for more than 15 years in a various number of magazines and photo-books. His books are wonderful, you can only admire the amount of work and incredible documenting (FRUiTS & Fresh FRUiTS are like the mecca for subculture fashion, traditional wear and DIY). Sooo inspiring ! Taschen Books
• Also from Taschen Books, this 70's Fashion photo art book by Jimi Heimann and Laura Schooling. It's full of vintage ads and magazines sheets. Taschen Books has the most exquisite choice, there's a fashion collection, a movie icon collection (my Audrey Hepburn comes from this one !),and so on. Every pictures chosen are brilliant.
• How Reading Changed My Life by Anna Quindlen is the perfect read for anyone who loves books, who hates books, who has hard times keeping an eye on the book... Honestly I think this is one of the best books of all times and galaxy ! Ballantine Books
• If you're looking for anything about fashion, check out this A to Z guide covering years of fashion design, icons, photographers, models and more ! The Fashion Book is a must-have on every bookshelf + 512 pages of vital information ;) Phaidon Press
• Thing Of Beauty by Stephen Fried is a beautiful biography of supermodel Gia Carangi but also an inside-view of the fashion industry and the late 70's. Pocket Books
• Of course, this TeNeues Books is expensive but it features such a huge source of materials from fashion photographer and fairy tales magician Tim Walker ! It would be a shame to miss the opportunity to browse it in your public library ;)