Fragrantica gives these featured accords: Top: Freesia, tincture of rose, litchi, raspberry Heart: Jasmine, peony, lilac, lily, lily of the valley Base: Patchouli, musk
Here is the lovely Cate Blanchett, you may know her from the Giorgio Armani blockbuster fragrance ads for Si, or even as an Oscar winning actress. Here Cate is invited to do a eulogy for one of Australia’s most controversial and loved Prime Ministers.
This is a speech for the ages. All encompassing but from a personal place. Filled with honest good humour and excellent reminiscences it also highlights so many of the achievements made by one of our greatest Prime ministers.
A little more CHANEL footage. Here we have a behind the scenes look at the Dubai Cruise Collection for 2014/15. Perfect timing for an Australian summer, which is looming large, and great for the Northern Hemisphere to remember how hot works.
OMG!! I am sitting here and have had to shut my office door because I’m making stupid noises and tears are streaming down my face. This is so freaking funny and so awful. I can’t help but put myself in the bosses place and it’s a wretched place to be.
Here is a beautiful insight into the complete and utter hour intensive, old school, haute couture creation process. Every stitch and every bead must be done by hand, it is a failing art and ultimately extraordinarily expensive. Still done at 31 Rue Cambon in Paris above the flagship store, and if you are lucky you can see the staircase leading up to the atelier, and Coco’s rooms.
Making CHANEL Fall-Winter 2014/15 Haute Couture Collection
Now under the direction of the incredible Karl Lagerfeld, the man who seems so much a part of CHANEL that it’s hard to remember the house before him for many of us. Personally I think he has carried the flag for CHANEL impeccably.
Enjoy the mini movie, I keep showing the CHANEL ones because they are often the best and most beautiful,
Imagine if your preconceptions are rerouted. Gay is normal and straight is feared, outcast, rejected and freakish. It is hard to visualise because we have never seen it but here in a 19 minute short film it all is. Played out as truthfully and darkly as real life often is for gays.
Cried my eyes out, this piece is haunting me as a near parallel to my own and my best friend through schools youth. Luckily it never got so bad as this for me but my friend Jason was picked on mercilessly by years above and below.
Please watch this and share it with your kids, families, siblings and friends. It may just stop one person from being victimised for something they have no control over because it is predestined by birth and genetics. We are all equal, no matter who we love, what religion we follow, what colour our skin, what sex we are or how we earn our living. We should all be equal in the eyes of the law and the eyes of our community.
With love to you all,
Portia xx
Imagine A World Where Being “Gay” The Norm & Being “Straight” Would Be The Minority! [Short Film]
This is SO off topic but I want you all to have a big smile on your face for Sunday. Here are two of my favourites absolutely hamming it up for the Graham Norton Show. I hope you get as much joy from it as I have.
WOW! I write this to you through a misty fog. I just watched the new CHANEL No.5 film. Ah May ZinG! “Baz” Luhrmann has done a spectacular job on the newest film. Gisele Bündchen at 34 is even more beautiful, stylish and poised than she was in the beginning. Please watch the behind the scenes clip first because it explains the film perfectly and will give you an added dimension when you see it.
WOW WOW WOW
CHANEL N°5: The One That I Want
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Gisele was also the face of Liberte by Cacharel a few years ago, I thought her a perfect choice then and here she seems to have found her perfect niche. CHANEL and Gisele
Today I just have to dish about a decadent love affair I am having. I cannot get enough of this sultry little minx. She is a Parisian – sexy in an awe-inspiring, effortless way I could only dream of achieving in real life. She is chic and stylish: she wears a Chanel jacket with Levi’s jeans and makes it look movie-star cool. She is slightly dangerous, fun and romantic – like screaming down the Autobahn on a Moto Guzzi at night with a very handsome date that you get to squeeze very tightly … Her name is
La Petite Robe Noire by Thierry Wasser for Guerlain 2012
Fragrantica gives these featured accords: Top: Black cherry, bergamot, red berries, almond Heart: Bulgarian rose, Turkish rose, licorice, smoked black tea Base: Aniseed, tonka bean, vanilla, iris, patchouli
When I first sprayed La Petite Robe Noire EdP, I thought, “Oh wow, this is TOO much.” I had a wave of panic that it was more than I bargained for. But I resisted the urge to wash it off, surrendered and let her take me where she wanted to. The first spray of this dark beauty borders on the obscene. It is a cacophony of dark fruit saturated in tonka bean, smoke, black licorice, anise, refined black tea, vanilla and Patchouli. It’s thrilling – like that breathless, intoxicating feeling of waiting for that first kiss with someone you are so into, that you just KNOW is going to happen at some point in the evening. It’s not all heavy though – part of the thrill is there is also an effervescent frilliness in the top notes of bergamot and sparkling berries that swirl around like a black lace crinoline under a tango dancer’s fuchsia skirt, blended expertly into the deep notes so that no seams show whatsoever.
After a few minutes La Petite Robe Noire EdP calms down, but simmers with the same unabashedly sexy concoction of dark fruit and gourmand notes, with a dark ripe rose coming into the scenario. But only slightly – I would not call this a ‘rose dominant’ fragrance. And while it is certainly sexy, it is not bawdy or garish. It is extremely smooth, balanced and deep. This is posh, upscale, 5-star-hotel, crystal chandelier sexy. This is definitely black dress material, but no polyester here sister: La Petite Robe Noire EdP is silk chiffon, taffeta, lace, pearls, and diamonds all the way. It is a complex, plush fragrance – I have only worn it in summer but can imagine how beautiful these black velvety notes would be against the crystalline cold of winter.
I get easily 6-8 hours out of La Petite Robe Noire EdP, but traces of it linger even after that. I would wear this fragrance everywhere – from a black tie affair or cocktail hour where I am actually wearing a little black dress, to a work seminar (which I did and inspired me to wear a black, ruffled, bow-tied, Napoleon-sleeved blouse instead of a stuffy suit jacket and I got rave reviews), to the most casual of daily activities – any occasion where you want to feel opulently sexy and pretty.
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