le mani d'oro

Everyday, or almost everyday, I post on my Facebook page a fashion picture that represents the fashion "Coup de coeur" of the day or Very Favourite in English I think.Today, the coup de coeur was full of humour and very French - or very French cancan. This dress is part of Jean Paul Gauthier's spring 2011 collection. I hope to make you smile...

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I had bought this pink and black blouclé at Emma One Sock some 2 or even years ago. Originally, I had bought the fabric to make a DKNY outfit from Vogue (1067). As it often happen, I grew out of this project, jumped on another one and left the fabric all nicely folded in my fabric closet.I would sometimes look at it and...

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Today will be dress design day. I am starting with Vogue 8146 as a base.Since I want to the upper chest part to be in a different fabric, I think that princess seams would not be suitable. This Vogue pattern has long and deep darts instead.The neck opening is not what I want. I will draw it based on my Go Pattern dress....

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I briefly introduced the fact that I am very bad at drawing. Being a shame of my huge lack of skills in that matter, I often mention to my work colleagues that I cannot draw... while Working in a faculty of architecture, interior design and industrial design could give any one or many ones serious doubts on their drawing ability. In my case,...

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As I said I would, I finished both my wool fleece jacket and my Chanel inspired sailor pants. I will not present this jacket as a total sucess. Let say that it is not bad, but not as perfect as I would like it to be.First of all, using a coverstitch machine to decorate strait lines is not a difficult thing. Theoratically, you...

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Tailleur Chanel Automne 2011Ce soir, je n'ai pas envie d'écrire en anglais. Mille excuses à tous, ce message sera en français. Il y a tout de même un outil de traduction en haut de la page.Depuis mon retour de Barcelone, j'ai envie de "feuilleter" les pages web montrant les tendances pour l'automne 2011. Je regarde, défilé après défilé et j'enregistre les looks que...

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