LUISAVIAROMA COCKTAIL PARTY: FIRENZE 4 EVER 3RD EDITION. FLORENCE BOUTIQUE, TOP FASHION BLOGGERS, LUXURY DESIGNER CLOTHES.
Such an honor to be among the world’s 40 top fashion bloggers, invited to Luisaviaroma’s Firenze4Ever 3rd edition! I’m still wrapping my head around everything that happened in Florence. Hold onto the handrails; here come a million photos…
Thank you to Luisa Via Roma for featuring me in a Styling Lab page; I was among the first five bloggers to be profiled. “Choosing strong, directional pieces from the Fall/Winter 2011 collections, La Carmina’s show stopping style is not for the faint hearted! Working military inspired jackets, Versace and Alexander McQueen, the Japanese blogger mixed it up with fierce prints and some streetwear inspired elements.”
Let’s begin with my travel misadventure. I transferred in Frankfurt, and then the small plane couldn’t land in Florence due to strong tailwinds! So I had to land in Bologna and bus to Florence, followed by a cab. Since it wasn’t possible to drop me at the door, I wandered for 40 minutes looking for the hotel…
But Sebastiano Serafini and I can always pull it together. We dressed at warp speed and made it to the opening cocktail party.
Street-snapped by Jerome of On The Street of Florence (he took the pics below). Isn’t the city gorgeous?
Goth bat dress, flower hair clip and Horror necklace: gifted from Sourpuss Clothing
Black lace jacket: Moi-meme-Moitie, from Closet Child in Tokyo
Blue wedge sandals: b+ab, from the IT Store in Hong Kong
Wolf purse and Seba’s black/white shirt: gifted from Iron Fist
Inside the Luisaviaroma store… all your favorite fashion bloggers! We drank red wine with Bryanboy, Wendy Lam of nitro:licious, and the boutique owner Andrea Panconesi.
Saba and Camilla (bottom right) are the sweetest — they invited us to Firenze4Ever, put us in a charming hotel, and helped us in every way possible.
The Luisa staff made a welcoming speech. Every blogger received gift bags full of books, t-shirts, and more goodies.
Wearing Mulberry fox masks, while Cindy Crawford looks on.
Ate so much yummy Italian food on this trip. My Horror necklace from Sourpuss is my new favorite.
The fashion event got a ton of media coverage: Sebastiano and I were in GQ, Vogue Italia, Moda Online and more. His friends even saw us on Italian TV news.
It was fun to bring underground/Gothic streetwear to a designer-chic environment.
Not all the clothes fit my style, but the materials and quality can’t be beat.
And you can’t go wrong with Luisaviaroma’s minimalist-meets-animals interior design.
Luisaviaroma invites the bloggers try on and model the clothes in Styling Labs (photos to come in the next posts).
Penguins and tigers and bears, oh my.
Things got a tad naughty in the bathroom.
After the party, Camilla took us for gelato at La Carraia. Licking yogurt nutella and dark chocolate gelato, on the famed Ponte Vecchio (bridge over the Arno River)… heaven!
Luisaviaroma interviewed us on the first day; the short video is above and here.
Words can’t express how grateful we are to our new Firenze friends! Many more Italy photos and modeling photos to come.
What do you think of Luisa’s store, and their focus on bloggers/social media? Which are your favorite photos and outfits from this post?
Song of the Day: Versailles – Vampire (have you seen the full PV yet?)
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That Ice cream place looks so good~! I’m surpised you guys didn’t melt it (;
haha!
I love to browse at LUISAVIAROMA. But really expensive :(
BTW, what sort of scarf/necklace is Seba wearing? It’s sexy.
I love to browse at LUISAVIAROMA. But really expensive :(
BTW, what sort of scarf/necklace is Seba wearing? It’s sexy.
It’s from Mongkok in Hong Kong :)
Ooooh! Seba looked adorable in the tiger coat! I loved your bat dress! And yes I have seen the full Vampire PV and loved it! I love the metaphor of it. A vampire being saved by drinking the blood of Christ. Genius!
Wondrous video!
This is a great post. I would kill to be at an event like that.
Awesome!
I love your site and blogs :)
Gorgeous clothes, I love them all. The bat dress I want. ^__^
Super Cute♥
<3 Versailles is so amazing. My favorite Japanese band by far!!! <3
Seen it. I love the video! No other elements, just Versailles playing their music. :3
♥ You rock ♥!
excellent stuff! You look like you´re having a blast over there. :)
Thank you dear!
Your hair looks absoloutly amazing like that :D
:D
Looks like your having a hell of a lot of fun you rotters. Wish I could wish I could turn back the clock twenty years and join you lol. Ps I would of given you a run for your money.
It’s hard not to enjoy Italia, heeh
“Awnnnn, super nice outfit! looking great! Im happy you’re there ^^”
I’m happy!
i love your hair!
Ohh, that one pic where your holding the wineglass with the italian nom-noms is very nice ;)
That jacket is lovely!
CUTE :)
Love love love!!!!!! ヘ(^_^ヘ) (ノ^_^)ノ
Ur hair is beautiful! Love Red! I kind of want to go back to it!
yes I like! as I told u in Rome^^!
FIERCE photos! I love your hair and the black pea coat.
Love the blue shoes.
so so so beautiful^^
Ahh you both look wonderful ^^ <3
<3 <3
OOooh I miss you! But I would never be mean enough to take you away from Italian fun ^^M^
That sounds like a perfect dream!!! #jealous
Absolute perfection. You look stunning. Congratulations.
Big hug! Thanks for the blog post!
looking spooky good (:
“Love this pic! :D xx”
pretty boy and girl :)
Young men make great mistakes in eastnikeshop ; for one thing, they idealize love too much.
Aww are you and Seba best friends? You seems to have so much fun and your photos are always so pretty ^^ I know its rude and very personal but may I ask something? I always wonder if you two are just besties or couple? Because you two match together and looks so good! <3 and you both seems to be very close since you do lot of events together :) im a little bit jealous, because you are so pretty and I would frickin love to go out on an event with you :) but you dont have to answer that of course :)) im just TOO MUCH curious and Seba is hot and you beautiful and both of you got sense for fashion so Im happy that you two could meet :) (so I can have nosebleed at yours photos haha <3) Linh :P
Aww thanks! That’s so cute! <3
hahaha I guess it's a mystery… here's a blog post that might have more clues? ;)
http://lacarmina.com/2011/08/hostelbookers-discount-hotel-rooms-in-italy-book-venice-rome-milan-budget-hotels-hostels-youth-travel-tips/
love all the outfits!