Knits for Winter or an Amusing Advertisment

 I tend to not like advertisement. Usually lies are hidden behind every advertisement. I don't like when people lie. That's why when it's possible, I try to escape being lied to. I can single out two types of adverts. Type No 1 - boring adverts. When you come across them, you usually change the channel right away. Type No 2 - cool adverts. You usually watch them till the end with your mouth open, or laughing out loud, or admiringly. 

 A knitted advert, you can see in the pictures, I came across the other day. It's the second type of advertisement. I think it's a very cool way to advertise your knitted products. When passers-by see this advert the first thing that comes to their mind - a huge knitted scarf or sweater.

  

Dear friends, I wish you to be creative in all aspects of your life!

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Practicing in Styling: Winter Look for Girls

 What a lovely job it is to be a stylist - you choose beautiful clothes and then make people look beautiful. Though I think everyone of us is devine even without clothes ;)
The moment I saw this olive velvet dress in the picture, I realized how I much I like it, how much it is expensive = I can't buy it now, and I realized I need to make a look with this dress.    

 Being a fan of knee socks, I couldn't help using grey knee socks for this look. Then I added my favourite shiny brogues. The perfect look was completed with the multicolour suede handbag. The olive dress has some purple embroidery on the neck line, so why not to make this look colourful with the bright accessory?

 I think it's a super comfy look for stylish and busy girls like us.

Do you like this look, guys?

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Bright People: "I Don't Need Fame, I Just Want To Be a Scientist."

 Fame. Fame. A lust to be known. A wish to be recognised on the streets. A secret dream to have fan clubs of your own. "Oohhh, if they only knew how GREAT I am! If the whole world could see how COOL I am! I deserve to be famous too." - most of us think from time to time. 

 I do not remember when I came across fame issue first. I must have been a 10 years old girl signing into a hair comb = microphone a popular song of that time in front of a mirror wearing my mother's beautiful dress. My daily watching TV definitely played a role in my first education about fame. From that time till these days fame issue is bugging me. Why does "becoming famous" topic has been so meticulously natured in mass-media for tens of years? If not to say for thousands of years? In the end of the 20th century a person had to do something really outstanding to become famous, in the 21st century you can be famous for doing something silly or scandalous, or owning a grumpy cat, or having a millionaire dad or lover. Has the world gone crazy?

 Why fame is so attractive? People with different backgrounds have different reasons. A boy from the poor family wants to become famous because it brings good fortune. A daughter of millionaire needs fame in order to see herself on magazine pages and to seem to herself popular, even when 99% of the world despises her.

 Mass-media is fond of using American dream as a red carpet to fame. American dream started hypnotize people nearly from the discovery of America. The law of American dream, according to mass-media, works pretty simple - work hard and one day you will become rich and famous. If it's really so, why since 1492 each American hasn't become rich and famous? Didn't they work hard enough? I think they did. If there is so much hard working people in the US, why does Forbes full list of America's richest people include 400 persons on it and not 320,064,285 persons, which is an actual demographics of the US? May be the situation is like this because American dream simply doesn't work? Then why does mass-media washes our brains with this fairy tale on a daily basis? 

 Looking on the covers of magazines and newspapers first pages you see only actresses, models, sportsmen\women, businessmen, millionaires who inherited their fortunes. What if I don't want to be an actress? Or I'm not tall enough to be a model? Or I do not have a wish to be a greedy businessman? What if I'm a low class person and have nothing to inherit except and apartment which costs much less than a million of dollars? Then I do not deserve to be on the cover of a magazine? What If I want to be a scientist, like a boy in the picture, and want to discover through my experiments a cancer cure?  I think the world would be much better if on magazine covers were people who really improve the world - doctors, teachers, nurses, scientists, factory workers, aviation engineers, architects, bus drivers, canteen cooks, street cleaners, fishermen. These people definitely make our world better. Can you imagine them on magazines covers? I can. What if these people served for us as examples and role models? What for to put on pedestal and actress or a singer? Do they save lives on a daily basis like doctors do? Do they repair air crafts so hundreds of people could visit their relatives in other countries? Does a model or an actress teach kids reading?

 I met a boy that you can see on Vogue magazine cover in a cafe. He is a teenager. I saw a huge Organic Chemistry book in English, not in Russian, on his table and right away started a conversation with him and his friend, because I couldn't believe that teenagers can carry along such huge books in their rucksacks every day. I spoke with him about future plans and he said that he loved chemistry and wanted to be a scientist. Then I said:"Oh, you want to make a discovery and become famous." He said:"I don't need fame, I just want to be a scientist. I want to sit in a quiet nook and make experiments. But yes, I want to make a discovery and do something good for the humanity." After those words I was very surprised, not to say astonished. Here I am, finally found somebody who doesn't want to be famous! And who actually wants to do good for the world. 

 Perhaps, when more and more people realize what kind of things are really worth our attention, and those things do not include fame and becoming an actress, but include doing your best for people and becoming a doctor, a scientist or an engineer. And when people of such professions will be on magazines covers more often, most probably, there will be no wars, no poverty and much less suffering in the world.            

            

The guy is fond of organic chemistry.

Just look what a huge book it is!

#MBFWRUSSIA Grey Coat No 2

 If you are a big fan of grey colour and of grey coats particularly, you might like this picture. One thing a I like about this look is that the lady in the picture added a bright colour to her look - she wears red boots. That's a nice trick to make grey look more colourful.

 Personally I'm not a fan of grey. I own only 3 grey pieces - a pullover, a vest and shorts. Surely I do not put them on frequently. Grey does not make me look bright. It's because I'm always pale and a bit blonde. The lady in the picture is tanned and a brunette, so she looks good wearing a total grey look.  

Winter in Moscow

 Fashion is fun and fighting for truth is a noble thing and worth supporting, but there is another part of life that deserves to be paid attention to. The things around you. Last weekend it was so beautiful in the city - warm, snowy. It was a crime to skip seeing mother nature. 

 In Moscow there are a couple of big beautiful parks in which you can get lost and enjoy silence and fresh air. On of the park, the biggest one, looks more like a wood, is not far from my place. Logically, I went to the wildest and biggest and best park in the city. In the pictures you can see what a magic beauty was seen through my eyes. I want you guys to enjoy winter in Moscow too. So, ENJOY!   

Someone's house on the tree. 

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Winter Look Inspired by Au Jour Le Jour FW14

 Hello guys! How are your winter days going? This year winter in Moscow is not as cold as it could've been. Streets are covered with snow but it's warm outside. Realising that I must depict this beautiful weather for history archives (or at least for my blog archive) and being inspired by Au Jour Le Jour FW14 collection, I let my imagination to wander a bit and here is what I found in my subconsciousness.    

Humour can help you not only to produce an impression of a bright intellectual person, but also to dress like a bright person.

Sometimes it's not necessary to dress like your mom taught you. 

Do you like my styling, guys?

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Street Art in Moscow # 23. Money Rule the World?

 It looks like the graffiti master wanted to say us that "Money rule the world." Sometimes it really seems so. But deep inside you want to believe that everything that people do in the world is not because of money, but because of lust to live better, to save more lives, to help more people, to make people's lives easier due to scientific progress. 

 I used to take jobs because of money. I didn't like those jobs a lot, but the pay was high and I thought I could stand that dislike for a year. Can you imagine what a torture it was for me to do work that I didn't like. More than that, the earned money didn't bring me happiness. So guys, if you can, work not because of money (I don't ask you to do it for free, of course not), work because you like it. And do not forget to be bright. 

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Thank You For Supporting #JeSuisDonbass

 Hello my dear friends! 

I thank everyone who really heard my appeal to support Donbass people. I know that posting a picture on instagram and liking that picture physically won't help Donbass people in war zone, but at least you helped to spread the word and more and more people will learn that the war still goes on in Ukraine and Donbass. In Donbass (a former part of Ukraine) people refused to support the new "ruling" party of Ukrainian oligarchs and what did they get for that? They got a war and now see death every day. That is how a new "government" in Ukraine treats innocent people who do not want to accept them = be ruled by fascists. I use brackets in the text because I really can not accept these neo-fascist oligarchs who now try to "rule" in Ukraine.

 So my dear friends, thank you so much for your support and your actions. We acted so well on the first stage of our fight for the fair world, can you imagine what a great team we can be when it comes to real physical actions?   

 And one more word about the French people. Please, do not play the games the government wants to play with you.       

"The easiest way to gain control of a population is to carry out acts of terror. [The public] will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened". 

~ Josef Stalin

 Believe me, guys, Josef Stalin knew how to rule and control people, otherwise he wouldn't have defeated Hitler.

 Dear everybody, please, do not let the government to fool you by means of mass media, terror acts (ordered by government itself or the government created the atmosphere for the terror act to happen), their empty promises. Below you can see one more example of the way the government fools us every day by means of TV.

So here is how they showed us the "Unity Rally" on the news: 

It looks really impressive. It looks that hundreds of people go behind=support those governments heads. 

And this is how it looked in real life:

Hundreds of people? I doubt. I'm sure most of that crowd are bodyguards and government clerks that work for those in the front row.

 I will be very glad if this post helped you to see a tiny bit of truth. It's only the beginning, guys. 

 I will end my post with the phrase:

12 people killed in France - the whole world cares, 9000 killed in Donbass - no one cares.  

RIP 9000 innocent Donbass people who wanted a better life for their kids and for themselves.

#JESUISDONBASS

 My dear loyal friends, thank you so much for visiting my blog. I smile every time I see visitors on my blog and in my thoughts thank you all from my heart for coming - it's SO GREAT that like minded people can meet, even in network, and share the same point of view or like the same style of dressing. 

 All of you know what happened in France recently. I have readers in France and I feel very sorry for that and I express my big support to the families of those 12 killed people. But I think the whole world forgot of what is happening in Donbass (former region of the present Ukraine) now. Simple people, like you and me, are killed every day by Kiev "government"=rich oligarchs, which they fearlessly refused to support. People in Donbass are ready to give their lives but not to be enslaved by Kiev oligarchs. 

 Here I ask you, at least somehow to support simple Donbass people and post on your Instagram, or Facebook page or any social networks, the picture below or above, like I did on my instagram profile #jesuisdonbass. 

 Beware that thousands of people are killed in Donbass - nobody cares, 12 people killed in France - whole world cares.

Please, copy this picture.

Any day we can be in their shoes. 

Winter Streets, Offices and Au Jour Le Jour Bright Pieces

 If I feel bored and need to see bright colours clothes, I go to au jour le jour website and check out their collections. Particularly winter collections of the Italian designers Mirko Fontana and Diego Marquez attract me. Their vision can be expressed in the following words: versatile and ironic, cultured and sophisticated, every day. Last winter I blogged about their cool creations for winter here. I decided not to break the tradition and share with you the bright colours\pieces that Mirko and Diego suggest for girls to wear in winter. 

 Like 99% of us I can not afford buying au jour le jour clothes. I can not even touch them, because they are not available in any shop in Moscow. So I will simply look on my laptop monitor, together with you, showing some pieces of their fall winter collection.

 In the pictures below I decided to play a little and imagined how au jour le jour clothes would look like in every day life - on city streets, not on runway or in an expensive car, or in a penthouse. Just live background. We are interested in life here, not in refined lifestyle. The results you can see below.     

 I like the coat colour a lot. To my mind this piece doesn't look out of place at all. Can you imagine that the streets can look more beautiful if girls wear bright coats like the above.  

 This is an office look. Just think of your colleagues' faces expressions when they see you walking through office rooms dressed like this. 

 Or like this. Their mouths and eyes will be wide open. Male colleagues will say you many compliments and girls will ask you where you bought this sweater or skirt.

 I like a lot these fluffy dresses and faux fur T-shirt.  They are nice party options. 

Mirko Fontana and Diego Marquez

 A note for au jour le jour designers: 

Dear Mirko and Diego, I like your clothes a lot. Especially I like the colours, shapes and textures. Keep on doing a good job! But I have one small request for you, which all be bright blog readers will support - could you please make your clothes affordable for the low class people? Because we really like your collections and want to look good too. And I also hope that in future you'll use more of faux fur in your collections. 

Thank you.

Wish you lots of inspiration and be bright.

Alyona 

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Juliet, Madonna and Me in the Forest.

What a creative company I had!

 I think every girl imagined herself being Shakespearean Juliet. If you ever indulged in reading the tragedy or watching a movie, you might have had at least one tear drop in your eye. It was said billions of times before me, and will be said the same quantity of times after me, William Shakespeare was definitely a genius of a word, feelings and imagination. 

  Speaking of imagination and visuals, Franco Zeffirelli's movie "Romeo & Juliet" of 1968 starring Olivia Hussey and Leonardo Whiting will present a lot of food for your eyes and your thoughts. You will feel great inspiration and admiration. Because it is impossible to stay indifferent to the beauty of monologues, of young actors, of well crafted costumes. 

 Looking at Juliet walking or dancing in her sumptuous red dress, you long to be that girl too. You want to walk through old streets with no haste, spend more time looking into a mirror and take pleasure in seeing your own divine reflection, to have enough time to gently comb your hair, to slowly put on a beautiful long dress, feel sun caressing your face and see boys looks full of admiration. Alas 21 century pace does not let a working girl enjoy herself that way any more. Somebody speeds up our life tempo and we live every day without paying much attention to ourselves. It feels as if leading politics and mass media say: 

"Work, work, work." 

"Money, money, money."

"Spend, spend, spend."

 Full of yearning for being a vulnerable medieval girl that lives in the Middle Ages and wears a richly embroidered red dress, and after looking at some sensuous Madonna images, I decided to go to one of my favourite places in the city - a huge park which reminds of a forest. So I was walking in the park I tried to feel what it's like to be a beautiful girl that needs not to hurry and can allow herself to be vulnerable, sad and freely immerse into thoughtful silence.   

"For never was a story of more woe

Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."

The pictures you see here and below were my sort of inspirational mood boards". Though I had blurry visuals in my head and it is only after taking my pictures I understood what the "mood board" should look like.

"The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head."

It is the very dress that Olivia Hussey - Juliet character, wore in the movie.

Here are my three muses - Juliet, Madonna & forest.

Here I am - 21 century working "Juliet". 

Long gold chain always looks good on black turtleneck. "Love" inscribed on the necklace.

Every time I put on this sparkly Monsoon skirt I feel like a Middle Ages girl. Well, you understand what I mean. 

"Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it." 

William Shakespeare "Romeo & Juliet"