Before I go on singing Charles Trenet's Que reste-t-il de nos amours?, a song I've always fancied to sing my heart out to on karaoke but thats a major impossibility ici à Manille. D'ailleurs, the title of this post was lifted from a line from that song. Moving on, I was probably six when this photo was taken. This was taken at some ice cream parlour à Masqate, where I spent a part of my childhood. So, it's rather quite amusing to look at this photo now and see myself as the boy who cared nothing more than glace vanille, dinosaurs, sketch books and crayons, and pets he could fill the household with. But then things changed when I started to discover the importance of Saint Laurent to one's garde-robe, the pleasure of Jo Malone colognes, André Téchiné films, and a few countless other things that led me to who I am now.
Photo: Gian Cruz.
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31 January 2012
Une vielle photo de ma jeunesse
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Dan et Patrick
Other than their music, the duo américain known as the Black Keys have been some sort of style icons for me. Autrement dit, I seem to be rather fascinated by their sartorial choices or perhaps I have this tendency to tread the lines when music and fashion meet much like how the tangible interferes with the ephemeral actualities like music which is audial and so on. D'ailleurs, I also need to find myself a copy of their latest album "El Camino."
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30 January 2012
Mind Map N˚42: Chaussures pour automne-hiver 2012 part un
So, the recently-concluded men's fashion weeks did reactivate one thing in me: the shoe-addicted tendance of mine. Alors, here are the pairs that have seduced me.
1. Ami Alexandre Mattiussi.
2. Moschino.
3. DSquared2.
4. Missoni.
5. Z Zegna.
6. Hermès.
7. Dries Van Noten.
8. Thom Browne.
9. Paul Smith.
10. Jean-Paul Gaultier.
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29 January 2012
Chinatown
Think of a very powerful marriage of the raffiné and the sauvage and you'll have J.J. Gites dans Chinatown de Roman Polanski. I'd rather want Monsieur Gites' garde-robe for now and those wide lapels seem to interest me with that sort of glamour d'un autre époque being evoked. En tout cas, the older films of Polanski seem to appeal to me even more but as far as my fondness of his films is concerned, no other work of his will top my admiration than an early work of his which is 1962's Le couteau dans l'eau.
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A Case of Subtle Opulence
Maintenant, I am moving over that fixette over navy blazers with gold buttons to a slightly more subtle option which would be a grey blazer with gold buttons. C'est sympa, non?
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overture
The title of the blog may sound like a poor reference to a novel by J.M. Coetzee. Well, it doesn't shy away from that... vraiment! Giancinéphile, or better known as my online alter-ego passes itself as my own stimulated reality on the web filling the air with my cinéphilie, a so-called flare for men's fashion (alongside my love for such a thing called aesthetics), tones brought about by things I've been reading here and there, moods often stimulated by things I listen to and just like every pretentious jeune homme on the block, I shall say I'm quite fond of contemporary art. And whatever is there left to say, I try to take photos as much as I can... trying to get them around.
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