The Life and Times of Giancinéphile

Le costume croisé, le plus important!

"I'm leaving for Paris. No I don't think that I'll see you (...) and when I get there, I will lose the ring you gave me. And when I get there. How happy I will then be. So I'm leaving for Paris."

                                                   - Rufus Wainwright, Leaving for Paris N°2.

I must have walked through the anxiety of human relations in a certain grace, in a certain armour. I have endured being a shipwreck in double-breasted blazeers and perhaps now I can cheer myself up in this double-breasted suit of mine on a bittersweet note. The chaos of memories will perhaps not disappear but it's gently poisoning my compassion. And today, I learn to write another elegy, an elegy for my heart. 

P.S. I might have gotten into this sort of dark melancholy as prior to leaving the house on this occasion, I have been spending far too much time listening to my all-time favourite Wainwright album, Release the Stars. So, somewhere along the lines, you'd know where all this is coming from... and hitting it off alongside my realm of personal actualities.

Lunettes: Tom Ford, costume croisé: Hugo Boss, chemise: Hugo Boss, sandales: Pierre Hardy.

Photo: Mark Arvin.

Croisière

Bottega Veneta's cruise collection for 2012/2013 seems to me a rather enviable aesthetic of clothes that are like your "seconde peau." And with such aesthetic, there's also légèreté working its way. D'ailleurs, I should be thinking of more light clothing in the coming days and I think I should be going for that ideal summer read as I'm off to witness été elsewhere. So, in any guess, I guess this should be like the longest summer ever for me but it should be more than exciting no matter what. 

Bloom

Lately, I haven't had any luck getting my hands on the latest Beach House album, which is entitled Bloom. En tout cas, there's always this drive for me to hunt down physical copies of albums with an undeniable beauty that stems from its frisson mélancolique. A lot of the most beautiful music I'm enjoying do have that quality. 

Phenomenal Miseries of Lightness

Often times, the efortless could not be so effortless at all. And somewhere between the polarities of rigour and simplicity, lies the more crucial aspect of laziness. Perhaps at one hand, a devil-may-care disposition would work to your dressing but paresse seems to guide our dressing these days. Now, looking back, my friends and I laugh at those days when we'd prepare our outfits for particular occasions in advance. Perhaps getting older means letting go of the tiresome conneries of youth or perhaps just sticking to the things you love. Et finalement, such thing in fashion as décontraction chic would inevitably find itself in the realm of the ironic which is quite the charm to me and my friends. 

Photo: Gian Cruz.

Pack Light They Say

By all means, this image shall aesthetically inspire me in the coming days to pack up for my upcoming little trip. Other than the packing, a couple of things like errands in the process would have to make things a little more hectic in the coming days. May I finally settle down in the coming weeks. I'm rather getting used to this sort of fast paced quotidien I've been enduring lately. So, to me packing light and sensibly... cheers to that!!!