LAO TZU....

 

         

            “If you are depressed you are living in the past.

             If you are anxious you are living in the future.

             If you are at peace you are living in the present.” 

                                                     Lao Tzu                                                                                   

THE DAKOTA...

This eclectic building (German Gothic, English Victorian, French Renaissance), was the first residential luxury apartment house in New York, built by Edward Clark, president of the Singer Sewing Machine Company.

When people found out that he had decided on an uptown site, many nicknamed the project, “Clark’s folly". Why not in Dakota, in the far west? asked one of his friends. Clark kept the name and had the building decorated with arrow heads, ears of corn and an Indian head over the main entrance.

Designed by the architect who later designed the plaza, The Dakota is regarded as an architectural gem and one of the city's most desirable addresses.  In 1968 Roman Polanski used it as the setting for his film Rosemary's Baby.

The Americans, singer Roberta Flack, conductor Leonard Bernstein, and actress Judy Garland, all lived here; but this building today is actually best known because of was John Lennon's last address. In 1980 he was shot dead by a misfit as he stood under the building awning. His wife Yoko Ono , still lives here at the Dakota.
The Dakota building was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976.

John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono in front of the Dakota building located at 72nd Street and Central Park West.

IMAGINE A STRAWBERRY FIELDS IN NEW YORK...

Strawberry Fields is a living memorial dedicated to the memory of Beatles member John Lennon who was murdered in New York on December 8 of 1980.
This  Landscape section located in New York City's Central Park, at West 72nd Street, is named after the Beatles song "Strawberry Fields For Ever ".
In this tranquil place, which has a sense of somber atmosphere, the focal point is a circular pathway mosaic of inlaid stones, with a single word, the title of Lennon's famous song "Imagine".

It is a beautiful tribute to a beautiful mind...

Flowers arranged to form a peace sign at the memorial.

WITH THE ROCKETTES...

Merry Christmas, from New York, to every member of this FADDISH family. That God bless everyone with a prosperous and healthy new year.

THE MOST FADDISH CITY IN COLOMBIA...

Medellin, the most FADDISH city in Colombia, is now one of the three finalist, with New York and Tel Aviv,  to become the most innovative city of the year.
Medellin has a comprehensive transport system used by more than 500,000 residents and tourists compound by  the air train, tram, Metroplus (buses) and metrocable modern, connecting the high communes with the main lines of the metro train. Besides the public bike system to own and tourists can use to explore the city on bike paths.

Vote for your favorite city, everyday until december 31th at:  http://online.wsj.com/ad/cityoftheyear

 

Je t'aime... moi non plus

Je t'aime... moi non plus is an album featuring duets and solo performances by Serge Gainsbourg and his then lover, Jane Birkin. It was released in 1969 and included the worldwide hit "Je t'aime... moi non plus”.

This sensual and erotic song, achieved notoriety for its salacious lyrics with a backing of ecstatic female moaning, culminating in an apparent orgasm at the song's finale, was besides the look of the singers,  one of the topic of inspiration from the last Jean Paul Gaultier,  Primtemps-Ete 2013 collection in the Paris Fashion Week.

 

YOUR HIGHNESS...

The front pages of major newspapers in Medellin Colombia, says: "Your Highness" Madonna, Queen of Pop, Impact and excited at her first historic concert in Medellin".Madonna left his best impression in Medellin. Today, a second chance to captivate even more fans.
From yesterday Medellin is our Faddish city...the Madonna's city...

SENSUAL...IZEE

This sensual girl named Alizee Jacotey,  is a French recording artist, known professionally as Alizée, entered the music business in 2000, after she was discovered by Mylène Farmer, following her winning performance in the talent show, Graines de Star,in 1999.

Her first album was Gourmandises, which received Platinum certification within three months of release. After its international launch in 2001, Gourmandises was a success both in France and abroad, earning Alizée the distinction of being the highest selling female French singer in 2001. The album featured her most successful single "Moi... Lolita" which reached number one in several countries in Europe and East Asia. Gourmandises was followed by a second studio album, Mes Courants Électriques, in 2003. Following its release, Alizée toured during the fall of 2003, performing in 43 concerts throughout France, Belgium and Switzerland. Enjoy the video with the song "J'en Ai Marre" (I Have Enough)...

POP ICONS...

In the Paris Fashion Week, Jean Paul Gaultier in his spring/summer 2013 collection gave a tribute to the most significant 80's Pop Icons.

This was an electrifying catwalk with not only a Potpourri of singers songs, but captured the essence of each to propose a new fashion trend, starting with:

• The androgynous Grace Jones.
• The named ''The Greatest White Soul Singer Alive" Annie Lenox.
• The crowned the "Greatest Woman in Music" by VH1 and best known like the material girl Madonna.
• The ambiguous Boy George.
• Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsburg, singing "Je T'aime Moi Non Plus"
• The pop king Michael Jackson.
• The most successful solo female artist in British history Sade Adu.
• The Abba group.
• David Bowie well known for his distintive voice as well as the intellectual depth and considerable eclecticism of his work. 
• And finally on the catwalk the French singer Amanda Lear, who began her career as a fashion model in the mid-1960s and was also a muse of the Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí.
• And after her the dancers in the runway with a hit of Laroche Valmont, "T'as le look coco".

Independent of his selected subject, he always yields tribute to the smoking, like an influence from Yves Saint Laurent, but renewed, becoming this garment, always, in the focal point of his collection.

Words are not needed to describe this beautiful collection, enjoy the show...

A FADDISH... MR. WORLD.

On Saturday night, November 24, 2012 in Kent, England was elected Francisco Javier Escobar, from Cali Colombia, like the new Mr. World 2012 between 48 participants all around the world.

Francisco had to participate in several types of preliminary competitions, achieving excel in all. This, along with his charisma, good looking, inteligence and international supermodel figure,  was enought to take  the title.

In the test of talent involved with a magic show, got classifying among the top 12. Then it was the turn to the sport test in which was second, while in the stage of armed resistance broke a new record for the event, and on the final night was notable for giving the best answers in the round interviews.

Today the newly elected Mister World is based in New York and is part of the agency Requestmodels, where he has had the opportunity to work with great photographers like Skye Tan and Jesse Jacobs. He has modeled in America, Asia and much of Europe, with major appearances in magazines like Vogue. All this together with his passion for sports, being runner-up of South American pole vaulting.

For his discipline in the sport this year won a scholarship to Monroe College in New York, where he took second semester of Business Administration.

Because of he is the first Colombian in get this title, Francisco is our FADDISH guy.

A FADDISH BOOK...

Today I want to share my favorite books: Conversations with God which is a sequence of books written by Neale Donald Walsch, written as a direct dialogue in which Walsch asks questions and God answers.
In an interview with Larry King, Walsch described the inception of the books as follows: at a low period in his life, Walsch wrote an angry letter to God asking questions about why his life wasn't working. After writing down all of his questions, he heard a voice over his right shoulder say: "Do you really want an answer to all these questions or are you just venting?".
Though when he turned around he saw no one there, Walsch felt answers to his questions filling his mind and decided to write them down. The ensuing dialogue became the Conversations with God books. When asked in a recent interview how does he ‘open up’ to God these days, Neale argued “I am reaching out to touch others with this information. When I reach out and touch others with this information I reconnect immediately with the divine presence.”
The first book of the Conversations with God series, Conversations with God, Book 1: An Uncommon Dialogue, appeared on bookshelves in 1995, and quickly became a publishing phenomenon, staying on the New York Times Best-Sellers List for 137 weeks. The succeeding volumes in the nine book series also appeared prominently on the List.


when he ask:

How does God talk, and to whom?

the God answer was:  “I talk to everyone. All the time. The question is not to whom do I talk, but who listen?

And God said: “My most common form of communication is through feeling. Feeling is the language of soul.

I also communicate with thought. Thought and feelings are not the same, although they can occur at the same time. In communicating with thoughts, I often use images and pictures.

In addition to feelings and thoughts, I also use the vehicle of experience as a grand communicator.

And finally, when feelings and thoughts and experience all fail, I use words"...

And he says: "The Highest thought is always that thought which contains joy.

The Clearest Words are those words which contain truth. The grandest feeling is that feeling which you call love.

Joy, truth, love.

These three are interchangeable, and always leads to the other. It matters not in which order they are placed"...

LIP SYNC...

 

Because her stunning lip sync and her sensual movements, in her performance at Miss Colombia pageant,  singing Carmen de Bolivar, interpreting a Matilde Diaz, famous singer of Lucho Bermudez's orchestra, Daniela Alvares, Miss Colombia 2011 is our Faddish Beauty today.

LEAFY...LEAFY...LEAFY...

THE MOVIE POSTER...

CLAUDE AND FRANCOIS-XAVIER LALANNE'S FURNITURE

CLAUDE MONET'S WATER LILIES

 

 

 

GOODLAND NYMPH...

 

The Giambattista Valli collection is like a romantic fairy tale, with piles of leafy organza, printed with Monet's water lilies, in green and wine colors, that complement with originals gilded twig necklaces, that look like inspired in Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalannes's furniture, and butterfly-net headpieces that evoked an enchanted forest, with which the models seemed like, the woodland nymphs gliding  in the catwalk.
 

MIDNIGHT MARAUDER...

I love colors, but what I love the most are the black and the shiny moon tones, and the ones that she reflects, like a big mirror, because of the sun rays.
And what we can see in this Armani Prive collection is this, an atmospheric trip from the beautiful sunset to a rich starry night, and you can see it in the moment when the background change.
This collection is like a “marauder midnight”, creeping over a magic, mystic and mystery catwalk.
He is playing more with the silhouettes mixing an evening gown cutting  in a half, with a man blazer which is cut it in a half too, to create a new outfit.
Now Armani is not anymore the simple minimalist designer, so he is now more than that, more shinny, richer in silhouettes, fabrics and textures.

AN ACID TRIP ...

The art always goes with fashion, and a major contemporary art lover, Ray Simons chose paintings by American artist Sterling Ruby as motifs for four outfits in his collection giving to the ultra-chic monochrome black collection, a touch of “An Acid Trip” that he mixed with the Duchess of Windsor style, remembering us the past “New look” of Christian Dior, but really is the Neo-look Dior debutante Raf Simons.

 

A FADDISH MR...

 

FRANCISCO JAVIER ESCOBAR:

This Valluno, born in Cali Colombia, is not only one of the new Colombian faces; he is part of the requestmodels agency in New York and now is very common see him in the New York fashion week. He have been worked with photographers like Skye Tan and Jesse Jacobs. But now, beyond that, he is the new Mr. Colombia, so will be the Colombian face in the next, Mr. World pageant. So, Colombia not only has a new Mr. it has a new Faddish Mr.

A FADDISH PRESIDENT...

Mr. Barack Obama is our Faddish president, because of his reelection and because of what said yesterday in his speech:

“America, I believe we can build on the progress we've made and continue to fight for new jobs and new opportunity and new security for the middle class. I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you're willing to work hard, it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or where you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight, you can make it here in America if you're willing to try.

I believe we can seize this future together because we are not as divided as our politics suggests. We're not as cynical as the pundits believe. We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions, and we remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are and forever will be the United States of America.

And together with your help and God's grace we will continue our journey forward and remind the world just why it is that we live in the greatest nation on Earth”.

 

CORSET...CORSET...CORSET...

Jean Paul Gaultier, the couturier best known, like the enfant terrible of French fashion, that do not set barriers, between a women and men, is in Colombia at the Cali exposhow and is our FADDISH designer.

LA VOZ COLOMBIA IS OUR FADDISH SHOW...

 

BECAUSE IS A MUSICAL SHOW THAT, TOUCH THE SOUL AND MOVE EMOTIONS, "LAVOZ COLOMBIA" IS OUR FADDISH SHOW. IF YOU DO NOT LIVE IN COLOMBIA YOU CAN SEE, ALL THE CHAPTERS, AT: http://www.elcarteltv-co.com/la_voz_colombia.html

BECAUSE OF HIS NOMINATION TO BECOME A CITY OF THE YEAR, MEDELLIN, IS FADDISH...

 

 

Medellin, best known, in Colombia, like the city of the eternal spring, with a population of 3.5 million of people and an area of : 1,165 sq. km, was nominated like, one of the most innovative city in the world. Some reasons for this inclusion are:
 
•New facilities and landmarks include the España Library and a cultural center in Moravia.
 
•The city’s public utilities company, Empresas Publicas de Medellin, have helped to support community goals and public goals, such as improving education.
 
•In 2011 Medellin opened a large outdoor escalator, allowing residents of the city’s elevated Comuna 13 neighborhood to safely ride down the steep hillside, the size of a 28-story building.
 
•The city has seen great advancement in public transportation, with more than 500,000 residents and visitors using its Metro train system each day. The city also boasts a public bike-share program.
 
•The city’s crime rate has fallen significantly in recent decades, thanks to aggressive local policies.

•The Metro system reduces Medellin’s CO2 emissions by 175,000 tons each year.

Vote for Medellin at: http://online.wsj.com/ad/cityoftheyear

MILAN & PARIS. MEN'S FASHION WEEK REVIEW SPRING 2013 ...

MEDITATION_3, BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR...

"LET THE MIND BECOME CALM AND THE HEART BECOME OPEN. THEN EVERYTHING WILL BE EVIDENT." - SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR... "DEJA QUE LA MENTE SE CALME Y EL CORAZÓN SE ABRA. ENTONCES TODO SERÁ MUY EVIDENTE." - SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR.

MEDITATION_2, BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR...

"LOVE IS SEEING GOD IN THE PERSON NEXT DOOR, AND MEDITATION IS SEEING GOD WITHIN US." - SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR... "EL AMOR ES VER A DIOS EN LA PERSONA DE AL LADO, Y LA MEDITACIÓN ES VER A DIOS DENTRO DE NOSOTROS." - SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

HERRERA....SPRING 2013

She is a immoveable figure in fashion, that is in continuing moving forward but conserving her style, reinforcing the femininity and glamour of her collections filled with beautiful pieces. Her extensive use of digital prints shows a real sense of modernity. I liked the crispness of some of these looks coming from a designer with a penchant for the flowing and dramatic. I like the color-blocking with prints and the spray painted stencil effect with sequins. The combinations of misty and vibrant colors, gives an ethereal, especial soft and sophisticated effect, to this collection.

KARAN...SPRING SUMMER 2013

The subject of the show, seems like a sunrise and sunset and has a futuristic, almost ethereal calming energy. Body sculpture, quiet colors: a journey of muted colors of creams, slate grays, mint greens, rose pinks, light purples, and burnt golden hues, and loud fashion statement, was the characteristic of this collection. It is a minimalist collection, but rich in shape and fabrics. The crafted dresses, are exquisite,looking like be floating silhouettes, very...very Karan.

MEDITATION BY SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR...

"YOU WILL FIND THE DIVINE, IN THE LAST PLACE THAT YOU LOOKING FOR, BECAUSE ONCE YOU FIND IT, YOU WILL NOT STILL LOOKING FOR."-SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR... "ENCONTRARÁS A LA DIVINIDAD EN EL ÚLTIMO LUGAR, QUE BUSQUES, PORQUE UNA VEZ QUE LO ENCUENTRES, NO SEGUIRÁS BUSCANDO." - SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR .

MORE THAN WORDS...

Extreme is an American rock band, headed by frontmen Gary Cherone and Nuno Bettencourt, that reached the height of their popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Extreme achieved their greatest success with their 1990 album Pornograffitti, which peaked at number 10 on the Billboard 200, and was certified gold in May 1991 and 2×platinum in October 1992.[4] That album featured the acoustic ballad single "More Than Words," which reached No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 in the United States.

THE TRIBUTE OF LIGHTS...

The Tribute in Light is held every year to remember the nearly 3,000 people who died in the attacks on the Twin Towers. At 11 year of
attack by Al Qaeda, the U.S. is ready for an emotional day
Like every year, Manhattan lights with huge beams of light to honor the nearly 3,000 people who died after planes hijacked by members of the terrorist network Al Qaeda will impact on the Twin Towers.
The Tribute in Light, symbolic representation of collapsed buildings in the attacks, will screen four miles in the sky and will be visible Yorker 60 miles radius. The project was created by the Municipal Art Society of New York.
From tonight, the light rays invade the dark silence of the Big Apple.

SAGGERMANIA...

^{Sagging is a manner of wearing trousers (slacks, shorts, pants or jeans) below the waist, sometimes below the level of the buttocks, with one’s boxer shorts showing, revealing much of the underwear. Sagging is predominantly a male fashion.}

^{An individual that participates in the practice of sagging may be referred to as a sagger.}

^{The origin of this originally young, urban, black style is unknown. A commonly accepted origin theory was that it was an outgrowth of prison, where inmates clothing were often too large and sometimes no belts were allowed.  According to Greg Mathis, sagging was adopted from the United States prison system where belts are prohibited to keep prisoners from using them as weapons or in committing suicide by hanging themselves.}

^{There is also some evidence that a male showing his underwear-covered buttocks in prison was, at one point, linked to a desire for sex, or a mark that a prisoner was “owned” by another prisoner, sexually.}

^{The style was later popularized by hip-hop artists in the 1990s. It has since become a symbol of freedom and cultural awareness among some youths or a symbol of their rejection of the values of mainstream society.}

^{I am agree with Will Welch, that , in his Manifesto, at GQ magazine of September 2012, titled: If I See One More Ass, I'm Gonna Crack!, said: You know, It's interesting: Several American hamlets have made headlines for proposing borderline unconstitutional (and racist) laws against young black men sagging their jeans. Yet you never see the butt cracks of these kids in their skinny skateboarder denim- just a whole lot of boxer brief. It can be shocking, sure, but it's never indecent, and most important it's intentional, which is the difference between provocative and embarrassing.}

^{If you want to see the essence of sagger boys, in New York, you have to go to the West Indian parade in Brooklying, at the Labor Day, to see the sexiest boys, sagging in this parade.}

FASHION, A-Z...Highlights from the Collection of The Museum at FIT. Part Two.

If you missed part one of The Museum at FIT’s "Fashion, A-Z" exhibition don’t fret, part two is still open until November 10, 2012 . New Yorkers and visitors once again have the chance to see mid to 20th century fashion from some of the most iconic names ever to enter an atelier, including Christian Dior, Miuccia Prada and Coco Chanel.

Perhaps most noteworthy is a digitally printed silk chiffon dress from Alexander McQueen’s Spring 2010 collection, his final runway.

SOFIA VERGARA...

SHE IS NOT ONLY, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COLOMBIAN GIRL, BUT SHE IS THE PERFECT COLOMBIAN BEAUTY ICON, BECAUSE HAS THE PERFECT CONVINATION OF BEAUTY, SMART, SENSUALITY, CARISMA AND " DESPARPAJO CARIBE".

 I LOVE HER, AND  I  STILL REMEMBER WHEN WAS MY STAR, AT THE BOGOTA FASHION WEEK, AND AFTER THIS EVENT, I  CALLED THIS BATHING SUIT WITH HER NAME" SOFIA".

ELENA ROGER IS EVITA...

Elena Roger like Eva Peron is really the big star in this show at the Marquis Theatre in Broadway. She is amazing. You have to see her. She is now our FADDISH star.

KARLIE KLOSS...IS OUR FADDISH MODEL

This American top model and ballet dancer, who Vogue Paris declared, one of the top 30 models of the 2000s, and because of her extraordinary swing on the runway, today is our FADDISH model.
Photo: Steven Meisel for Vogue Italia December 2011.

ELIE SAAB SS 2012

The daring and bold openings, the morbid and transparent fabrics, the monochromatic colors and Minimal silhouettes, do this collection,very chic, bold and exquisite.

JEAN DUJARDIN...

This French actor and comedian who, because of his  performance in the starring role in the silent movie "The Artist", playing actor George Valentin, won him the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role, the Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Award, and the Academy Award for Best Actor, It's today our FADDISH actor.

THE ARTIST...

The scenic arts are usually connected between them, the movies,the theater,exhibitions of painters, sculptors and photographers, with the fashion world, that's is to me an art scenic, too.  And many times they are the subject of inspiration of each to others. It is like a circle, a fashion circle.
This silent Movie, winner at The cannes film festival, at The  Golden Glove and The Oscars, is doing eco in the fashion trends and we can see the twenties, walking like, a silent shadow in the most recently catwalks.

LANVIN...

To me, this is the ETE (summer)  Colleccion more beautiful of this year because is ,mystic,mythical, minimalist,ethereal, morbid, avant-garde but exquisite, bold  and affordable.
Watching this colleccion, and his accesories, I remembered of the famous sentence from Jesus: "Give to God what is from God and to Cesar what is from Cesar ".

GUCCI...

Monochromatic and rich collection, I like the hem, is a very chic detail. The silluette is very twenties, very Gatsby, very charleston, very Gucci.

VERSACE...

This collection is like a beautiful woman with a punk soul, a siren body, a sea skin and a beautiful fresh mint smile.

ELIE SAAB...

This couture collection is simply exquisite. Classic, but romantic. Rich and delicate textures, transparent effect, and the menthols colors, do this collecion look like a delicious fashion ice cream.

BILL GAYTTEN FOR JOHN GALLIANO...

It's difficult to replace a big fashion creative like Galleano, even when he is still alive. But I think Bill Gaytten is taking the right way and it is talking the same irreverent fashion language en this pret-a-porter colleccion.

HERVE LEGER...

Are fetish girls or contemporary gladiators...?. I am not sure about that, but what I am pretty sure is the fact that, this colleccion with a touch of Avant Garde, is sexy, sensual, but affordable. It's a beautiful collection.

WHITNEY...

Witney hear you sing was like listening to angels and now you're one of them. God bless you. I will always love you...

SHE'S A BEAUTY FADDISH

You do not have to wear expensive accessories to become more beautiful.

MICHAEL KORS...

He is one of my favorites American designers because is real and has the feet on earth. It is very affordable. Seems the wool plaid, gives to this colleccion a Scottish accent, but not ,in essence it is very American colleccion. The last cocktail dresses with a gatsby silouette are beautiful.

BETSEY...

She is definitely pink, funny and faddish... very pink,very funny,very faddish

LOUIS VUITTON...

The carousel of Luis Vuitton is magic, is like an enchanted dream. Excellent setting the scene of this collection.

VERA WANG...

In the last collection, Vera Wang showed an interesting mixtures of rigid fabrics with morbids, giving to this collection a fresh and different air.

DENNIS BASSO...

The Basso collection is a perfect combination of glamour and skins.

RALPH LAUREN...

This collection with a gatsby look, glossy, snow whites and mints colors is simply exquisite, Today Lauren is a new menber of the faddish family.

ARMANI...

The last Armani collection is like a moonshine, shiny. But also is: foggy,misty and hazy. Beautiful collection, that is why today, Armany is part of the Faddish family.

KASAKY...