I'll do it before, and I'd do it again...

Parc de la Estació del Nord, Barcelona

Suddenly, weather has changed, it is cold and that makes me a good mood ...

Hi everyone! How was your tuesday? I spent my tuesday with some friends around Barcelona, eating sushi, having a delicious tea in a lovely place called Rosa Blanca (an art-coffee bar) and looking for cds (finally, I've got my "never seen the light of day" by Mando Diao, the Spanish special edition with sings!).

Arch of Triumph, Barcelona

 

 

Rosa Blanca art-cafe Bar

Shirt - Zara

cardigan - Zara

Skirt - Baby, the Stars Shine bright

Tights - Calzedonia

Boots - Aces of London

Yellow ribbon - Offbrand

I keep thinking about men's fashion, and today I can think about three examples from the world of music to illustrate my tastes on the general male aesthetic, and why I don't  feel it's boring at all.

The first one is Paul Banks, guitarist and singer of the band Interpol. The truth is that Paul seems like a fairly attractive man with exquisite style to choosing clothes. Always wears an elegant, sometimes even a little retro and mod style, uses shirts and suits jacket, either formal or casual. Furthermore, he's normally using a style of glasses that I love!

 

Another singer whose style is worth my attention is another Paul, but in this case is Paul Smith, frontman of the wonderful band Maxïmo Park. Besides being a person with a compelling charisma and dazzles you from the first moment in which jumps on stage (something I could live last summer), Paul has a very personal style of dress. For the proceedings is usually dressed in jacket, shirt, bow tie or tie, always very elegant and wearing hats.

However, daily, choose a more casual or sport where you use caps, sneakers, jeans, shirts or polos; always trying to look fun yet formal.

And the third one is, fo course, Björn Dixgard from Mando Diao.

At concerts, he and the band usually choose a complete look black, although in many cases simply chooses shirt and jeans. The truth is that his style is nothing special (although the campaign he did for Ben Sherman makes me think otherwise), but I especially like the way they dress (and also Gustaf, the whole band in general).

I would also like to make a special mention to The Hives, another Swedish band that I love, they have a great styling!

 

So, who's your favourite?

Sigo pensando sobre la moda masculina, y hoy se me ocurren tres grandes ejemplos del mundo de la música para ilustraros mis gustos sobre la estética masculina en general, y el por qué considero que no es aburrida.

El primero de ellos es Paul Banks, guitarrista y cantante de la banda Interpol. La verdad es que Paul me parece un hombre bastante atractivo y con un estilo exquisito a la hora de elegir la ropa. Siempre luce un aire elegante, a veces un poco retro e incluso mod, utilizando camisas y trajes de chaqueta, bien de forma formal o casual. Además, usa un estilo de gafas que me encantan!

Otro cantante cuyo estilismo merece mi atención es otro Paul, pero en este caso se trata de Paul Smith, frontman de la maravillosa banda Maxïmo Park. Además de ser una persona con un carisma irrefutable y que te encandila desde el primer momento en el cual salta a escena (algo que he podido vivir en directo), Paul tiene un estilo muy personal de vestir. Para las actuaciones suele ir en traje de chaqueta, con camisa, pajarita o corbata; siempre muy elegante y utilizando sombreros.

No obstante, de diario, elige un estilo más casual o sport donde utiliza gorras, zapatillas de deporte, vaqueros, camisetas o polos; siempre procurándose un aspecto divertido pero a la vez formal.

Y el tercero es, por supuesto, Björn Dixgard de Mando Diao.

En los conciertos, tanto él como la banda suelen elegir un look completo de negro, aunque en muchas ocasiones sencillamente opta por camisa y vaqueros. La verdad, no es que su estilo sea nada del otro mundo (aunque la campaña que realizó para Ben Sherman me hace pensar lo contrario); pero a mí me gusta especialmente la forma en la que viste (y Gustaf también, toda la banda en general).

Me gustaría también hacer una mención especial a The Hives, otra banda sueca que además de apasionarme, tienen un estilismo fantástico!

 

¿Quién es vuestro favorito?

Sushi and cinema.

On Tuesday, I went to Estepona and we had lunch at a japanese restaurant call Yamato, were you can eat in a buffet and they cook the food for you at the moment. We had tuna maki sushi, and salmon and tamago suchi; gyozas, yakitori chiken... it was really nice; I love japanese food and we had a lovely time. I went with paula and Cris, two friends from my office... I want to repeat very soon!

Gyozas, so delicious!

This week I've been alone at home, and it was all very quiet; the only bad thing is that here is SO hot... 43ºC!! yes! Yesterday we had 43ºC!! I hope today it would be a little bit colder...

On Wendesday I had lunch with Rose, Jose and Jairo, "The Lisbon Team"; I cooked chiken curry, it was delicios! i'm pretty good cooking curry! Then, at night, we had a henna tattoo workshop. It was my first time making this kind of tattoos, but it was ok.

And yesterday we went to the cinema just for seeing "Up", the new Pixar's film. Its WONDERFUL, right now it's my favourite Pixar's film ever... so cute and beautiful!

I was wearing a black and white lolita skirt by Anna House; Little red ridding hood t shirt by Stradivarius, black socks by Macmillan Alice and my white tea party shoes by Secret Shop. And almost all the accesories were made by myself with clay; I'm pretty good on it, do you like them?



Bonus picture nº 1: Rose & me making the freak in a very small carrousel.


Bonus picture nº 2: My Mando Diao's t official shirt! I love it!


And tonight we´re going to Fangoria (it's a disco at Jerez) for a party!! I'll make pictures!

Enjoy your friday!

Lisbon and Super Bock Super Rock!

Finally, I’m back!

Last weekend I was at Lisbon with some friends, and we had a great time around the city and at the Super bock Super Rock festival! Here’s our little adventure...

On friday, we started our trip early in the morning, at ten o’clock; and the way to Lisbon was very quite and funny. We arrived about six in the evening to our little apartament; a lovely place in the Chiado’s neighborhood; the older part of Lisbon. It was really beautiful! From our window we could see a church that every morning woke up us with the bells.

The first night we went to a little place at Chiado. It was really small, only for 20 people, and they served the best fish on the city. We had squids, cod and salmon; all with salad and potatoes... delicious! For drinking, green wine, best one I’ve ever drink; and chocolate cake for dessert.

Then we went to a pub where we had some margaritas; and we met this lovely couple; Celia and Gonzalo. She’s an actress and he’s a mage!! They came with us around the city all night.

In other pub (with great music, by the way) we had some cosmopolitans. It was the first time I drink it, and it’s delicious! We had another drink there, safari (some kind of peach licor) with coke; great too!

Finally, we went to the oldest pub at Lisbon; it’s from the XIX century and it was pretty cool and beautiful!

On saturday morning we woke up early in the morning and had a delicious breakfast.

Then we went around Lisbon, making some shoppings, and about three o’clock we arrived to the Restelo’s stadium. we met some great people there from Barcelona and Valladolid; and more people from Lisbon too! And finally, the concerts started! I leave you here some pictures from The Walkmen; who were pretty cool; The killers (fabulous) and Mando Diao (perfect, as always... second time this year!)

I love Mando Diao... you can have a look to more pictures here:

www.flickr.com/photos/libertad-sahakiel/

And by the way, I get a Sex Pistol’s bag and a Mando Diao T-shirt (a present!).

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Volví de Lisboa!! Como ya comenté antes de irme, he estado este fin de semana pasado en la capital lusa para asistir al quinceavo Super Bock Super rock, donde tocaban The killers, Mando Diao o The Walkmen entre otros.

El viaje transcurrió tranquilo y entre risas; salimos bien temprano por la mañana y para las seis de la tarde estábamos en Lisboa, concretamente en el barrio de Chiado, donde teníamos alquilado un pequeño estudio desde el cual se veía una bonita iglesia (cuyas campanadas nos despertaban por la mañana).

El viernes por la noche fuimos a cenar a un pequeño restaurante típico, donde bebimos vino verde y cenamos salmón, calamares y bacalao; todo acompañado por ensalada y patatas asadas; delicioso! De postre tomamos una fantástica tarta de chocolate que wow, estaba de muerte.

Luego fuimos a un bar donde bebimos unos margaritas y conocimos a celia y gonzalo, una adorable pareja que nos mostraron la ciudad nocturna. Celia es actriz, y Gonzalo es mago. Nos llevaron a un bar de ambiente donde ponían una música fantástica y donde bebimos cosmopolitans; nunca los habíamos probado y estaban deliciosos. También bebimos safari con cola; el safari es una especie de licor de melocotón que está muy bueno. Tras esto, fuimos al pub más antiguo de toda Lisboa, del siglo XIX; era precioso y lo pasamos genial allí.

Al día siguiente dimos un paseo por Lisboa e hicimos algunas compras hasta las tres de la tarde, hora a la que llegamos al estadio de restelo, donde era el festival. Nos colocamos en primera fila y disfrutamos de grandes conciertos: The Walkmen, Mando Diao y The Killers fueron fantásticos; no puedo decir lo mismo de Duffy (fue patética); pero mereció la pena.

Por cierto, me he comprado un bolso de los Sex pistols y tengo camiseta de Mando Diao.

Si queréis ver más fotos de los conciertos, visitad mi Flickr!