First things first: Merry Christmas everyone! Whether if you're enjoying holidays with your family and closest ones, or you're away home for any reason, I hope you're having a terrific time, resting if needed or partying really hard. As for me, I will be sticking to the first option as the last two weeks have been pure chaos of lack of sleep and rush everywhere. Seriously: sleeping less than 4 hours a day would have sounded almost exciting when I was a child, but now as a grown up it's the worst thing ever. Especially if you spend those 20 hours of no-sleep finishing floor plans, photoshopping images like there's no tomorrow and arguing with your teammates (or sometimes, with yourself) if you should explain something this or that way. Seriously, my fingertips hurt of being drawing last hour schemes and diagrams, and I can't even count how many painkillers I've had for my headaches on the last month or so. But it's finally holidays, work is over -for now- and here I am once again to share with you the latest outfit we just shoot a few hours ago.

I don't know about you, but Christmas and Christmas' Eve are not very big days on my family. I have very few closest relatives (just my parents, grandparents and uncles), and being an only-child and not having around any younger kids makes this holidays not being a very big deal. Instead, we just arrange some last hour dinner or lunch at home, we give each other some small gifts and enjoy family company until going back home. My favorite part is usually when my grandpa is amazed at the sushi and japanese food I've been taking with me last 2 or 3 years, and he always asks me for one or two pieces to taste.

We spent this Christmas' Eve at my grandparents' too, and as it was cold as ice out there I just felt in the mood of being wrapped on the coziest wool scarf (now I'm glad I invested on that vintage wide, huge Burberry scarf) and put on a pair of really comfortable shoes I could walk on after the insanely fun, post-exams party I was involved at three days ago. Those leopard soles are from Toutöu Shoes and since they arrived I haven't let go of them. They are craftsmen shipped in Elda, a town near Alicante (Spain) known for being cradle of footwear designers and manufacturers. I have very special feet (on the baddest ways of all) so, it's a huge thing I find shoes that fit me well. And I couldn't be happier with these! Also, the customer support was brilliant, as I thought for a moment we lost track of the package during its journey.

Feels like ages since the last time I wore a leopard print dress! It is not personally my favorite type of pattern (I will always be a faithful, true lover of florals) but cheetah print may be my favorite animal print, and I think it's a really fun and suitable pattern if worn with the right kind (and amount) of jewelry and accessories.

I think there isn't best way on wearing a leopard print dress than pairing it with your most basic, black leather pumps (or sandals) and a neutral bag. It's a pattern that claims for tons of attention, and nobody likes to look like a Christmas Tree! So, no more prints, no more colors: the dress has to talk by itself and claim for all the attention on this outfit. This time I'm also giving you some extra ideas to wear your wooden #JORDwatch! Here I looked for both sunglasses and watch on a wooden, rustic theme. You could see here a more casual, daily outfit to wear your wooden watch as well.

How do you style your leopard print dress? What's your favorite animal print ever?

Friday, 10PM at Centro del Carmen, Valencia. Yay, can't believe I have been all the week wishing Friday finally arrived, not only to get some rest but also for the emerging designers/fashion event organized by Circuito de la Moda from Valencia and it has already passed by!

Circuito de la Moda Valencia is a national fashion platform which features young emerging creatives and every month looks for new faces for this designers' presentations and catwalks. They do some events on Valencia, and this time we were invited to meet the collections by Anna Vicent, Yana Oblap and Fashionart, which is a crew of young designers based on the Valencian College of Fine Arts. The event had an unique placement downtown, on a former convent converted into a XXI century museum. Imagine what was running through my mind when entering there and see that pure-awesomeness-piece of archi-culture.

Circuito de la Moda is an independent, non-profit organization that works with the new designers to develop their presentations and shows, so getting a proper space for developing the events might be a little bit tricky. That's the reason why I feel like I must write down my critic about the event, as a constructive review. Although the whole space was like the perfect scenery, the catwalk was held on an available exhibition hall, pretty narrow for the over 400 people who attended to the event and taking pictures was a total ordeal: everyone was in front on me or had to peek to see when the models where coming, and therefore half of the pictures I took have publics' heads, or hands or backs everywhere. The evening ended quite well although my feet almost killed me, and I ended a little grumpy because the few pictures I could take without everybody in the middle of the frame... 

Anna Vicent collection ''Peonía'', which features a really feminine shapes and soft fabrics reminding Spring and flowers. Delicate and super stylish:

I'm not very much into animal prints. I think it's a tricky pattern to combine and wear, specially with some pieces. This leopard pencil skirt wasn't an exception. And maybe more difficult, because it's a peplum pencil skirt, which could make my outfit a bit sassy if I made a mistake with the rest of pieces. On this situations, I think black and neutral clothing it's the clue to create an elegant but still flashing outfit.

No more colors except on my red necklace (which is very simple with those little beads on it) and a little glitter on my bag (OMG, seems like I don't have any other bag, lately I've been wearing it too much...). This outfit doesn't need more, or it can look overdone and even vulgar. As it was windy, I chose this Mango black gabardine which I love because its classy shape and fabric lightness.

Oh, I'm also showing you on the following pictures an interesting class project I've been working on this week. That huge white thing/cube is a model of a house (which doesn't really exists, haha). It's called ''LeCorbu'' (of LeCorbusier, the architect. I'll talk to you about him maybe someday), and what I was supposed to do was draw all the house, it's exterior and interior, with shades and furniture and so on. You'll see the drawings soon!!

 

Seems like it's been an eternity since I wrote here and talked to you about my first days on University. So, today I'm leaving very quicly because I'm writting this before going to sleep, and I must wake up very early to attend classes and so on.

(This is the front page of my ''Introduction to Architecture'' notebook. Can you guess the bridge's name?)

Ok. I know the shots are very improvised on my room, but as I really go out a lot to take pictures of buildings and things usually alone, no one can take my outfit pictures! That's why today I prefered to show you some architecture pictures and some of my drawings for homework, and talk to you a little bit about architecture here in Valencia (you've been asking me to mix, and add some architecture posts, so, here's the first one!), and specially downtown whe re I like to go and see antique buildings, and to the huge library there (my University is almost on the edge of the city).