Fashion Archives - TRAVELIFE Magazine https://www.travelifemagazine.com/tag/fashion/ Travel Magazine for Asian Luxury Travelers Tue, 20 Feb 2018 17:22:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://www.travelifemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/travelife-2-90x90.jpg Fashion Archives - TRAVELIFE Magazine https://www.travelifemagazine.com/tag/fashion/ 32 32 Champagne and shopping with top fashion designer Fely Campo in Salamanca, Spain https://www.travelifemagazine.com/champagne-and-shopping-with-top-fashion/ https://www.travelifemagazine.com/champagne-and-shopping-with-top-fashion/#comments Mon, 13 Nov 2017 12:54:00 +0000 https://www.travelifemagazine.com/champagne-and-shopping-with-top-fashion/ On a recent visit to the beautiful city of Salamanca, a place I fell in love with at first sight, I wanted to take a souvenir home with me from Salamanca, apart from hundreds of wonderful memories. What better souvenirs than acorn-fed 100% Iberian Bellota ham and a coat from top Salamanca fashion designer Fely Campo. Champagne & chocolates with fashion designer Fely Campoin Salamanca, Spain My friend Carmen, who lives in Salamanca, first told me about Fely Campo, who […]

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Champagne & chocolates with fashion designer Fely Campo
in Salamanca, Spain

My friend Carmen, who lives in Salamanca, first told me about Fely Campo, who is the top fashion designer in Salamanca. Carmen said to me: “Fely Campo designs beautiful clothes. And she designs for real women.”

That sounded perfect for me, especially as I am on airplanes and in hotels every week, living a #Travelife. Most of it involves nice restaurants and wonderful events like evenings at the Bolshoi in Moscow or at the La Scala in Milan — so I need clothes that I can crush into a suitcase and then take out at my destination, put on, and feel fabulous in.

THE BEST HOTEL IN SALAMANCA
The Don Gregorio Hotel in Salamanca, Spain

Carmen and I walked from my hotel, the Don Gregorio, which happens to be the best hotel in Salamanca, in my opinion. Since I’m a hotel junkie, I looked at the other hotels in the top category, and nothing really came close to the Don Gregorio hotel in terms of style, service and privacy.

It was a 20-minute walk, which was perfect as it enabled me to clock more steps with my Fitbit Alta HR and feel better about myself just before walking into the boutique of Fely Campo, filled with beautiful and slender young women wearing Fely Campo dresses.

MEETING THE DESIGNER FELY CAMPO

Shopping with Fely Campo
at the Fely Campo Boutique in Salamanca

I looked around for a bit and then finally Fely Campo arrived. It was pretty cool to be trying on clothes and to go shopping in the Fely Campo store together with the famous fashion designer herself. She picked out a red autumn coat for me and I loved it. 

Shopping with Fely Campo
at the Fely Campo Boutique in Salamanca

Then we sat down in her private lounge for pink champagne, chocolates and a chat. Fely Campo is now constructing a massive atelier and store just outside Salamanca, and the city of Salamanca is preparing an exhibit of her works to honor her as an artist of Salamanca.

FINDING INSPIRATION FOR DESIGNS
Fashion designer Fely Campo

“Where do you get your inspirations for your clothes?” I asked her. She is so energetic, by the way. I could feel her positive energy just by sitting next to her.

“Basically from around the region where I live,” she replied, “but mostly from Salamanca, which is such a beautiful and elegant city.”

I certainly couldn’t agree more.

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Yesterday was a beautiful winter/spring day in Tokyo, living a #Travelife.

I decided to head for the National Art Museum in Tokyo’s Minato Ward, a cool and contemporary building of glass and steel, to see the retrospective that the museum mounted as a tribute to Issey Miyake, perhaps Japan’s greatest fashion designer.

Scroll down to read more about the Issey Miyake retrospective in Tokyo… 




THE UNIQUE AND TIMELESS DESIGNS
OF ISSEY MIYAKE

No one else can make clothes like Issey Miyake does.

Issey Miyake’s clothes move in unimaginable ways, and yet everything works. I love wearing his designs and whenever I do, I can’t help thinking to myself: “This man is really an artist.“

So I own a lot of Issey Miyake clothes, which take me from casual to formal, from morning to night, and to events and non-events around the world. I bring my Issey Miyake clothes everywhere in my never-ending #Travelife.

And wherever and whenever I wear them, his clothes feel right.

REMEMBERING SOME SERIOUS
SHOPPING IN MARRAKECH

The only other piece of clothing that’s ever made me feel this way is a black coat dress I bought at the most fashionable boutique in Marrakech about two trips ago.

By Morocco shopping standards, it was a rather pricey garment; but my companions urged me to get it saying I would probably never see another coat dress like it again. I am so glad they pushed me to do it as this coat dress fits so well in Tokyo.

I just wore it to a dinner with friends last Saturday, in fact.

PHASING OUT MY WARDROBE,
SIMPLIFYING MY LIFE
Wearing Tinsley in Tanzania,
living a #Travelife…

So slowly, I’m phasing out my wardrobe and simplifying my life so that every piece of clothing I own will either be something sporty for a safari or for a weekend in the mountains, or something cutting edge and unusual but extremely comfortable like an Issey Miyake creation.

And of course my favourite Tinsley dresses which are so nice to bring on holidays — whether it’s South Africa or the south of France, as always living a #Travelife.


Wearing Tinsley in Tanzania,
living a #Travelife…

ABOUT THE ISSEY MIYAKE RETROSPECTIVE
IN TOKYO

The Issey Miyake retrospective in Tokyo covered some of Issey Miyake’s most interesting creations from the 1970s to 2015.

As a big fan, it was very nice to see how his style has evolved. 

Many of the items on exhibit were on the outrageous side, frankly, but they were beautiful to look at in terms of art.

There are even three stations with mini Issey dresses that you can practice putting on a mannequin, just to be able to appreciate the complicated and yet easy design of the dress. And there’s also a station where you can watch one of Issey Miyake’s latest Pleats Please creations being made.

And a couple of items were clothes I could easily imagine in my closets: comfortable and memorable designs. Never boring. Just like my never-ending #Travelife.







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