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Camino de Santiago #day3 From Puente la Reina to Estella distance 25km journey time 4.30 climate mild temperature 4° What can you say when everything is so perfect. You you and you it's all about You! (at Camino de Santiago)

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Now what better way to start the day with Gary Vee, a truly role model! #garyvee "Instead triple down on it and attack the world with all your might! - Daily I see people adjusting to the rules, as long as your a good person doing it for the right reasons the right way don’t get caught up in tradition or how the systems or people want you to do it, when. You attacking it your way a funny thing happens if you have the talent, the world 🌍 comes". (at Milan, Italy)

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Camino de Santiago Collegiale Roncesvalles #day1 Milan_Madrid_Pamplona_ Roncesvalles Snow + Art + Peace (at Roncesvalles, Navarra, Spain)

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Marchesi: last coffee in Milan before leaving my comfort zone tomorrow. Direction: Spain the Santiago way. Alone, single and happy!👍➡️🚶‍♀️

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For this incoming weekend, choose an awsome, inspiring exhibition; who needs man when there is Art to keep you company! 😊😓 Fondazione Prada. From 20 Oct 2017- 15 Jan 2018 “Famous Artists from Chicago. 1965-1975” has been conceived as an in-depth analysis of the artists active throughout the 60’s and 70’s, who were featured in shows that questioned traditional exhibition set-up and presentation conventions, such as “Hairy Who” (1966-‘67), “False Image” (1968-‘69), “Nonplussed Some” (1968-’69), organized at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, and itinerant exhibition “Made in Chicago”, first presented at the São Paulo Biennial in 1973. The title of the show highlights the necessity, expressed by curator and teacher Don Baum, to launch Chicago artists into the national and international scene. The show depicts the energy of the cultural environment of this American city as a center for figurative production, as well as the heterogeneity of the contributions of some artists known as Chicago Imagists (Roger Brown, Ed Flood, Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Christina Ramberg, Suellen Rocca and Karl Wirsum), who had identified the roots of their personal research in Surrealism and Art Brut, in a way that anticipated the new tendencies of the 80’s and 90’s, from Graffiti to Street Art, from wild cartoons to urban murals. (at Fondazione Prada)

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Two museums celebrating the life and work of the couture legend and French designer Yves Saint Laurent (1936-2008) will open this October, in Paris (next Tuesday) and Marrakech (October 19th). Both spaces will house five thousand haute couture garments and fifteen thousand accessories, as well as thousands of sketches, collection boards, photographs, and objects. The timing of the opening has a certain poignancy, coming just a month after Saint Laurent’s former partner Pierre Bergé died aged 86. MUSÉE YSL PARIS The Parisian museum will be hosted in the historical couture house, 5 avenue Marceau, where Yves Saint Laurent designed and created his work for almost 30 years, from 1974 to 2002; and home to the Fondation Pierre Bergé - Yves Saint Laurent since 2004.The public will explore the richness of this heritage through a constantly updated display of the collection. By walking through the former haute couture salons and Yves Saint Laurent’s studio, visitors will experience the essence of the creation process within the haute couture house. MUSÉE YSL MARRAKECH As said the opening in Paris will coincide with one in Marrakech, a city Yves Saint Laurent discovered in 1966 and then visited regularly. Since Morocco remained essential to his inspiration and work, it feels natural to build a museum there to host the collection of the Fondation. It will be located on Rue Yves Saint Laurent near Jardin Majorelle, a garden he and Pierre Bergé saved from development in 1980 and that has now become, with its museum dedicated to Berber culture, a major cultural site in Marrakech with almost 700,000 visitors every year. French architectural practice Studio KO will lead the conception of this project spanning over 4,000 square meters. It will comprise a permanent display of Yves Saint Laurent’s work staged by Christophe Martin, a space for temporary exhibitions, an auditorium, a research library and a café & restaurant. Fondation Pierre Bergé www.fondation-pb-ysl.net Jardin Majorelle www.jardinmajorelle.com

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Salone della Contessa Dufour Milano, ore 14.30

- I hate every Monday, and for this reason every Monday I need to take care of me. I need to think to something that makes me feel better, that makes me happy,  What a better idea to take a cup of coffee with some dolci at the Pasticceria Marchesi. I simply LOVE IT!

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Salone della Contessa Dufour, Milano ore 21.00

The telephone is ringing...

- Hello? 

- Oh dear Hélène, I am exhausted. Can I disturb you just for a few minutes.

- Please Christelle, what is the matter?

- The matter is my daughter. I can’t stand her anymore it’s me or her and because she’s younger and more determined than I am, it will be probably her and I’ll be the one who will leave this place, I mean my apartment.

- I do not understand!

- Oh Hélène nothing to understand, children are so selfish, my daughter is so selfish...

- Can you tell me more about this.

- Yesterday  I decided to take away all her things from her bedroom. I threw anything with anger in the bathtube and I felt satisfied for once to empty and clean her room. 

An hour later, the monster was back, she put half of her things back in her room. Now instead of having one messy room, I have two.

Oh Hélène, do you remember when we were young, unmarried and WITHOUT CHILDREN!

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Lovely Dior Shoe Collection - 

SCARPA DÉCOLLETÉ  

PELLE DI VITELLO VERNICIATA BIANCA NERA BEIGE € 890,00

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Salone della Contessa Dufour, Milano, ore 15.00 EpisodIO3

On the phone

Contessa: “Hello Christèle, I am so pleased to hear from you. You know I’m not a vindictive person and I never say disagreeable things; I am a good person.”

Friend: “Why are you telling me this Hélène?”

Contessa:”I don’t know, may be I feel ashamed. For two days I  haven’t listened to Charles, not that I could miss something of course.”

Friend: ”And so...”

Contessa: “oh nothing; I put my ear plugs, I listen to the  music, I drink my tea while he’s talking to me, I mean to himself.”

Friend: ”How do you feel? What do you plan?”

Contessa: “I don’t know, may be being brave, listening to him as if it was for the last time. Christèle will you come with me later?”

Friend: “For what?”

Contessa: “I need a pair of shoes, I need many pair of shoes. Will you come?”

Firend: “Oh you are irresistibile Hélène, of course I WILL.”

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DIOR TOUJOURS DIOR

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come tutti i giorni della settimana, il Conte Dufour si rivolge a sua moglie cominciando ad enunciare tutte le sue attività della giornata; non cambia ormai da vent’anni, ma siamo arrivati ad un tale punto di esasperazione che ogni volta che la parola io raggiunge quota 10, la contessa si autorizza a comprare un vestito, a quota 20 un gioiello e a quota 30 un accessorio; sì sembra strano ma convinta di dover spendere di più per quota 30 - Charles non smetta mai di parlare in prima persona - la contessa ha scelto la soluzione più ragionevole.

Contessa: “Si caro, dimmi”

Charles: “Yes, I am telling you something highly important, I will meet in a few minutes il Conte Saru, I will ask him to come with me to see my friend Lacci; I will anticipate the conversation I will have with him about the matter I told you two days ago. Darling are you remembering, I told you about this political matter I strongly defend, oh please could you help me, I think I need to hurry  up…

Contessa: “Go on darling… say something more we are only at quote 10.”

Charles: “Darling, Hélène, what are you saying, you don’t listen to me…”

Contessa: “I or you?”

Charles: “What do you say I don’t understand you… did I say something wrong?”

Contessa: “Charles!”

Charles: ”Yes!”

Contessa: “I love you.”

Francoise Dufour will leave home today later and will go directly in Via Monte Napoleone at the Dior shop pour acheter cette très belle veste vue sur HOW TO SPEND IT!

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Contessa Dufour, Milano, ore 22.00 EpisodIO 1

It was a rainy  Saturday afternoon; The Countess Dufour decided to go to the the Prada Foundation in the industrial zone of Largo Isarco as she received an invitation to watch a movie, ore 16.30. 

C’era una volta il West, un film del 1968 diretto da Sergio Leone.

Mettiamo da parte la bellezza del film, la “bravoure” degli attori, l’ironia sempre calibrata dei dialoghi... vogliamo parlare della bellezza degli attori. Sarà perché il Signor Dufour è molto noioso ultimamente, sempre concentrato su sé stesso, sempre le sue stesse conversazioni che cominciano con un’infinità di io, io , io, oppure perché in giro non si trova nessuno del genere. 

Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda... tutti incredibilmente affascinanti. Sarà  meglio rinunciare come sempre ad ogni tipo di fantasia e rimanere nel pura logica del film. 

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Waldorf Astoria Shanghai on the Bund, where elegance meets sophistication.