Irina Lazareanu - a beauty of the decade

Thanks to Diane Pernet, I discovered today Irina Lazareanu. She was born on June 8th, 1982 in Romania. Acording with Wikipedia at age 5 Lazareanu emigrated to Canada from Romania, settling into the Montreal suburb of Saint-Hubert, Quebec with her Romanian parents. At the age of 13 she moved to London to study ballet until she was derailed by a broken knee.

At age 17 Lazareanu attended an open call and signed with Giovanni modelling agency in Montreal with the hopes that it would help pay rent. From then on she did the usual rounds of London and Paris, occasionally appearing in Barcelona, Australia and Madrid fashion weeks. It wasn't until she was chosen by acquaintance Kate Moss to model for the December/January issue of Vogue: Paris, which she guest edited that Lazareanu received notice by fashionistas. Lazareanu has since become an increasingly popular fashion model, breaking the record for most runway work in one season.

She has modeled for many top designers, including Chanel, Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen, Anna Sui, Lanvin, Versace, and many more. She is affiliated with the modeling agencies Marilyn (New York and Paris), Why Not Models (Milan), Select Model Management (London), and Giovanni (Montreal). In March 2007, Lazareanu was chosen by Kate Moss as the model for her new Topshop clothing range.

Vogue Paris has unveiled their list of who they believe are the top 30 models of the decade. Irina Lazareanu is one of the women that did more than stun us throughout the 2000’s.


She remainds me of a silent cinema star. She is a Lilian Gish of fashion.









"Charming and lovely Irina Lazareanu" with Diane Pernet. Discover more: http://www.ashadedviewonfashion.com/

A VISION OF IDEAS. Diane Pernet

It's 4.26 AM Bucharest time and it's probably the coldest night of the year.
I am reading Diane Pernet's memories from her blog. Sometimes I cry. I am not sad, but I have a vision of her life and it's an splendid film that I would like to watch someday. It can be even a documentary because her journey is already an epic tale of love, creation and mistery. The sense of cinema makes me very sensitive; I always imagine the feelings of hundreds, thousands or milions of viewers.

I met her in Bucharest, in the first days of the last month of the decade. Her presence is magic. She has wings.

Diane on feelings, ideas and art:

" I think in terms of contemporary art, process isn't as important anymore as ideas."

" I think I never liked the really method of storytelling. I think my work still tells stories to a degree. I'm more interested in trying to convey feelings that are more layered and not so easy to define. "

A non-iconical picture of her that I like very much.
More on shaded view of fashion

Coming soon: My cinematical meeting with Diane Pernet

"Later",

Andreea

Haiti and Love Evolution

The world's incredible outpouring of help to thhe people of Haiti raises the queestion: are we evolving to become more compassionate and collaborative in our quest to survive and thrive? A research team at the University of California, Berkeley, says "yes."
(via @Wildcat2030 on Twitter )

Read more http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/01/the-haiti-response-is-the-human-species-hardwired-to-be-compassionate-a-weekend-feature.html

Jim Carrey on the Power of Intention

"There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once, unleashed, can make any vision, dream or desire a reality." -Anthony Robbins
The driving force is the human emotion, wonderfully translated by Jim Carrey in the Power of Intention. Everything is possible, it's just a matter of time.



“Andrea.”
“Are you aware that—do you have the distinct, palpable feeling that your intention helped create this evening?”
“Absolutely,” she replied promptly.
“Do you understand that all of this, this entire event, is happening inside you?”
A pause, then an uncertain, “Ye-e-e-s.” The audience laughed.
“I hope you can feel that,” Carrey said. “I hope you can understand that you are one of the creators of this evening. … And then I hope you are able to ask yourself—“Why did I get such a crappy seat?”

:D :D



PS I dreamed Jim Carrey few months ago. No joke :))

The Age of the Marvellous and Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

Emotions of awe, wonder, surprise and astonishment.

What I felt discovering this post http://houseofbeautyandculture.blogspot.com/2009/10/curious-made-extraordinary.html about All Visual Arts and The Age of the Marvellous.

Time to reflect on Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge a book by Edward O. Wilson

In his 1998 book Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, Wilson discusses methods that have been used to unite the sciences, and might be able to unite the sciences with the humanities. Wilson prefers and uses the term "consilience" to describe the synthesis of knowledge from different specialized fields of human endeavor. He defines human nature as a collection of epigenetic rules, the genetic patterns of mental development. He argues that culture and rituals are products, not parts, of human nature. He says art is not part of human nature, but our appreciation of art is. He argues that concepts such as art appreciation, fear of snakes, or the incest taboo (Westermarck effect) can be studied using scientific methods. Previously, these phenomena were only part of psychological, sociological, or anthropological studies. Wilson proposes that they can be part of interdisciplinary research.