Today things went back to the usual 'cool' attitude but the past few days were hot as hell in Los Angeles. There was no way I could do anything but dip myself in the pool with some friends and wait for sunset, not a bad way to spend the day anyway, right?
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Gucci has refreshed their Sunset Boulevard billboard at the Chateau Marmont with the new Guilty Black campaign with Evan Rachel Wood and Chris Evans ... I could not help but staring at it, so sexy! Photos via our instagram account [AlekandSteph].
This summer 2013 campaign was shot by Mert & Marcus. Watch the advertising video here.
Ok I may like it just a bit more when shine but we get to experience so very little rain here in L.A. that when we get to have some, I love it ... when leaving Paris I thought I was done for good with the rain, but with time, I do like those grey, cold, rainy days where all you do is stay home by the fire place, listen to some cool music and maybe get to enjoy a perfect sunset and a rainbow if you get lucky. Luckily this past 7 days we got it all.
The sun, the beach, the surfers, the heat wave, the clouds, the rain, the thunder, the cold, the perfect sunsets (could and clear sky) and a rainbow ... merci mother nature!
Someone once told me that in L.A. we do not have seasons year round but we sometimes can experience the 4 seasons in one single ... so true!
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California, the sunshine, the beach, the palm trees, the surfers ... it might sounds like a cliché but it was just a friday afternoon for us ;-) Technicaly it's winter even on this little angelic town stuck between the Pacific Ocean and the desert, but today was one of those days where you feel like you need to take a holiday. A mini summer break in the middle of the winter, j'adore!
For most of the people the year 2012 ended last night ... it will come to an end on January 14 for the people celebrating the Orthodox Christian claendar, February 10 for the people of China, February 11 for the Tibetans celebrating the Losar ... So plenty of other opportunities to celebrate, even tho, we have to remember that every day is a new day with the same opportunities and possibilities than January 1st.
I am not one celebrating the New Year or the holidays in general but I do like the fresh energy of the first day of the year..
Being from Europe and living in Los Angeles we get to "welcome the new year" 3 times in one day ... starting at 3pm (midnight in France) with our friends and families on the other side of the Ocean, it's fun to FaceTime people while having lunch on a sunny terrace and cheering for the new year with them. Then comes 9pm (midnight in NYC) and then this awkward moment when you have to wait for midnight to hit the west coast ... unlike Sydney celebrated and watched all over the world, nothing is happening in LA, one of the last major cities to plunge into the new year ...
2012 has been a pretty amazing year, nothing to complain about and this year in February will be (I believe) our 10th year anniversary with OhLaLa ... I mean ... that is pretty incroyable.
Bonne Année! Happy New year!
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Like every year I cannot wait for "the most wonderful time of the year" to be over. Xmas is for sure not a spirit that gets into me ... it's cute for a minute, but the minute was over - long ago - and I knew it would be a painful and long period when Xmas songs started to play on the radio the day after thanksgiving ...
The good thing about living in L.A. is that except for this weekend where people are going nuts in malls and various shopping areas, you don't really pay attention to Xmas, plus this year I have seen more Menorahs around town than Xmas trees.
The other good news (besides the fact that Xmas is almost over) is that we all survived the end of the world, now some are saying that it may be on the 24th ... in any case I always believed that the end of the Mayan calendar was more the begening of a new era. Our world and society has a lot of responsabilities now ... and it is not up to the Mayans to decided if the world is going to end but up to us to try not to screw things up for the near future.
Alek's father is staying with us for the holidays and since they are Orthodox I don't even have to worry about celebrating anything right now :-) We did celebrate Saint Nicholas on the 19th (the original Santa) with a lunch on the beach but besides that we do enjoy all the non-xmassy things LA has to offer.
In the non Xmas spirit we will take the road tomorrow morning direction Las Vegas ... You can follow us on Instagram - AlekandSteph or BelloMag.
One things that I will always appreciate more than a character re-invented by Coca Cola are the amazing sunsets of California. It's daily and stress-free :-)
