Cultural Sunday

I love museums - I guess I have never mentioned it before - but I surely do! I believe it is one of the easiest, fastest and cheapest ways to ensure your constant growth and personal development. Not to mention, that it is also a great place to meet strongly intelligent people and make new friends. 

This has been said, I always treat my 'cultural' looks with the same diligence and attention to the details as I usually do for my 'office' or 'leisure' outfits. They all must be TESSful:-) (as you might have guessed).

For the last 'museums-check' in Paris I picked a splendid place dedicated to the French architecture: Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine. If you appreciate a good architectural design as I do, then don't miss this wonderful site with its 8,000 m² of permanent exhibit space! 

Without revealing a content of the museum (...you will check it by yourself!), I better reveal to you my 'museum' look: TESSfully simple and cozy, yet elegant and refined! 

Well, wait :-) ...before you actually start questioning... or even making fun of me... this and the following two pics were NOT taken on the floor at the museum, but the last one - was (not on the floor though:). I just wanted to capture this look in all its TESSful beauty to share with you:)

So, TESS of the day: 

Dress, Jacket - BCBGMAXAZRIA, 

Necklace - BCBGeneration, 

Bracelet - Banana Republic, 

Glasses - Max Mara,

Handbag, Key ring - Louis Vuitton,

Bottillons - Jimmy Choo. 

Don't forget to check out some other stories I brought for you from museums:-) 

***So, what do YOU usually WEAR TO MUSEUMS?***

Keep TESS: Taste.Elegance.Sophistication.Style!

Your Tess

      

Rouge et Noir

Even though the name of this post might sound as a reference to the historical novel in two volumes, written by Stendhal in 1830 (i.e. Le Rouge et le Noir), in practice I just want to share with you some TESSful pics. The connection between two is the same red&black palette. Well, I guess, you might have already seen these photos in bits and pieces, but I've just realized that I never shared with you the full portfolio. True, shame on me.

So, have a look at my version of Le Rouge et le Noir, lensed by a wonderful photographer Daniel Lopez-Paullada:

So, TESS of the day: 

Dress - BCBGMAXAZRIA, 

Scarf - Tara Jarmon, 

Sunglasses - Prada, 

 Watch - Karen Millen, 

Pumps - Christian Louboutin, 

Glasses - CHANEL.

Keep TESS: Taste.Elegance.Sophistication.Style!

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Aimez-vous Brahms?

As much as I like Françoise Sagan, this post has nothing to do with her novel Aimez-vous Brahms (1959). Instead, I will focus on the real piano concerto of Johannes Brahms I was lucky enough to listen at the Victoria Hall in Geneva. Frankly, I haven't been exposed to the classical music - performed live - for a while, so this concert truly overwhelmed me with a beauty and sophistication of this musical genre and reestablished emotions I used to know before. It was an extremely emotionally charged event, that featured two gifted composers - Johannes Brahms and Piotr Tchaikovsky. 

Both concertos were breathtakingly performed by the Swiss Romande Orchestra under the direction of Nicolaj Znaider with a piano accompaniment of Denis Matsuev. As I am not an often guest (unfortunately) of the music conservatories or performance halls, I've never heard Nicolaj before. In fact, this Danish-Israeli classical violinist and conductor at his age of 37 is regularly invited to work with the world’s leading orchestras including, Vienna Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony etc. To listen to Nicolaj Znaider was a source of delight and astonishment. He made a tremendous impression on me and I will definitely search for another chance to visit his concert. Extremely talented man!

Now to the matter - my look of the night. As it was a classical music event, the classical black outfit was almost a must. This said, I went for a black close-fitting dress which I nicely paired with over-knee suede boots. The high boots - being unusual for such event yet fully in line with dress-code requirements - gave my outfit a noticeable TESS twist. Unfortunately, on all the pictures here my boots look like thick tights rather than boots, but at the end this was a part of the idea - to stay classy yet chic; to be appropriate for the event yet with a zest of TESS.

So, TESS of the day:

Dress - BCBGMAXAZRIA,

Sweater - JAEGER,

Boots, Watch - all by Karen Millen, 

Glasses, Necklace - all by CHANEL.

Keep TESS: Taste.Elegance.Sophistication.Style!

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