Hermes Cafe Bon Temps~Good Times Cafe
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MB, I love your photos and stories along side them! Do you look for extraordinary gardens to visit?
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the_black_tie_diyer
The weekend is upon us! 
And I just found out I had better given the 8,50 EUR to someone needing it, than spending it on Zeit's new lifestyle magazine. What a waste.
Kind regards,
Oliver
And I just found out I had better given the 8,50 EUR to someone needing it, than spending it on Zeit's new lifestyle magazine. What a waste. Kind regards,
Oliver
The weekend is upon us!
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Kind regards,
Oliver
It makes a pretty picture though!
Coffee looks terrific in your H cup. I keep hoping that someone will start a terrific lifestyle magazine with good writing and great photography. Some of the shelter magazines here try to lean toward more broad lifestyle subjects, but they don't seem to get much further than a food column. (Hey! You should start one! ) Town & Country tries, but it always comes off as being so superficial and has a sort of desperate upwardly-striving air about it. One I like here in the US is called (weirdly) Garden & Gun. (Does that sound American or what? 
) It has great features on Southern food, places, people, things and some fantastic writing. It's a very, very well done magazine that has some soul, not just meaningless puff. I used to love the articles written for Vogue by Gunny Wells. I'm always interested in how people live--how they live well, why they choose the things they do, what they love about the things they love. I can't believe I'm the only person. It seems like an international lifestyle magazine would be of great interest.
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the_black_tie_diyer
It makes a pretty picture though!
Hi,
Thanks, lol.
You're going to laugh, but I did write a couple of articles for a German lifestyle blog-a-zine on a freelance base. And I basically should finish a handful, but I'm having a really hard time to find the right approach. I'm literally drowning in drafts & pictures for them - but I simply can't get a grip and hold on long enough to finish. And every time I think that's it - I get lost in hundreds of "secondary battlefields" - and I know I'm in way too deep for the selected target audience. (That's always the problem when you're supposed to write something about a topic you know well and are interested/educated on it...)
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Back to the magazine I bought. I think the main concern is cost. At least it seems to be. You can't see it in that picture but the cover can be folded open, inside a big glossy mag type 2-page ad for Patek Philippe. Back cover, 1-page glossy ad for Rolex. Inside many, many pages: 2-page ad for Giorgio Armani, 2-page ad for Dolce & Gabbana, 2-page ad for Ermenegildo Zegna, 2-page ad for Prada L'Homme perfume, 2-page ad for Hublot, 2-page ad for Moncler, 2-page ad for Olymp, 1-page ad for Prada, after this 1-page editorial. Then 1-page add for Gucci, 2-page TOC, 1-page ad for Tods, 2-page ad for Tudor, 1-page introduction to 3 editors/writer, 1-page ad for Versace, Imprint, 1-page ad for Panerai. I'll stop right here - and up until now you haven't read a single article. And of course there are far more ads all through the magazine.
Articles are mediocre at best, quite a few are simply "covered ads".
So yeah, I agree in a heartbeat - an international, truly high-end, lifestyle magazine that caters to men and woman is definitely missing. Especially one that goes quite a bit deeper than covered ads with glossy mag type pictures.
Garden & Gun sounds like fun. I will look out for that next chance I get!
Maybe we should start that magazine together?
Kind regards,
Oliver
You've just described every women's fashion magazine currently on the racks.
Is Vanity Fair too starstruck? I liked the articles in Vogue (maybe it was British Vogue) by Plum Sykes. About a decade ago she wrote a piece about the virtues of having long sleeves, like when your house was cold (probably was British Vogue). I think the agenda was to lose 3/4 bracelet-length sleeves. Wipe them off the fashion map. Didn't work!!! Didn't work! Nice try, Plummie! Bracelets of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your sleeves!It makes a pretty picture though!
Random question for you guys... Would you use non Hermes twillies on your bag? Found these at Dior today. And they cost more than H twillies so I'm still considering. (Probably not the white as it will get super dirty)
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the_black_tie_diyer
I don't see any reason why you shouldn't. That black one looks fabulous!
Kind regards,
Oliver
That black one looks fabulous!Kind regards,
Oliver
I don't see any reason why you shouldn't.
Kind regards,
Oliver
And it's reversible!
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the_black_tie_diyer
There are a few threads on this; I think this one is the most recent, if you want to have a look for previous discussion on it.
Thank you mistikat! xx I know most people say it's fine, but I struggle with myself a bit because I don't like mixing brands... That black Dior one is so nice though.
I personally don't think it matters, but of course you have to be comfortable with it. People use Hermes scarves on non-Hermes bags, and vice versa. I have a pretty silk scarf I used on my Evelyne for a while. It's personal taste, I think. And the Dior scarves are really pretty and go so well with the bag! You might have a hard time finding as nice a match in Hermes.