Viva Roma!

Anyone who might know me would know that I, of all people, am not a sports person. I'm much, much more on the side of music and arts rather than sports. I've been to a few sporting events in my life, but it's never been something I get really excited about.

However, coming to Italy, I definitely wanted to see a soccer game, since soccer is so, so popular here, and yesterday was my chance! My school put on an outing to a soccer game at the Olympic Stadium here in Rome and tickets for us were only 10 Euro! 

The game was Roma versus Palermo and I was, I can't believe I'm going to say this, extremely excited to go! My roommate and I got Roma shirts with the team colors on it and wore them proudly yesterday!  Of course, I had to keep it stylish, so I also rocked my new brown suede Italian boots and Louis Vuitton tote bag, but that's beside the point. :p

There was just such an energy about it all. The fans were so supportive of their home team - much more than I have ever seen in my (be it little) sports experience. They were so passionate and so involved, it was wonderful.

By the end of it, I was even humming the Roma chant song in my head, though I couldn't really make out the words with the -what seemed like- thousands of people singing it all together.

And soccer is a good sport for me I'm realizing. If I had to choose one to watch, I think it would be soccer. Games are only 90 minutes without stopping the clock, plus some added time at the end, and then that's it! I can totally handle that. :)

My roommate and I both said we would love to go to another game while we're here, so we are now on the lookout for a guest team we would like to see Roma play. 

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I really loved that soccer game yesterday! It was so much fun and the atmosphere was out of this world. I can't wait to go again!!

Love and Style,

L.M.

Alexander McQueen and the Met.

I feel so fortunate to have had the opportunity to see a true legend's work on display at the Met recently. My floormates and I took a trip down to the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the Upper East Side and had the chance to experience the Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty exhibit. Now, I'm not a very big "museum person," in that I usually get bored and want to move on after about an hour, however, we spent an hour and a half looking at the exhibit alone, not including the additional hour we waited in line just to get in.

This was one of the most breathtaking experiences I have ever had. There's something about this legend's work that inspires such awe and deep thought about what's behind it. His pieces show such emotion and each one truly tells a story. Never have I had such a profound respect for a designer. Not only did he create beautiful masterpiece works of art in the form of clothing, he translated the emotions and even political statements through his craft.

I have always been a Coco Chanel fan at my core, but I have to say, she now shares that place with Alexander McQueen. I would wear any dress or headpiece at that exhibit and there was just something about his works that I felt so instantly connected to. I truly admire him.

And aesthetically, the exhibit itself was so beautifully laid out. On the ledge of each section were plaques that had quotes from McQueen about his thought process behind his creations or just about life in general. Then there was a description of each item placed in front of it on the ledge while the whole time haunting and beautifully eerie music played in surround sound.

What was more, is that it wasn't even just walking through and looking at all the dresses (some of which were worn by the likes of Lady Gaga, etc.). Rather, it was interactive. There were video screens everywhere playing scenes from the spectacular McQueen fashion shows of the past, there was a section where you watched three-dimensional prisms and light beams take shape into an actual human adorned in a white McQueen gown and there was a true political statement made when you went up to one wall in the exhibit and saw the dresses on display, only to see the lights inside the huge glass box dim to show a movie on the back wall. In the movie, the steel walls surrounding a model slowly fell to the floor, cuing the glass box to then change lighting once again and become a mirror that reflects your own self-image. The description explained how McQueen wanted to express his desire for one to look at one's own reflection and image in the mirror, and what better way for the exhibit to do that than to lure us in with a video and then switch what we're watching to be ourselves. So artistic, so brilliant and so frankly clever.

I could have spent another two hours in that exhibit and would wait in line all over again to go back. If you're in NYC I would more than highly recommend taking a trip to the Met to see it before it leaves on August 7th.

If you can't make it to see it in person, check out the official blog and while you're at it, check out this awesome article from Vogue on the Three Must-See Fashion Exhibitions of the summer!

Love and Style,
L.M.

I heart NY.

Hi!

I'm Lacie. Thanks for reading my blog. :)

If you didn't know already, I have the amazing opportunity of spending this summer in the fabulous New York City. Ever since I came to this city to go on college tours my senior year of high school I knew that I loved it. It was then that I made up my mind that I'm going to live here after college.

This feeling has been nothing but confirmed during my stay here so far. It's been almost a month and I'm madly in love.

This evening was especially phenomenal. My friend and I ventured down to do some shopping (of course :p)  in SoHo but we headed out a bit later than planned and the stores closed after only an hour and a half or so of shopping. However, this did not dampen our night. Being the adventuresome duo that we are, we decided to explore the area while we were there with nothing else better to do.

Conclusion: I am living in SoHo when I move to New York. There's nothing else to it.

I love how an area can just emit this energy of style and chicness. And it's New York, so anything can happen. Just in the course of our walking around about a mile radius, we ran into a fashion shoot for a Nordstrom ad (the clothes were FABulous...a silver sequin dress, a jumper with a jacket and a classic all-black ensemble for the guy), we came across an adorable Italian coffee shop, restaurants to die for, a cupcake shop with the best rocky road brownie I have ever tasted and of course, boutiques you wouldn't be able to find anywhere else in the world. One had the most amazing men's shoes - lace up dress shoes in all different colors, from pink to baby blue.

I got so excited about my future in SoHo I could barely stand it. I began referring to things in me and Nicole's conversation as "my future _____," be it church, coffee house, apartment, anything! SoHo is one amazing place and I can guarantee that I WILL be making every imaginable excuse to go down there as much as possible for the rest of the summer. <3

Love and Style,
L.M.