This post is based on an article in the New York Time's website, that talks about Marcus Samuelsson. Marcus Samuelsson is an award-winning Swedish chef that has (along with other chefs) founded the website http://www.foodrepublic.com/ and owns an exclusive restaurant in Harlem called Red Rooster Harlem. Sneakers are his particular guilty pleasure: he has them in all colours, patterns and brands. They can project multiple personalities: smart, elegant, discrete, confident... During his childwood in Sweden, they were the only thing that her mother and gradmother couldn't make, so they became his weakness.
/> In this kind of "digital journal", Samuelsson explains whick look has he worn every day, describing his jacket, trousers, belts... and of course, his sneakers! This shows us how an specific accessory can become so important a part of our lives, that we can't live without it, because it reflects who we are, our high and weak points, and it is a way of communicating with other people and showing them our mood.
Colours and materials also depend on the weather and season: yellow plastic for sunny, summer days, grey fur for cold and snowy weather... So this is when fashion becomes practical: it is not only a way of expressing who you are, but to adapting yourself to external climatical or environmental conditions.
Samuelsson is the perfect example of how a proficient in some area, can have an obession or strong interest for another subject that has no relation with the matter, but, instead of fancy cars, he has chosen footwear. His story is funny and curious, and I think it is worth being read.
Sources:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/fashion/27WHATIWORE.html?ref=fashion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Samuelsson
Great post Cristina. Watch:
ResponderEliminarher mother --> his
an specific --> a specific
so important a part of --> such an important part of
external climatical --> climatic
a proficient in some area --> someone who is proficient in some area
I really love his story. Amazing how we can focus all our interests in something we are not doing regularly, but at the same time, I’m sure that all of us also have an special interest in another subject. I will confess that I love filmmaking, but my secret passion in archaeology, I’m creating a club around the world, with teenager’s fans of it. This is how big things appear, as we seen in the great testimony of Marcus Samuelsson. Just leave your head think!
ResponderEliminarHey, my post was too short. And I wanted to add, the experience of Jaume Santllorente. A business men from Barcelona that one day went to India and discover the poorness in there, and the little girls alone in the streets: he discovered that he secretly loved helping people and had created one off the biggest ONG there, Sonrisas the Bombay. I think that his life is not very far away from Marcus, doing something they didn't expected to.
ResponderEliminarI've read Jaume's book, his story is so inspiring, I agree, it's another perfect example of how everything can turn around in a few days.
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