📍 HAVANA DIARIES
• EXPERIENCE • INSPIRATION • EXPLORE •
"Both for Havana's beauty and decay, it's hard to restrain yourself from staring everywhere you look" Brin-Jonathan Butler
• EXPERIENCE • INSPIRATION • EXPLORE •
"Both for Havana's beauty and decay, it's hard to restrain yourself from staring everywhere you look" Brin-Jonathan Butler
Brin-Jonathan Butler could not have capture Havana better. For those of you who follow me on Instagram, you would surely have seen my recent visit there and my incontainable excitement over it.
Honestly, I know its a big call, but of all the places I've ever been, Havana has been the most beautiful place I've ever experienced and I can't stop gushing about it!
Cuba's history to where she stands today is known far and wide, so no history lessons from me here. What kept me in aw about this wonderful place is its uniqueness. Herein lies an island where, geographically, it's only 40mins by plane south of Florida; 210km to the east of Mexico and 140km to her south lies Jamaica, all places that, despite their rich cultural influences, has still succumbed to the insta-generation, a generation where everything moves at the speed of double tapping and swiping, and nothing is valid unless it's posted. Where this brunch maybe cool now, but... oh wait, or was that 3 mins ago? Yet for Cuba, in all its colourful glory, time has stopped at 1959.
Photos by Mr. T & Me!
On me: Shoes (these cool favourites ARE Havana!) Zimmermann, Fedora Chanel, Sunnies Celine, Shirt Current Elliott, Shorts Theory
On me: Shoes (these cool favourites ARE Havana!) Zimmermann, Fedora Chanel, Sunnies Celine, Shirt Current Elliott, Shorts Theory
Although we were only there for three days, and regrettably, did not explore further than Havana, these are the memories I will treasure forever.
On me: Fedora & Bag Chanel Resort 2017
Back in May of 2016, Chanel became the first luxury fashion house to stage (one of Karl's ever extravagant) runway show in Havana (as you do, Karl 😉). It was on this very stretch of Colonial boulevard , designed by a Frenchman in the 1770s, that the famed fashion house , once again, turned the spotlight back to Havana, romanticising this city in all her beautiful glory as did so by Ernst Hemmingway back in 1939.
Naturally, I had to pay my sartorial tribute, pilgriming to this boulevard, proudly wearing my Fedora and bag from THE collection that made its debut on the Paseo del Prado and re introduce this place to the eyes of the world.
xOxo
