Classics

I welcome the love that runs through me like a wave that rolls, breaks on the rock and foams. Like a downpour that steams, seethes and quickens the parched earth. Like a scent rising from the sea, spreading until it saturates the air. And so my body is reborn as Venus. This pochette is a tribute to the goddess of Love and Beauty, and to the magical moment in which every woman who loves and is loved in return is transformed. From mortal she becomes goddess, a perfect embodiment of Venus. Soft and undulating in shape, Venus is made from a mesh of glittering crystals, sewn by hand with the care you would give to a piece of jewellery.

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Ariel appeared in a dream: a bubble of oxygen, clear and luminous, of the kind that is born in the depths of the sea and rises towards the surface. A portal. A lure made to bring back to the surface the Queen who lives in every woman. Ariel is a talisman that knows how to bring that Queen back up. Its shape encourages whoever holds it to stand like royalty.

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Auntie Mame has no time for half measures, neither in her toasts nor on rainy days. This is the bag that holds everything: clothes, stories, small excesses and large possibilities. It is soft, alive, unexpected. Like that unconventional aunt we all wish we had, or wish we were. "Life, my dear, is a drawing room open onto the world. And you? Did you come in the right shoes?" Auntie Mame is not afraid of getting an outfit or a word wrong: she mixes impertinence with elegance, the way she mixes gin into afternoon tea.

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How do you tell a woman that destiny is not a cage but a flight, and that swings can be built out of chains? How do you tell a woman that, if she truly wanted to, she could fly? A tribute to Fellini's Giulietta, who knew how to turn shadows into light and joy. In every dream, surreal encounter or fleeting love, Giulietta loses herself and finds herself again. Hers is a perpetual catharsis: even from the dark depths of the soul she resurfaces brighter and more alive than ever.

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In 1754 the English writer Horace Walpole coined the word "serendipity", inspired by the Persian tale The Three Princes of Serendip. The story tells of princes who, through sharpness and careful observation, made precious discoveries while looking for something else — like finding the farmer's daughter while searching for a needle in a haystack. Serena is that discovery: the one you make while you are looking for something else.

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Mérimée had understood it: Carmen is dangerous not because she seduces, but because she belongs to no one. She would rather die than be possessed. She cannot be tamed, and she cannot be explained. Wild, in the most noble sense of the word. Born to console a heartbreak, she tells us that pain, too, can be a form of beauty. She takes her name from the gypsy of Bizet's opera, to be filled with the force of her freedom — so fierce, so complex — with the power of her seduction, with the morality of her independence. Because the moment always comes when you have to gather yourself and get up off that sofa.

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