Charlotte Giver - fashion events, articles, spontaneous trips, days at my internship

While going through my emails over my regular Starbucks coffee this morning, I noticed that my blog is now linked to a Swedish student site www.gostudy.se. So in the future, if you for some reason would forget my website you can always go in and find it here haha. What else..? Yeah, we just had a morning meeting here in the office and scheduled a couple of different articles for this week. There is a lot of things going on in Barcelona right now because, believe it or not, THE SUMMER IS HERE! Fun start of the new week:  http://ht.ly/55MSg

Swedish Guiselle manage my new favorite go-to vintage store "Le Swing Vintage" located in El Born. I am always amazed by her impeccable style and sense of fashion. No wonder this second-hand boutique is to die for! If Old Hollywood, trendy and glam together this vintage store would be the result.

I think I am starting to develop an obsession with this store. In other words, I want to have all the bags, every single shoe and all of the jewelry - a girl can dream right? Located on C/Rec 16, this boutique has two floors and a sister store called Blow by Le Swing which is located further down the street. Blow by Le Swing carries Louis Vuitton suitcases and amazing Chanel bags! I paid a visit the other day but today, I am focusing on doing some shopping in Guiselle's boutique. Walking around the store, I found a white Gucci blazer for 140 Euros, a pair of Jimmy Choo shoes (for only 69 Euros!), YSL shoes à la Charlotte in SATC (86 Euros) and the cutest Marc Jacobs shoes (perfect for the summer!) I could not resist buying a pair of pink Dolce and Gabbana shoes with embellishment for only 89 Euros. I mean for these prices, it's nothing but a win/win situation!

And then...to the bags! My favorite is the white Chanel bag for 495 Euros. Then there is the Black Chanel bag for 595 Euros and the Hermès bag that I can only dream about buying. This one is 4000 Euros. Please buy this one so I can live vicariously though you! Thanks.

Here are some pictures of these amazing bags. Ta-da!

Everyone with every type of style is sure to find their favorite accessories here as the pieces are sure to warrant many "Where did you get those?!" But you have to hurry over here ASAP because I can tell you one thing - it goes fast! One day you are thinking about buying a necklace and a pair of earrings and then the next day, they're gone! As a self-proclaimed earring junkie, I could simply not resist buying a pair of purple wonderful earrings with gold embellishment that I now frequently use. At Le Swing, you'll find everythin g from classy/red-carpet accessories to Old Hollywood-hats and edgy earrings with a punch of hot pink or turquoise that Samantha in SATC would go and buy in a heartbeat. For the brave fashionista or simply the short-sighted, Christian Dior and Chanel glasses (with our without glass) are to be found here. What's not to love about that!?

If you don't live in Barcelona or are unable to visit the store, you can call Guiselle on +34 933 101 449 or simply shoot her an

email: [email protected]

Now go and shop, shop, shop....and blame it on the handbag! xxx Charlotte

Just went on a lunch-break with my friend from work. Look what I found in the May issue of Vogue. I love everything on this page, this is just so pretty I can't handle it! I especially love the pink lace underwear!

"I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful and precise origin."

- Coco Chanel, 1939

I like to have a city that never sleeps to keep me on my toes. However, I don't want to have a street that never sleeps outside my apartment building. The other night, Barcelona won the football game against Madrid and fireworks were going off all night long. Sometimes I thought that  I was going to die from a heart-attack. However, there are a lot of things I love about this city. The lights draped across the streets during the evenings, the many art galleries, the romantic aura over practically the whole city, the architecture, all of the cute coffee shops and boutiques etc. Everyday, I pass by so many things that are beautiful. But what I love most about this city is that there are always new things to explore. 

 

Unless they're pearls of course..

If someone shows up somewhere late but is dressed terribly are they still fashionably late? (My friend had the perfect answer "No, they are terribly late" lol)