fAsHiOn & tRaVeLs

It’s been almost a month since my last shopping spree (which was in London actually). In the meantime, I intentionally avoided visiting shops, apart from the odd purchase of a pair of knee-high boots that I’ve been searching for months (which is a whole different story)! So, when a friend of mine suggested going shopping yesterday, I just couldn’t say no (who would anyway)!! She wanted to buy a couple of gifts and order a pair of boots for herself and I (and my Visa card) just accompanied her!!

Our destination: Glyfada’s main shopping street (FYI Glyfada is a suburb of Athens, by the sea, famous for its numerous shopping centers and cafés).

First stop: Accessorize, a.ka. my temple No.1 (according to my brother). My friend searched for the gifts she wanted to buy as I browsed all kinds of stuff (apart from bags, because I’m trying to go through a bag-detox phase!). Of course I wasn’t “short of” anything, but who can resist to so many cute jewels, scarves, gloves etc.? I left the shop buying a pair of cut off gloves which I have been coveting for over a year and a multicolor beaded bracelet that goes perfectly with all of my winter dresses (black, grey and blue).

Intermediate stops included Uterqüe, which is an Inditex group owned brand (which honestly I didn’t know it existed!!). As I read at a press release about the first store opening of Uterqüe in Greece (which is the shop I visited actually): “the name Uterqüe is a Latin word, a construction which can be translated as “both” or, more literally, “one and the other”. With this denomination, the concept is referring to its combination of fashion and accessories on offer.” I really liked the store layout and decoration; I found it very elegant, but again I am at a bag-detox phase right now, so I didn’t buy anything . If you want to find more about Uterqüe, I suggest you visit the following URLs:

http://www.inditex.com/en/who_we_are/concepts/uterque

http://www.uterque.es/

Oh! And I should add that Greece is the third country after Spain and Portugal that Uterqüe is beginning its commercial activity! I guess those guys over Inditex group value the Greek market, don’t you think?

Last stop: H&M, which actually opened a new shop at Glyfada just two weeks ago! Though I had already browsed most of the store in the opening day, I missed a part of it (where actually I found many interesting items)! This time I invested in “basic” wardrobe stuff which include: a grayish shirt, a gray tweed masculine vest, a cyclamen colored cardigan (or I guess that it is cyclamen anyway!) and a simple long sleeved white t-shirt (I really needed that one!). When I tried the shirt on I thought of “throwing” the vest on top of it…and the combination was just awesome!!

To conclude with, I’ve included pictures of my basic buys! Enjoy!

Cyclamen coloured cardigan

Multicolour Beaded Bracelet