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Diving into Colours at the Wow Museum

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Zurich coolest new attraction, the Wow Museum, is a unique world of optical illusions. A museum unlike other museums and a perfect place for selfies and shootings.

Right in the city centre of Zurich, right between tall grey buildings, the Wow Museum is an unexpected surprise. Every colour enthusiast who enters feels happy at once because the Wow Museum is just as fun, bright and beautiful as a wild dream where somebody drops a paint bucket over a whole house. Across three floors, illusions await. You find yourself in infinity grow and shrink or get lost in a world full of mirror and lights listening to hammering beats. A little bit like Alice in Wonderland, but different.

For a long time, I was looking at places like this popping up in the US, feeling jealous that we don’t have one. Now it finally happened! As you see the place is wonderful for taking pictures, but as well fun to just spend some time with friends, experience something different and dive into colours.

The Wow Museum Zurich is located at Werdmühlestrasse 10,
just a few steps from Bahnhofstrasse.

My Outfits
Green Look:
Trousers & Jacket: Coster Copenhagen, Swimsuit: Calzedonia (not recent),
Shoes: Dolls Kill, Hat: Happy Onion, Bag: Marc Jacobs

Pink Look:
Romper: Alice McCall, Jumper: Pringles of Scotland for H&M (not recent),
Jacket: Lavish Alice (not recent), Tights: Falke, Beret: Dolls Kill, Sunglasses: Le Specs,
Earrings: Tukadu, Boots: Dolls Kill

Pastel Denim Look:
Trousers: Dolls Kill, Jacket: Topshop (not recent), Hat: Jacqueline Loekito,
Shoes: Vintage

Raincoat Look:
Coat: Ragged Priest (not recent), Sunglasses: Le Specs,
Shoes: Vintage

Pictures: Philipp Muller
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A New Day

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coster copenhagen outfit

So it’s not your day today, somebody rained on your parade and things don’t feel right the way they are? I don’t have a fortune cookie for you, but my Pop-Art trousers give you the following advice: Domani e’un altro giornio, or in English: Tomorrow is another day.

Tomorrow means another chance for what didn’t happen today to come true, the next lot that might win the lottery of life. It’s a sentence full of hope and a refusal to defeat. It could be translated to: I am a stubborn human being, I don’t give up my hopes, dreams and wishes, I may acknowledge that I can’t win today but tomorrow I’ll have another try!

But does tomorrow really change something? Are the hopes realistic, or just a silly thing that lingers around for months while some things might not actually change at all? Are some hopes just a little light that keeps us warm in a dark place, like Galadriel’s light in Lord of the Rings?

I really don’t know, all I do know is the following: Sometimes the hope for a better tomorrow is the only mantra that brings me through another day where I ask myself why things are not the way I’d wish them to be. Days full of stinging anticipation that something good just has to happen finally.

Some days are pop-art girl days: Happy and shining on the outside, but the emotion is bursting out and shows the sadness behind. Did you ever notice that so many of the pop art girls are crying? Roy Lichtenstein painted them that way to show the struggle behind perfection, what we often forget. What goes on behind the pretty facades. The cruel things that happen in relationships but as well the stubborn hope. So let’s draw another lot, and hope that the next tomorrow is what we’ve been waiting for!

My Outfit
Dress & Top: Coster Copenhagen, Trousers: 90s Moschino found at Love at the Bus Stop,
Shoes: Dolls Kill, Bag: Melissa, Sunglasses: Saint Laurent,
Earring: Swarovski, Bangle: Versace Vintage

Pictures: Marco Borromeo
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What’s Behind a Smile

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Coster Copenhagen Look

A smile doesn’t always mean that I am happy. It can just have the purpose to not make you worry or even hide sadness or disappointment. Just because I might be sad doesn’t mean I want you to feel the same. Feelings are contagious, so therefore I try to rather spread smiles than misery.

The time alone at home made me think a lot about where I am and what I want, especially when it comes to any kind of relationships from love to friendship and the ones I’ve chosen to be my family. And the result: I am very lucky to have the best friends I could have dreamed of, but love, oh love! Well, I think with my bad luck in love I should win the lottery to restore at least some kind of balance.

So my problem is: I don’t want to be an option, don’t want to be a choice, but priority. Is it asked too much to be on top of somebody list? I am so tired of feeling like the exotic animal in the zoo everybody likes to visit for entertainment and to get a glimpse into another world. Then they go back to their own like they’ve watched a movie. I hear the sentence “I never met somebody like you” all the time and wish it meant more than me feeding somebody’s curiosity.

I am tired of people coming very close for a moment, making me feel something and then walking away, without an explanation or at least an information. Tired of discovering I’ve been deleted from Facebook (this is so immature by the way) after only giving realness and kindness in very generous amounts.

What I can blame myself for is that I believe in people’s good intentions until they prove me otherwise. An attitude that still feels right in my heart, but that got it broken several times, always feeling like it might be beyond repair. I feel like I have to brace myself, look closer and detect harmful behaviour, narcissism, egoism and meanness right from the beginning. I don’t want to lose my trust in the good but give back myself wholeness; therefore, more carefulness might be required.

Growing older means having more dark and vulnerable spots. I’m not an empty sheet anymore, a lot of naiveness is gone, and there is damage, some just on the surface, some that go deeper. I feel like a cup that has been used a lot over the years. A pretty good cup that can make people smile and has its purpose, but not fresh from the manufacturer. It has already seen a lot of different flavours of tea, and some of them left their marks on the white porcelain. I still hope this cup will one day find a home that is full of love and not just a name on the door of a pretty place. If you already found yours, please take good care of it, because it is one of the most precious things you can ever have.

My Outfit
Coat, Skirt and Jumper: Coster Copenhagen, Shoes: Buffalo, Hat: Jacqueline Loekito,
Sunglasses: Anna Karin Karlsson bought at Götte Optik,
Bag: Grafea, Earrings: Swarovski (old)

Pictures: Marco Borromeo
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I Feel So Much

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Sara is in Love with… CeliaB summer dress

I feel hard,
fly hard and fall hard.

A rainbow is the full range of colours as much as my mind is the full range of emotions. My feelings are not flat, I am capable of intense emotions. They are what drives me as well as what leaves me paralyzed. When I’m happy the room gets bright when I’m sad it seems like the world is ending. Being an emphatic and emotional being is as much a gift as it is a curse. I feel hard, fly hard and fall hard.

Controlling your emotions and taking care of yourself sounds so easy in theory: Keep the good energy and get rid of the bad one. Stick to people who make you happy and keep away from the ones who put you down and make you cry. But of course, the reality isn’t as easy as those pictures with wise words some people post on their social media.

Recently, I often feel tired, suffer from a lack of motivation. It’s like somebody must have stolen my rainbow. In those moments I force myself to do things I like to charge my energy. I dress up in something that makes me feel pretty, cook good food, go for a walk and feel the sun on my skin, take a bath or dance. It doesn’t work well very often, I’m honest. I gave up counting the times when I put nicely arranged food untouched in the fridge and when I started to cry again just after finishing my makeup. Sometimes I just stare at my walls for hours or go back to bed. I tell myself it’s fine, that self-care sometimes means to allow yourself to fail, to stop pushing and allow yourself to be not your best you every now and then.

In those moments I wish, there was somebody next to me who would take my hand and give me a hug. Very often this doesn’t hapen and it can be really hard. You need to be happy on your own and be independent, people tell me. Yes of course, but it drives me crazy having so much to give and wanting so much to share. There are not many things that make me as low as loneliness and the inability to give.

I give a lot and see it as a precious gift. If I love somebody, they receive a lot of care and attention. I’d go to the end of the world for them. When they tell me they’re not well, I have my jacket in my hand before I end the call to go to them and support them. This is who I am and I don’t want to change, even if it has negative effects on myself sometimes: Some people misuse my attitude and steal my energy, leaving me to feel vulnerable and empty. Too often I forget to draw boundaries and continue to give, following the wrong hope that my giving will make other people happy and therefor me in the end.

Then I sit on my bathroom floor listening to sad songs, staring at the walls. In those moments I fail to understand why I have this big knot in my stomach that I can’t solve easily. The only faint hope at the sky is the stubborn thought that one day somebody might appear in my life who might appreciate my attitude. Please come fast, I need you…

My Outfit
Dress: CeliaB, Hat: Mama Tierra, Bag: Amorphose, Shoes: Zilian,
Bracelet: Moschino, Earrrings: Bijou Brigitte

Pictures: Nora Dal Cero
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1 L.O.M Dress, 3 Looks

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L.O.M bodycon dress

When I was asked by my favourite label L.O.M if I’d like to become their muse and show in a video how to style one dress in three different ways, of course, I accepted. L.O.M is the perfect choice for festivals and parties, but I think their pieces are too good to not wear them all the time! Fashion that spreads as much happiness, joy and colour as L.O.M just belongs to the streets.

Besides the colourful print and the stunning design, my dress has other benefits: It doesn’t wrinkle and is stretchy what makes it a perfect choice to wear for travelling. Combined with a turtleneck it gets a completely different touch and is even a cool office look. Afterwork party? No problem, I just take off ma turtleneck and I’m ready!

If there’s gonna be a pool party, I top my dress with fun accessories. I choose my fringe coat for a really dramatic appearance., when I arrive at the pool I want to be the queen of the party. A big hat protects me from the sun and in case I accidentally fall into the pool: No problem, my dress is made of lycra. Clever, yes?

What makes the dress a winner for a date night is that it is very flattering and sexy. For this occasion, I choose fewer accessories, since I want to be seen for myself and give my date a chance to look into my eyes.

It would be easy to style three more looks with this versatile piece. In case you fell in love with my dress as much as I did: It’s L.O.M’s piece of the week and you get 20% on it. Shop it here.

Dress
L.O.M

Work/Travel Look
Jumper: H&M, Bag: Moschino
Blazer: Vintage, Shoes: Koi Footwear
Bere:t Dollskill, Sunglasses: Le Specs
Suitcase: Samsonite

Pool Party Look
Coat: CeliaB, Hat: Mama Tierra, Shoes: Dollskill,
Earrings: Up, Necklace: Tatty Devine

Date Night
Belt & Sunglasses: Gucci, Earrings: Swarovski
Shoes: Madame Flamingo, Bag: Maison Margiela

Directed by Philipp Mueller
Music by Dagga produced by Arizona

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Check your Iron, Be an #irongirl!

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Sara is in Love with… Iron girls

When I was asked to write about iron deficiency I immediately said yes because it’s something I live with since I was a child. I am not alone: Iron deficiency is very common, especially among women and therefore it’s important to raise awareness! It can be treated easily and has a huge impact on wellbeing and health.

What is iron and why do we need it?

Iron is a mineral vital to the proper function of haemoglobin, a protein needed to transport oxygen in the blood. A shortage can lead to a reduced quality of life and even serious health problems.

My story of living with an iron deficiency:
The early years

Since I was a kid, I had issues with iron deficiency. I think it was discovered for the first time when I was at school and my teacher noticed that I was unusually tired and had difficulties to focus during lessons. I also remember that I often slept during the afternoon when I didn’t have school. When I went to the doctor, he tested my blood and after the diagnosis of iron deficiency, I was treated. My energy level increased and I tried to eat more food that was a good source of iron.

Health Iron Deficiency

My story of living with a lack of iron:
The return of the deficiency

I consider myself a person who eats consciously most of the time. But the last few months have been very challenging and stressful and I didn’t take as good care of myself as I usually do. It took me a while to realise that the iron deficiency was back. For weeks I thought my sleeplessness, low mood, anxiousness and constant exhaustion came from the stress. A friend came up with the suggestion that I should check my iron. I went to the doctor, she tested my blood and told me that my iron storage was completely empty. I am taking supplements for three weeks now and it’s amazing how much more balanced I already feel.

Iron & veganism

Often people believe that a vegetarian or vegan diet is a cause for an iron deficiency. I’ve become a vegetarian when I was about fifteen and now I am vegan for a couple of years. I disagree that this diet has to lead to a deficiency as long as you eat balanced. There are a lot of good vegan iron sources such as beans, lentils, quinoa, nuts or tofu for example.

What can be done against iron deficiency

So my message is: If you think you suffer from symptoms from the list below, go to your doctor for a check-up! Iron deficiency can be treated easily and has a huge impact on your life!

Symptoms
of iron deficiency

unusual tiredness
brittle nails and hair loss
sleep disturbances
headaches & dizziness
restless legs
paleness
states of exhaustion
sensitivity to cold

More information:
check-dein-eisen.ch

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Pink as F*

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Sara is in Love with… Philipp Mueller home story

Have a look around you and tell me what you see! Does your surrounding look like yourself? No? Why don’t you change that then and create a bigger you around you? Let me tell you about my discovery of pink and how I turned not just myself, but my world pink.

When I was a goth, I painted my walls black and cloaked myself from head to toe into dark colours. I loved the mysteriousness and aura of depth this darkness promised. Two twins, danger and fun, seemed to inhabit the darkness. Both as attractive as seductive.

Hidden in my heart I discovered a tiny pink dot, placed there by a little girl who dreamed of becoming a princess.

After diving into the dark for a while, I suddenly felt the need for colour. It was as if I discovered a tiny pink dot hidden in my heart, placed there by a little girl who dreamed of becoming a princess. As soon as I laid my eyes on this dot, it began to glow and spread. It was like a big wave of pink slowly spread from inside of me, until it filled my surroundings.

Day follows after night, summer after spring and pink after black. A circle. I don’t know what comes next if there is a next, but I know it’s right now. I might change myself again, it might be that this is what I was looking for all the time or that one day I decide to let my universe collide with somebody else’s and create something entirely new.

What I know is one thing: Right now, I stay pink as f***!

My Outfit
First Picture:
Coat: Vinti Andrews, Fascinator: Pearls & Swine, Shoes: Sophia Webster, Dress: CeliaB
Other Pictures:
Jumper: Jacqueline Loekito, Trousers: Calzedonia, Shoes: YRU, Bag: Moschino, Sunnies: ISLYNYC,
Hat: Lack of Color

Pictures: Philipp Mueller

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Wasting Time

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Sara is in Love with… faux fur rainbow look

You’re wasting your time, is an often-used expression. People tell me that isolation feels like a waste of time, or a lot of sleep and many other things. Everything is supposed to be efficient and there are piles of books that teach us how to improve our use of time and make the maximum out of it. But is it really a desirable goal or might what feels like waste maybe not be as bad as its reputation?

We might find ourselves in a situation where we can’t provide what we and society expect from us right at the moment we think it should be there. In this case, we are left with two options: Either we can get stressed and feel unhappy, or we just grant ourselves the luxury of takine our time. Admitting that we are not ready for certain things, but it’s ok to take time and it’s what we can do realistically instead of pushing ourselves.

If you reach this point, taking your time suddenly doesn’t feel like a waste but like a gift from you to yourself. This is something I only came to realise in the recent months. I grew up having big dreams in my head, I was (and still am) ambitious, disciplined and used to work a lot. Those are all great abilities and I don’t want to say that you should all become lazy. But I plead for balance, for not being too hard with yourself, for not pushing yourself when you might need time to heal, to rest or to just do nothing.

If you would have asked me where I’d be today ten years ago, I might have said something different then where I am. There are so many things society expect: A girl should be in a relationship in her mid-twenties, get married before 30, have her first kid before 35 and plant a tree and buy a house. Stereotypes life doesn’t play along with sometimes. Some of them you or me consciously reject, others just don’t happen.

How on earth to get married before 25 if you only meet frogs? How to plant a tree if you don’t have roots? Maybe your life is a different story than the standard life and maybe your moment to plant a tree or change plans and go for a palm instead is at a different time? Just breathe and stay calm.

In the last few months, a lot of people told me that I am wasting time being sad and believing in the impossible while I was very brokenhearted. Yes, I sometimes was afraid of that too, but at one point I started to refuse expectations: Because this is my story, this is my life and if I need time, it’s no waste, it’s where I am. If I force myself into something I am not ready for it will not make me happy anyway.

And by the way: Yes, it’s perfectly fine to post pictures with a faux fur coat when the weather is already getting warmer, I had about a million of things keeping me from doing it earlier. Maybe I was just busy taking my time…

My Outfit
Coat: A gift from a friend, Top: House of Holland, Trousers: Calzedonia, Shoes: Underground,
Sunglasses: Le Specs, Handbag: Essentiel Antwerp, Earrings: Saisall, Gloves: Bought in London,
Ring: Swarovski

Pictures: Marco Borromeo
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The Bride of the Sea

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Sara is in Love with… bride sea earrings

Reading the book “The Pisces” by Melissa Broder where a heartbroken girl falls in love with a merman inspired my fantasy of being the bride of the sea. So I created the fitting look. The sea creatures make the most stunning jewellery: Seastars and pearls beat diamonds, don’t you agree?

Nearly an endless number of mystical stories are connected to the sea: They tell us of irresistible sirens, brave mermaids and fishes the size we can’t even imagine hiding in the unknown depths. We all grew up with the story of Ariel who had to lose her voice in order to find true love. I guess many of us girls (including myself) are still dreaming of stories like this secretly.

My whole life, occupying my mind with fantastic stories has been like a mini escape from reality. A little trip to different worlds I could enjoy no matter where I was and no matter what happened around me. Especially in difficult times like now I always find this helpful and relaxing.

It’s like dreaming but while being awake. Some people might say this is no behaviour for grown-ups, I say don’t ever lose your ability to dream of fairy tales! Keep your mind open, because it makes your universe richer and fuller. Be a little bit like Sheherazade and never end your stories.

There is still enough time to go back to reality, do your job, clean your place and cook dinner, even for the biggest dreamer. So stay save and keep dreaming of the sea and life on Mars!

My Outfit
Earrings: Tukadu, Top: Vintage, Headband: H&M

Pictures: Marco Borromeo
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In Beauty

Mugler Angel Eau Croisière

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Review Angel Eau Crosiere

A scent like a tropical splash, exotic, playful and creamy. The new limited Angel Eau Croisière feels like a journey to the Copacabana and sipping fruity cocktails under palm trees while watching kitschy sunsets. It’s a promise of adventures and freedom.

How it smells
This gourmand fragrance opens with a splash of fruits like a cocktail and has a sweet and creamy dry down of patchouli and praline – Aliens signature. It’s the second Eau Crosière and in comparison to the 2019 version, this one feels wilder, more complex and botanical.

When I first tried it, I had to think of mango and coconut, two notes not listed in the ingredients. Almost like a Pina Colada, which makes it a perfect fragrance for spring and summer. It’s a little bit girly, but as well classy, playful but rather in a wild than a cute way.

I think Mugler created a summer hit for 2020!

The notes: 
Top: Magnolia
Heart: Fig Nectar
Base: Patchouli & Praline

The bottle
Of course, it comes in the familiar and beloved star-shaped Angel bottle. I think I said before, that in my opinion, this is one of the most iconic perfume bottles ever made. I love this years version with the blue and red gradient that comes with a dash of green.

Pictures: Sara Streule. 
Samples sent by Mugler, I was not paid for this review and
the content reflects my own opinion. 

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