Mari Rodriguez Ichaso - Diario de Vida - Life's Diary

 The Princess of Broglie was painted by Ingres with a blue satin dress of the same shade & cloth -but different style as mine   Mannequin satin shoes were made in I...

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Looking back...This picture was taken in Havana when I was 2 -   It reminds me that there was a piece of my very blonde hair that my mother had cut it -and pasted on my pink baby album. I ...

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Reflexionando en una mañana neoyorquina preciosa...Yo he vivido toda mi vida enamorada. Enamorada de unos hombres súper interesantes (la mayoría) igual que enamorada del amor y sus símbolos...

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¿Zapatos? ¿U obras de arte? Los zapatos -de los que siempre he vivido enamorada- cada dia me sorprenden más, porque la última tendencia son los diseños complicados, con enorme origin...

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Una larga reflexion: ¿Corin Tellado y yo? Lo tengo que confesar: las mujeres y los hombres de Corín Tellado moldearon profundamente mi adolescencia --y la visión de lo que era -¡o deb...

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  Por Mari Rodríguez Ichaso ¡El mundo de los viajes está de fiesta porque el hotel Ritz de Paris, toda una leyenda extraordinaria, reabre sus puertas! Una leyenda donde se practica el...

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This will be a fascinating documentary! When I started as a journalist in the 70´s I interviewed Gloria Vanderbilt, who was designing jeans --and remember she was so nice and friendly. She invit...

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Una vez Carolina Herrera me dijo que no entendia que las mujeres tuvieran 'ropa para andar por casa', refiriendose a esa ropa a la que no le damos demasiada importancia y usamos para ir al s...

http://www.marirodriguezichaso.com/2015/07/una-reflexion-sobre-la-ropa-de-andar.html

After reading so many articles on Cuba´s future great wealth (famous real estate entrepreneurs are already buying half of Havana!) -and foreigners ready to travel & invest their many $$$ --...

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What a surprise to find this article in The New York Times about The Whitby!  When we moved to NYC in 1969 we lived in this historical building 7 years, thru the crazy NYC's 70's.  By chanc...

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I AM ALREADY ANXIOUS! XMAS AND (ESPECIALLY) NEW YEAR'S PRODUCE THESE EMOTIONS.  EVER SINCE WE LEFT CUBA IN THE LATE 60'S NOTHING CAN 'CALM DOWN' FEELING OVERWHELMED AT THIS TIME OF THE YEA...

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El anuncio de que los Estados Unidos -de pronto, de un plumazo y sin ningún cambio en la situación en la isla- ha decidido normalizar relaciones con Cuba -me ha dejado enormemente confundid...

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Miren my grandaughter is almost 3 and already a 'little person' that fascinates all of us. She is becoming a little girl -not a baby at all!- and this transformation is absolutely enchanting! ...

http://www.marirodriguezichaso.com/2014/11/a-new-little-person-in-our-lives.html

I have been reading again some of these posts and looking at pictures --and feel truly happy that even the sad memories get better as time goes by, and they stop hurti...

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ES IMPOSIBLE TRATAR DE EXPLICAR EL AMOR QUE SIENTO POR MI HIJA Y MI NIETA.

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  Bye bye Andrea y Tatiana…¡El puesto está a punto de ser ocupado!...El príncipe reinante Alberto ha cumplido con su deber ¡y Mónaco tendrá un heredero con todas las de la ley!  D...

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  Today -as her first grandchild arrived- I am thinking a lot about Princess Diana, whom I met briefly in 1995 at a Lincoln Center awards ceremony. It was such a great entrance the one sh...

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¿Hay algo más lindo que las flores?  Son un mensaje de armonía de la Naturaleza y junto con los pájaros y los diseños de sus plumas --y los peces, sus colores 'degradé' y su ritmo al ...

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  En relacion a Cuba creo que los exilados que nos fuimos de la isla en sus momentos peores de fusilamientos, racionamientos, Comites de Defensa de puros espias, represion absoluta, sentenci...

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  I remember the moment when beautiful Princess Yasmin Aga Khan (whom I had interviewed many times, and happens to be Rita Hayworth's daughter with prince Aly Khan) told me point blank: "B...

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The love one feels for a grandaughter -especially when she is the daughter of my wonderful only child- is absolutely magnificent! This baby is such a blessing. I adore her.

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Saturdays -as my friends know- is my 'mommy/daughter' day. The day Mari-Claudia and I drive around to different New York and New Jersey neigborhoods and  towns --and start discovering pla...

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  Estoy en un 'mood' tan tranquilo, que realmente me da sueño....¿Será que una pierde interés por las cosas de tanto tenerlas?  ¿Como esa canción de que "usamos tanto el amor que lo ...

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Yesterday, when I saw Alexandre Arrechea´s sculptures lining up on Park Aveue I felt such joy! Joy because they are such wonderful & imaginative pieces of art.  A very witty and ori...

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2013 started and my "To Do" list is growing. There are so many things to do! It's overwhelming. This sucession of people, places and things line-up and many times repeat itself, making me wa...

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