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New column in a new initiative of Haaretz

23 Feb 2010

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Galeria of Haaretz now has a new back page, Monday to Thursday. It’s all about little items, funny and light, with our recommendations – for anything from gadgets to toys, jokes to fashion items. I had the honor to be on the first back page with a recommendation to one of my favorite clutch bags, made by Sumka Bags. Here’s my recommendation, and I already wrote a couple more so there will be more to follow this one:

http://bit.ly/dvRWkE

Here are some picks of their bags and belts that I liked most:

[disclaimer: I do NOT work for them in any way, I just really like them :-) ]

And this is the one I have – in silver-gray:

Isn’t it all so cool and pretty? I love it all.

I hope you enjoyed it,

xoxo,

Hilla Ohayon.

By: HillaO Category: Fashion Tags: , , , , , ,

a second before I turn 30…

20 Jan 2010

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Yeah, I know, it’s been a while since I last wrote here. I’ve been so busy! It seems like it has been like a long and on-going tornado when I think about it.

A second before I turn 30 (this Friday if you’re really wondering), almost everything changed: I left my job at the law firm after 2.8 years, opened my own private business and started working at a part time job from home.

That’s a lot! I hope I didn’t go mad on this tornado. Its felt right, it felt like it was time, and it took me a long time to get there. I’m very happy.

So I work as a Director of Community at an internet company which makes work management software. It’s actually a very cool job: I do their SMO (Social Media Optimization), share their news, articles, blog posts, etc. on social networks and interact with the readers.

On the other part of the day I write for Haaretz about fashion and trends, and freelance for small and medium businesses as a new media consultant. I also write content, edit and translate.

I’m very happy with what I do now, and always trying to get more and better. I just need to learn how to manage my time better and I’m sure I’ll be on the go asap.

As for my fashion writing, I have a great idea that’s been building itself up for a couple of weeks now, and I’m meeting my editor tomorrow morning about it. I really hope she’ll like it, it’ll be great if I get to do it on the paper and here as well.

Tomorrow I’m being “kidnapped” by my boyfriend. He’s taking me somewhere for the weekend, and wouldn’t tell me where as a surprise for my birthday. I have no clue on where we’re going! I hope (and sure) I’ll like it. I wish I knew what to pack… I have so many guesses about the location, and neither is certain. Oh well, I guess I’ll have to wait till tomorrow then :-)

Stay tuned,

xoxo,

Hilla Ohayon.

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Dreaming about Chanel 2.55

19 Dec 2009

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I know, it’s shallow, it’s terrible and it’s sad. But it’s all I want these days, and I’m kind of tired of Googling it all the time.

I just can’t stop thinking about it. A Chanel 2.55.

Unlike all other items, I always imagine how I wear them in as many combinations as possible, but this time  I don’t even have it (own it, I want to own it) and I already know it’ll fit perfectly with my entire wardrobe! I just have to have it. Have to!

The sad truth is, that it’s far too expensive for a handbag. OR for anything else, in a matter of fact.

I guess it’s time for a very close look on ebay for now till the rest of my life :-D

Here are a few pictures of my dream. Just sharing, it might take the passion down a bit (I so wish for that to happen!):

Maybe dreams come true after you blog about them, who knows…

xoxo,

Hilla Ohayon.

p.s. the lovely Michal Ronel sent me this video today. It’s so addictive and exciting… Here it is for all of you, Chanel lovers:

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Habits of Happiness

7 Dec 2009

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Matthieu Ricard actually lives on the Himalayas and shows us very easily our every day habits in which we treat happiness as it visits us, sometimes even on a daily basis, without us noticing it. Watch this talk by the person who is called “the happiest person in the world” here, a following smile is guaranteed :-)

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Fashion Movies Blitz!

29 Aug 2009

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I just want to watch them all, each and every one of them.

To have them, as my own, to be able to pause whenever I want, as many times as I want, back and forth and again, to stare at any outfit I like, and mostly to enjoy. Them all.

Now, a post like this makes me all excited like a 5 yr old at an amusement park: http://www.refinery29.com/the_goods/on_the_eve_of_coco_before_chan.php

The clothes, the pictures from the movie, the whole thing! Coco Avant Chanel is going to be a movie I’m going to watch over and over again, and that’s for sure.

And then I get to see this beautiful trailer from “The September Issue”, based on the famous September 2007 Vogue issue’s making of, and I just can’t get my hands on the September issue of 2009 (coming up so soon! )which is based on the making of that famous 2007 issue. Oh, just watch the trailer here:

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And, at last, there’s the movie about Valentino! I don’t know why, but maybe it’s because I’m in Toronto now and it’s cold here, but these three movies coming up make me happy for the new season coming up. I just want to get all covered up in my sofa and watch them already. One by one. and then again :-)

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Quickly adding OriOren (Hebrew)’s review of The September Issue, which makes me wanna run and see it! I’m definitely going to go this week, so stay tuned! http://orioren.com/blog/?p=2054

Going to pack now, flight to NYC leaves in 3 hours :-)

Hilla

By: HillaO Category: Fashion Tags: , , , , ,

who says work can’t be fun?

13 Aug 2009

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These last couple of weeks have been intense. I’ve met so many new people and have been having so many new ideas! If there wasn’t for me and my Moleskine journal (which I love so much and will die without), I’d probably lose track of all the insights this week has given me.

For once, I’ve been brainstorming a lot with myself and with my friends. Brainstorming is the most efficient way for me to get creative – by talking about it with people who can enrich me and nurture my ideas. It’s actually very easy to do, much easier than I have thought. All you need to do it tell someone you love and trust about your general idea and start a conversation about it. It doesn’t have to be a firm idea, it can be at a very premature stage. While talking about it, the idea will grow by itself and its execution will become easier and easier.

So I’ve been brainstorming with my friend Orit, which is doing Vetrinas.com with me. We started thinking about iPhone applications. It’s endless, and we are having so much fun bringing up ideas, imagining what it’ll look like and who would use it. The ideas are running out of us together so it’s really exciting and we can’t wait to make it happen.

Secondly, I’m officially in love with my new friend Romi Mikulinsky, who stormed in to my life and heart in a second – it’s unbelievable how much we have in common and the similarity of our ambitions and dreams for the future. We decided that we should start working together very quickly, and we’re now doing exactly what we love doing with pleasure as work – writing and marketing by using social media, and we even got a job in fashion, which is lately my favorite madness, so I just couldn’t be happier about it. Working  with a good friend on a fun job is the best I could dream of, really :-)

Thirdly, I’ve started to help my designer friend Aviva Zilberman brand herself on the web, where she had no presence up until now. All this might change one day, but for now combining fashion with web as a job is pure fun for me.

So today is the first day of my life (how dramatic, ha?) that I start working in doing things that I love. Isn’t it great?

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The doors cliche

3 Apr 2009

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I wrote someone last night, that yesterday was all about the doors and the windows cliche. Well, yesterday was an important day, even if I was trying to underestimate it.

It started when I woke up into my favorite hug. That’s always a good sign, right? It went on to a very nice meeting with someone (same someone from the first paragraph) whom I liked from the first minute I saw her.

Now, that was a door being opened widely towards me. I wasn’t ready for the lovely breeze, but I let myself lay back and enjoy the feeling. As I left and went down the escalators, the vicious reminder of cynicism crossed my mind saying, that if one extra door opens to your face when you didn’t bother closing another, then it must be wrong. I also remember thinking about the motive of timing, because when it comes down to the basics, then that’s what it’s all about. I figured it won’t be too long before I get the news from the university in New York, which will probably shake my world once again in for the last couple of months.

I was ready to get confused, relieved, sad, disappointed, happy and crushed all together. And then came the sick sense of humor of this life and decided to just make it easy for me.

I don’t do easy. Never. I’m all Miss-I-work-hard-to-get-what-I-want. It can’t be easy. Not that easy anyways. Or can it?

They turned me down. As in N-O. No New York.

I was supposed to be devastated. Crushed. Crawling on the floor crying. But I wasn’t. Sure, I was sad and disapointed and sorry and all that. I knew all along that it’s going to be damn hard to get in to that special program that costs United States of America tons of money. Sure, I was taking a No option under consideration when I was working on my application. Dammit, I just worked so hard on it.

And then it happened. After Mr. Ego has left the building, I was relieved. I don’t have to leave my country anymore, I don’t have to work something out with my man, I don’t have to go through any of the drags of moving. Been there, done that, and apparently it’s not going to happen again.

Is it really that easy? Can one really have it all? Do I really get to keep it all? The love, the life, this city, my friends, my family, and my job – all wrapped in a gift wrap with a smiling future included?

Summing up:

1. No NYU, but:

2. Love

3. Tel-Aviv

4. A nice and full of fun job

5. New and old friends

6. Home

Therefore: 7. I’m happy.

(reminder: copy-paste to fridge door)

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