Hola! My name is Gabriela Tena. I am a wanderer, fashion obsessive, stylist, artist, creative thinker, mermaid, and a lover of all things lemon. My fashion, lifestyle, travel blog is an outlet for all those things: http://www.gypsealemonade.com. I was born in Spain and raised in southern California. I have lived five steps from the ocean since I was a little girl, so I feel like it is a part of me. I feel a sort of freedom when I’m in the ocean, one that helps me escape all the negativity in life. It is my favorite place on this planet, and it always will be. My spirit animals are horses and dolphins and I like to convince myself that I have magical powers to communicate with them. I am a graduate from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandise where I majored in Visual Communications. More recently I graduated from the College of Charleston where I majored in Communications and minored in Art History. Through my dual citizenship I have been able to travel to and live in many different places. Learning about different cultures fascinates me and has always influenced my sense of fashion. Fashion reveals to the outsider how a culture defines and embodies their identity. Growing up, I spent my summers in the south of Spain playing with flamenco dancing gypsies. Their long skirts, leather chokers, and big red flowers in their hair is what gravitated me towards them. Not to mention, the energy they mediate while singing and dancing is completely infectious. I would trade my jewelry with them for their fake turquoise (I have a slight obsession with turquoise). I crave traveling basically every second of every day. I get really excited with the thought of going to an unfimilar place, diving into a unique landscape, and encountering new people. I never really get homesick because I find my home to be wherever I am. I like to embrace change, feel uncomfortable, and do things that make me scared.
We were beyond honored to attend the 7th Annual Night of Generosity Ball located at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Friday night, November 6th. Generosity.Org provides clean water for communities in need around the world and on this particular night strived to provide clean water for 40,000 people in Haiti, Uganda, and Ghana. When Genoristy first started, over 1 billion people did not have access to clean water. Because of the
At just 20 years old, Felix Jaehn is the artist behind two of the songs of the summer that you probably had on repeat at your house, one of them being our favorite, OMI’s “Cheerleader, which hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in addition to going #1 on Shazam in the U.S., #2 Shazam Global, #2 on the Spotify Global Top 50, and #2 on the US Top 50.
Year three of TomorrowWorld has come to an end. This magical festival, which originated as TomorrowLand in Belgium, attracted 140,000 attendees in 2013, 160,000 in 2014, and presumably even more this year, as electronic music lovers from all over the world swarmed the woods of rural Georgia for a long weekend of dancing and revelry. It is held in the deep hills of Chattahoochee, Georgia on 8,000 acres of usually
On Friday, we stopped by StyleLab’s Jewelry Suite to check out the…wait for it… $55 Million collection of jewels for celebrities to wear on the red carpet at Sunday night’s Emmy Awards. Clients from this suite included actors from Transparent, Silicon Valley, and Orange is the New Black, to name a few. To give you an example, Suzanne Cryer (Silicon Valley) sparkled in a multi-row bracelet from Christopher Designs. It
The preview of Ted Baker’s AW2015 collection was shown on Wednesday August 12th at the beautiful and historic Carondelet House. The collection featured both their men and woman line plus accessories. The theme of the evening was museum inspired, so instead of a traditional fashion show, everything was displayed similar to a scientific exhibit. There were dinosaur bones that were brought in just for the night, with hints of nature displayed throughout
I still have goosebumps from the BCBG and Herve Leger Resort 2016 show, which took place at the Samuel Freeman LLC Gallery on Thursday night. The ever glowing Lubov Azria, the creative director for both brands, came out to present the collections. She very humorously explained that the Runway Collection was for the woman who does not have a job, because, she added, “its beautiful but not practical.” The Ready
A shoe is the most important piece to any outfit. If you are wearing a shoe that doesn’t match then you might as well just stay at home. We know that shoes, particularly those stiletto heels, can be HELL, especially if you are walking for what seems like thousand of miles. This is why we chose to grace you with sandals that you should be comfortably rocking this summer. These
