In the darkest weekend of the year some suggestions to keep to
the subject with style.The Halloween weekend is
knocking at the door: "trick or
treat"? If you have already made the mummy candies to give
to the children of your neighbourhood, you can start to prepare
your own thrilling weekend. Costume parties, ghosts hunting,
frightening places, and a look all to be created.
To experience a scary immobility you just have to loose
yourselves among the semi-opened graves in the cemetery of
Père Lachaise of
Paris, of Highgate of London or
in the small and magical one of the St. John Church in Edinburgh;
or you can drop the anchor in Torno, on the
Como Lake, just in front of Villa
Plianiana: built in a cold gorge where the sun never
arrives, the Villa shaped as a transatlantic comes with the
horrific legend of its owner dead following a ghost into the turbid
waters of the lake.
Histories of presences from the afterlife even at the
Bardi Castle: the
visitors may here experience a real ghosts hunt. In the rooms
thought to be haunted, will be allowed to take photos, with the
hope (and the terror…) of catching one of the spirits that live
there. Even the sunny
Naples during the night will become a
mystery place: a guide will lead you in the dark streets to
discover antique legends and characters tragic fates.
A brutal murder will be committed in front of the tables of the
whom that opt for the formula "
Dinner with
Murder", while the ones that choose the
Trattoria Da Oreste in
Modena will be suddenly transported in an authentic atmosphere
dated 1950: you are going to be sure that furniture, recipes and
people in there have never seen the moon landing. For the
delicate paltes we suggest near Mantova the
Restaurant Ambasciata:
to be chosen in the menu the pumpkin ravioli, as the orange
vegetable will be the next weekend the real trait d'union between
our tradition and the American one.
Stay in Mantova for the
Lumere Event: the
streets will be lighted by the candles inside the carved pumpkins
disposed along the way and at the windows. Feeble light also
in the
LiverpoolNew York,
headquarter of the Halloween tradition, is scheduled the
traditional parade to scary adults and children. streets
illuminated by thousand of lanterns in order to create a magical
effect. In
Less mysterious atmospheres but many parties listed in the US:
in New York is planned a
big
gig with 150 artists that will play
in the meantime in four different warehouses, while the
PlayBoy Mansion is
organizing a big and luxury party with more than 600 people. And
also the Celebs want to celebrate:
Marilyn Manson,
always ready for the witches night, will party at the
Haze
in the Aria Resot in Last Vegas,
while
Heidi Klum, whose outfit we wait to know,
will be at
LAVO in NYC.
Music and masquerade also in Milan: at the
Magazzini Generali the required
look is an original one: a formal smoking but with a masque to hide
the face. Research of the own alter ego and need of freedom is the
theme at the
Hangar Bicocca where
the show Vagabundos promises physic and mental camouflage. For
the ones in London we suggest to start the evening at the
London Acquarium: at the
Lost Souls
Event you will dance and have a drink between the most
infernal creatures of the deeper seas.
If you have diced to stay with your family, you can try a night
tour of the
Egyptian Museum of
Turin between sphinxes and mummies just with the light
of a torch: believe me, you might find out to be scarier than your
children will be.
Finally if you really cannot accept to be transformed in a witch
or in a vampire but you don't want to feel like a fish out of water
for all the night long, you need some focused shopping:
Cop-Copine
and
Antonioli propose dark coloured
clothes with sharp cuts (then you can wear them at the office if
you desire), while for men the must (but just for one night) are
the
ties with small skulls,
pumpkins and ghosts on a black background. Absolutely
skulls-must-have also for her: the rings and the pendants with
fired eyes from the
Ugo Cacciaori
collection are perfect. Total gothic also the
Bijulesnyc proposal, while baroque is the
collection by
LuisaViaRoma.
If you are thinking at a night in near the fire, thus you cannot
do nothing else but create the right atmosphere: nothing better
that a class touch for the house with the lampshades by the duo
Servomuto, while for
yourselves you cannot renounce at the sexy elegance of the
Halloween line by
Victoria
Secret.
In any way you will party, all of you just have some fun.
loves,deui ♥
History
of Halloween, like any other festival's history is inspired through
traditions
that have transpired through ages from one generation to another. We
follow them
mostly as did our dads and grandpas. And as this process goes on, much
of their
originality get distorted with newer additions and alterations. It
happens so
gradually, spanning over so many ages, that we hardly come to know about
these
distortions. At one point of time it leaves us puzzled, with its
multicolored
faces. Digging into its history helps sieve out the facts from the
fantasies
which caught us unaware. Yet, doubts still lurk deep in our soul,
especially
when the reality differs from what has taken a deep seated root into our
beliefs. The history of Halloween Day, as culled from the net, is being
depicted
here in this light. This is to help out those who are interested in
washing off
the superficial hues to reach the core and know things as they truly
are. 'Trick
or treat' may be an innocent fun to relish on the Halloween Day. But
just think
about a bunch of frightening fantasies and the scary stories featuring
ghosts,
witches, monsters, evils, elves and animal sacrifices associated with
it. They
are no more innocent. Are these stories a myth or there is a blend of
some
reality? Come and plunge into the halloween history to unfurl yourself
the
age-old veil of mysticism draped around it.
