In Memoriam Ivana Popović

Ovogodišnji siječanj u znaku je snijega u mome gradiću. Iako već nekoliko dana nije intenzivno padao, niske temperature su ga dugo zadržale po parkovima, trgovima, ulicama... Proteklog vikenda je pala još koja pahulja i dodatno zabijelila pejzaž.

January 2017 is marked by snow in my town. Even though there hasn't been intensive snow for several days, low temperatures have made it stay on the grounds of parks, squares, streets... A few more snowflakes have fallen last weekend and made our landscape extra white. 

Hrvatski kišobran by Ivana Popović

 

Hrvatski kišobran by Ivana Popović

Kako ne bi pokvarili frizuru šubarom, kapuljačom ili kapom, predlažem kišobran i u snježnim danima. Svakako predlažem Hrvatski kišobran, izvrsne, vesele i dizajnerske kišobrane o kojima ću više pisati u nekim sljedećim postovima. Danas koristim priliku da odam počast Ivani Popović, hrvatskoj dizajnerici koja nas je nepravedno napustila na kraju 2016., a ostvarila je uspješnu suradnju s ekipom iz Zaprešića. Ja sam u crnom, a kišobran je tirkizan jer je ona bila tako vedrog duha, a osmjeh širok poput tirkiznog neba. Kišobrani s njezinim potpisom mogu se nabaviti putem web stranice Hrvatskog kišobrana.

Umbrella is a good choice for snowy days if you don't want to mess your hair with furry hats or hoods. I suggest Croatian Umbrella, excellent, jolly and design umbrellas. I will write more about the Company in the following posts. Today I wish to show my respect to late Ivana Popović, Croatian designer who left us on the last day of 2016. Croatian Umbrella made successful collaboration with her and the results are umbrellas available on their web pages. I wear black, but the umbrella is torquoise becuase Ivana was positive and her smile was wide as torquoise sky.

Hrvatski kišobran by Ivana Popović

3D kišobrane nudi i svjetski poznata kišna nacija - Britanci. Ovdje jedan FiFi Frilly s volančićima koji me asocirao na bogati kišobran s mojih fotki.  Za razliku od domaćeg primjerka koji ima specifičnu, ravnu, ručku, ovaj britanac, naravno, pribjegava klasičnoj kišobran ručki, no ipak posebno, kralješastog izgleda.

3D umbrellas can be found in famous rainy nation - the British. Here is one FiFi Frilly with lines of frills which instantly made me think about the one on my photos.  Those two items differ by handles - Croatian umbrella has a specific, straight handle, and British one, of course, a classic shape but it looks like spine.

FiFi Frilly (www.brolliesgalore.co.uk)

Za Ivanu Popović
For Ivana Popović

SONNET 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:


Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,


By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st;


So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Kad poredim tebe s lijepim danom ljeta –
Ti si mnogo ljepša, više ljupka, nježna;
Pupoljak se smrzne u maju kad cvijeta,
Ljepota je ljeta vrlo kratkosežna.
...
Katkad sunce s neba odveć vrelo sine,
Njemu lice zlatno oblak često skriva,
Sva ljepota žene sa vremenom mine –
Priroda il’ udes čari joj razriva.

Al’ tvog ljeta sunce nikad neće zaći –
Ti ostat’ nikad nećeš bez sadašnjeg sjaja;
Van života ti se nikad nećeš naći
Dok u pjesmi ovoj vječnost te osvaja.

Sve dok ljudi vide i dok život traje
Ova pjesma tebi život će da daje.

W.Shakespeare