I finally finished creating my 2023 4 luxury wish list and I thought it would be a good idea to share the items that I have on it with you ladies. So in this video, I'm going to break down the items that I have on my wish list into categories. My reason for breaking them down is so that I don't get carried away with adding things that I'm never going to buy. So my first bag is going to be the YSL Kate bag. It's not a new bag. I've wanted this bag for a really, really long time. I just haven't pulled the trigger on it. One reason is because it looks rather small on the inside and I like to make sure that my cell phone, my wallet and my keys can fit. However, this bag is very structured and it's something that will go really well with the majority in my wardrobe. What I'm expecting to get is either the black with gold hardware or the black on black. Either one is fine. I do wear a lot of gold. I'm not a silver girl. If I do wear silver, it's sporadic.  YSL has really nice leather. I'm a girl who will always go for a quality over quantity, which is why I don't have a ton of stuff in here. I like to be careful when I'm buying things and I also like to make sure that I'm wearing my items more than one time as opposed to just buying something and having to just sit here. The second bag is the Loewe Puzzle Bag. Now hear me out. I wasn't interested in this bag for a long time because it just seemed too small for my frame. I am six feet tall and you guys already know how I feel about really small bags on tall women. It just does not look good in my opinion. So I would recommend getting some bigger. So for me and my style, I looked at the medium size, which is kind of big but I think it'll go well with my height and not really look out of place when I'm carrying it. What I absolutely love is the sand color. You guys are going to notice a color palette in here, but that sand color is absolutely beautiful. I also like the black one, but I would prefer getting the sand color first because I have a lot of ivories and creams in my wardrobe and I think it'll go really, really well. So the Loewe Puzzle Bag in sand medium size is the second thing on my luxury wish list. You ladies who like the mini bag of the puzzle bag, those are fine as well. If you are, I want to say five nine and under, you know what, let me, let me, let me scratch that. I also have big hands. So for me, if I wear something that is too tiny and my hands look bigger than the bag, I just can't do it. So if you are tall, but you have like more of like dainty hands, you may be okay with it, but your girl has really big hands like her mom. So for me, a bigger bag would be perfect. It doesn't have to be like really large, but it definitely has to be bigger than my hand. If I feel like my hand is overpowering the bag, I'm just not going to do it. Maybe if it has like a, maybe if it's longer possibly, but not super small where my hands are going to overpower the bag. The other bag is the Fendi Peek-A-Boo ICU bag. This bag is gorgeous in my opinion. It's very sleek. It doesn't have a ton of logos on it and I absolutely love it. I did go into a store and try this bag on and it's very much so my style and my speed of a bag. It's very classy and I know I'm going to have it for a really long time. So if I decide to change my wardrobe up just a bit, as far as like color wise, I'm still going to be able to wear this bag because it's a neutral color. This is their beige color. It's very light in color. It looks lighter than a regular beige, but I absolutely love it. For my wardrobe aesthetic, this will be the perfect bag. And sticking with Fendi, the Fendi First Medium Size Clutch Ladies. The way the F is on this bag at the top part is just super, super cute. And I still think it's a very classy because it's still very subtle. I think they'll be around for a long time, but it's still a very classic clutch if that's something that you're into. You can go a little bit smaller if you want to, but this is the medium. And I don't mind the medium, but the small actually doesn't look bad either. So either one is fine, but I definitely need this bag in my wardrobe. I would be so happy to add it to my wall of bags and shoes. And I think it'll be a really good fit for my wardrobe and I would likely wear it a ton so I can get my course per wear. You can definitely get your course per wear out of things that are more classic and style.  Let's get into outerwear. These three items are from the Frankie shop. And the first one is their Gaia double breasted coat. What's on my wishlist for a while and I purchased it. So I am going to do a separate video for actually all three of the items that I'm going to mention now. It's an oversized ivory color, like floor length wool coat. It is magnificent. If you are a girl who is six feet, I want to say five, ten to like six, two. You should be able to wear this coat. It has shoulder pads. If you're not into that, then this may not be the jacket for you. And it is a bit oversized around the waist area. If you don't want something that's super oversized, you can definitely go ahead and get your tailor to take in the waist. If it's really not your style. So the Frankie shop Gaia double breasted ivory coat is on my luxury list. Sticking with the Frankie shop, two of the jackets that I wanted finally came back in stock and I had to purchase them. And the first one is the tightest cropped biker jacket. This jacket is super cute. Now it is a one size for all jacket. Usually for my height, I can wear things at the Frankie shop. That's one size for all and that are oversized.  If you are smaller than me, it's definitely going to be really long in the arms and really big in the body area. This jacket was out of stock for like a couple of months now. And the Frankie shop does a really good job at notifying their customers that an item is back in stock. So when I got the notification, your girl had to get it. So this jacket is not considered luxury, but it's definitely going to make an impact in my closet. And I bought that jacket and I also bought the other moto jacket, which is their Chicago oversized moto jacket. This jacket is a little bit different from the other one that I got. Now I already own a Frankie shop moto jacket, which is the Aria moto jacket, but that's like typical. It has a belt and stuff. This one is longer in style, giving me almost like a blazer style just a little bit because the bottom is like straight down. But if you are anything like me and love a little faux leather or leather anything, you are going to want to have multiple jackets in your arsenal of jackets. Guys, so this is not considered luxury, but I think it's a really good item to have if you like to mix up your wardrobe. So for me, it was a win when it came back in stock. You guys are going to see a full review on all three of those jackets this week. So if you stay this far in the video, make sure you are hitting that like button, guys. I will do more videos like this if you absolutely love them. The third category is going to be shoes. I have a few pair of shoes on here that were on my list for a while. And I just didn't pull the trigger. One of them being the Bottega lug boots. And the reason why I hadn't pulled the trigger is because I have to try them on. Bottega shoes run really small and your girl got some wide feet. Do have the boots in a women's size and a men's size. I just don't know if they're really made different when it comes to the width, but these boots are something that I can wear with skirts, leggings. I don't even wear leggings, but you're winning with leggings. You can win it with dresses, too. These skirts, too. They dress anything that is a little bit more feminine in style. And then you have something a little bit more rugged at the bottom. Definitely with any of my moto jackets, definitely with any of my full laid wool jackets, you can wear these boots. So these are considered luxury, in my opinion, because the price is not low. The other pair of shoes will be a sneaker. I don't know if you guys call them sneakers or running shoes, but it's the Loewe Flow Runner sneakers. I absolutely love these. I like this color. It is considered gold and black. It looks more like a tan color, guys. But these sneakers fit really well with my wardrobe aesthetic color wise. But these sneakers, I'm going to pull the trigger once I try them on. I just want to make sure that they're not super long on my feet. First thing you want to do is buy a pair of sneakers and your feet hurt. I'm not doing that. So the Loewe Flow Runner sneakers are another item that I want. And that's on my luxury wish list for this fall. The last pair of shoes will be the Jimmy Choo CC 80 boots. Now, you guys already know I bought the other ones that are thigh high. Absolutely love those boots. I'll pop in a picture for those as well. But I absolutely love those boots. Now, these are lower in height. So I will probably be able to wear these a ton more. They do go up to a size 43. Jimmy Choo runs small. But the thing about these, I don't see them anymore in a size 43. So I'm waiting and waiting and hoping that they do come back in so I can nap them up. I can get these in my size. I'm definitely going to be adding them to my closet. Especially for this fall. Last part of my luxury wish list is accessories. The first luxury accessory that I want for this fall will be these Gucci oversized Gigi glasses. The reason why I like these with the green lens is because they're beautiful. So it'll be a nice pop of color with my ivory coat. It does have a gold frame, which is absolutely beautiful. Now, these do come in multiple colors as far as the frame. So if you don't want something as dark as these, definitely go for the other colors. But I absolutely love the green color. It'll be a nice little pop to my wardrobe. And I think that it'll be a good addition to my glasses collection. The second item is the Lueve Anagram Flat Brow sunglasses. They're rather big, but I absolutely love these. So they have a couple of pairs that I want. A particular pair is something that's a little bit different from me, but I actually think that it'll be a great addition to my sunglasses collection. So this is why I added it to this list. Your girl is going to buy them. So that's the second item on my accessory list for my 2023 fall luxury wish list. And the last thing would be this rustling begins at Love It. I'm hoping that they come out with it in red, but it's patent leather at the front and it's leather on the top. Very simple. It doesn't have their logo on it, but it's a beautiful, beautiful hat. So something like this, I can wear a ton of ways because I'm not stuck with either the white RB or the gold RB. RB, I can wear a ton of ways. You do want something a little bit bigger in size. Definitely just bite the bullet and order it from their actual website and just wait for the hat.  Again, everything is not super luxury, but it's something that I know would add value to my wardrobe. If you have been following me for a while and you listen to my videos, you're going to hear that I'm always talking about quality over quantity always, regardless of the designer, because sometimes it doesn't matter what the designer is. They sometimes carry cheap stuff. OK, I'm also going to link each item that I actually mentioned in this video in the description box, just in case you guys are interested in those. I'll group them by sections.  I'll link my blog below for you ladies. And if you are interested in learning how to create a capsule wardrobe the right way, and if you want to learn how to shop high, low, the absolute best way. I'm going to link those digital products below as well. Thank you guys for tuning in. If you stay to the end of this video, please comment Coco. We see you and don't forget to follow me on Instagram at Coco Styles NYC and Coco Styles NY and my personal style blog CocoStylesNYC.com and my style services CocoStylesNY.com. And I'm on tickety tickety talk Coco Styles NYC. You guys for tuning in. I will catch you guys in the next one. Bye, guys.


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Good morning to our audience and in particular to our guest, the vice president and economy minister of one of the euro area's largest economies. Before very briefly framing today's discussion, let me introduce our speaker. Nadia Calvino has been second vice president and minister for economic affairs and digitalization of Spain since March 2021 and a senior member of the Spanish government since the current socialist party administration took office in 2018. Before her career in national politics, she had a distinguished period as a civil servant in the European commission in Brussels, serving as director general of the of DG budget, deputy director general with special responsibility for financial services and deputy director general in DG competition with special responsibility for mergers and antitrust including cartels. In her remarks today, over 20 minutes or so, the vice president will provide a Spanish perspective on the future of the euro area. Having slowly overcome the truly existential crisis, the single currency suffered in 2010, 2011 and 2012, a new euro crisis beckoned as the pandemic broke out last year, causing economies around the world, including those in Europe, to plunge into recession. Agreement on the euro's only economic policy response was not immediate and acrimony among the members reigned in the first weeks and months of the pandemic. But by last summer, a groundbreaking agreement had been reached which allowed European institutions issued debt in considerable quantities and distribute the monies to member states in the forms of both loans and grants. How all this will be managed, how effective it will be, and how significant development it will end up being are topics the vice president and our discussion are likely to cover over the course of the next hour. As usual, you can put your questions via the Q&A function at the bottom of your screen, and if possible, please identify yourself when putting forward those questions. Today's discussion and the Q&A are both on the record. Vice president, welcome to the IREA and the floor is yours. Thank you very much for the invitation. I'm really sorry, I can't go to Ireland and this invitation has been extended for years now and one reason after another made it impossible to make it to Ireland and I'm very sorry, I'm really looking forward to the day we can meet again in person. But nevertheless, I think it is a great opportunity to have this exchange in this format as we're all used to do on a daily basis now. And happy to share some thoughts on what has been going on, what's going on and the outlook in Europe in general and happy to take your questions afterwards. As you were saying, and I fully agree, after this very tough year, very tough months, and I think that Ireland and Spain have been suffering the different waves of the pandemic with a different intensity, but we have both our countries have suffered enormously from a human, from an economic perspective, etc. We are entering a new phase, a recovery phase. All the economic indicators are signaling that that is the case. There is still a high uncertainty, we are now focusing very much on this Delta variant and what's going to happen in terms of the coming weeks. But nevertheless, I think that thanks to vaccination, we all see the light at the end of the tunnel and we have entered a phase where fortunately, discussions are not only about crisis management, but more about how to build back better. Now, what kind of recovery do we want and how to get out of this crisis stronger, more resilient. So I'd like to share three thoughts on the issues that you have put on the table. The first one is that the work to shape the recovery doesn't start now. If we were to begin our job to try to build back better now, we would be already much too late. So fortunately, since March last year, we have taken I think the right decisions. The response to this crisis has been very different to the response to the previous financial crisis. Some of the institutions we put in place at that time have proven to be extremely useful to respond to this one. I'll come to this in a second. And so the decisions we have taken have come already a long way to avoid the structural scarring and therefore to prevent more structural damage, to protect the basis for the recovery. The short-term response that we crafted in the Eurogroup I think has proven to be extremely effective, not to speak about the response of the European Central Bank, obviously, but beyond this short-term financial support. As you rightly said, the agreement reached last July between the European leaders for this next generation EU long-term recovery plan is really groundbreaking. It's a milestone in terms of the building of the European Union. For the first time, we have agreed to borrow together in order to invest together in our common future. And that is shaping the union in a very different fashion going forward. So this very different response I think is showing through all the different macroeconomic indicators. In the case of Spain, we estimate that the drop in GDP in 2020 would have exceeded 25%. More than 3 million jobs would have been destroyed if we had not taken the right measures in March. What we have seen is that very differently from previous economic crisis where a small drop in GDP immediately causes a massive job destruction in the country and therefore starts a very deadly kind of spiral that magnifies the impact of economic cyclical variations. Conversely, to this situation that we have seen in all previous crises, what we have seen this time is that the measures we have taken to protect jobs, to protect the economic tissue, to protect household income has dampened. This impact has minimized the negative impact on the job market and more than 90% of the jobs destroyed have already been recovered. The numbers of people covered by short-term work schemes which in Spain are called are known by the acronym ERTEZ. The numbers are going down and the trend is continuing and therefore that has allowed to protect not only job, not only dependent employees but also self-employed workers and the economic tissue and we see that there's an ability to bounce back much stronger than if we hadn't taken those measures and we would have had a structural scarring. My second reflection is on the outlook and here again I think the economic outlook is positive. I mean yesterday we got the updated forecasts by the European Commission which have for the most part been revised upwards. They signal Spain as one of the fastest growing economies, Ireland too in 2020 and 2021 and that is good but I think the most important challenge ahead is to ensure that this is not just a temporary bouncing back but a solid sustained sustainable in the mid-run recovery. And here again an interesting feature of this crisis which is different to previous crisis is the alignment of narratives throughout the EU and also globally and this is extremely important. We're at a time that economic policy is important but just as important is political economy and the facts that throughout the world everybody's talking about sustainable and inclusive growth is extremely important and 10 years ago you wouldn't expect the IMF to be talking you know using these words and looking for these targets not to speak about the G20 statements which despite the heterogeneity of the G20 members are continuously talking about inclusive and sustainable growth and that I think is due to the increased awareness that we cannot go back to or we have to heal some of the scars that we're still suffering from the previous financial crisis in terms of the increase and then Spain is again a very good example. Since 2008 what we saw was a dramatic drop in investment. Public investment dropped from around four or five percent of GDP to two percent and it did not recover since. Even in those years where there was very strong growth there were some years where investment was scarcely enough to maintain the capital in the country and this is roads and highways this is airports and train stations but this is also hospitals and schools and that drop in public investment translated into also a drop in private investment particularly in the area of R&D and that obviously is dragging potential growth going forward but more interestingly maybe the inequalities rose as a consequence of the financial crisis and the indexes put our country as one of the laggards in terms of some very significant indicators for example in terms of child poverty and society is not going to accept that these indicators amongst others continue to worsen going forward as a consequence of this pandemic and I think there is a very increased a very clear awareness on the side of all the international institutions and the leaders that we absolutely need to avoid that there is a further social scarring as a consequence of this crisis which is obviously hitting most importantly women and the young as happened with the financial crisis for very different reasons because of the vulnerabilities in the labour market because of the intensity of these kind of these groups of citizens in those sectors that have been more severely hit such as tourism and etc but also beyond the short term challenges there is an increased awareness of the need to tackle the more structural trends that have been going on for a while and that have accelerated as a consequence of the pandemic digitalization is an obvious one but also climate climate change is a challenge that that we're becoming increasingly aware of I mean I don't need to to call attention to what's been going on in in North America in recent weeks and so everybody is aware that we need aware of the fact that we need to tackle climate change that we need to invest now to live a better world for future generations. Intergenerational fairness and I close my second point with these I think is a very important guiding principle we must bear in mind because to respond to this crisis we have been forced to issue massive amount of public debt in the case of Spain it will be around 150 billion euros extra debt issuance as compared to who are for our plans before the pandemic hit us and these can be a burden on future generations if we don't manage to make the right decisions now and make the right investments and tackle these structural challenges with the view to providing them with the life and work opportunities and prospects in the future you know in the coming decades. In this sense the Spanish recovery plan is particularly ambitious we want to invest ambitious in quantitative qualitative and also time-wise perspectives very ambitious on a quantitative basis we want to invest around 70 billion euros that's the transfers foreseen for Spain in the next generation EU instruments between 2021 for the most part between 2021 and 2023 so important front loading of these investments with the view to achieving a structural jump if I may call it this way now and so to put the Spanish economy on the right track as soon as possible very ambitious in terms of the structural reforms and the qualitative nature of this investment focusing on human capital focusing on R&D the green transition the digital transition and quite important significant structural reforms and we're making good progress on these reforms on the basis of social dialogue and ambitious from a time perspective as I was saying because there is a front loading of investments and reforms so that we can have a macroeconomic and material impact right now when we need it you know when we need to support a strong sustainable recovery from the pandemic my third and final point is more of a broader European perspective and it is to say my impression is that we have you know as we start to see the way out of the pandemic I think we have to note the fact that we have survived or overcome rather a stress test which goes much beyond the wildest dreams of the meanest kind of macroeconomic forecast or central banker or you know financial supervisor they know no macroeconomic scenario would have foreseen what we have gone through we have taken very significant measures to avoid a financial crisis such as the one we suffered and to avoid this structural scarring we have seen that this is much wiser even from a fiscal point of view we see that the drop in public revenue has been smaller than we would have anticipated last spring the negative impact in terms of unemployment and firm destruction has also been much smaller than some would have anticipated and therefore to a certain extent this test has shown that some of our institutions were up to the test and that some of our institutions are actually anti-fragile you know and so the pandemic has exposed many of our vulnerabilities but let us also look at our strengths you know in that have been confirmed with the response to to this crisis and likewise my impression is that we have a window of opportunity now to tackle these challenges and to take you know takes them and implement some measures that will definitely shape the coming 20 years in the European Union but there are a number of elements that made me optimistic that this time around we will profit or we will use this window of opportunity to ensure that the shaping you know the future shape of the of the European Union is going to be the one that future generations are expecting from all of us because this alignment of discourse of political economy as I was saying kind of statements and speeches no matter the the kind of government the political orientation of the governments no matter the approach that was taken the Christ alignment of the planets throughout the key jurisdictions in the world is is absolutely indispensable in order to ensure to close with this with this expression that we indeed do build back better so I close my remarks with this positive thought and I'm happy to take your questions


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