Meet The Blogger: Valium and Cherry Wine

After a few months without doing a Blogger's Interview I decided to get back on track presenting you one of my favorite portuguese bloggers!

Rita Patinha is the 20 year-old blogger behind Valium and Cherry Wine, a magical place where you can find a lot of inspiration! She's a lovely girl with the prettiest romantic style and I'm sure you'll like to read her answers as much as I did!

1. Where are you from and what do you do for a living?

I'm from Évora but I'm living in Lisbon. During the day I'm a photographer in a model agency and during the night I'm studying Audiovisual and Multimedia at Escola Superior de Comunicação Social.

2. What inspires your personal style?

Everything that I see inspires my style, from unknown people that I see on the streets, to movie characters and, of course, the blogs I daily follow. My state of spirit also influences my style a lot, one day I can wear all black and the next day I can wear a pink skirt or a floral dress.

3. How would you describe your style in a few words?

Hum... It's a bit hard to describe my style in a few words because I don't like to put labels on the styles, my style is just my personal style. I wear what I like and what makes me feel good and I don't follow trends...
 I really like vintage stuff and I try to put that on my style but I never wear only vintage from head to toe. I also like floral prints, polka dots and patterns with animals.
If I could I would never wear pants and I would only wear skirts and dresses, because of that I can say I'm a bit girly. I don't like to wear clothes with strong colors, maybe because I spent a lot of years only wearing black and today I still love to wear that color. Sometimes I really like to wear a bit more minimal too.
Lately I have a huge obssession with "Peter Pan Collars", everytime a see a piece of clothing with that I fall in love!

4. What made you start blogging?

Everything started when I read an article about bloggers on a portuguese magazine that no longer exists (Ragazza), I searched some of the blogs that they talked about and WishWishWish was the one I liked the most because I identifed myself a lot with Carrie's style... Since that day I start following WishWishWish and one day I tought "why not create my own blog!?"

5. If you could, who would you like to be for a day?

I would like to experiment living in diferent eras (a lot like the fillm Midnight In Paris) but without needing to change who I am, I could still be myself. I would wake up in Paris during the "Belle Èpoque", I would learn to dance the Charleston during the 20s, then I would go in a Diner in the USA to eat something during the 50s and in the end I would go to a concert in the 80s :)

6. Tell us a random fact about yourself.

Nobody from my family and friends knows that I own a blog, it's not a secret, I just don't usualy talk about it.

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Love,
Marisa Violeta