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If I start by telling you that I hate smoking, you’ll probably ask me to give you an example of person/thing/activity/something that I don’t hate. It seems that I hate everything. But what can I do? I can’t stand how the cigarettes smoke smells, I don’t like my clothes and my hair being impregnated with that smell, I can’t keep my eyes opened when I’m in smoky environments, because they smart like hell, and I hate that people’s health is affected by cigars. And they’re aware of the side effects, they don’t care about them, so they neglect them as if nothing happens.

But I know that people love smoking. I completely understand that my father’s relationship with the package of cigarettes is longer and maybe stronger than ours. I’m not jealous, I couldn’t be, but it drives me crazy, ‘cause I know it doesn’t do him well.

However, I’m not in the position to forbid him to smoke, even if there was a time when I spared no chance to tell him that he could quit smoking if he loved me.

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Look at me know telling you about Fipa. Isn’t it disgraceful? Maybe it is, but I know that those who enjoy those bad-smelling cigarettes will be thrilled to read about Fipa. This is a new smoking concept, created from scratch by Canadian designer Lawrence Chu and aimed at beautiful women smoking. Inspired by the golden era between the 1940s and the 1960s, when a cigarette holder was as common as iPods are today, Fipa is a luxury item made of chrome and platinum.



“We looked back in history and discovered that until the end of the Victorian period it was quite well accepted for women to smoke pipes in Europe, but due to cultural changes it became unfashionable, thus eventually becoming associated with masculinity over the course of the last century”, the designer said. “You can probably guess that this culminated in the iconic image of Audrey Hepburn in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” with long black gloves and equally long black cigarette holder. It was this image that convinced us that, for an object, the secret to feminine elegance is a simple linear slenderness. That’s what we tried to communicate in the Fipa”.

(Source: Tuvie)