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    3 Male costumes inspired to the movie industry

    March 30, 2011 - By Alessandro Masetti

    Recently I have been invited to a costume party themed “film personalities”. By reading the invitation, my thoughts immediately went to Holly Golightly of Breakfast at Tiffany’s with hers giant hat, sunglasses and little black dress, to Gilda singing “Put the Blame on Mame” in a sexy strapless dress, or to Sylvia in La Dolce Vita, wrapped in a black dress covered with a white fur stole.    And what about the male roles?

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    (Italiano) LANVIN LOVES H&M

    November 3, 2010 - By Alessandro Masetti

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    (Italiano) Ç Les Maçons Danseurs, il lusso Made in Italy

    September 24, 2010 - By Alessandro Masetti

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    Pucci: the book

    August 5, 2010 - By Alessandro Masetti

    Pucci book The Marchese Emilio Pucci di Barsento, known as Emilio Pucci, was one of the pioneers of the Italian Fashion and in February 1951 he took part to the “First Italian Fashion Show” in Villa Torrigiani, house of the Count Giovanni Battista Giorgini. Actually, he began his career as fashion designer in 1947, when the photographer Toni Frissel, who worked for Harper’s Bazaar, portrayed a blonde girl wearing a snow suit designed by Pucci himself. Vanessa Friedman (fashion editor of the Financial Times) tells the whole story of the brand in Pucci,  a big volume full of colorful images, pictures,…

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ALESSANDRO MASETTI

Architect, fashion expert and avid collector of mid-century modern decorative objects and contemporary art.

He has been the Curator of the Art and Design collections of the Fondazione Giovanni Michelucci in Fiesole, Italy (2017-2022) and lecturer of courses in Fashion Communication, Architecture, and Social Media in several Study Abroad programs for international undergraduate students in Florence, Italy (2015-2022).

He is currently enrolled as a Ph.D. student in the Museum Studies track at IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca, Italy.

Since 2010 he has been the author of TheFashionCommentator.com, sharing features and critics on art, fashion, and design in a virtual gallery where the fine combination of images and words investigate and reveal the mutual inspirations between fashion designers and visual artists.

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