• When Fashion meets Art

    Vogue Experience – A talk with Aquilano.Rimondi

    Milan fashion week for a blogger means attending to fashion shows, presentations, parties, exhibitions, but also conferences or meetings with the protagonists of this world. Thanks to the last Vogue Experience held in conjunction with the Milan fashion week in September, finally I had the opportunity to meet the designer duo Aquilano.Rimondi.   Tommaso Aquilano talking with tha audience at the Vogue Experience in Palazzo Morando  

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    Dolce and Gabbana – A story of Art, Fashion and Mysticism

    The dichotomous relationship between Art and Fashion is one of the hot topics which always heats the fashion lovers. In one side there are the intransigent ones who can’t tolerate even the proximity of the two words, on the other hand there are those who want to “elevate” Fashion to the Art status. We can surely consider Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana among the fashion designers who periodically rekindle this sort of debate: their collections are an interesting hybrid between costume, high-fashion, street-style and artistic masterpieces. From season to season they leave the fashion journalists speechless: everybody is charmed by…

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    Wooden Fashion

    In the last three or four years, fashion made us dreaming with clothes and accessories studded with Swarovski crystals, feathers, gold leaves, pvc scales or covered with colorful kaleidoscopic prints. Taking a look at the old collections and accessories I discovered that wood inspired several niche and research brands. Alexander McQueen – Spring Summer 1999 – Wooden Balsa Wings

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    Dolce & Gabbana style: an endless love affair with Sicily

    The history of every fashion brand is ever-changing: a new creative director; a different marketing strategy; or the change of the target range, inevitably linked to the change of the style itself. This is what happened also to Dolce and Gabbana, the famous Sicilian duo who has stopped the sporty/street-style D&G line with the Spring Summer 2012 collection, dedicating their experience to the main rtw line and the new high fashion one.   

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    Don Giovanni in L.A. by Rodarte and Frank O. Gehry

    For the next three years, the Los Angeles Philharmonic has decided to set up the three operas “Le nozze di Figaro”, “Don Giovanni” and “Cosi fan tutte” born from the collaboration between the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the librettist Lorenzo da Ponte. The choice of the costume designers and set decorators teams is one of the peculiarity of the event. Every year the set will be conceived by a famous archi-star as well as the costumes will be designed by a talented fashion designer, in order to recreate from a “visual” point of view, the historical artistic collaboration between…

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    Souvenir d’Italie: Moschino, Valentino and Frankie Morello

    Many of the Spring Summer 2012 advertising campaigns of the best known Italian brands paid homage to the “Bel Paese”, (poetical phrase which means “Italy”). Several campaigns seem to be inspired by vintage postcard-pictures from the 50’s, the years of the economic boom and Dolce Vita, but in some cases they remain faithful to the poetics of the brand. Molte delle campagne pubblicitarie per le collezioni Primavera Estate 2012 dei marchi italiani più noti hanno scelto di omaggiare il “Bel Paese”, prediligendo un’immagine da cartolina vintage, ispirata agli anni del boom economico e della Dolce Vita o in alcuni casi…

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    The Hunger Games – Costumes and sets of the latest American blockbuster

    On April 27, I attended the Italian preview of The Hunger Games, science fiction movie based on the homonym literary trilogy by Suzanne Collins, set in the nation of Panem, in an unidentified future age in which is in force a totalitarian regime. Panem is made up of the rich and luxurious Capitol City, and its twelve poor districts. Every year, as punishment for an attempted rebellion of the districts to the power of Capitol City and to show that even a child can’t be considered superior to the governors, 12 boys and 12 girls aged between 12 and 18 are…

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    Stream of Consciousness #3 – Haute Couture Spring Summer 2012

    A fine gennaio, a Parigi si è tenuta la seconda sfilata Haute Couture di Giambattista Valli, che da fine 2011 è stato nominato ufficialmente Haute Couturier da La Fédération Française de la Couture du Prêt-à-Porter des Couturiers et des Créateurs de Mode. La collezione è stata un omaggio ai maestri couturier parigini di un tempo: cappe e cappottini lunghi fino al ginocchio celano gonne a matita e abitini bon ton con silhouette a vita alta e stretta. Tanti i dettagli su cui focalizzare l’attenzione: tagli trasversali di giacche scultura dalle quali escono ghirlande di fiori simili a bassorilievi rinascimentali; leggere velature…

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    Stream of Consciousness #2 – Iris van Herpen

    La Haute-Couture-week è il periodo migliore per    dare sfogo alle libere associazioni della rubrica “Stream of consciousness”. Oggi inizio parlando di Iris van Herpen, talentuosa designer olandese, classe 1984, formatasi all’ARTEZ-Institute of Art di Arnhem, entrata per un tirocinio presso Alexander McQueen a Londra e  successivamente da Claudy Jongstra ad Amsterdam.  Nel 2007 lancia la sua linea IRIS VAN HERPEN, un mix di moda, artigianato e tecnologia digitale applicata. I suoi abiti haute couture si ispirano perennemente al mondo della natura, ma non è raro riconoscervi anche altri elementi. The Haute-Couture-week is the best time to give    full rein to the free…

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    Stream of Consciousness #1 – China vases

    Da oggi inizia Stream of Consciousness, una piccola rubrica del blog non soggetta a nessuna cadenza periodica particolare, ma che dipenderà solo da libere associazioni di pensiero scaturite nelle mie ricerche di immagini non riguardanti esclusivamente il mondo della moda. Come riportato su Wikipedia, Stream Of Consciouness è “Il flusso di coscienza, una tecnica narrativa, che consiste nella libera rappresentazione dei pensieri di una persona così come compaiono nella mente, prima di essere riorganizzati logicamente in frasi.”. Attraverso la comparazione di foto e immagini voglio costruire nuove connessioni tra pensieri e ricordi, riorganizzandoli con una piccola didascalia che ne spieghi…