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 …
Category: When Fashion meets Art
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …