see full article Milan Fashion Week September 2016 Women Collections
Location: the splendid Hotel De Milan, Via Manzoni
-The inspiration?
I’ d say the influence: The legendary 80′ fashion designer Giorgio Sant’Angelo, who was able to create romantic clothing that reflected the hippie culture of the era.
-Your collection is…
Chic, feminine, fun..and great model casting!
You love…
Turbans, cant’ you tell?
-Final statement?
I like to create clothes that I would enjoy wearing.
-May I have a selfie with you?
Sure, my old friend!

1. FASHIONABLY CHINESE AT THE MET GALA

From May 7 through August 16, 2015 The Costume Institute’s spring 2015 exhibition will be Chinese Whispers, Art, Film, and Fashion. The exhibition will explore how China has fueled the creative imagination for centuries, high fashion will be juxtaposed with Chinese costumes, paintings, porcelains, and other art, as well as Chinese films to reveal ongoing dialogues between East and West, past and present.The new spring 2013 exhibition organized by The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum is supposed to be a tribute the punk’s impact on high fashion from the movement’s birth in the 1970s ( that ‘s the chaos) through its continuing influence today ( mais oui, la couture, naturellement !) Adventure yourself in a dark itinerary featuring approximately 100 designs for men and women. Few original punk garments from the mid-1970s are juxtaposed with recent, directional fashion to illustrate how haute couture and ready-to-wear have borrowed punk’s visual symbols, with paillettes being replaced with safety pins, feathers with razor blades, and bugle beads with studs.
Focusing on the relationship between the punk concept of ‘do-it-yourself’ and the couture concept of ‘made-to-measure,’ the exhibition focuses on materials, techniques, and embellishments associated with the anti-establishment style.
Presented as an immersive multimedia, multisensory experience, the clothes are animated with period music videos and soundscaping audio techniques. A great jump in a chaotic sea full of creativity and disrespect. Maybe a little bit “too couture”, since the chaos is somehow leaving more space to top designer’s creations.

The Museo del Tessuto hosting the exhibit  ‘Capriccio e Ragione’

Here you will find a luxurious display of embroideries, silks, brocades, and lampasses from 1600, when new nations were discovered and new costumes  images and stories were imported to Europe.

Porcelains, paintings of landscapes, and the new profession of the fabric painter  starting from the vagary of remembering antique historical ruins to portraits either official or private.

France launched and updated this elaborate fashion, stating different styles, from bizarre to dentelle, to the beautiful drawings of Jean Revel, a major figure in Lyonnaise silk from the 18th century and a pioneer of the French style, who carried his innovative style beyond the courts of Versailles and Paris.
The exhibit will be on till April 29th 2018.

In Venice, Groups of Friulian women – proud country folk but also indefatigable sellers – came with their wicker baskets to sell their shoe-slippers around the alleys and squares of Venice. the Gondoliers found their rubber soles perfect for conserving the paintwork of their precious gondolas. Today, you can still find the traditional “Furlane” inspired by the eighteenth-century splendour of the Serenissima republic, embellished with velvet or bright oriental silks, all guaranteed hand-sewn. PIEDATERRE Address is S. Polo, 60 – Rialto, Piedaterre will make them by hand.  Thanks to its rubber sole, here another very quiet one Crocs This shoe was originally developed as a boating shoe. Soon became a casual footwear for men, women and children. Today the brand has more than 300 styles of footwear including boots, wedges, loafers and more
. All Crocs™ shoes feature Croslite™ material, a proprietary, revolutionary technology that gives each pair of shoes the soft, comfortable, lightweight, non-marking and odor-resistant qualities that Crocs fans know and love. Since its inception in 2002, Crocs has sold more than 300 million pairs of shoes in more than 90 countries around the world.
Finally  a true discovery: a very silent yet pretty sexy green sandal by And  an adorable kids shoe called Petit IconaBio All liners and insoles are entirely made of cork, to stay cool, comfortable and in “contact” with nature. Another speciaL feature of the collection is the selection of materials such as a special synthetic leather .
The palette contains colors like lemon yellow, red earth, water blue, white. Enjoy a quiet, silent walking…it will make you extremely relaxed
and it won’t bother the others!

 

Michelle Obama

  

Milan Fashion Week. September 2017  The shortest interview: ROSSELLA JARDINI

ANTONELLI does EAST!
From GOSSIP to Japan…

 The iconic Gossip, the historic Castelfiorentino lingerie company that moved on to women’s shirts and three years ago changed its name to Antonelli Firenze, has just signed with L’Idea & Co, the Japanese group which from 2017 on will deal with the distribution of the Antonelli Firenze collection in Japan.Within this framework, the opening of a series of shop-in-shops is planned, including the inauguration of three in Tokyo. The Japanese debut comes just a few months after the agreement with the Korean group Parco International for the opening of at least seven Antonelli Firenze brand shop in shops over the next 5 years

The first opening in Korea is scheduled for September 2016 in the Coex Mall in Seoul, the largest financial and commercial district of the city.
 Congrats!

                               A dress to remember…sold for $ 4.8 millions

  My dear friend photographer FIROOZ ZAHEDI
will host a book signing of his book MY ELISABETH

at Galleria Sozzani , corso Como 10 , Milan. on June 22  at 7.00 pm It ‘s a great book with never seen before images of the Diva… including this beautiful , candid, intimate and lovely moment of Liz while cooking …

ESCHER

A  super exhibit of the one of a kind artist who used to say that “Wonder is the salt of the earth”, is greatly hosted by the Palazzo Reale in Milan till January 22th, 2017.

Escher may be credited with broadening the imagination of those who gaze at or have gazed at his works, where everything is connected: science,
nature, analytical rigour and a contemplative quality.

The ‘Escher like’ world today

Escher’s art left the confines of the studio and was transformed into gift boxes, postage stamps and greeting cards; it entered the world of comics and ended up on the LP sleeves of famous bands like Pink Floyd; and his impossible structures are used to allude to paradoxical situations or to astonish people with unrealizable constructions. Echoes of engravings (such as Relativity or House of Stairs) are to be found in the whirling stairs which lead Mickey Mouse and the Simpsons to get lost in an Escher like world.

Escheriansettings have been used in commercials like the one for Audi in 2007, based on the famous print Waterfall Hand with Reflecting Sphere Other World and Belvedere

were used by Illy Caffè for a 2006 advertising. A scene in the fantasy film

Labyrinth (1986), starring David Bowie and produced by George Lucas, is built around House of Stairs. Even the famous staircases at Hogwarts, in the Harry Potter saga, are a

dynamic transposition of this work, which also inspired one of the most striking scenes from Night at the Museum 3 and a Sky commercial.

And what about that rumor that Escher refused to work or have his work
used by Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones?

Absolutely true.

On January 1, 1969, Mick Jagger, a big Escher fan, wrote a letter asking the Artist to provide an image for the Stones’ second volume of greatest hits. Well…turns out Escher was NOT a Stones fan, apparently preferred Bach and… the English rock band
Mott the Hoople, which could use a colorized versionof “Reptiles”
on their self-titled debut album in 1969.

No photo except the designated areas, where games of illusions optical dreams and mirrored mirages, will definitely catch you. Impossible not to selfie…Escher exhibit will hypnotize you with the images an Artist who said ‘My work is a game, , a very serious game’ for more info http://www.palazzorealemilano.it/wps/portal/luogo/palazzoreale

MILAN MEN COLLECTION 2017. ISAIA TAKES YOU TO CAPRI

Blue sky, gray sky, sun, rain, even a hailstorm…. A dramatic weather palette that was greatly pairing the palette of Isaia Spring / Summer 2017  that feeds on bright shades of color between the sky and sea. A compendium of …

MILANO JUNE 2016 MEN COLLECTIONS

 

PARMA:STREET ART & CHARITY “ l’arte è cibo per la mente e per l’anima”

Food is art and art is food for your mind and soul.

This is the theme of the the benefit exhibition, curated by Artist Felice Limosani, and held at the Crociera dell’ Ospedale Vecchio, a venue dated 1200. 13 food-related excesses in a provocative and irreverent exhibits featuring artists from around the world. At the Crociera dell’ Ospedale Vecchio Via D’Azeglio – Oltretorrente

LONDON TEDDY BOYS ARE BACK ! BUSINESSMEN NEVER IRON!

The Eleventy Men’s SS 2016 collection is inspired by the London Teddy Boys of the 1950s, who brought back the notion of dressing well always and everywhere, creating their own hallmark style inspired by that of the dandies of the Edwardian era.
Dark jackets, drainpipe pants, waistcoats and major focus on details, biker jackets in washed black nappa, with zips flaunted as crucial elements,
For the man who is always on the go, Eleventy proposes a range of suits, jackets and pants made from precious wools that have been specially treated to enhance their resistance to atmospheric agents and insulation, so that they become no-iron and are never creased.
http://www.eleventy.it/en/

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