Salvator Dali cover for Vogue, 1939 “Surrealism in Fashion” by Beatrice Brandini “Making slave imagination is the height of foolishness.” André Breton I love Elsa Schiaparelli, Balenciaga, Yves Saint Laurent, Mugler, Moschino, Prada, as Dalí, Duchamp, Cocteau, and all those artists who experiment, desecrate, break the mold and play with their art. Giving “sensational” emotions.
Manifesto exhibition Giacometti “Annetta” Beatrice Brandini Until February 1 2015 at GAM in Milan there is a beautiful exhibition of Alberto Giacometti, curated by Catherine Grenier, director of the Foundation Alberto and Annette Giacometti in Paris.
Poster of the exhibition “David Bowie is” “Ziggy” Beatrice Brandini I could not visit the beautiful exhibition organized by the Victoria & Albert Museum in London “David Bowie is”, but I could see the film that the director Hamish Hamilton turned filming the show (you can not go and see something that you would love […]
I am happy to announce the opening of a new section of the site where I will write articles on specific trends. The trends that have developed for Spring Summer 2016 involving five themes of the season. Each of them brings together the range of colors, inspirations cultural and artistic (art, design, inspirational images ..), […]
Posters Man Ray exhibition at Villa Manin “Kiki” by Beatrice Brandini “I paint what can not be photographed. Photographer what I don’t want to paint”. “I paint the invisible. Photographer the visible”. Man Ray
Gigi Chessa “Girl with Hat” “Fashion Forties” by Beatrice Brandini I was invited to the preview of the exhibition “Light on the ‘900’ exhibition will run until March 8, 2015 at the Gallery of Modern Art, Pitti Palace and celebrating the anniversary of the hundred years since its founding. The 900 was a crucial century […]
Woman’s collection Alexander Wang for H&M “Gymnasium” by Beatrice Brandini I’ve already talked about how widely, particularly in recent years, the boundaries between fashion and sport have approached. Many indeed are the collaborations between fashion designers and sports brands, including designers, artists ….; many fashion shows in which also carry the luxury fashion house runway […]
“Dracula” in 1931. Directed by T. Browning and K. Freud “The pumpkin is beautiful” Beatrice Brandini Halloween: no one can say or tell you, especially you kids, “if you aren’t good you will get the black man….” Thanks to this festival the children can exorcise a lot of their fears, living with monsters, […]
Photo Guy Bourdin, Vogue Paris 1958 “Annette” Beatrice Brandini When I was studying fashion was fascinated, but I could tell almost enchanted, by the pictures of Guy Bourdin. They were not “just” fashion photographs, but frames stolen from a movie, surrealist tales, enchanted visions.
Poster: “Picasso and the Spanish modernity” “Dora” by Beatrice Brandini Situated in Florence’s Palazzo Strozzi, there is an interesting exhibition devoted to Picasso: “Picasso and the Spanish modernity.” Talk about Picasso is too easy (or difficult, depending on the views and expectations that you have), certainly is a risk of trivializing a very complex figure.
