Frida Kahlo and fashion

Frida Kahlo dress, Museo Frida Kahlo, Mexico City

“La pequena Frida” by Beatrice Brandini

Frida Kahlo has become a cult figure for mass society. A true pop icon, she has been represented in the form of a doll, a cup, a poster and through every other existing trinket, trivializing her figure, so much as to undermine her pictorial and social merits. Read more

KIMONO – Reflections of art between Japan and the West @ Prato Textile Museum. How to wear stories.

Poster of the exhibition KIMONO – Reflections of art between Japan and the West

“Kaori” by Beatrice Brandini

From 29 April to 19 November, fifty kimonos belonging to the collection of Lydia Manavello will be on display, together with paintings, woodcuts, old postcards, prints and fabrics from important private collections and unpublished collections of the Prato Textile Museum. Read more