The sweatshirt is trendy!

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Timeless style with sweatshirts  

“The girl with sweatshirt” by Beatrice Brandini

It seems that the sweatshirt has become a sort of uniform, a garment that lost its original connotation (easy / comfort) and use (sports, English sweatshirt or “jersey sweat”), became for several seasons in one favorite fashion items for fashionistas, bloggers, models, and why not, Mrs. âgée, for example in the casual Friday. Read more

SNAKES: from Eve to Cleopatra, from Marchesa Casati to Bulgari …seduction, temptation, transformation, for that fascinate us so much. Rome celebrates them!

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Nastassja Kinski, photo by Richard Avedon, 1981

“Cleopatra” by Beatrice Brandini

In the beautiful Palazzo Braschi in Rome (magnificent lounges with refined neoclassical stucco), there is an exhibition promoted by the Superintendence for Cultural Heritage Capitolina, designed and created by Bulgari: “SerpentiForm – Art, Jewellery, Design.” Exhibition dedicated to the many creative ways that the serpent has taken in the arts, from antiquity to the present day. I have collected some photos of the exhibition, adding others that I find always very interesting. Read more

Fashion shows in London .. here as we wear the next Fall / Winter (2016-17)

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Sixties in London….        

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“Cherry in London” by Beatrice Brandini

And here we are talking of the shows in London …

Again so much fashion, so many styles, so much creativity and freedom (key word!) To dress as we please ….. I highlighted some trends, once again we see the fur and the Over volumes, although represented in a slightly different way than in New York. Read more

Milan Fashion week… here as we wear the next Fall / Winter (2016-17)

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“Catwalk” by Beatrice Brandini

Continues the journey on runways around the world to discover and understand what are the trends for the coming Fall / Winter. How will we wear, what we love, what we will enhance what we penalize (but we would like at all costs!) …, What will make us crazy …. As previously emphasized, New York and London, will be a fashion FREE AND LUDIC, beautiful (especially in Milan!), Where everyone will dress (finally!) as he wants …. Read more

Fashion shows in NY .. here as we wear the next Fall / Winter (2016-17)

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Photo by William Helburn        

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“Beverly” by Beatrice Brandini

The catwalks of the ready-to-wear are over in New York, starring women’s fashions for the coming Fall / Winter 2016-17. Then the baton was passed to London, yesterday in Milan to end next week, in Paris. The shows have highlighted a fashion, beautiful, feminine, creative, funny, stylish, romantic … but above all “FREE” and this is the most interesting aspect. Because fashion, an’ important art form, must be above all joy and pleasure. Read more

Toulouse-Lautrec and his “inadequate”, significant, individual… wonderful humanity.

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“Déshabille” by Beatrice Brandini

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Banner from the exhibition at Palazzo Blue

It is just concluded the beautiful exhibition “Toulouse Lautrec Montmartre lights and shadows”, at the charming Palazzo Blu (Pisa). The artist who was able, more than anyone else, to describe and represent a city, a neighborhood, a lifestyle … the Paris of the late nineteenth century. Read more

78th Pitti Immagine Filati: fantastic creativity with the most beautiful yarns in the world. Trends Spring/Summer 2017 (Part One)

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Banner 78th Pitti Immagine Filati        

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“Knit” by Beatrice Brandini

See Pitti Filati is for a creative guy like going to Disneyland for a child. The presentations of the exhibitors, but also creations Space Research (knit and textile proposals), are incredibly beautiful so innovative and creative, season after season, they can surprise you, making you understand that as long as these companies and designers will continue to do things so special, creativity will always be our pride and a way to ward off the crisis and low-budget productions …; despite the few aid and poor appreciation of cultural heritage which, in my opinion, is also shown (or especially!) through the craft. Read more