Stand construction Silvian Heach Kids
“Baby Balloon” by Beatrice Brandini
Continues the wonderful trip around fashion kids of Pitti Immagine Bimbo, the collections that will wear the most beautiful children in the world in the coming Fall / Winter 2016-17. Read more
Banner Pitti Immagine Bimbo
“Girl at Pitti” by Beatrice Brandini
Yesterdey started the 82nd edition of Pitti Bimbo and as always it was a real beautiful “show …” It is because in addition to the beauty of the collections, in addition to the magnificent installations of the stands, in addition to creativity, quality, variety of proposals …, there is another important aspect to this fair, which its protagonists: CHILDREN … those with candor, innocence, awe, vitality, commitment, are the reason for our life, our future, the stimulus to be better. Read more
Exhibition 89th Pitti Uomo
Men’s fashion trends by Beatrice Brandini
Continues the journey with Pitti Uomo…. Read more
Cate Blanchett by Tim Walker of W Magazine, December 2015
“The Fox” by Beatrice Brandini
The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) is the famous story by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, born with the intent to keep kids with fantasy and poetry, this little masterpiece has captivated millions of readers around the world (small but especially adult), telling the love, friendship and the meaning of life, in a mild and surreal, with charm, beauty and magic, representing today a text that should be read, reread and share with those who will come after us Read more
“Man-Men-Menswear” by Beatrice Brandini
Banner 89th Pitti Uomo
It opened yesterday the 89th edition of Pitti Uomo, the most important exhibition in the world of menswear. The theme of this year’s Generation (s) whose meaning wants to emphasize that fashion and style are transgenerational, that the different generations are simultaneous, that fathers steal the sneakers to children and children jackets tailored to the fathers, who lords over fifty wearing jeans with great ease and twentysomethings have beards and mustaches, and wearing clothes very classic. Therefore the fashion no longer has a unique style, a single identity (fortunately!), has no limits and boundaries, demographic, geographic and cultural. Read more
YSL tuxedo, photo by Helmut Newton for Vogue, 1975
“Jeannine” by Beatrice Brandini
Yves Saint Laurent proved among the first as the male garment par excellence, namely the SMOKING, could be worn by a woman and make she irresistibly sensual. Those were the years at the turn of the sixties and seventies, when divine women like Catherine Deneuve, Loulou de la Falaise, Lauren Bacall or Bianca Jagger wore boldly jacket and pants impeccable masculine cut with a very sexy allure …, demonstrating that fashion, beauty, sensuality …., are especially attitudes. Read more
Vivienne Westwood photographed by RANKIN
“Vivienne” by Beatrice Brandini
If we talk about the history of fashion, you must speak of Vivienne Westwood, the one who invented the fashion “Pirate”, the punk fashion, fashion provocative and ironic but full of social messages, fashion that desecrates religion conformism…, simply put a fashion different from all. Read more
Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand
“Charming” by Beatrice Brandini
In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Le Corbusier, the Department of Architecture of Florence, the foundation Ragghianti Study Centre of Lucca and the Le Corbusier Foundation in Paris, promote a project that celebrates the master Swiss franc: “Expose Le Corbusier. Ragghianti and Florence exhibition of 1963 “. Read more
Balthus: Thérèse, 1938 the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
“Cathy” by Beatrice Brandini
Rome celebrates Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, aka Balthus, one of the most important and enigmatic artists of the twentieth century. At the Scuderie del Quirinale and Villa Medici until 31 January 2016. Read more
Image movie “IRIS” Albert Maysles
“Iris” di Beatrice Brandini
Passionate and art expert, traveler, decorator, jewelry designer, fashion consultant, but first and foremost an important presence immensely imbued with style and personality. With its unmistakable look characterized by gigantic glasses, colorful clothes, fabrics with a thousand fantasies and especially by her jewels “monumental” and ethnic, Iris Apfel was finally consecrated by the movie “IRIS”, the documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles. Read more
