Renée Perle photographed by J. H. Lartigue
“Florette” Beatrice Brandini
At the MEF, Museum Ettore Fico di Torino, there is a beautiful anthology dedicated to one of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century: Jacques Henri Lartigue. They are not simple photographs but little masterpieces, poems in black and white. The exhibition will end on June 21, you can visit it if you return home “richer”. Read more
Keiichi Tanaami designs for Dior
“Midori” by Beatrice Brandini
Raf Simons, creative director of Dior, called Keiichi Tanaami, true legend of the underground Japanese, to redesign the visual and aesthetic codes of the Maison. The result is an irresistible array of pin-ups, skulls, mouths, eyes, in manga version, vibrant colors, fluorescent and acid, mixing East and West … Read more
Kartell: Stool “Attila” by P. Starck
“Gaia in the colored lights” by Beatrice Brandini
Kartell is an Italian company founded in 1949, a company that with its production of objects has ennobled the plastic, making it stylish, colorful, playful. It’s been almost seventy years but still surprised by its creative originality. Read more
Niki the Saint Phalle, fountain in the Tarot Garden, Garavicchio
“The Temptress” by Beatrice Brandini
Niki the Saint Phalle is counted as one of the exponents (only female) of Nouveau Realism, one of the first artists who used art as a warning against racism and in favor of minorities (feminist avant la lettre, before the girl power and riot grrrl). Equipped with a great creative personality, left us fantastic works that give us joy and happiness. Read more
Elizabeth Taylor in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”
“Celiné” by Beatrice Brandini
The lingerie for women is a weapon of seduction very important. The cinema has understood its power for some time, tying some of its heroines, women among the most fascinating in its history, just an undergarment. The lingerie is the protagonist in the film like in life. Read more
Jean Seberg
“Jean” by Beatrice Brandini
There are actresses that even after an appearance will be forever imprinted in the minds of the spectators, for a number of aspects (sometimes only one) as the class, talent, beauty, style, charisma … Jean Seberg was one of these … Read more
Exhibition poster J.P. Gaultier in Paris
“Mannequins Gaultier” by Beatrice Brandini
Jean Paul Gaultier is one of the greatest fashion designers that, since the end of the seventies, continues to amaze us with his creative, tailoring, ironic and precious collections.
Until August 3 Paris pays tribute to this histrionic and very talented stylist (it’s sad to see how the fashion abroad is protagonist like great artists [in the same building was just inaugurated an exhibition of Diego Velázquez], while in Italy yet struggling to find space and visibility!), at the Grand Palais. Read more
Anna Dello Russo
“Anna” by Beatrice Brandini
I follow Anna Dello Russo from many years, before the Internet, Instagram, the blog and blogger. Those who live of fashion can’t not know her, eighteen years in Condé Nast Italy as an editor for Vogue Italy and as director for L ‘Uomo Vogue. Read more
Jeanne Lanvin photographed by Laure Albin Guillot
“Marguerite” by Beatrice Brandini
Paris pays homage to Jeanne Lanvin, one of the most important figures of twentieth-century fashion. Read more
Photo of Richard Avedon, 1950
“Dovima” by Beatrice Brandini
In Rome, at the Gogosian Gallery, there is a beautiful exhibition dedicated to one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century: “Avedon: Beyond Beauty”
Richard Avedon photographed mostly women, but his portraits capture not only the beauty and glamor, his women are intense, original, rebellious, curious, unconventional …. and always sure of themselves. Read more
