Entrance 86 ° Pitti Uomo leitmotif “Ping Pong”, a metaphor for the response to the crisis

Mood Board “Holiday-Vintage-Bon Ton” Beatrice Brandini 

It opened yesterday the 86th Pitti Uomo, dedicated to the collections for next spring-summer 2015, and I have to say that there was an incredible energy… Multiple and different proposals presented at the exhibition by giant companies and small businesses, artisans and industries, historical brands and niche … but all united by the quality and style with innovative ideas, funny, stylish, classic, sports … for all tastes, for all styles, for all your needs … Read more →

Bottega Veneta S/S 2013, Freja Beha photographed by Peter Lindbergh, magnificent!  

Inspiration mood Bottega Veneta S/S 2015 by Beatrice Brandini

Bottega Veneta is a company that has made the luxury understood as a quality and the concept of “timeless” its main feature. I love everything they do, products, advertising campaigns, boutiques, and especially their INTRECCIATO weave, incredible work on the leather, become unmistakable.

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“Big Iron Celle” by Alberto Burri, located in front of the entrance to Villa Celle, 1986 

“Pomona” by Beatrice Brandini

Near Florence, in Santomato (Pistoia), there is a beautiful seventeenth-century villa in which the collector Giuliano Gori has collected many works of art, giving birth to the first and most important collection of Italian art environment. Read more →

“Beverly” by Beatrice Brandini

Sottsass Carlton bookcase, 1981 – Memphis     

I love Ettore Sottsass since I was a young student, I remember especially the Memphis group of which he was a founding member (along with Michele de Lucchi), as well as the main “master.” Read more →

Georgia O’Keeffe “Horse’s Skull with White Rose”, 1931. Private collection

“Indian Doll” by Beatrice Brandini 

Extraordinary artist with her paintings changed the course of modern art history, giving realism to a new connotation, that of Precisionism, independent art movement, of which O’Keeffe was a pioneer. Read more →

Banner of the exhibition 

“Water Lily” by Beatrice Brandini

In the cloister of Bramante in Rome there is a beautiful exposition of the greatest artists of the Victorian era, “Alma-Tadema and 800 English painters, Pérez Simón Collection”. For me, that time, that kind of painting, its characters, and especially Alma – Tadema, have always been an object of study and passion. Read more →

Mermaids Lenci … 

“Undine” by Beatrice Brandini 

From Satan or from God, who cares? Angel or Siren, who cares if you – fairy-eyed velvet, scent, light, my only queen – make the universe less hideous, these instants less serious … Charles Baudelaire, Hymn to Beauty

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Banner of the exhibition “Frida Kahlo” in Rome

“Frida” by Beatrice Brandini 

Undisputed icon of Mexican culture and modern,  forerunner of the feminist movement, perfect subject for marketing and merchandising, but especially women indomitable, courageous, free and independent.  Read more →

Giorgio Armani, networthq.com

“Nadja” by Beatrice Brandini

Giorgio Armani does not need a big presentation, it is a name known throughout the world, loved, valued, respected and followed, a creative with his rigorous concept of elegance, purity, cleanliness, has revolutionized the world and the feminine way to dress, creating “the Armani style”, an unmistakable style and instantly recognizable. Read more →

“Minnie” by Walt Disney

“Goldie” by Beatrice Brandini 

Polka Dots: the name comes from a dance, originating in Czechoslovakia in the late nineteenth century, which soon spread to Europe and America and from which borrowed the name to define the polka dot fabric: polka dot pattern. Read more →