Direction Love Mom …..  

“The Greatest Love” by Beatrice Brandini 

Is the Mother’s Day and I want to dedicate this post to all mothers. Our mothers, without which we feel lost, to which nourish a complex feeling, always characterized by an immense good, and we moms,  we do every day work “harder” to everyone. Read more →

Postcard Hawaii  

“Accidental tourists” by Beatrice Brandini

I am happy that this summer, thanks largely to Prada that ennobles and makes “cool” everything,  is back in fashion the Hawaiian shirt. Read more →

Enrico Caruso Museum, costume opera “I Pagliacci”

 “Little Clown” by Beatrice Brandini 

A Lastra a Signa, near Florence, there is a pearl of rare beauty, Villa Bellosguardo, a beautiful house surrounded by a huge park, full of olive groves of Tuscany, characterized by beautiful baroque sculptures, by a magnificent garden, and much more … This is the home of Enrico Caruso Museum, a place where the tenor he lived the last years of his short but extraordinary life.

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Georgia O’Keeffe “American”, Philadelphia Museum of Art  

“October” by Beatrice Brandini

I worked out of my themes on the trends for the upcoming Fall / Winter 2015-16 . They are personal interpretations , always the result of what I see, hear , listen, “savor “, but also the result of the meeting organized by Milano Unica (thanks!) who invited me to an interesting day on the trends for the next season. Read more →

“Il Signor Bonaventura” by Sergio Tofano

“Mentina” by Beatrice Brandini

Like all parents who have young children, I became an expert in cartoons, in the beginning I have to say in spite of myself, loving the cinema and the film “serious”, then being keen and discovering a world of different characters, original, sometimes even educational .  But above all, someone or something that manages to capture the attention of my son even when all seems lost or impossible (especially patience). Read more →

Marchesa Luisa Casati, photographed by Man Ray

“Follia rossa” by Beatrice Brandini

“Age can not wither     Neither the habit make tasteless     Her infinite truth “.

this epitaph chosen by her granddaughter in honor of her aunt, the same description that Shakespeare had Cleopatra.

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Butterflies at the Museum of the Specola in Florence

“Ninfa” by Beatrice Brandini

“I must endure caterpillars if I want to learn about butterflies, it seems that they are so beautiful.” (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) 

Always butterflies were “muse” inspiring, described and interpreted, iconographically, by all the arts, primarily painting, but especially from the arts so-called “minor”, such as fashion, graphics, jewelry, accessories. Read more →

Serge Lutens 

“Kitten in leotard” Beatrice Brandini

When I was younger, flipping through fashion magazines to which, I have always been passionate, some pages intrigued me, others left me indifferent, but what surprised me most of all, literally, fascinate me with their magic, were those of a well-known Japanese cosmetics brand, Shiseido, whose shots were “pictures”, images of rare beauty … behind all that there was a man: Serge Lutens. Read more →

Vintage Sport Postcards

Sweatshirt Puma – F.I.G.C. Italy, leisure collection 2009 by Beatrice Brandini 

I’m not a very sporty person, but I have almost twenty years of experience in this field, having worked in Puma for more than 13 years and for other major sports companies as a designer and consultant. I love the sport as a spectator then, being keen in all competitions beautiful, spectacular, “HEALTHY” nurturing a profound respect for those who practice the sport competitively or amateur, because I consider their effort, in part, a sacrifice. Read more →

Banner of the exhibition

“Lee” by Beatrice Brandini

Today I was invited to  the press presentation for an exhibition which opens tomorrow at  Palazzo Vecchio and San Fiore, in Florence, Jackson Pollock. The figure of fury. From April 16 to July 27. This exhibition is very important for various reasons. The first is that Pollock has never been exposed to Florence, the second because it connects two protagonists huge art as Michelangelo Buonarroti and just Pollock, apparently at odds , more deeply, not so much, for the third … see Pollock figurative is really a big surprise, as well as a discovery.. Read more →