I have a dream

FASHION WEEKS!

I hope one day I’ll be there, at the front row or behind the scene, somewhere! Because that’s definitely my world. It’s art in its pure state. But for now I have to be satisfied to see them on websites…thank you to technology!

Everyone has noticed the sobriety of dresses and models, the composure, simplicity, the elegance, key-word of this P/E trends. Despite everybody does anything to appear, to be always in the spotlight, by dressing and doing so overly eye-catching, fashion wants to remind us that simplicity is the secret of elegance , and chic is the real charm, it’s the key to success.

Have personality in interpreting the clothes, here’s what they require to be glamorous. Yes to sobriety, historical quotes, consciousness, fashion in the highest sense. No to circus parades!

There, some of my favourites italian looks of Milan FW.

Fendi

Versace

Prada

A Rome celebration of fashion

The 15th of September was a very special night in Rome.

I took two days for me with my friend to have part at the Vogue Fashion Night Out, in Rome for the first time. It was a night full of fashion and shopping. All the shops of the city center were open and they offered cocktails, dj sets and special products in limited edition. And there were baloons, lights, photographers, actors and models. It was like a big party marked by the rhythm of happiness, of youth, of elegance, of the will to live, of the desire to overcome the economic crisis. It was wonderful because everybody was smiling while he was drinking special cocktails in the shops and was watching the showcases. Every shop offered something special.

I bought a limited edition bag at Pennyblack’, a nail polish at Chanel from the limited edition of the blues (it’s sell only in Milan and Rome’s boutiques), something at H&M, a limited edition t-shirt and something in a characteristic italian shop. In a jewellery they also made me a golden tattoo! I made a lot of photos, and it was very funny to walk (too much!!) thought Rome’s streets in this festive atmosphere!

We also had the opportunity of visit “Todo o Nada”, a photographic exhibition by Mario Testino, set up for the Rome’s fashion event of this summer, Altaroma. I definitely loved it. Todo o nada, everything or nothing, the two camps of action of the photographer: fashion and the nude. All, the excesses, and nothing, pure semplicity. There were about fifty photos of models and actress. First, those dressed in the finest haute couture’s clothes, and these gradually falls and the bodies are revealed in their beauty.

I hope that fashion will always go on, because fashion is, first of all, beauty, and beauty is everything in life! We’re beauty, Italy’s beauty, fun and style, the perfect ingredients for a night illuminated by fashion!

A.

 

Between earth and sky: shoes!

 Tonight I have to invite you to read a post on an italian fashion and design blog, “Design With Love”. They asked to some italian fashion blogger some questions about shoes for a survey about italian shoes, as objects of desire, expecially for women. Well, they interviewed also me, so I’d like you to read the post by click to the following link.

Thank you so much and enjoy!

http://www.designwithlove.net/2011/09/intervista-arianna-palestini-si-capisce.html

A million girls would kill fot this job…

Well, from this wednesday I’ll do the wednesday’s movie post one every two weeks because I’m having so much to study, because of the semi-annual exams! Ideed, I have to work hard if I want to find my place in the fashion system, one day!

However, this week’s movie is…The Devil wears Prada, for us, fashionistas, it has became a sort of Bible.

This movie is rich of everything about fashion magazines. Leaving apart all the story about the similarity with Vogue America and her Anna Wintour, it’s a cauldron of fashion brands, fashion people, and a good documentary to know how’s the work in a fashion magazine.

My favourite character is –with no doubt- Nigel (Stanley Tucci). He’s fantastic, so stilish and elegant, so strong, but sweet at the same time!

It seems that the best of the movie are clothes. Indeed the costume designer is Patricia Field, the same of Sex and the City. Everyone wears very special and expensive stuff: Chanel, Donna Karan, Vivienne Westwood, D&G, and Prada shoes, of course!

Many are the main scene, but the most hilarious (but extremely true, because based on a real fashion’s theory –the Trickle down) is the one of the choice of the clothes for the shoot, when Andy smiled seeing two belts apparently eguals, but of two differents gradients, and Miranda shows her all the fashion system of the trickle.

An how to forget the Paris Fashion Week?! A worldwide event that every of us dream (and they know it!).

Well, what can I say? All the movie is an open book to this faboulous world, is a picture in that there’s all the fashion magazine’s system and the deep mean of that.

Don't you know that you are working at the place that published some of the greatest artists of the century? Halston, Lagerfeld, de la Renta. And what they did, what they created was greater than art because you live your life in it.

Hoping I’ll be a clackers one day,

A.

The man who lets us dream

‎Perchè la moda si porta addosso, un abito indossato da una donna e non da un manichino prende forma,la stoffa cade in un certo modo, la luce illumina certi punti

We’re talking about Renè Gruau (1909-2004).

He has been a fashion designer and changed the history of advertising in fashion, thanks to the collaboration with Christian Dior, with who he promoted the new look, a new female figure, who embodies the desire and define a lifestyle that makes you dream: sinuous silhouette, narrow waist, sides pronounced, many accessories.
His art consists in matching poster’s style resorts of Rimini, elegant and stylish, with the simple and linear Japanese prints made of bold colors and scenes that truncated hide, reveal, intrigue.

Enjoy!

End of Fear, Beginning of Love

The event of November: Agatha Ruiz de la Prada and Elio Fiorucci held a meeting on fashion and art 'from the Pop Newpop'. was a very special one on Tuesday morning, as it's not every day you have artists like them, to confront together.
In the middle of the speech were the color and fast fashion, the main Ingred Pop.

"De la Prada, Fiorucci have taken into account in their work to the needs of the people: the smile, the colors, and originality. Pop art is a movement that changed the art, is self-deprecating, optimistic. Would not hurt a bit 'the art of the sadness of the modern world made of escort, selfishness and violence. ".

So Mariella Milani (famous Italian journalist who deals with fashion) introduced the two designers.
Following the fil rouge of 'pop art, after presenting his life, Agatha has presented his work of a year, "closer to art than fashion," a labor of colors and simple, happy images.
But sensational was the intervention of Fiorucci, a great man who has started to work in the fast fashion for some years, since, as pointed out by Milani,

"to buy items in the series is a cultural fact, even the jet set buy items economic: the trend. Fashion is democratized. "

Finally, Fiorucci closed his speech explaining his famous angels:

“They are symbols that protect; the dead are angels, but angels are above all people who are near to you: next to us (even without realizing it) there may be a person who loves us.”

Thank you both!