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.

 

A Beauti-ful(l) love story

Studying for my fashion exams, I’m trying to find some time for this blog!

It’s wednesday today, so there should be a particular post about movies. Well, this time the movie is The Beauty and the Beast. Yes, it’s only a cartoon, but I think it’s the best cartoon ever, and it was made in 1991, like me! However, I would like to tell you about the musical that’s permorming in Italy (Rome this year!), that I’ve seen last Sunday at Brancaccio’s Theatre. Gourgeous. It’s a breathtaking performance, and you would like to cry for all the two hours. Indeed I think it’s the most romantic drama ever, and actors did their best to let us dream, and also think, in this beauti-ful(l) rapresentation, rich in sweetness, special effects, but also values.

Maybe almost everybody know the history of Belle and her adventures in the magic castle of the Beast, but not everyone knows that this fairy tale, written many times in diffents countries, has its birth with the Apuleio’s Amore e Psiche (do you know, Canova’s best work…), a love story about metamorphosis, magic and beauty.

So, during the musical made of Alan Menken’ Oscar’s soundrack, you can dream with Belle, her pure love agains the Beast’s beastly love, that first is material (maybe sexual instinct), but then It will be tranformed in true love, and that’s the love that make Belle think that there’s something else over the awful face of the Beast. She taught him to love, he gave her his heart, his castle, his beauty and his love, too!

Oooh, love is in the air…

“Ever just the same, Ever a surprise, Ever as before, Ever just as sure, As the sun will arise”

Don’t forget the crystal shoe

As a fashion blogger, I have to say something about this year’s Golden Globes.

Globes excluded, I want to point your attention on the clothes of the stars.

And star is the exact word to describe Olivia Wilde’ ball gown by Marchesa, that make you feel like being in a dream…

And now, a pale pink dress parade, for a cotton candy world! Thank you to our madames, they still know how to be elegant but simply, to feel like modern princesses, and then every dream will come true!

So, Leighton Meester in Burberry Porsum, so chic and…hot….wow, that’s a breathtaking slit!

Megan Fox, with a very particular sleevless corset, she’s in Armani privè, too.

Sandra Bullock and her fashionable one shoulder gown, sooo sparkling, she’s like a grecian diva, wonderful…

And last, but not least, the best of all. She’s the best dramatic actress (for Black swan), the most beautiful, and with the best gown by Victor & Rolf, the best elegant but the simplest one. (PS.she’s pregnant, of course!).

Sweet dreams, with this gorgeous gowns, and remember that the magic will finish at midnight!

xoxo,

A.

Adieu

Speaking of fashion, this week I had to sacrifice the wednesday movies’ theme to tell you something about a model.

Probably you have heard about her, Isabelle Caro.

I know it’s an annoying argument, over discussed, but I have to do my part, as everyone. Our lives are made also of these arguments, not only of happy ones, as we want there to be only beautiful moments.

Well, Miss Caro was born in 1982 and since she was 13th she suffered from anorexia nervosa,caused by what she told ‘a trumbled childhood’. She also said that she started to slim down drastically when a fashion stylist told her that she had to loose 10 kilos. And she did it, and came to other modeling agencies and, although she was 40 kilos weight, nobody was hit by her exagerated skinnes, because they’re accustomed to see girls such skinny.

She was 30 kilos when she posed for Oliviero Toscani for a photo anti-anorexia for an italian brand. Isabelle decided to do this shoot beacuse she wanted to let people see what is anorexia really, how will you become if you’re anorexic, she fighted, she was in coma, but she re-started to eat.

Caro tryied to pass a law in Parliament saying that you can't model if you're too skinny, also if her anorexia was caused not only by fashion, but mainly by her family troubles.

Well, that’s another appeal to the entire world to help everybody who suffers of this terrible disease, not only physical, but psycological!

Everyone should feel beatiful in his body, fat, thin, tall, small, blonde hair, big nose: is our diversity to make us beautiful!

PS. Isabelle died the 17th november 2010…

A Chanel Birthday

Hi everybody!

I’m sorry…it’s one week that I’m not writing here!

Well, I’ve been N I N E T E E N on thursday! It was a wanderful day, because I knew that my friends (few and very close!) are the best present af all! Aaaaand, about presents, I received a ticket to go to see The Beauty and the Beast- The musical in Rome in January (it’s my favourite cartoon!), and my Mum gave a me a Chanel set with a makeup case, a Rouge Coco and a powder… thank you Mummy!

Now, I’m gonna go to make my Christmas’ wish list!

xoxo

A.

“I love beauty, it’s not my fault”

Do you want to watch a different movie in this rainy night? Do you may want a fashion movie, rich in faboulous dresses? I’ve got it:

VALENTINO, the last emperor.

It’s a documentary about Valentino Garavani: they were following the stylist for two years, during preparetions of fashion shows till the last magnificent one, in the Ara Pacis (Rome).

You can see how gorgeous is Valentino’s work: he use to study e-v-e-r-y dress in its single parts, until this dress will be  p e r f e c t. The movie portays the real Valentino, “reserved and exuberant at the same time”, a man who speaks with his hands and actions, a very charismatic man,yet silent, difficult… but extrordinary, always attacched to a lifelong companion, Mr. Giammetti, a very special man.

The “red Valentino”, the ropes, the private plane, his dogs, Paris, and the grand final parade, the one that has left an indelible mark.

An incredible movie, moving, that leave you breathless.

There is no desire to see it coming? Then, tell me what do you think about it…