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.

 

Change!

What I like about fashion in CHANGE. Change means also that what we do today might be wothless tomorrow, but we have to accept that because we are in fashion. There’s nothing safe forever in fashion…fashion is a train that waits for nobody. Get on it, or it’s gone.

Karl Lagerfeld

I think that this is one of the true definitions of fashion. Indeed the roots of the word ‘fashion’, mode (française), mean change, rhythm, the constant rate of change. Be fashion means live our present time, live the change. And change is to be alive, and risk. But change is part of us, of our history since the beginning of time, because if man had not threathened to change, would not have discovered anything, technology does not exist. If a woman, one day, had not put pants on, would never have started the revolution that brought the woman to hold the same roles of men. Fashion goes hand in hand with the history: both, history and fashion go forward with CHANGE.

Some history and fashion

Women did not have the right to own anything except their wardrobes, wich is the reason women became so interested in clothes.

This line is about the social (and fashion) situation of women in the late nineteenth century, when women had to submit and obey their husbands, who’s the dominant figure in the society. In one hundred years the world changed a lot, thanks to all the women that fought with their associations in the name of more rights and liberty, also if we’re not free at all. However, still now, fashion is maybe the only thing that belongs to us. are women that move and feed the fashion world, dealing with the family through shopping. and maybe that's why shopping is the only thing that belongs to us, it’s also what we do best, and despite this, we’re never bored. Indeed, shopping is one of the few things that can make us truly happy, that gives us that rush of adrenaline that we need in the darkest moments.

Thanks to all the women, thanks to those who have believed and believe in us, and thanks to fashion that makes us feel alive, living for ourselves, not to gratify men.

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.

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.