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 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.