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.

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.

She wants to make the difference

Another wednesday, another movie.

It's Mona Lisa Smile Time, one of my favourite's movies.

A full-length movie, filled with everything from fashion, described simply perfect. We're between 1953 and 1954, one would think that the designers have taken up this film for fashion shows of this winter.

Long skirts, cardigans, starched shirts, hats, veils, red lipstick and strings of pearls.

Everything is so incredibly perfect.

Fashion has certainly a very important role in this movie, since that enriches every scene, every dialogue, debate, romantic moment are highlighted by the captivating beauty of the clothes that we dream today, because is tha peace and prosperity tipical of 50s that we dream today, in this period of crisis. And are these elements that tell the story, as well as to issues related to the irreversible change of that decade: contraception, divorce, free love, women's empowerment, new music, rock 'n'roll, unconventionality, which are opposed to the traditional, bourgeois values, the disparity between the sexes, the division of roles, pairs that divide people, but all of these things make you fall in love with that class of art of the female Wellesley College!

Such an amazing movie that went deep inside women souls searching for reasons why us, complete, wonderful and capable creatures are voluntarily lowering our own expectations from life when we literally have everything to open new worlds to the world we live in.

Enjoy, and fallow my advice!

My parents say my future is right on the horizon.

- Tell them the horizon is an imaginary line that recedes as you approach it.

Look beyond the paint. Let us try to open our minds to a new idea.

My teacher, Katherine Watson, lived by her own definition, and would not compromise that. Not even for Wellesley. I dedicate this, my last editorial, to an extraordinary woman who lived by example and compelled us all to see the world through new eyes. By the time you read this, she'll be sailing to Europe, where I know she'll find new walls to break down and new ideas to replace them with. I've heard her called a quitter for leaving, an aimless wanderer. But not all who wander are aimless. Especially not those who seek truth beyond tradition; beyond definition; beyond the image.

A movie for every week

Wednesday, in the middle of the week, is the perfect day to start a column!

So, every wednesday we’ll talk about …movies. Let’s get it started!

It’s Christmas time and in the frecious gift’s hunting (terrifying!) of these days I want to propose you the perfect movie to dream in the Christmas atmosphere.

Serendipity (2001) is about fate: “serendipity” is when you find something unexpected when you were looking forsomething else. So, it’s a love story dictated by destiny: they meet each other during Christmas shopping, they spend an evening together without exchange their names and telephone numbers. They’ll write them in a book (that she’ll sold) and in a banknote (with that he’ll pay something). Destiny will do everything.

Thanks to Sara (Kate Beckinsale), we can till dream and be hopeful, even when everything seems to be going wrong, because “fate is behind everything”, and we gotta have faith in destiny.

Life is not merely a series of meaningless accidents or coincidences, but rather, it’s a tapestry of events that culminate in an exquisite sublime plan.

“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…