Elsa Schiaparelli “BETTINA” by Beatrice Brandini Another great fashion personality was Elsa Schiaparelli.  I’ve always loved because she was the first to combine ART and FASHION, thanks to collaborations with friends such as Jean Cocteau, Salvador Dali, Man Ray. To create wonderful clothes, ironic, surreal, shocking. Creations, but it would be more appropriate to call […]

Gianfranco Ferrè, Repubblica.it “NADINE” by Beatrice Brandini Today I talk about one of the greatest designers (fashion designer is a “reducing” term if we talk about Ferrè) that the ” Made in Italy” has ever had. His collections and garments are worthy of a display at a museum of costume , but also in the […]

“ADVENTURERS” by Beatrice Brandini Corto Maltese by Hugo Pratt I have a daddy lover and collector of comic books, my childhood was characterized by these magazines full of colors, characters, fantastic trips. Among those I have loved, since a child, there was Corto Maltese. This male figure has been for years the image of my ideal […]