Author Archives: Beatrice Brandini
Merry Christmas from the heart!
“Merry Christmas” by Beatrice Brandini “Joy” by Beatrice Brandini I tried to wish Merry Christmas words that could express affection, love and serenity …. in the end I think the simplest words, like those just mentioned, are the ones more just because the honest truth. Christmas has a Universal language.
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Mendini: the architect-designer who loves Harlequin and Proust
Alessandro Mendini armchair “Proust”, for Alchimia “Beautiful” by Beatrice Brandini If there is an item that I would like to own more than a piece of jewelry or anything else “important” is (together with the library of Sottsass, the “Carlton”), the Proust chair by Mendini. Because there are things that you see for the first […]
Pirelli calendar: the evolution of the body between seduction and sensuality
Steven Meisel Pirelli Calendar 2015, Raquel Zimmerman “Dangerous curves” by Beatrice Brandini In Milan, the Royal Palace, there is a beautiful exhibition dedicated to the Pirelli Calendar, “Form and Desire.” The history of the world’s most popular calendar, cult object and collection, a trip along 50 years (the first edition was presented in 1964), witness […]
Surrealism and Fashion: mouths, eyes, hands … magnificent presence of amazing outfits.
Salvator Dali cover for Vogue, 1939 “Surrealism in Fashion” by Beatrice Brandini “Making slave imagination is the height of foolishness.” André Breton I love Elsa Schiaparelli, Balenciaga, Yves Saint Laurent, Mugler, Moschino, Prada, as Dalí, Duchamp, Cocteau, and all those artists who experiment, desecrate, break the mold and play with their art. Giving “sensational” emotions.
Giacometti and his “immense”, fragile, poetic, human figures.
Manifesto exhibition Giacometti “Annetta” Beatrice Brandini Until February 1 2015 at GAM in Milan there is a beautiful exhibition of Alberto Giacometti, curated by Catherine Grenier, director of the Foundation Alberto and Annette Giacometti in Paris.
David Bowie: The Thin White Duke, a chameleon very talent!
Poster of the exhibition “David Bowie is” “Ziggy” Beatrice Brandini I could not visit the beautiful exhibition organized by the Victoria & Albert Museum in London “David Bowie is”, but I could see the film that the director Hamish Hamilton turned filming the show (you can not go and see something that you would love […]