Caruso: call in advance

Enrico Caruso Museum, costume opera “I Pagliacci”  “Little Clown” by Beatrice Brandini  A Lastra a Signa, near Florence, there is a pearl of rare beauty, Villa Bellosguardo, a beautiful house surrounded by a huge park, full of olive groves of Tuscany, characterized by beautiful baroque sculptures, by a magnificent garden, and much more … This is the […]

Trends Fall/Winter 2015 – 16

Georgia O’Keeffe “American”, Philadelphia Museum of Art   “October” by Beatrice Brandini I worked out of my themes on the trends for the upcoming Fall / Winter 2015-16 . They are personal interpretations , always the result of what I see, hear , listen, “savor “, but also the result of the meeting organized by […]

Cartoons: entertainment and salvation

“Il Signor Bonaventura” by Sergio Tofano “Mentina” by Beatrice Brandini Like all parents who have young children, I became an expert in cartoons, in the beginning I have to say in spite of myself, loving the cinema and the film “serious”, then being keen and discovering a world of different characters, original, sometimes even educational […]

Butterflies: from nature to fashion…

Butterflies at the Museum of the Specola in Florence “Ninfa” by Beatrice Brandini “I must endure caterpillars if I want to learn about butterflies, it seems that they are so beautiful.” (Antoine de Saint Exupéry)  Always butterflies were “muse” inspiring, described and interpreted, iconographically, by all the arts, primarily painting, but especially from the arts […]

Serge Lutens: the inventor of the dreams of make-up

Serge Lutens  “Kitten in leotard” Beatrice Brandini When I was younger, flipping through fashion magazines to which, I have always been passionate, some pages intrigued me, others left me indifferent, but what surprised me most of all, literally, fascinate me with their magic, were those of a well-known Japanese cosmetics brand, Shiseido, whose shots were […]

Jackson Pollock. The figure of fury

Banner of the exhibition “Lee” by Beatrice Brandini Today I was invited to  the press presentation for an exhibition which opens tomorrow at  Palazzo Vecchio and San Fiore, in Florence, Jackson Pollock. The figure of fury. From April 16 to July 27. This exhibition is very important for various reasons. The first is that Pollock has […]