“Dummy with necklace” private collection Paul Poiret by Beatrice Brandini Here starts my journey that tells about designers, fashion houses and the most iconic clothes they have crossed the last century up to the present day.
Gucci by Alessandro Michele, dress on the exhibition Camp at Metropolitan Museum “The eccentric” by Beatrice Brandini The Metropolitan Museum of New York celebrates excess in art and fashion, with the Camp: Notes on Fashion exhibition, from May 9th to September 8th. In 1964 Susan Sontag, in the essay Notes on Camp, codifies the meaning […]
French Vogue, 1996. Photo by Helmut Newton “Sensuality” by Beatrice Brandini The grand retrospective dedicated to Helmut Newton, promoted by the Civic Museums of the Municipality of San Gimignano and produced by Opera-Civita with the collaboration of the Helmut Newton Foundation of Berlin, will be inaugurated today at the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art […]
“Barbie Bowl” limited edition “Barbie” by Beatrice Brandini The success of the Barbie doll can be attributed to innumerable factors, but I believe that among all there is the fact that this revolutionary doll represents a free and independent woman, with the ability to be light, fun, beautiful, but also self-confident, interpreter of the aesthetic […]
Yves Saint Laurent interpreted by Beatrice Brandini Collage of vintage clothes and accessories from a private collection, photo A.G. A few years ago my blog was born and my first lighting, my first post (June 2013), spoke of the phenomenon of vintage and the most significant fashions in the history of fashion, or “ICON VINTAGE […]
“Death on the head”, creation of my son “LEGO groupies” by Beatrice Brandini I have spoken several times about toys, indispensable means for entertainment and the company of children, but also a way to bring back the great ones to the joys of childhood, and finally protagonists of exhibitions like objects of art and collecting. […]
Banner MilanoUnica outside the Fabbrica Orobia “CIRCUS” Mood by Beatrice Brandini In Milan, at the Fabbrica Orobia, there was a meeting on trends that will accompany us towards the 29th edition of MilanoUnica next July, a meeting that, as usual, dictated the diktats on what will be the directions of fabrics, colors , accessories, for […]
“Portrait with golden mask”. 2009 “Marina” by Beatrice Brandini The first major Italian retrospective dedicated to Marina Abramović, one of the most famous, iconic and controversial personalities of contemporary art, has just ended a few days ago.
Joost Schmidt poster for the 1923 exhibition in Weimar “Astrid” by Beatrice Brandini In April 1919, Walter Gropius founded the most important art school of the century: the Bauhaus, a real source of ideas that gave rise to masterpieces, but also to small common objects still present in our houses, productions that are origin of […]
abc mannequins, mannequins with a soul “Girl with red hair in sweater” by Beatrice Brandini The real protagonists of this fair are the exhibitors who every six months are able to create new blends, new effects, new nuances in a small yarn.