Jacques Henri Lartigue: the first photographer who, with grace and poetry, told the twentieth century

Renée Perle photographed by J. H. Lartigue “Florette” Beatrice Brandini At the MEF, Museum Ettore Fico di Torino, there is a beautiful anthology dedicated to one of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century: Jacques Henri Lartigue. They are not simple photographs but little masterpieces, poems in black and white. The exhibition will end on […]

Dior and the psychedelic visions of Keiichi Tanaami

Keiichi Tanaami designs for Dior “Midori” by Beatrice Brandini Raf Simons, creative director of Dior, called Keiichi Tanaami, true legend of the underground Japanese, to redesign the visual and aesthetic codes of the Maison. The result is an irresistible array of pin-ups, skulls, mouths, eyes, in manga version, vibrant colors, fluorescent and acid, mixing East […]

Kartell and its creative plastic

Kartell: Stool “Attila” by P. Starck   “Gaia in the colored lights” by Beatrice Brandini Kartell is an Italian company founded in 1949, a company that with its production of objects has ennobled the plastic, making it stylish, colorful, playful. It’s been almost seventy years but still surprised by its creative originality.

Jean Paul Gaultier: the fashion tomboy, with inventiveness, extravagance and game

Exhibition poster J.P. Gaultier in Paris “Mannequins Gaultier” by Beatrice Brandini Jean Paul Gaultier is one of the greatest fashion designers that, since the end of the seventies, continues to amaze us with his creative, tailoring, ironic and precious collections. Until August 3 Paris pays tribute to this histrionic and very talented stylist (it’s sad […]

Richard Avedon in Rome: beauty and enchantment

Photo of Richard Avedon, 1950 “Dovima” by Beatrice Brandini In Rome, at the Gogosian Gallery, there is a beautiful exhibition dedicated to one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century: “Avedon: Beyond Beauty” Richard Avedon photographed mostly women, but his portraits capture not only the beauty and glamor, his women are intense, original, […]