“Margherita” by Beatrice Brandini

Margherita was a girl who worked for the Tennis Federation and was madly in love with a young tennis player. Read more →

Antonella, the curator of the exhibition, by Beatrice Brandini

Carla Accardi: Untitled, 1954

Carla Accardi was the pioneer of abstract art (a magnificent forerunner), but above all one of the few women in a world dominated by men. Feminist, innovator, creative, free. Read more →

“Claudine lying in the sun with her towel” by Beatrice Brandini

Claudine was a French girl, full of charm, she loved ballet and was enthusiastic about life. Read more →

NATURE mood board by Beatrice Brandini

Banner Milano Unica

The key word of this digital edition is RE-TOUCH, a tribute to the sense of touch, which we have been missing (and continues to lack) for many months, inexorably marked by Covid 19. MILANO UNICA RE-TOUCH means paying homage to the suggestions that we try when we touch a fabric or material, wefts and warps, weaves and selvedges. In short, when we are in contact with those magnificent fabrics that evoke sensations but also concrete clothes, the ones we all would always like to wear. Read more →

“Anna” by Beatrice Brandini

“French maid variation” by George Condo

In an old issue of Vogue USA, an editorial appeared in which the beautiful Daria Werbowy was photographed surrounded by works by a painter who I found fantastic, his name was George Condo. Read more →

“Flaminia” byi Beatrice Brandini

Banner of the exhibition “Imperatrici Matrone Liberte”

Empresses, matrons, freedmen is the title of the new archaeological exhibition in the Uffizi Gallery, where thirty works tell the important role of women in the society of that time. Read more →

“Elena”, particular, by Beatrice Brandini

On Halloween day, a fearless little girl dressed up as a Devil thinking she was the queen of the pumpkins, that day she sure was. Read more →

“Alice and the Pandarancio” by Beatrice Brandini

What if Alice’s story was different? What if Alice stayed in Wonderland? What if so many of us are a little bit Alice? Read more →

“The Foulard” by Beatrice Brandini, 2010

“Lolita” by Beatrice Brandini, 2011

Since I was a child, I considered this accessory a sort of Linus blanket, if on the one hand it is actually a way to protect us from the cold, on the other it is something more, a way to feel “warm” psychologically or intimately, transcending the climate and coming to the soul.

Polimoda 1992 final show press kit

Sketch + photo Polimoda fashion show, 1992

If I go back in time, I have high school drawings in which I very often combined my figure’s dress with a scarf, often striped; even at the final Polimoda show (1992) my 5 outfits were linked to this theme. The photos and figures I have attached will certainly appear a little “démodé”, after all 28 years have passed, but the scarf was already there.

Sketch + photo Polimoda fashion show, 1992

Sketch + photo Polimoda fashion show, 1992

Polimoda fashion show sketch, 1992

Sketch + photo Polimoda fashion show, 1992

So when I started painting, spontaneously and unconsciously, at least at first, I realized that all my paintings always had a woman with a scarf. We can see this track on my site, on Pinterest, in short, on everything that tells me about me.

Other sketches made between 1989 and 1992

This is how a critic described me a few years ago:

Beatrice Brandini’s poetics is nourished by her educational path: she paints elegant and refined young women, endowed with style, but also dreamy, ethereal and provocatively innocent. They are the result of the complex female nature, characterized by innumerable facets and contradictions. Often they are portrayed with a long scarf, not an accessory or a decorative element, but an object that fulfills a symbolic function. On the path that leads from adolescence to adulthood, the scarf protects and reassures these women, wrapping their body and soul. “In the absence of human warmth – writes the artist – I have my scarf, and that’s enough for me”.

“Cloud – Violet “ by Beatrice Brandini, 2007

“Alice” by Beatrice Brandini, 2008

“Vanity” by Beatrice Brandini”, 2009

And that’s why I decided to start from here; making sure that “Girls with a scarf” can become a subject of stories, films, books, comics, objects … Something that keeps me company from a very young age, my little “obsession” that becomes a friend, my hallmark, my poetics.

“Melissa and  Charlie” by Beatrice Brandini, 2011

“The Body” by Beatrice Brandini, 2011

“The Innocence” by Beatrice Brandini, 2011

In the future, You will cyclically find stories in which a girl with a scarf will tell something about herself, will try to keep you company and give some advice, so that each woman, girl or child can be one (or the) protagonist with the scarf.

“Annette” by Beatrice Brandini, 2014

“Janet” by  Beatrice Brandini, 2016

“Dorothy nel giardino magico” by Beatrice Brandini, 2016

The desire is to create an army of girls with scarves, since each person can find affection, consideration, affirmation, rights … and through my little stories can smile and recognize that these shortcomings (and I hope redemptions) are the same for each of us.

“New Romantic” di Beatrice Brandini, 2018

W the scarf and long live the girls with the scarf. I am the first!

Good life to everyone!

Beatrice

Catwalk

“Waiting in the backstage” by Beatrice Brandini

New York, London, Milan and Paris presented the collections for the next Spring Summer 2021, it is the first real restart after the Covid emergency. After so much pain, seeing these extraordinary dresses, born from the passion and commitment of so many workers, a shiver of pride and happiness pervades our hearts. Read more →