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“Check” by Beatrice Brandini

The men’s fashion season, made of collections, catwalks and salons, opens with the 94th Pitti Uomo. This season’s leitmotif is P.O.P, or Pitti Optical Power. An acronym behind an optimistic, energetic, popular message.

Yes, because fashion has changed a lot, abandoning the strict aesthetic codes and diktats of creatives or celebrities that very little fit the daily life of modern life, today you can dress with more freedom, mixing styles, freely interpreting different roles according to occasions ” ‘use and consumption “. Read more →

A glimpse of Milano Unica Preview, Milano Unica credits

Mood board “Techno Romantic Azerbaijan” di Beatrice Brandini

An other interesting meeting took place in Milan with the preview of the trends for Autumn Winter 2019 – 20 promoted and organized by Milano Unica.

In this edition the theme is “Nations to Nations”, a manifesto that has various and very current keys of interpretation. Essentially “United to be Unique”, wants to promote a message of positivity and of union between peoples and cultures, an invitation to collaboration and the symbolic link between different people and traditions. It seemed to me a very important message in a historical moment in which someone wants to build walls, and many afflict people or entire populations who know nothing but despair. Read more →

“Autumn”

“Candice” by Beatrice Brandini

The fashion shows for the next Fall Winter ended; New York, London, Milan and finally Paris, have seen very different collections as protagonists, confirming an idea of creative fashion but above all FREE. We will dress as we please and like, without diktat and constraints, and finally, without taking ourselves too seriously. Read more →

Caravaggio: Medusa, 1598 Oil on canvas on convex shield. Uffizi Gallery Florence

“Corallina” (particular) by Beatrice Brandini

On Monday 17 February, eight new rooms were inaugurated in the prestigious Uffizi Museum, wing of the Levante, dedicated to Caravaggio and 17th-century painting.

Eight rooms characterized by evocative names such as: “Caravaggio: the Medusa”, “Caravaggio: the Bacchus”, “Galileo and the Medici”, “Caravaggio and Artemisia”, just to name a few, but definitely suggestive is the beauty of the exhibited works. Read more →

Costume for theatrical representation, drawing by Roberto Capucci (2009)

“Rita Rainbow” by Beatrice Brandini

I have already dedicated a post to Roberto Capucci (January 21st 2014), but such an important and complete figure would deserve many others. This time the occasion is a beautiful exhibition that I had the privilege of seeing together with the master himself: CAPUCCI Dionysiac, drawings for the theater. Firenze Gallerie degli Uffizi – Palazzo Pitti – Andito degli Angiolini. Read more →

EM Filati by Edoardo Miroglio

“Want to knit” by Beatrice Brandini

The 82nd edition of Pitti Filati dedicated to spring – summer 2019 ends here. The international appointment with the new fashion and lifestyle trends of knitting yarns, with its research laboratories and the richest suggestions of knitwear. Read more →

MILLEFILI set up

“Guendalina” by Beatrice Brandini

The number 82 edition of Pitti Filati ended, the fair recorded a small growth by foreign buyers, confirming the overall data of the last winter edition.
Pitti Filati presented the collections of the most prestigious spinning mills for the 2019 summer season, for this reason, despite being an event with very different numbers and events compared to the one dedicated to men, it is an unmissable exhibition. Read more →

Karl Lagerfeld layout stand

“Dandy Rock” by Beatrice Brandini

I resume my journey inside the halls of Pitti Immagine Uomo. The fair ended with objective and positive market data. Record turnout, more visitors but above all, more buyers. A breath of fresh air we all tremendously needed. Read more →

“Funny Girl” by Beatrice Brandini

Powerpuff Girls

The 86th edition of Pitti Immagine Bimbo opened yesterday, the most important and complete fair for infant, kid and junior clothing. Many innovations, 578 are in fact the brands present in Fortezza da Basso (there were 503 last winter edition), of which 344 foreigners. And it is a good sign, if we are able to interpret it in the right way, that is the desire to enter the Italian market, the most demanding in the world, and above all the trust in an Italian fair, Pitti, as a showcase and international launch pad. Read more →

Mood board “NEW ROMANTIC” by Beatrice Brandini

Banner Pitti Immagine Bimbo

Continue the journey inside Pitti Bimbo, the final data, at the end of the exhibition, show a slight recovery. More international buyers (mainly from Russia, Spain and the United Kingdom), but also Italians. Read more →