Pitti Bimbo banner

A new tribe … Mood Board by Beatrice Brandini

It opened today at the Fortezza da Basso the eighty-first edition of Pitti Bimbo, devoted to the collections of the upcoming Spring / Summer 2016.

I have already amply expressed my passion for this trade show (for all those Pitti), because it’s like entering a “happy island”. A dimension where colors, embroidery, fabrics, applications, prints, patterns, “games and magic” kidnap you …, making you forget, even for a few moments, everything is wrong … Read more →

Exhibition: China: Throught the Looking Glass, Dior Dress

“Li” of Beatrice Brandini

The Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York staged a beautiful and significant exhibition: China: Throught the Looking Glass. An exhibition that explores the influence of Chinese aesthetics in Western fashion, and how this influence is, in truth, a reality for more than a century. Read more →

Exhibition 88th Pitti Uomo

Mood “Sport Funny Atelier” by Beatrice Brandini

We’re back with the second part …. Read more →

Pitti Colors, leitmotiv 88th Pitti Uomo

“A touch of classic” by Beatrice Brandini

Opened today in Florence the 88th edition of Pitti Immagine Uomo, the largest and most important trade fair in the world for men’s clothing. 

This edition is full of color, PITTI COLORS!, the banner of Africa (topic was never more present here for artistic and creative reasons, somewhere else, but near us, for stories of war, misery and despair) and LUXURY. And it is this the point that I noticed most of the stands, the italian luxury, understood as skill, craftsmanship, preciousness (from raw materials to the realization of garments and collections). Read more →

Cover single “God Save the Queen” by the Sex Pistols, 1977

“Dee” by Beatrice Brandini

Born as a youth movement breaking, provocative and very critical of the company (mid-seventies), the punk has influenced many forms of art, such as literature, visual arts, fashion and music. To this it was important and continues to be. Read more →

Richard Avedon, Vogue 1967

“Summer” by Beatrice Brandini

“In the Navy, yes, you can sail the seven seas. In the Navy, yes, you can put your mind at ease….”  Village People

Is there a way to dress Summer which is the essence of chic. A simple way in which just a shirt or a t-shirt, a swimsuit navy, a straw hat, a pair of ray ban … to be (or become) irresistibly elegant. Read more →

Frames fashion show of Gucci Resort 2015-16 in New York

“Resort” of Beatrice Brandini

Gucci presented in New York its line Resort for next season. The new creative director, Alessandro Michele, highlighted more, after the show in February, its new brand vision, ferrying definitely Gucci into a new era. Read more →

Shabby retrò  mood board by Beatrice Brandini

Shabby retrò  mood board by Beatrice Brandini

The trends that I developed a few months ago for Spring / Summer 2016 are divided into four themes. Here in the blog I decided to share with you the most representative images for each theme. The complete package includes inspirational mood, catwalks, kids style, sketches, planimetry design and all that I think might be important and so influential for the future.

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Silvana Mangano in “Riso Amaro” 1949

“Silvana” by Beatrice Brandini

Fendi celebrates “the journey” with a tribute to Silvana Mangano, one of the most important actresses of Italian cinema, a true icon of elegance simple but sophisticated. Muse of artists like Monicelli, Pasolini, Visconti, interpreter of irresistible female figures that have characterized fifty years of the most beautiful Italian cinema. Read more →

Film “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis” by Vittorio De Sica

“Micol” by Beatrice Brandini

The Garden of the Finzi Continis is one of the best movies I saw as a child. From the novel by Giorgio Bassani, the film was directed by Vittorio De Sica in 1970 and won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, the Golden Bear in Berlin, the David di Donatello Award in Italy, the BAFTA award in England. The film tells the story of the middle-class Jewish family Finzi Contini, in the background of one of the ugliest pages of recent twentieth century, racial persecution and subsequent deportation to concentration camps.

However the film is also a manifesto of educated youth, curious and refined, especially embodied by the beautiful protagonist Micol Finzi Contini, the unforgettable Dominique Sanda. Read more →