Missoni: a large family which combined color and imagination to create magic sweaters

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Brochure of the exhibition “Missoni, the art, the color”

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“Margherita” by Beatrice Brandini

At the Museum Ma*ga of Gallarate, the city that gave birth to the first workshop of Ottavio and Rosita Missoni, there is a beautiful exhibition: Missoni, the art, the color. A tribute to the creativity of the fashion house Missoni and a trip of over one hundred works by important artists from the twentieth century to the present day. Read more

Lingerie Trends S/S 2017

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Lingerie trends that have developed for the next season provide 5 themes. Each of them brings together a range of colors, the inspirational mood that built the theme itself, the artistic and cultural trends (art, design …), the silhouette of the catwalks, those of street style and persoanal sketches. It’s 10 pages per issue, for a total of 50 pages to launch an offer not to be missed. You can find it in the section “Trends”.

Lee Miller: Musa, artist, model, photographer, the first photojournalist who told the war

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Lee Miller photographed by Man Ray in 1929

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“Elizabeth” Beatrice Brandini

“I looked like an angel out. I saw that. I was a devil, instead, inside. I knew all the pain of the world as a child.” Elizabeth Miller

Free-spirited and unconventional Elizabeth “Lee” Miller was a woman full of talent, sensitive and indomitable … a real modern heroine. Read more

Escher: the scientist of the engravings, the alchemist of art!

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M.C. Escher “Hand with Globe”, lithography 1935

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“Anke and Jetta” by Beatrice Brandini

In Bologna, at Palazzo Albergati, there is a beautiful exhibition where you can admire the lithographs, engravings, halftones of Maurits Cornelis Escher; the artist before and better than others, represented common objects as if they were magic, opening us the eyes and above, our imagination. Read more

Woman Trends S/S 2016

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A new Denim_Indigo_Blue, Mood board by Beatrice Brandini

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A new Denim_Indigo_Blue, Mood board by Beatrice Brandini

The trends that I developed a few months ago for Spring / Summer 2016 are divided into five themes. Here in the blog I decided to share with you the most representative images. The complete package includes inspirational mood, walkways, street style, art and design, and all that I think might be important and so influential for the future. Read more

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

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Renée Perle photographed by J. H. Lartigue

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“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 June 21, you can visit it if you return home “richer”. Read more

Dior and the psychedelic visions of Keiichi Tanaami

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Keiichi Tanaami designs for Dior

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“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 and West … Read more

Kartell and its creative plastic

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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. Read more

Niki the Saint Phalle and her archaic, playful and mysterious creatures

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Niki the Saint Phalle, fountain in the Tarot Garden, Garavicchio

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“The Temptress” by Beatrice Brandini

Niki the Saint Phalle is counted as one of the exponents (only female) of Nouveau Realism, one of the first artists who used art as a warning against racism and in favor of minorities (feminist avant la lettre, before the girl power and riot grrrl). Equipped with a great creative personality, left us fantastic works that give us joy and happiness. Read more