Charles M. Schulz “Sempre tu..” Bur, 1978 Rizzoli
“Monica” di Beatrice Brandini
I read that in the world the people who have red hair are disappearing, I’m sorry because I think that this color, especially in women, is a special, something beautiful that makes them “special”. Read more
Collage catwalk A / W 2014-15
Mood by Beatrice Brandini
In a few weeks we will be back at full speed, work, home, school, change of cabinets season, courses for children … jumping as athletes from side to side, hoping not to neglect anything, with the knowledge to do it always.
But there is something beautiful and exciting in the change of season, especially among what separates the Summer from Fall and Winter from Spring it is FASHION. Whether you can completely revamp your wardrobe, or you can simply buy a facsimile of the bag of your dreams …., fashion is always with you and can make you dream again …
Franco Mauro Franchi “Great Aurora”
“Anita” by Beatrice Brandini
In Livorno at the Villa Trossi-Uberti, until August 31, there is a beautiful exhibition of Franco Mauro Franchi: “Excursions to the Great Mother.” Sculptures, drawings and paintings. Read more
Tom Wesselmann “Smoker no.1”, 1967 MoMa New York
“Claire” by Beatrice Brandini
For me art has to “shake”, which is a thought, a doubt, it’s all good, as long as it is not indifference… Read more
Sketch Anna Anni, private collection
“The Duchess” by Beatrice Brandini
In high school I had the good fortune to have a great teacher, rigorous, capable, creative, authoritative, reserved, and above all generous, the generosity of those who excel in their field or profession and not did they make a boast but rather share it and gives it to others: this “teacher” (from the Latin magister = master, union of magis = large + the comparative suffix – ter, therefore etymologically “the largest) was called Anna Anni and she was a costume designer famous all over the world. Read more
Banner of the event
Mood Beatrice Brandini Beach S/S 2015
The seventh edition of Mare d’Amare, exhibition dedicated to the Beach, held in Florence from today to Sunday, July 28. Read more
John Currin, “The go see” 1999
“Sun and Orchid” by Beatrice Brandini
I love John Currin always, I find that his imperfect figures (almost exclusively female), often an emblem of “empty” American wealth (empty because sterile and bored, extremely consumerist, without passions, love, drives …), are at the end irresistible and, in an unusual way, lovely. Read more
Mario Testino photographed by Scott Schuman
“Casting” by Beatrice Brandini
Mario Testino is one of the most important fashion photographers in the world, author of campaigns and commercials memorable, capable of transforming celebrities, and not, in beautiful characters, stars rich of glamor. This is for me the most important feature of Testino, ie to make the subject “special”, giving allure and charm, in a few words that golden magic that not everyone can capture …. beyond of the objective beauty of the shot. Read more
Vintage Yarn (Tolt yarn and wool)
Made in Steppes, mood board of Beatrice Brandini
Pitti Immagine Filati is not only an exhibition of raw materials, excellent yarn, colors, fabrics, jacquard, denim (in this issue!) and items made by talented designers, Pitti Filati is where creative people going to make your own work, hence they develop trends over the fashion, trends that go to all Lifestyle. Read more
Banner Pitti Filati
Made in Highland mood board by Beatrice Brandini
It ended a few days ago the most important event at the international level of the yarn for knitting, Pitti Immagine Filati, with a preview of the Fall / Winter 2015-16. The 116 brands, of which 21 are foreign, a real tribute to the excellence of the raw materials, the ability to create effects, colors, softness, finishing, processing every season …. more amazing. Read more
