Taste “Wall Slogan” Stazione Leopolda

“The sommelier” by Beatrice Brandini 

I want to talk about food, the cue is Taste, the salon organized by Pitti Immagine dedicated to excellence in taste and food lifestyle, where more than 300 operators haute cuisine for three days (March 8 to 10) will meet in Florence, at the Stazione Leopolda, for the ninth edition of this interesting and “nice” event. Read more →

Audrey Hepburn in “Colazione da Tiffany”

“Holly” by Beatrice Brandini

“Wonderful creations make wonderful life …” Charles Lewis Tiffany. Read more →

Drawing from “Alice in Wonderland”, movie by Walt Disney

“Alice” by Beatrice Brandini

All of us know, through the book or the movie, Alice in Wonderland, the novel written in 1865 by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll. It ‘s the story, along with that of Pinocchio, perhaps the most famous in the world, a children’s novel and more. Read more →

Paolo Sorrentino  

“Oscar” by Beatrice Brandini

We do not know if Paolo Sorrentino will make to win the Oscar for best foreign film with ” The Great Beauty “, the verdict will be in a few hours. However, there are many reasons to celebrate and thank him for his talent.

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Charles James dress on display at the Met Museum 

“Fitting” Beatrice Brandini 

In New York, at the Costume Institute of Met Museum, newly renovated, there will be a beautiful exhibition dedicated to Charles James: “Charles James: Beyond Fashion”. A great couturier who made discover of the Americans the beauty and magic of haute couture. Read more →

Cover “The New Yorker”, Lorenzo Mattotti 

“Doris” Beatrice Brandini

Lorenzo Mattotti is one of the largest designers and contemporary artists. His works are published in the most important Italian and foreign newspapers and magazines like the New Yorker, Le Monde, Das Magazin, Nouvel Observateur, Corriere della Sera and Repubblica, and his books translated everywhere. Another excellence of Made in Italy, recognized and respected throughout the world. Read more →

“Fantasy” by Beatrice Brandini  

Fashion Show S/S 2014

I decided to talk about pattern because I’ve always loved, in fact stripes, checks, polka dots, flowers, geometric, abstract … are a wonderful way to enrich and customize a shirt, a skirt, a dress. But mainly because for the next Spring Summer (but will remain so for the ‘ Fall / Winter, from what we’ve just seen on the catwalks of New York and Milan), they are, pattern, the real protagonists in fashion. Read more →

Blythe 

“Brigitte” by Beatrice Brandini

I’ve always been mad of Blythe dolls created in America in 1972 but withdrawn from the market after only a year because they are considered ill-suited to girls, almost disturbing, perhaps for the expression of the eyes that change color and nuance, I’d say maybe even for a style and elegance that fits most mothers to daughters. Read more →

 “Les Miserables” Poster 

“The Candidate” Beatrice Brandini

I decided to tackle a subject very little “glamor” but unfortunately necessary and relevant, especially after yet another suicide of “normal” people that the only way to find their condition and despair, is to take his own life… whether this is a normal thing and especially a normal country?! Read more →

Jovanotti photo by R. Phibbs for Glamour 2012

“Cherubina” Beatrice Brandini 

It ‘so I wanted to dedicate a post to Jovanotti, a little’ because I’ve always loved, witness my collection of all his cds, books, dvd, etc.. , but I think this time so tense and less than satisfactory fit to talk about a character like him, that of positivity, energy and love of life has made some sort of commitment and mission. Read more →