Elsa Schiaparelli, the wonder and amazement in fashion

Elsa Schiaparelli

Elsa Schiaparelli

“BETTINA” by Beatrice Brandini

Another great fashion personality was Elsa Schiaparelli.  I’ve always loved because she was the first to combine ART and FASHION, thanks to collaborations with friends such as Jean Cocteau, Salvador Dali, Man Ray. To create wonderful clothes, ironic, surreal, shocking. Creations, but it would be more appropriate to call them works of art, which alone adorned the page of a magazine, the scene of a film, the dummy of a museum. Read more

Gianfranco Ferrè, its fashion a dream, his creations works of art

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Gianfranco Ferrè, Repubblica.it

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“NADINE” by Beatrice Brandini

Today I talk about one of the greatest designers (fashion designer is a “reducing” term if we talk about Ferrè) that the ” Made in Italy” has ever had. His collections and garments are worthy of a display at a museum of costume , but also in the design museum , innovation museum , art museum.

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