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Monthly Archives: January 2010

THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS

29 January, 2010

Literature and mostly cinema must have forgotten Lewis Carrol second book, “Through the Looking-Glass” the sequel of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”. Nothing looks more contemporary. Female narcisism is its first inspiration in which he places an observation: the mirror makes you dream, it breaks the spatial-temporal limit moving us inside a  Magritte-esque world, in a reformed [...]

A LADY'S PORTRAIT

24 January, 2010

Some iconographic objects express the individual identities such as essences do, telling the history of whom they dress. They trace portraits, they unveil secrets. The woman using perfume just become another woman. She’s experimenting the thrill of hiding and then inviting the man into a slight game: which secret lies beyond that scent cloud? The [...]

NARCISOLOGY

20 January, 2010

Photography ALBERTO PELLEGRINET
Realization ALESSIO NESI
From Left: Glorious Skin COMFORT ZONE. Hydratant Bonne Mine L’HOMME YVES SAINT LAURENT. Rénergy 3D Yeux LANCÔME MEN. Eau de Toilette Gucci by GUCCI pour Homme. Eau de Toilette FERRÉ. Sunglasses TOM FORD.

THE MALE SILHOUETTE / TO BE A DANDY NOWADAYS 1995-2010

13 January, 2010

In 1994, while the end of the eighties was officialy enacted, Corinne Day was shooting a young Kate Moss for British Vogue magazine. In a time  ruled by “über-models” – such as Nadia Auermann, Cyndy Crowford, Eva Herzigova and Naomi Campbell – Kate Moss was the perfect nineties embodiment of the teenage’s rage for the older [...]

WALTER ALBINI AND HIS TIMES

11 January, 2010

On the occasion of Pitti Immagine Uomo 77th Edition, Florence, the Costume Gallery, Palazzo Pitti, will be the perfect location to celebrate the official launch of the book “Walter Albini and his times. All power to the imagination” (Collana Mode, Edizioni Fondazione Pitti Discovery, Marsilio Editori, pp225), on January 12th – 6/8 pm. The book [...]