FENDI HAUTE COUTURE DEBUTE

Kim Jones Makes His Fendi, and Haute Couture, Debut.It was his first collection for Fendi, but it was also his first ever womenswear collection (he's also at the head of Dior menswear, and prior to that, Jones held the position of director of menswear at Louis Vuitton for seven years), and Fendi’s debut spring haute couture show. Drawing from seemingly diverse inspirations, from the visual language of Bernini's marbles to Virginia Woolf's time-travelling, gender-blurring novel ‘Orlando’, the show navigates through a maze-like structure of glass boxes offering a “unique journey from the British Bloomsbury to Rome's Galleria Borghese,” explained the fashion house. The actress Demi Moore, opened the show and Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington and Kate Moss (alongside her daughter Lila) all marked their return to the catwalk. Participated also Cara Delavigne, Adwoa Aboah, with her sister Kesewa, and Bella Hadid. Moreover on the runway Silvia Fendi’s daughters Leonetta and Delfina Delettrez (who created the Murano glass jewellery for the collection). Models walked out slowly to a Max Richter soundtrack amid glass boxes, on a show filmed behind closed doors with no live audience. Inspired by ‘Orlando’ and the Bloomsbury set of strong, intellectual women, Jones’ debut couture collection, offered both looks for women and men. It was filled with decadent, regal and structured silhouettes in metallic brocade, luxe translucent silk fabrics, woven jacquards, and hand-beaded tailoring. A love letter written by Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West in 1928, only three years after Fendi was founded, Orlando’s literary conceits are directly interspersed throughout the collection, in form of metal-bound book clutches, as well as the text itself being inscribed onto Mother of Pearl minaudières and leather boots.

SPRING/SUMMER 2021 HAUTE COUTURE

Christian Dior

Christian Dior

 

Valentino

Valentino

Chanel

Chanel

Armani Privé

Armani Privé

Giambattista Valli

Schiaparelli

Iris van Herpen

Azzaro

Alexis Mabille

Alexandre Vauhtier

REAL BUT ECO FURS

 Può una pelliccia essere ecologica e allo stesso tempo fatta con del vero pelo animale? Sembra un ossimoro, ma invece esiste un metodo per utilizzare il pelo dell'animale senza ucciderlo. E il metodo è molto semplice anche se laborioso, lo stesso che si usa per produrre la lana, ovvero tosare l'animale e cucire il pelo con fili di seta su una base di lana. Si otterrà una pelliccia non solo bellissima, ma anche calda e leggera. Io le ho provate a Roma in via Lazio alla Pellicceria Alberto. Di seguito alcune immagini dove indosso alcuni morbidissimi modelli:

                                                                                                photo: Lorena Bernardini

MINIARTEXTIL COMO 2020

MINIARTEXTIL COMO 2020  - La storica manifestazione dedicata alla Fiber Art contemporanea annuncia le nuove date della sua trentesima edizione.

     Dal 30 gennaio al 9 maggio 2021 Pinacoteca Civica, Broletto e Mercato Coperto ospitano opere di grandi maestri interazionali e installazioni site specific una mostra diffusa in tutta la città di Como cui si aggiunge anche Villa Olmo con la mostra METAMORPHOSIS dal 30 gennaio al 9 maggio 2021, tutta la città di Como viene coinvolta in una mostra diffusa, tra opere di grandi Maestri e installazioni site specific, allestite negli spazi della Pinacoteca Civica, del Palazzo del Broletto e del Padiglione Grossisti del Mercato Coperto. 

Ideata da Mimmo Totaro e Nazzarena Bortolaso, promossa e organizzata dall’Associazione ARTE&ARTE in collaborazione con il Comune di Como, dal 1991 Miniartextil porta a Como le visioni evocative e la creatività di grandi nomi dell’arte nazionale e internazionale e di giovani emergenti. La manifestazione ruota attorno all’esposizione di 54 opere di piccolo formato (20x20 cm), i minitessili da cui prende il nome, cui dal 1997 si affiancano installazioni site-specific e opere di grandi artisti. In occasione di questa edizione Villa Olmo ospita dal 30 gennaio al 9 maggio 2021, METAMORPHOSIS una mostra collettiva a cura di Paolo Bolpagni, Giovanni Berera e Sonia D’Alto, che raccoglie voci figlie di epoche, formazioni e origini culturali differenti, accomunate dal linguaggio del filo, della trama, del tessuto, dell’intreccio. In mostra, tra le altre, opere di: Jannis Kounellis, Slavs and Tatars, Marwa Arsanios, Nedko Solakov, Ariel Schlesinger e Jonathan Monk, Hans Peter Feldmann, Daniel Buren, Sheila Hicks.

 Branišová Zuzana - Palimpsest

Bieri Manuela - Social distancing

Bottini Ilary - Don't blame me - The mask of dualism

 Brooš Miroslav - Some of the wonders of the world

Jansen Maike - Nothing to be afraid of

Richard-Bertrand Lucie - Hara House
(PREMIO ARTE&ARTE2020)

NEW DESIGNERS: JIMMY PAUL

The Amsterdam-based fashion designer JimmyPaul, always pushing the boundaries of color, shape and texture, combined with an ultra-high sense of cuteness, JimmyPaul is a brand that investigates the border between costume and fashion. JimmyPaul looks to past, present and future pop-culture references to create one-of-a-kind low brow fashion pieces, resulting in high-art fashion statements with a high-fructose level up to a 1000. The work of JimmyPaul has appeared in numerous fashion magazines such as Vogue, Elle and Paper Magazine, has created tour costumes for Kylie Minogue and Lady Gaga, dressed multiple additional celebrities like Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande, Lady Gaga, Kesha, Paris Hilton and Rihanna and collaborated with companies and brands like W Hotels, FATBOY, Nintendo and Sesame Street.

"Emeralda: the weeked princess" collection:
 

Jimmy Paul x Hello Kitty collection:

Jimmy Paul’s decision to partner with Hello Kitty stems from his fascination with pop culture. Since 2010 he has developed a unique approach to fashion, resulting in ‘high-fructose’ avant-garde silhouettes and bold designs that channel an innocent vision of the design world and portrays an optimistic and playful aesthetic that is associated with pop culture icons, such as Hello Kitty.

Jimmy Paul x Sesamestreet collection:

Maryme-Jimmy Paul Collection:

JimmyPaul started with friend and designer Marie Burlot under the name Maryme-JimmyPaul. They completed several collections in wich they investigated the use of shapes, colors and materials in fashion & art. Their work was presented on different art and fashion platforms all around the world. From Los Angeles to Shanghai.

F/W 2021 PRE COLLECTIONS #3

 

Erdem

Rosetta Getty

Phillip Lim

Partow

Adam Lippes

MM6 Maison Margiela

Ermanno Scervino