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

ILLUMINATING AND ULTIMATE GRAY - PANTONE 2021

For over 20 years, Pantone’s Color of the Year has influenced product development and purchasing decisions in multiple industries, including fashion, home furnishings, and industrial design, as well as product packaging and graphic design. 

As every year Pantone announces the ‘it’ colour for the coming year, and this year it is: PANTONE 17-5104 Ultimate Gray + PANTONE 13-0647 Illuminating. It's not the first time that Pantone choosed a mix of two colours, the colours chosen for 2016 if I remember correctly were the Rose Quarz (a light and delicate pink) and Serenity (a light blue). 

 But for this year a marriage of this colour conveying a message of strength and hopefulness that is both enduring and uplifting. Two independent colours that highlight how different elements come together to support one another, best express the mood for Pantone Color of the Year 2021. Practical and rock solid but at the same time warming and optimistic, the union of PANTONE 17-5104 Ultimate Gray + PANTONE 13-0647 Illuminating is one of strength and positivity. 

It is a story of colour that encapsulates deeper feelings of thoughtfulness with the promise of something sunny and friendly. A message of happiness supported by fortitude, the combination of PANTONE 17-5104 Ultimate Gray + PANTONE 13-0647 Illuminating is aspirational and gives us hope. We need to feel that everything is going to get brighter – this is essential to the human spirit. PANTONE 13-0647 Illuminating is a bright and cheerful yellow sparkling with vivacity, a warming yellow shade imbued with solar power. PANTONE 17-5104 Ultimate Gray is emblematic of solid and dependable elements which are everlasting and provide a firm foundation. 

The colours of pebbles on the beach and natural elements whose weathered appearance highlights an ability to stand the test of time, Ultimate Gray quietly assures, encouraging feelings of composure, steadiness and resilience. A combination of colour whose ties to insight, innovation and intuition, and respect for wisdom, experience, and intelligence inspires regeneration, pressing us forward toward new ways of thinking and concepts.

Prada S/S2021

SPRING/SUMMER 2021

TOP: Anrealage - MSGM - Valentino
DOWN: Anteprima - Kenzo - Elie Saab

TOP: Giorgio Armani - Salvatore Ferragamo - Anrealage
DOWN: Malloni - MM6 - Emporio Armani

THE ORIGIN OF A PINK PIED DE POULE JACKET

It's been 30 years since Claudia Schiffer on the Chanel runway wore this white and pink pied de poule knit jacket on a chiffon skirt with the classic bi-colours flats. Today an asiatic model wears on a pair of jeans a white and pink pied de poule knitted jacket that Olivier Rousteing designed for the Balmain Fall/winter 2021/22 pre-collection. Everything comes back!

Chanel 1991  -  Balmain 2021

Claudia Schiffer Chanel S/S 1991

Balmain F/W 2021 pre-collection

HAPPY 2021!!!!!

... it will definitely be better than 2020!