Monthly Archives: August 2009

If you are a dancer or you’re passionate about the performing arts and are planning to go on holiday to Venice, try to make sure that your visit there coincides with a workshop or a seminar organised at the Centro … Continue reading →

You may remember that in a previous post I analysed a few designs by United Nude, the footwear brand co-founded by Dutch architect Rem D. Koolhaas and designer and entrepreneur Galahad Clark, in connection with architecture. I recently got images … Continue reading →

Italian writer and translator Fernanda Pivano, better known among her friends as Nanda, died the other day. Fernanda was an icon for many generations of Italians: she discovered the Beat writers, promoted their work and translated many of their books … Continue reading →

There has been a lot of talk in the last few months about the film Picture Me, co-directed by ex-model Sara Ziff and Ole Schell. The docu-film shows the truth behind the modelling business through various interviews. I have recently … Continue reading →

Fantasy always played a great influence over the world of fashion. You could argue, indeed, that there are many similarities between these two apparently different universes, after all fashion, and in particular haute couture, represents an incarnation of fantasy, a … Continue reading →

I was recently re-watching Maciste all’inferno (Maciste in Hell, 1925) by Guido Brignone, an early silent film from the Maciste saga that followed the adventures of the main character, hero Maciste (Bartolomeo Pagano), in Hell. In the film Maciste represented … Continue reading →

I swear I almost got nightmares from seeing pictures of artist Grayson Perry dressed like his Claire alter ego sitting in a Liberty window shop. I have always found Perry extremely disturbing and I honestly wish he would go around … Continue reading →

A while back I got a book entitled Sarti d’Abruzzo (Abruzzese Tailors) by Guido Vergani. It’s a thin volume published in Italy by Skira and, though the title mainly focuses on the tailoring traditions in Abruzzo from Domenico Caraceni (1880-1940) … Continue reading →

Four years ago I represented my region, Abruzzo, in the literature category at the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean that took place in Naples. Among the artists invited to showcase their work during the Biennial there … Continue reading →

Among the events scheduled during the Copenhagen Fashion Weekend event that took place last week in Denmark there was also a small yet interesting exhibition organised at the Italian Culture Institute of Copenhagen that allowed visitors to rediscover the work … Continue reading →