Monthly Archives: August 2011

Installing an exhibition can be a traumatic experience with too many people running around and panicking. Though I was (as usual) the one panicking this time, things went pretty smoothly also thanks to a well-organised team put together by Dr … Continue reading →

Looks like the Miu Miu mania for Mildred Pierce has invaded also the 68th Venice Film Festival. Opening on Wednesday, the festival will also feature Todd Haynes's TV adaptation for HBO of James M Cain's eponymoous novel. The series will … Continue reading →

I've been on the lookout for a sailor's hat for a while and a few weeks ago I was lucky enough to find a second hand one at a vintage fair in Italy. This particular hat was produced by the … Continue reading →

I have been following fashion and graphic designer Penter Yip, the author of the acclaimed Fashionary, for Zoot Magazine since his notebook created with designers in mind first came out. After launching a second edition of his Fashionary and creating … Continue reading →

I've been writing for over ten years now, but when I first started I had different plans in mind and was more focused on music journalism. I've always had a passion – or rather a mild obsession – with bands … Continue reading →

Italian journalist and director Gualtiero Jacopetti died a week ago in Rome. Now while some of you may not be familiar with his name and surname – though he inspired the character of Marcello in Federico Fellini's La dolce vita … Continue reading →

In a way this post is directly related to yesterday's. After I mentioned to the director of the Rome-based Archivio Collezione Marco Garzia my passion for Luchino Visconti's The Leopard and for the costumes in this film, Mr Garzia produced … Continue reading →

Photography represents reality through camera lenses, or rather, through the objects of reality that a camera reproduces. A photographic exhibition is usually a collection of such moments, chronicling historical events or defining moments in a person's life. Yet it's somehow … Continue reading →

This is where I would be tonight if I were in São Paulo and I weren’t literally snowed under a series of projects with impending deadlines (and a nasty tendinitis…). Tonight there is indeed the presentation of oNONO‘s Spring/Summer 2012 … Continue reading →

Published in the early '40s, Malattie della Moda (literally "Fashion Illnesses") was one of the first manuals written in Italy by a doctor, Arturo Fontana, analysing the most common diseases, conditions and allergies caused by a variety of reasons, from … Continue reading →