Monthly Archives: December 2019

Diego Maradona just scored a victory, but not on the pitch. On Monday the ex-footballer and current manager of Argentinian football team, Gimnasia La Plata, won the court case against Italian fashion design duo Dolce & Gabbana. As you may … Continue reading →

We recently looked at character transformations via costumes in operas. Yet the same theme can be explored on the big screen, in films such as 1942 American drama "Now, Voyager", directed by Irving Rapper and starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, … Continue reading →

In yesterday's post we looked at the representation of the passing of time and the fate of a heroine in a costume for a classic opera. The same themes, together with transformation, duality and trans-identity, are also analysed in a … Continue reading →

The opera season at Milan's La Scala opened yesterday with Giacomo Puccini's Tosca, directed by Davide Livermore and conducted by Riccardo Chailly, with opera diva Anna Netrebko in the part of Floria Tosca, Francesco Meli as Cavaradossi and Luca Salsi … Continue reading →

As per tradition the opera season at Milan's La Scala opens today. The event was anticipated by Dolce & Gabbana's Alta Moda show yesterday. Inspired by 12 operas – Giacomo Puccini's Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Turandot, Giuseppe Verdi's Aida, La … Continue reading →

Artist Maria Lai loved books and fairy tales and had a passion for rediscovering legends from her native Sardinia and telling stories with fabric, using a humble needle and threads rather than pen and ink.  The process of telling a … Continue reading →

We usually think about poets as artists who play with words and therefore with something intangible. Yet the word "poet" comes from the Greek verb "ποιέω" (poieo) meaning "I make", "I create", an etymology that almost reconnects this word with … Continue reading →

For luxury fashion houses collaborating with a cool brand means winning the loyalty of new and younger consumers. A cool collaboration, cleverly marketed and packaged, can result in garments and accessories that can produce an instant buying frenzy in consumers. … Continue reading →

Used by many of us as an essential part of an everyday casual uniform, as comfortable as pyjamas, yet more suitable to wear than the latter while working around the house or during a quick run to the shops, hooded … Continue reading →

In the history of fashion, Terry de Havilland will be remembered as the "rock'n'roll cobbler" for his quirky designs and for his famous clientele that included David Bowie, Marianne Faithfull, members of Led Zeppelin and Bianca Jagger among the others. … Continue reading →