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Monthly Archives: December 2009

ANTHROPOLOGICAL SPACES

There are spaces telling people’s histories, people who have lived or simply went through this places, now clear to our eyes by their clues: colours, signs, objects, actions, news items. Simone Parri and Giorgio Barrera achieved an aesthetic-intellectual research that overlap with existence. With their personal work they gave birth to a mutual dialectic over [...]

CASTA DIVA

Photography ALBERTO PELLEGRINET
Realization ALESSIO NESI
From Left: 272 Caramel Lust HELENA RUBINSTEIN. Rouge Sublime 150 YVES SAINT LAURENT. Amusing Rouge Allure CHANEL. Poetique Camelia GIVENCHY. Poetique Iris GIVENCHY. Prune Mondain 943 DIOR ADDICT. Sparkling 65 DOLCE & GABBANA.

ABSENCE/PRESENCE

“A distraction to the vision of the space” is maybe the perfect definition for humanity, in the words of german photographer Candida Höfer, celebrated protagonist with a personal exhibition at Palazzo Medici Riccardi until January 24th 2010, Florence. Twenty monumental shots of some of the most evocative spaces in Florence, ornate baroc architectures clearly seen [...]

L’AIR DU TEMPS

Creative Director at Balenciaga Nicolas Ghesquiere, never made a false step: his collections, ever realized with masterly skills, enlighten and move deeply. For the new perfume commisioned by the french maison, the first after 1955’s Quadrille, high expectations were pushing on the director, while season after season Nicolas was renewing his view, but still imposing [...]

DRAMA

Photography ALBERTO PELLEGRINET
Realization ALESSIO NESI
From above: Compact Lipstick 2 GIORGIO ARMANI. Pochette Total Look DIOR JAZZCLUB. Ultra Correction Lift CHANEL. Lipstick Caramel Lust 272 HELENA RUBINSTEIN. Watch D&G. Blush Duo Tweed Effect CHANEL. Eau de Tolilette Flora by GUCCI. Eau de Tolilette Jil JIL SANDER. Eau de Tolilette Parisienne Y.S.L. Nail Lacquer Poetique Lily GIVENCHY. Hair Brush ANNA SUI. Eyeliner 888 DIOR. Anti-Aging Day Cream LAPRAIRIE. Collier de chain [...]

PAST/PRESENT

Realization ALESSIO NESI
Portrait’s identities are various and subjective. As various and subjective as the reasons that drive the representation of womanly faces to understand decadent jus. They give evidence to present-age identity: a time dipped into bourgeois climate, made by auto-identifications, mythology, cult, where the quality of a specific historical contest found his effective emobodiment. A [...]

100,000 YAERS OF BEAUTY

100,000 Years of Beauty explores in five volumes a natural-born obsession of humanity. The quest for beauty starts from Prehistory to the present, through Antiquity, the Classical Age and Modernity, finally trying to make projections into the future. Where humanity exists, beauty exists. This fundamental quest for beauty is constant in all civilizations and the [...]

EXTRAVAGANT CHIC

An overthrown emperor with a nocked celebrity. Valentino has been a kind of godfather for Haute Couture, when Ladies with “L” in capital were still alive, invisible to common people: charmed and exemplary n

LES FLEURS DU MAL

Illustrations ALESSIO NESI

Opium YVES SAINT LAURENT

Mandragore ANNICK GOUTAL

Eau de Toilette PRADA

Pure Poison DIOR

FLOURISH ROOM

Photography ALBERTO PELLEGRINET
Realization ALESSIO NESI
Prints by WILLIAM MORRIS

Idole GIORGIO ARMANI

Wanted HELENA RUBINSTEIN

Parisienne YVES SAINT LAURENT

Jil JIL SANDER