by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi Love for green fashion gushes out of Amour Vert’s garments. The brand’s creed is that women shouldn’t have to sacrifice style for sustainability: “We put fashion first, but always employ a zero-waste design philosophy and use only organic and sustainable fabrics along with low impact dyes.” The Ethic Chic philosophy of Amour [ Read More ]
Marina Suma: the icon, cinema and her jewels interview by Alessandra Izzo It was in 1981 when at the Venice Film Festival, all shouted to the miracle, about a new star of cinema born after years of dark. The star, Marina Suma, actress and icon of cinema of these years, was the protagonist of the [ Read More ]
Thinking about women-music legend, you may think to great artists like Janis Joplin, Patti Smith, Debbie Harry, Stevie Nicks, Grace Slick, Joan Baez and so on.But in the world of the music and first of all of rock from that amazing period of 60s and 70s there were other types of woman-myths. Beauty, audacious, [ Read More ]
RIDI-CUL by Silvana Soffia In the beginning there was the Man, and we all saw that Men’s fashion was good. There used to be no confusion between what a guy should wear and what he actually wore – thumbs down for handbags, strass shirts, pedal pushers (unless you’re a real fisherman), leggings, skirts (except of [ Read More ]
Art met fashion when la petite robe noire worn by Madam X in John Singer Sargent’s painting inspired Coco Chanel’s little black dress. Chiara Boni, the Italian sophisticated fashion designer of the brand La Petite Robe has always been avant-guard in combing fashion shows with unconventional locations. This time the lady of the catwalk has [ Read More ]
SIGIS The artist who invented the technique of Vinylism The Venice Biennale of 2012 has declared Matteo Vaccari Sigismondi an actual Art Maestro, bestowing him the official recognition of having invented an artistic technique: Vinylism. The young Milanese artist, began as an enfant prodige deejay, in times when this profession could not be improvised, but [ Read More ]
BANKSY CELEBRATES ZS40 WITH A LIZ INSANE “One’s painting one’s face…” If you’re in the UK you can’t have failed to notice news coverage of genius street artist Banksy’s ( http://www.banksy.co.uk/ ) latest creation. The enigmatic Bristolian chose his home town as the venue for this latest artwork, where the image of the Queen of [ Read More ]
LORENZO BORGHESE Prince Lorenzo Borghese, is a member of the House of Borghese and is known to the public for his television appearances in shows such as ‘The Bachelor’ and ‘Selling New York.’ The aristocratic in him doesn’t deny his noble origins, he has for instance published a book on his ancestor ‘The Princess of [ Read More ]
Jean-Paul Gaultier is the first fashion master to join the Jury of the Festival de Cannes: “l’Enfant terrible” of the fashion, who has worked for a number of films, from Besson to Almodovar. Your vocation as a fashion designer began after you saw Falbalas, by Jacques Beker. As things have turned out, has your career been [ Read More ]
Artify It Secures Key Investments to Launch a New Platform to Transform Today’s Art Ecosystem Artify It, a San Francisco-based start-up, is unveiling today a new service offering that harnesses technology and a subscription-based model to provide artists, businesses and consumers fresh ways to experience high-quality, contemporary art The company announces today that it has [ Read More ]
On january 19th Paris Sotheby’s will auction 40 original pictures from the most important covers of “L’Uomo Vogue” during this 5 years under Franca Sozzanbi’s direction. Photograpies of David Cronenberg, Dustin Hoffman, De Niro, Zidane and Mortensen, from contemporary art protagonist, to cinema icons and literature stars, taken by photographers Weber, Paolo Roversi, Mark Seliger, [ Read More ]
2011 Mozambique Fashion Week had the mission to promote creativity and beauty of the Mozambican people, including an event with the subject of breast cancer, which is of course an enduring threat that affects millions and millions of women around the world. For this year’s campaign, MFW with Associação da Luta Contra o Cancer created [ Read More ]
Great event in the collateral section of the Rome Film Festival 2011, Focus Uk, the retrospective “Punks vs Patriots” is an huge study, through cinema, on british society and culture over the last decays, thanks to a selection of movies chosen by today’s well-known artists, from Terence Davies to David Hare, Douglas Gordon and Michael [ Read More ]
I wish you a Sparkling Christmas You better watch out, You better not cry, Better not pout, I’m telling you why… Because this Christmas you could receive ‘Champagne for Life’ This is the introductory jingle to the glamorous ‘Champagne for Life’ Christmas membership gift. Well-established Gentlemen Clubs are just a small example of the prestigious [ Read More ]
90TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS CULMINATE WITH OPENING OF THE GUCCI MUSEO IN FLORENCE A year of events in celebration of Gucci’s 90th anniversary will culminate with the official public opening of the GUCCI MUSEO inside the historic Palazzo della Mercanzia located in Florence’s Piazza Signoria. A permanent exhibition from its rich and culturally significant archive, which [ Read More ]
Born in 1964, the Lebanese fashion stylist Elie Saab is nowadays one of the best designer known in this world, estimated and desired by Hollywood, music, art and dynasties stars of today, from Queen Raina of Jordan to Angelina Jolie, Victoria of Sweden, Kristen Stewart, Kate Winslet and Diane Kruger. Launched his little fashion-label [ Read More ]
The award will be presented to the two artists on June 4th, 2011 during the opening and award ceremony ILLUMInations Sturtevant and Franz West will be the recipients of the Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement of the 54th International Art Exhibition – ILLUMInations (Venice, Giardini and Arsenale, June 4th – November 27th, 2011). The [ Read More ]
SHORT CIRCUIT presents MUTE MORE ADDITIONS TO MUTE FESTIVAL LINE UP! MARTIN L. GORE (DJ SET), RICHIE HAWTIN, MOBY (DJ SET), ANDY ‘FLETCH’ FLETCHER (DJ SET), JOSH T. PEARSON PERFORMS MUTE SONGS 13 + 14 MAY 2011 AT LONDON’S HISTORICAL ROUNDHOUSE JUST RELEASED – LIMITED NUMBER OF EXTRA WEEKEND TICKETS! Fri 13 May – £30 (6pm-1am) [ Read More ]
Bono Vox and his beloved wife Ali Hewson, are the main protagonists of the new fashion advertising-campaign by Louis Vuitton. U2’s singer-author-leader has already revealed he had gift the gains to support conservation Cotton Initiative Uganda, a sit was the same for many other protagonists of art, sport and politics in the past, from Pelè [ Read More ]
Illustrator and artists, working as freelance, for magazines, books, music albums and photography works, Japanese Ryohei Hase creates unique images, mixing classical techniques qith surreal visions of women, animals and locations. From darkness to sadness, the artist explores, using Photoshop application, all the history of ancient paintings added with experimental visions of nostalic moods and [ Read More ]
The amazing artist-photographer Mark Seliger, well known alla round the World for having captured lots of the most important cinema-music-ballet-art heroes in the last decades, has already finished his personal exhibition named “Listen”, at Steven Kasher Gallery, New York. Adding to his famous photos, personal and public ones, the exhibition included about 30 reprints of [ Read More ]
And, in the end, like every year, the Oscars went to: Best Picture: The King’s Speech Best Actor: Colin Firth Best Actress: Natalie Portman Best Supporting Actor: Christian Bale Best Supporting Actress: Melissa Leo Best Director: Tom Hopper – The King’s Speech Animated Feature Film: Toy Story 3 Animated Short Film: The Lost Thing Art [ Read More ]
Film-documentary on Yves Saint Laurent, presented at the latest edition of Roma Film Festival 2010, last november, “L’Amour Fou” reveals a picture on one of the most important artists of the last centuries, from the beginning of his long career ad a designer, to working at Christian Dior maison from 1955, to the starting point [ Read More ]
The punk-fashion-madame Vivienne Westwood has put her talent creating the official Red Nose Day t-shirts collection for Comic Relief. The grand dame of Uk fashion, has designed a limited collection with historical images, from William Shakespeare to Louis XIV, supported by the posing of some high-profile models like Sienna Miller, Pixie Lott, Helena Christensen, Laura [ Read More ]
Punk attitude, punk hair, and, punky style clothes, ladies & gentlemen! Here you are the new collection by Jean Paul Gaultier, filled by outfits less theatrical than in the past ones, but with such a level of eccentricità and originalità based on Vivienne Westwood (we have to say) teachings, and punk movement too. And, the [ Read More ]
Here you are a short list of the upcoming movies selected in the different sections of Berlin film Festival 2011, that will ake place in the german city from february 10th to 20th. Enjoy! Bizim Büyük Çaresizliğimiz (Our Grand Despair) – by Seyfi Teoman Coriolanus – by Ralph Fiennes.Out of competition Lipstikka – by [ Read More ]
L’Hangar Bicocca è uno dei luoghi più suggestivi di Milano, nonché uno dei più difficili da raggiungere senza macchina. Si tratta di un capannone industriale riconvertito a spazio espositivo e per l’organizzazione di eventi, posizionato in un quello che fu il vero e proprio quartiere industriale milanese, quando a Milano c’erano le fabbriche e non [ Read More ]
Here the list of nominations and Winners of the Golden Globes 2011: Best Motion Picture (drama) Black Swan The Fighter Inception The King’s Speech The Social Network Best Comedy or Musical Alice In Wonderland The Kids Are All Right The Tourist Burlesque Red Best Actress (drama) Halle Berry (Frankie and Alice) Nicole Kidman (The Rabbit Hole) Jennifer [ Read More ]
“Fourteen Actors Acting” is a project created by New York Times to celebrate the skills of 14 from the most important, influent and able actors of the last generations. Only the actors and their face&eye expressiveness, with movements accmpained and emphasised by the music made by Owen Pallett (perfromed by FILMharmonic Orchestra, Prague), under the [ Read More ]
JK POTTER – interview – Mutations from contemporary reality figures into the world of fantasy and nightmares, like a God in creation of creatures full of darkness and arised from passion, JK Potter is the link between literature, imagination and art, an art, his one, where passion is the engine, and people, transfigured, half [ Read More ]
“To Lee, With Love, Nick” is the brave new short-movie by director/photographer Nick Knight, tribute to the great fashion designer Alexander McQueen, dead in february 2010. Bjork has written a song featuring that movie as soundtrack, to remember and dictate the artist who worked with her form many kaleidoscopic works, as long as with other [ Read More ]
“TRON: Legacy” TRON: spettacolo, musica, fashion e design, avventura virtuale in 3D. trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HcsDc_9LX8 TRON: Legacy è un’avventura high-tech in 3D ambientata in un mondo digitale diverso da qualsiasi altro sia mai apparso finora sul grande schermo. Sam Flynn (GARRETT HEDLUND), un ventisettenne esperto di tecnologia, è tormentata dalla scomparsa di suo padre Kevin Flynn (il [ Read More ]
Mostra del Cinema di Venezia “Somewhere” – SOFIA COPPOLA intervista Sofia è un addensato graziosamente femminile e delicato di intraprendenza, rivelatrice di subconsci dolorosi, adolescenze inquiete, silenzi rivelatori e musica. Lo aveva dimostrato nel 1999 con quella perla di crudeltà giovanile che le sue vergini suicide avevano regalato nel loro giardino di [ Read More ]
