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What can I say? I love the opulence. Opulence is something you’ll always find in D&G, and this two particular looks, they nailed it.
I know a lot of people who would say “you’ll never wear that on the street”, trust me, I’D WEAR THIS. First because I fucking love it, second because I am always freezing in winter.
Special shout out to Maria Borges for being absolutely flawless.
Expo 2015 - Tree of life. #Milan #Italia #Italy #Milano #Expo2015 #Travel #Instamoment #Instatravel
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@esquire Italia Mats van Snippenberg Septembre 2019
Milan Fashion Week - Menswear Fall 2015
While Paris is currently kicking off its collections, I’m reviewing this last collections shown in Milan from January 16th to 20th. I admit I’m not quite impressed with the overall style I’ve seen down the catwalks, but as usual there are some highs - very interesting highs. Let’s see together the best looks, day by day.
Day 1
Well I don’t actually know if Day 1 can be counted as first day of the fashion week, as the grand opening was exclusively given by DSquared2. You basically cannot help talking about it, as they were the only ones showing on January 16th, but in general I didn’t like the whole collection, celebrating the anniversary of the brand; it was obvious, predictable, boring.
Day 2
With day 2 the game was already at its full. Corneliani presented a collection with lovely furry coats and jackets with jersey lapels, while Ermenegildo Zegna (photo 1) left its usual classic style for something more innovative, at least in materials: from the waterproof wet-looking fabrics chosen for coats, windbreakers and even jackets and formal blazers, to the velvet going total look in some cases, everything had a glowing aura which made clothes look richer. The last part lost some of its charm, but overall it was a great great collection.
Edmund Ooi (photo 2) excited me with a collection I can just call avant-garde. Origami treatment to fabrics, gender crossing to its extremes - I would personally do without the little dresses for men, but they were anyway doing their job without appearing too strange -, optical prints, activewear style with formal suits: there was everything and yet nothing looked too much. Andrea Pompilio (photo 3) is one of those designers that I’m discovering more and more every new collection. This time the line gave me a feeling of sport in the 60s - which was, at least in clothes, much more elegant than activewear nowadays. I loved the colours - peach and sky blue above all - which were a sort of borderline pastel/neon - I know it sounds like a contradiction, but look at them! - going very bright in some instances - the red flashing down the runway in suits and jackets or the lemon yellow of the fluffy pullover at the end (now I know I need a fluffy pullover).
As usual with Jil Sander, the brand offered a collection for the minimal dandy of today, with basic coats, pullovers, and parkas, baggy trousers, everything brought to another level by the exquisite details. Les Hommes went for geometry with optical patterns on jerseys, shirts and even quilted on coats.
After womenswear collections in September, I was again blown away by how Versace (photo 4) is changing. Or better than changing, it’s still exactly the same, but in a new way: exaggeration, a key feature of the brand, is more subtle, more centered on proportions and quality of materials than in bling and ‘flamboyantness’. Loved the special closures for the jackets, replacing the classic buttons and I found very interesting the contrast in shape between oversize trousers and leggings.
Day 3
Calvin Klein Collection (photo 5) must have called this collection 'An Ode to Grey’: the most basic colour for one of the most basic brands, that’s it. I didn’t quite like the first part, but I really appreciated the second half with the plasticky loose trousers, high-waist military bomber - I think they were one of those pieces which you don’t really like at the beginning but they grow on you the more you look at them - and the maxi raincoats.
When I was looking for a suit for my graduation in February last year, I knew I wanted something classy but still with an edge, maybe in pattern, and I couldn’t really find it, so I had to buy the fabric and have it made to measure (but this is another story really). Anyway, now I know Vivienne Westwood (photo 6) understands me - not that I’ve ever had any doubts about that. It’s incredible how easy mixing patterns looks in these outfits - what about stripes and checks together? It goes from the very eccentric explosion of prints to the reassuring softness of the maxi pullovers. What I also liked was the range she showed: different types of crotch for the trousers, different length, different proportions.
I think my head is convinced of the fact Miuccia can do no wrong, but I know that even if the collection Prada showed in Milan these days could border boring for some people, I enjoyed it a great deal. I absolutely loved the fact she went for something we don’t usually expect by her ever-genius mind with its twists and coups de théâtre: the colour palette reduced to only black, different shades of grey, very dark navy blue, a little beige - and only one print, a tartan womenswear coat. Then I saw the shine in the black fabric of the first looks, and understood that all the twists and shocking details were more subtle this time. I saw the perfectly cut coats, and the girly shapes of the womenswear looks with a manly twist - are those bows in front of the dresses mimicking bow ties? Marvelous Miuccia.
To finish with the third day, it would be impossible not to talk about Moncler Gamme Bleu collection, designed by Thom Browne, who always manages to give the audience a great show. It was amusing and still a simple idea if you just think about it: coordinating the suits with the bomber they came out with. Genius.
Day 4
I’m not one of those who worship Giorgio Armani - or any other designer, with the exception of Thom Browne, maybe - for everything he does. But this Emporio Armani (photo 7) collection blew me away with its details. First of all, the delicate 'brushes of dirt’ giving light to some of the looks, from coats, to blazers and trousers; secondly, the fact that it was all about soft comfy knitwear - how comfortable must a pair of knitted trousers be?; last but not least, the maxi zippers designing diagonal lines on pullovers and trousers.
What Gucci (photo 8) showed on Monday was truly incredible. Just appointed creative director Alessandro Michele made me forget about Frida - still, I love her <3 - with a real miracle. I cannot help but thinking about the most obvious and stupid word for this collection: FANTASTIC. The biggest achievement of the line was, in my opinion, the whole rethinking of the now-so-cool concept of gender crossing, which in Michele’s hands became gender switching: menswear really looked like womenswear and viceversa. Men were wearing chiffon shirts with bows, lace tops, long bright coloured coats, while women went for suits for the most part. In Italy we say 'Il buongiorno si vede dal mattino’ (that literally means 'you can tell it’s a good day from the morning’, if something starts well, it’s going to continue well). I really hope that’s true, because this was an amazing morning.
Canali is the last brand of this day I want to talk about, relaxing my eyes with a smart, wearable collection of horizontal stripes in cream-coloured tones or black-and-grey, but most of all I was obsessed by the perfectly squared bags with zippers. I want one.
Day 5
Not much to say about this last day, even if some big names showed their collections, no one really caught my attention. It was instead Stella Jean (photo 9) who achieved something the others didn’t manage to do. I must admit I was excited to see this collection, and I wasn’t wrong. I loved the fact her style is recognisable even in the male wardrobe but in a toned-down way, more manly indeed. This time she travelled to India to find her inspiration for this amazing collection, where the simplicity of cut of the Asian country traditional clothes was perfectly mixed with the flamboyant prints we’re used to seeing in her work - which, after all, really suits India with its bright popping colours. It was a fascinating trip, and at the end I promised myself I will save some money to have one piece from her collection before next year. This girl is gonna be big.
xxx
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Missoni at the University of Milan - Lesson 7
I told you I was coming with a big big surprise about my lessons with Missoni and here it is. But first things first.
This seventh and last lesson was our last meeting with Angela Missoni, the actual designer of the brand, and it was going to be a Q&A this time. She was of course accompanied by Rosita, who sat in the first row quietly listening to her daughter talking and answering all the questions the students had previously prepared for her - I think Rosita loved us so much she decided to come to every lesson <3 She’s such a cutie.
For this last lesson I would also like to introduce my readers to a person who was always present during the other meetings, but who I’ve never talked about because he didn’t really have much to say all the other times: Beniamino Marini, who works in the communication office of the brand (photo 2; he’s so HOT). I kinda found on the Internet something about him working for Vogue.it, but I haven’t figured out if he’s still working for them or not. Btw, this time he took the microphone to talk - very briefly - in front of us students, and asked some questions to Angela (he asked her when she is going to make public her Instagram account - and if you want to know, Angela Missoni’s account is missbrunello) and to..a very special guest.
Of course you see the photos above, so you already know who I’m talking about, but let me tell you how things worked. The Fashion History class is at 4.30 pm in a building detached from the main University building, so you have to walk a few hundred metres to get there. I also had a lesson finishing at 4.15 pm that day, so after that lesson I headed to the building where the class was going to be held. When I got to the classroom, before entering, I saw some of my classmates making very frantic gestures and I understood something was happening, because I could obviously see they were extremely excited. And then, I figured out one of them was telling me, trying to make me read her lips: ‘ANNA DELLO RUSSO IS HERE’.
You can imagine how things got inside me when I realised what was happening. It was like Christmas before Christmas, and my very fashionable Santa was Anna Dello Russo in person. I stepped into the class, and I saw her, standing just some feet next to me. I didn’t even know where to turn to go and take place at my seat next to my friends. When I finally started walking, Angela Missoni noticed my - awesome - lemon yellow jacket and said 'Oh, last time we had an orange coat, today we have a yellow jacket!’. Needless to say, that orange coat from the last lesson was mine as well - yes, I like wearing 'sober’ colours :D
Anyway of course we were all like kids in a candy store. I mean, Anna Dello Russo, one of the most important and famous fashion editors in the world, one of the most fashionable people in the world, was there, ready to talk to us, to answer our questions, to give us tips, to LOOK at us.
Yes, I feel stupid while writing these things, because I usually try not to give too much importance to celebrities (unless they are Lady Gaga, Christina Aguilera, Anna Wintour and fashion designers in general - basically a lot of people then) but this time I couldn’t hold my happiness. It was a great surprise, and just the day after my birthday!
While Angela was wearing a very simple black ensemble (with a skirt, I guess, I was too concentrated on Anna to look at her, I have to be honest) while Anna was wearing the first look of Missoni S/S 2015 collection (photo 4). I tried to take a photo of her before the lesson started, but I was shaking and you can see the result (photo 5).
Btw, the lesson started and Angela started answering some of the questions the students wrote beforehand for her. I have to be honest and say this time I was really upset with her attitude, I understand there were a lot of questions to answer to, but she was doing it as she really didn’t want to do it, very quickly and without giving to many explanations. Yes, I have to admit many of those questions were really stupid - I was actually wondering how people could possibly ask such predictable and obvious questions to someone like Angela Missoni - but anyway, she should have taken every question more seriously and dedicate more time to the Q&A. Among the questions I remember she answered, there was one about the designing process, when she said she’s not very good at designing, but she’s very good at making people design what she wants (???); someone asked about a possible collection of Missoni with another designer, to which Angela really didn’t know what to answer because 'there are so many designers I like’ - but Anna readily replied, with a grin 'J.W.Anderson!’; who’s the most important figure in fashion for her? 'Chanel, of course’, replied Angela without even having to think about it.
Anna sneaked into the conversation among all the questions and answers and started talking about how fashion is changing right now. What I loved about her - something which I really didn’t expect from her - was that everyone who listened to her could be blown away by how passionate her words were. Don’t get me wrong, I know she’s very passionate in what she does - she wouldn’t be one of the most important people in the fashion business if she didn’t - but I would have never expected she would have talked in such an inspired AND inspiring way in front of us. I could say, she was amazing.
She talked a great deal about how things work now that Internet and the digital innovation has taken over basically the entire world - fashion being one of its primary field of experimentation. She made us laugh - yes, she’s extremely funny! - saying that until some years ago, her assistants would have killed for a bag, while now they would do the same for an iWatch from Apple: 'I would prefer a bag, wouldn’t you?’ she asked the audience, who obviously replied 'Yes!’, to which she replied 'Oh, I see you’re old-fashioned then!’.
She talked about the fact that Interne has enabled every kind of person in the world to get into the world of fashion and become someone in such a short amount of time: for her the 'high towers’ of the fashion world have been destroyed, meaning that fashion has become a more accessible and welcoming field for everyone.
Well, this was basically the summary of what she said - but she talked so much that really, it would be impossible to write you guys everything she said. Anyway, there was time for some questions and I have to say some of them were hard candy for Angela and Anna (don’t underestimate the students!).
One of my friends asked Anna if, saying that the 'high towers’ of fashion were destroyed, she thought the success of many fashion bloggers - in Italy, among others, Chiara Ferragni - was not due to their wealthiness. Honestly, I didn’t understand if Anna didn’t understand the question or just tried to skip it saying something else, but she basically didn’t reply. She just repeated that now is much easier to get into fashion thanks to the Internet and that people like Chiara Ferragni put a lot of effort into what they do and bla bla bla. I personally agree with my friends: if you don’t have the money to do it, then people are not going to follow you (apart for some very few exceptions; Charles Baudelaire said the same in 1863).
I took the chance myself to ask a question to our lovely guest, and starting from the fact she said that if she could be born again, she would like to be born in one of the new generations because of the amazing power of Internet, then, didn’t she think, from a purely fashion point of view, that this is not a very 'exciting’ moment for fashion, as many fashion journalists are seeing a sort of boring repetition in what fashion brands do? Angela laughed and looked at me as I was crazy (I would have liked to add that, even if I love Missoni, her brand is, in my opinion, one of those that always do the same things over and over and really need some rethinking), and Anna was shocked as well, and replied denying it without thinking too much. She talked to me about a lot of exciting new fashion coming from Asia, especially from Korea, she gave some names (which I really couldn’t write down, you know how complicated are Asian names to understand) and openly said that is going to be the future of fashion together with Japan. She also named some Western designers, J.W.Anderson being one of the most exciting for her and citing Nicholas Ghesquière as the real starting point for all these new designers: 'If you ask them, who’s your main inspiration, they don’t talk about brands and designers from the past, but they tell you they look at Nicholas Ghesquière’.
I was satisfied with the answer, and I must say I agree with what she said, even if I think this is just one side of the coin. After all, it’s true that during the main fashion weeks, New York, London - maybe less than the others - Milan - which I love anyway - and Paris, we are currently seeing the same things, repeated millions of times to nausea. I could name some very exciting new designers, such as Stella Jean in Italy, brands like Hood by Air, or Alon Livné in Israel. But my question is: who tells us these designers are going to continue being successful? Who tell us they are not going to repeat the same things which are making us excited now, until they become just something predictable and boring? Of course, we have to trust them and hope for the best. But the big, ancient brands, we cannot even put them apart either; and they are the ones where the need for a reinvention is stronger. So yes, Anna was right, but I would have liked to reply again to what she said, just to clarify my point of view.
Hope I have the chance to do it in future. Who knows?
xxx
Oh yes. How could I forget this? Anna Dello Russo took selfies with us after the lesson! For once, you can also see me :D I put a red circle round my face in the second photo, but you could spot me from the yellow jacket I’m wearing: no doubt I’m that guy.
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Louis Vuitton: Celebrating the Monogram - The Icon and the Iconoclasts
I told you there was something juicy coming along for my blog, and here it is: six big names of fashion and photography have collaborated with Louis Vuitton to reinvent one of the most famous signature prints in fashion: LV monogram.
It’s something every magazine and fashion website have talked about recently, and until yesterday the exhibit of the six creations was in Milan - and I live in Milan now so you can understand, I could not miss it!
The exhibit was just in the fashion district of the city, seconds to the famous Via Montenapoleone, where many brands and designers have their flagship stores and ateliers. Palazzo Serbelloni was the background to the event, a neoclassical palace which was the perfect match to the role the monogram plays in fashion today, being one of the great classics of clothing.
The guests were immediately welcomed by a big reproduction of the brand logo just at the entrance, which strangely harmonically mixed with the extremely detailed frescos, the opulent chandeliers and the sophisticated architecture of the building.
And then, on the first floor, in very small and intimate spaces, the six creations were displayed in six different windows divided into a brief path which connected three or four of the amazingly decorated rooms of the palace.
First, you found yourself in front of Rei Kawakubo’s interpretation of the monogram, her ‘bag with holes’. And what holes! Maybe too big even to be considered vintage, but her goal was just that: creating something that is already old, used, wearied, something that has a story, just like Louis Vuitton has a long history of tradition.
Just in front of that, the ensemble created by Cindy Sherman (photo 6; she’s a photographer) captured your attention with its colour. I laughed reading what Cindy said about this collaboration: 'I just wanted to have a trunk all for me!’. You don’t say! I would like to have a Louis Vuitton trunk all for me as well, pity that no one asks me to create one :D Anyway, I just thought her idea was one of the best as it introduced colour maintaining the monogram as the outside of the box - so there’s an interesting contrast inside/outside - and its extremely functional: it’s like carrying an entire wardrobe with you!
On the other side, hidden behind a corner, the gold-studded/red decorated shopping bags by Christian Louboutin showed their awesomeness. The photos of the video created by Gordon Von Steiner for the collab (photo 7) covered the whole wall behind the window, showing how Parisian these bags feel.
Change of space this time: after a short passage, on the two sides of the room you got to, other two creations were unveiled. The first one, on the left, was definitely my favourite: the sculptural backpacks created by industrial designer (cool!) Marc Newson (photo 8) were a sudden pop of colour. But what I liked the most was how many different qualities they seemed to have: apart from the playfulness given by the popping tones, they maintained a sophisticated vibe, but they were also pretty functional: the designer thought about a bag which could be cool but at the same time had to be the perfect accessory for adventurous people, with lots of pockets and, most important of all, they are structured in a way that allows the bag to stand without falling down when someone puts it down. B R I L L I A N T!
On the other side of the room the lonely twisted box designed by Frank Gehry (photo 9) floated inside its window, dropping curved shadows under the strategic lights of the little bulbs. It kinda looked like a picture from Salvador Dalí: the whole composition had something distorted and surreal which brought your mind to a dreamy dimension.
And about dreams, who can be the best to 'design’ them, if not the amazing Karl Lagerfeld (photo 10)? Kaiser Karl was inspired by the world of boxe, which, in his opinion, 'is a sport everyone should practice’. As usual, he thought big, in every sense: he designed an entire collection of bags and accessories together with a sort of 'locker’ - covered in LV monogram, of course - which contained a punch ball - again, covered in monogram. The locked also had wheels to move it around in case you need.
I was astounded by how far the minds of these creative characters could go, not only by thinking 'aesthetically’, but also thinking 'outside the box’ in a more practical manner, inventing things that can REALLY be used .
It was a very short trip, but wow, after that, I felt complete: that’s what happens when you love fashion and when you feel loved by fashion :)
xxx
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oggi scopro decine di qualità che non sapevo di possedere. è senz’altro un piacere scoprire di essere paziente, di essere equilibrato e razionale, di saper mantenere la calma in momenti in cui una persona normale avrebbe spaccato tutto, compresa la testa contro un muro. scopro di essere ottimista, scopro di saper ricavare il meglio da ogni circostanza, scopro di essere talmente autoironico da dovermi scusare con me stesso per la mancanza di tatto. e poi scopro che non è vero niente di tutto ciò. scopro che in realtà sono solo, semplicemente, disperatamente, camaleontico. e questo forse mi basta. domani, se ce ne sarà l’occasione, se si presenterà la necessità, cambierò di nuovo pelle. e questo mi basta veramente. almeno per un po’.
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#milano #autumn #ig_milano #igworldclub_street #igerslombardia #TopMilanPhoto #ig_milan #ig_street #vivomilano #turismomilano #ig_lombardia #igersmilano #ig_italy #rsa_streetview #tv_pointofview #italiainunoscatto #tv_living #ig_italia #rsa_vsco #italy_vacations #transfer_visions #loves_milano #yallerslombardia #browsingitaly #AutumninLombardia #mytinyatlas #mobileartistry #shootermag #agameoftones #autumncolors (presso Piazza Castello)
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“Potrei essere piuttosto incazzato per quello che mi è successo, ma è difficile restare arrabbiati quando c'è tanta bellezza nel mondo. A volte è come se la vedessi tutta insieme ed è troppa. Il cuore mi si riempie come un palloncino che sta per scoppiare. E poi mi ricordo di rilassarmi, e smetto di cercare di tenermela stretta. E dopo scorre attraverso me come pioggia, e io non posso provare altro che gratitudine, per ogni singolo momento della mia stupida, piccola, vita. Non avete la minima idea di cosa sto parlando, ne sono sicuro, ma non preoccupatevi: un giorno l'avrete.”
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ho fotografato anch’io il Duomo di Milano e l’ho fatto ad un orario del cadtso. .
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Ci sono giorni che io vorrei dormire.
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#milano #milanocentrale #trainstation #ig_milano #igworldclub_street #igerslombardia #TopMilanPhoto #ig_milan #ig_street #vivomilano #turismomilano #ig_lombardia #igersmilano #ig_italy #rsa_streetview #tv_pointofview #italiainunoscatto #tv_living #ig_italia #rsa_vsco #italy_vacations #transfer_visions #loves_milano #yallerslombardia #browsingitaly #milanocity #AutumninLombardia #mytinyatlas #mobileartistry #shootermag (at Stazione di Milano Centrale (1864))
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