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Glitterati Gowns by Capucci
CAPUCCI’S GLITTERATI GOWNS SHOWCASED IN TURIN Not everyone can don meters of silk, satin and velvet, and make it work. Most of all, few designers can craft a mass of fabric and turn it into incomparable elegance. Fashion designer Roberto Capucci, born in Rome in 1930, spent decades doing just that for women like Italian sex symbol Silvana Mangano, princesses Pallavicini and Borghese, American actress Esther Williams and many more. His architecture-inspired creations were worn by the likes of Marilyn Monroe and Gloria Swanson and have...
read moreDreams, by Italian Author Elisa Manzini
Elisa Manzini was born in Lecco, Italy. While she’s had a myriad of experiences, the work she has done for Comedy Central and Endemol in Europe is the most relevant. While working on three different shows in two years, she was initially hired to be a writer (after winning a writing competition for Comedy Central), but within a matter of few months, her role evolved into casting director and head writer for new projects. When she decided to move to Los Angeles, she was ready to start a writing career in the movie business as well, but...
read moreSpring Art Shows in Italy
The long-awaited and extraordinary exhibition that opens Tuesday at Rome’s Scuderie del Quirinale is set to shine the fullest light yet on the genius of 16th-century Venetian master painter Titian. Titian (1485-1576), whose Italian name was Tiziano Vecelli, was the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. Born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno in the Republic of Venice, he was often called da Cadore, because of his birthplace. The collection of masterpieces on loan from around the globe stitches together a repertoire...
read moreVenice Biennale will feature a Vatican Pavillion
There is no shortage of artistic inspiration between the Vatican walls. ‘Here, at the foot of this magnificent polychrome Sistine Chapel, is where the cardinals – a community responsible for passing on the keys to the kingdom – meet. Here is where they gather. And Michelangelo envelops them in his vision to this day’, John Paul II wrote in his 2003 Polish-language poem entitled Roman Triptych. Pope John Paul was not the only pontiff to reflect on the power of art to move souls. Benedict XVI also believed in how...
read moreItalian Toys by Quercetti
Quercetti and Co. is an Italian toy company which has been delighting children for over 60 years. The Turin-based company offers a wide range of educational toys aimed at children aged from 12 months to eight years of age. ‘Our toys are designed to stimulate children’s creativity and natural curiosity while developing their manipulative and motor skills,’ Andrea Quercetti, export sales manager of the company, told ANSA. Quercetti’s (www.quercetti.com) most representative product is the multi-coloured Fantacolor pegs,...
read moreFendi and Prada at the Milan Fashion Week
Contrast in the romance of feminine pieces layered under the powerful notes of a rustic crocodile coat or matched with sandals towering above thick, military soles vied for ‘crude elegance’, as Miuccia Prada defined her fall-winter 2013 women’s wear collection shown in Milan on Thursday. ‘You want to be romantic but you can’t, it’s a forbidden fantasy’, Prada told reporters. ‘This reflects today’s life, where nothing over the top is allowed. You cannot be decadent, modernity forces you to a...
read moreItalian Design Expo
ITALIAN DESIGN TAKES CENTER STAGE AT MILAN FURNITURE FAIR The 52nd edition of the Milan Furniture Fair kicked off this week, packing every meter of the city’s fairground with a plethora of exhibitors, occupying shops, loft spaces, museums and the streets of the city’s hip and haute neighborhoods with thousands more. Design furniture makers from around the globe have converged on the defining industry event of the year displaying their latest collections to more than 300,000 visitors from 160 countries, ranging from industry...
read moreMilan Fashion Week
Milan Fashion Week will feature 71 Runways. Rooftops may still be frosted with snow when Milan Fashion Week kicks off on February 20, showing Italian womenswear collections for winter 2013-2014. Seventy-one runway shows will be staged; seven of which are a making a double run for double the audience. Gucci, Giorgio Armani, Emporio Armani, Versace, Marni and Emilio Pucci are familiar names on the doubles list, but Jil Sander is new; a sign that the attention and rave reviews Sander has been getting since her return a year ago to her namesake...
read moreHoliday Designer Fashion for Kids
Cruciani, an Italian label known for its superb cashmere garments, has started producing some of the most sought-after friendship bracelets around. A trendy and frivolous Christmas treat – and inexpensive at five euros – is their star bracelet, each star representing a wish. Pomellato’s DoDo jewels, an icon for teens as well as adults, is a more expensive though highly durable alternative. Gold pendants in a range of adorable animal shapes (price 99 euros) can be mixed and matched with little silver beads in bracelets and...
read moreItalian Art of the Fascist Era
(ANSA) – Florence – A new exhibit in Florence explores competing artistic movements in Italy during the country’s most politically tumultuous period of the 20th century. The Thirties: the Arts in Italy Beyond Fascism is currently on view at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence’s largest temporary-exhibition space. ‘When Fascism held sway, Italy was the scene of an extremely vigorous artistic battle in which every style was involved, from classicism to Futurism, from expressionism to abstract art, and from monumental art to...
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