Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Anna Piaggi



Anna Piaggi was not only the most stylish 81-year-old to roam this planet, she was a complete species of her own. She was a creature in perpetual transformation, reconfiguring her million-and-one masks and costumes with a refreshing combination of art, architecture and in many cases, slap-stick humor. Her dazzling daily mutations would bring forth original looks that would shock the retina and tickle the mind.
Piaggi’s theatrical shtick would often include vintage canes, binoculars, and physics-defying hats. Ski poles featured as walking sticks. On one occasion, she reinvented the hat, balancing a wicker basket on her head filled with seaweed and crabs. One of Piaggi’s more interesting experiments involved hanging two pigeons she’d handpicked from the butcher around her neck, which went relatively smoothly until, around midnight, they started to bleed. Piaggi’s nonchalant response was to, “leave like Cinderella.”
Then there is the story of Piaggi at Paloma Picasso’s wedding, when her feathered hat burst into flames as she passed a lit chandelier. Onlookers no doubt took this as an unfortunate accident, but we tend to think this was another dimension of Piaggi’s choreographed theatrical genius.
Even at 81, Anna Piaggi’s entrance would steal the show. Her true style was in her ability to transcend the stone-faced chic of fashion. Piaggi believed in fun, frivolity, and the fanciful. However, her philosophy of fashion as “humor, jokes, and games” was taken most seriously by the art world, where in 2006 her vast wardrobe filled the Victoria & Albert Museum in London in an exhibition titled: “Anna Piaggi: Fashion-ology”.
For Piaggi, there were no walls between art and life and fashion; she fused all her passions into a single act of sartorial dissent. No doubt, she will be one of the most colorful angels floating above us in the fleeting fashion clouds, occasionally shooting arrows of inspiration into lingering Homo Fashionistas.
Homage Anna Piaggi

Homage Anna Piaggi di milanesegal
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A 81 anni, Anna Piaggi non era solo la donna più stylish del pianeta, ma anche una creatura assolutamente unica. In perenne trasformazione, nella sua vita non ha mai smesso di indossare mille e una maschera e di creare infiniti travestimenti, con combinazioni sempre nuove e inaspettate tra arte, architettura e, spesso, irresistibile humor. Le sue sorprendenti metamorfosi quotidiane plasmavano look originali, capaci di colpire l’occhio e di stuzzicare il cervello.
Le sue apparizioni quasi teatrali potevano coinvolgere accessori come bastoni vintage, binocoli e cappelli in grado di sfidare le leggi della fisica, o persino bacchette da sci usate come bastoni da passeggio. Nessuno potrà mai dimenticare il cappello che creò con un cestino di vimini zeppo di granchi e alghe, da portare in equilibrio sulla testa. O quando si esibì con due piccioni appesi al collo – che si procurò personalmente dal macellaio. Tutto filò liscio, almeno fino a quando a mezzanotte, i malcapitati iniziarono a sanguinare. Con grande nonchalance, Anna commentò: “è ora di andare, come Cenerentola”.
Al matrimonio di Paloma Picasso il suo cappello di piume prese fuoco mentre passava di fianco a un candelabro. I presenti lo interpretarono come uno sfortunato incidente, ma c’è da sospettare che si sia trattato di un altro colpo del suo genio spettacolare.
Anche a 81 anni suonati, in qualsiasi occasione l’arrivo di Anna Piaggi rapiva l’attenzione di tutti. Il suo stile ha sempre sfidato le regole fashion. Anna credeva nel divertimento, nel frivolo, nel bizzarro. Eppure la sua visione della moda come miscela di “humor, scherzi e giochi” veniva preso molto sul serio dal mondo dell’arte, tanto che nel 2006 il suo sterminato guardaroba è diventato protagonista al Victoria & Albert Museum di Londra, nella mostra “Anna Piaggi: Fashion-ology”.
Per lei tra arte, moda e vita non esistevano confini: fondeva tutte le sue passioni in un unico atto di dissenso sartoriale. Senza dubbio ora sarà uno degli angeli più colorati tra le nuvole della moda, e di tanto in tanto da lassù scoccherà frecce di ispirazione…



Photo and text Courtesy of Yoox.com
Photo Credit Ferdinando Scianna

Monday, October 8, 2012

Le Noir: Monday meeting with the buyers

Le Noir TWO

Dress to Impress!
Key pieces will do your all outfit. 

Hermès leather jewelry
€245 - usa.hermes.com



Giuseppe zanotti
€230 - giuseppezanottidesign.com



Urban Renewal Vintage vintage jewelry
€305 - urbanoutfitters.com



Louis Vuitton silk scarve
fashion.1stdibs.com



Louis vuitton
€160 - louisvuitton.com



Vintage Louis Vuitton Disco Ball Keychain
€195 - wondermode.com



Louis Vuitton high heels
luxurylaunches.com



Louis vuitton handbag
tooklookbook.com



Louis vuitton
luxois.com



Louis vuitton
tooklookbook.com

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Metropolitan NYC Andy Warhol



Poster sold from TOP ART

 
For decades, critics have observed that Andy Warhol exerted an enormous impact on contemporary art, but no exhibition has yet explored the full nature or extent of that influence. Through approximately forty-five works by Warhol alongside one hundred works by some sixty other artists, Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years juxtaposes prime examples of Warhol's paintings, sculpture, and films with those by other artists who in key ways reinterpret, respond, or react to his groundbreaking work. What emerges is a fascinating dialogue between works of art and artists across generations.


Andy Warhol at the MET

Factory in New York
If you are in NYC why not have a quick tour of the locations
of Andy's Studios?
I love to take an instagram of them and make my own collection....
  • Factory: 1342 Lexington Avenue (the first Factory)
  • The Factory: 231 East 47th street 1963–1967 (the building no longer exists)
  • Factory: 33 Union Square 1967–1973 (Decker Building)
  • Factory: 860 Broadway (near 33 Union Square) 1973–1984 (the building has now been completely remodeled and was for a time (2000–2001) the headquarters of the dot-com consultancy Scient)
  • Factory: 22 East 33rd Street 1984–1987 (the building no longer exists)
  • Home: 1342 Lexington Avenue
  • Home: 57 East 66th street (Warhol's last home)
  • Last personal studio: 158 Madison Avenue


Poster sold from TOP ART

Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became a renowned and sometimes controversial artist.


Poster sold by TOPART


Not to be misses!
MET in MYC great excuse to visit NYC before Christmas !
Why not shop at the MET giftstore for your seasonal gifts?

Thank you MET Press Office, TopArt Fine Art Printing, Wikepidia

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Chanel Cookies


A lovely idea for Chanel Fanatics
A gift from a soiree in Milan...

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

XV Beacon Hotel











Superb Hotel in central Boston.
Pampered dogs too.





Thursday, September 20, 2012

The perfect cup of tea....

HRH The Duchess of Cambridge
on her Asian Royal Tour.
I simply adore her smile, style and grace.
She is the perfect example of a Lady
and a good role model for all of us.
God Bless You.

photo thanks to GraziaDaily