Fashion Exhibition: Memos on Fashion in this Millenium
9 March, 2020The project, in the form of an exhibition that lasts until MAY, and a catalogue, aims to spark off a series of reflections on contemporary fashion, its qualities and its attributes, taking as its starting point Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium, the series of Charles Eliot Norton Poetry Lectures that the writer was supposed to give at Harvard University in the autumn of 1985. Calvino died suddenly in September of the same year, but his wife Esther decided to publish what he had written for them. Thus the incisive and inclusive word Memos has been chosen as…
PAULA CADEMARTORI-MILAN
Paula Cademartori, welcomes you from Milano from her fascinating world. During her recent presentation, staged as an antique shop, during Milan Fashion Week, she proposed powerful symbols to help women connect with the natural energies of the universe. Eyes, unicorns, elephants,…
SUE PRICHARD TEXTILE CURATOR & HER PASSION FOR VINTAGE
As a child I spent a lot of time with my grandmother; she taught me how to sew, knit and darn. She bought me my first sewing machine and passed on her ethos of ‘make do and mend’. We would…
TOP SHOP SPRING 2018
One of my favorite stores in London is always Top Shop. With it ´s amazing vibe and colorful pieces & shoes, we always have fun, and enjoy fashion there! Have you asked for your own personal shopper? This is a…
ATTICO MILAN
Milanese it girls, Giorgia Tordini & Gilda Ambrosio started their brand, with a formal preparation in Fashion, although previously, they have been showing their best looks in the streets of Fashion Week NY, where I met Gilda back in 2015.…
ANNE SEBBA
I met Anne in London last September, after I read two of her latest books: Les Parisiennes, and The Other Woman, which I found thought-provoking and fascinating. Les Parisiennes, a compilation of real life stories, explores how Parisian…
MASQUERADE BALL BY JAVIER ITURRIOZ
Last March, the argentine architect and interior designer Javier Iturrioz ( a local dandy) hosted his 50th birthday party. Inspired by The Black & White masquerade Ball held during 1966 by legendary writer Truman Capote, at the Plaza Hotel,…
