Archivio di marzo, 2013

GOOD VS. BAG (STYLING) 4

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SI

Le luci di Jurgen Teller non risparmiano i difetti, anzi, li accentuano. La bellezza del soggetto non c’entra, se comprate il magazine americano, nello stesso servizio trovate una foto di Matthew McConaughey dove sembra un mostro: lo styling è molto semplice, direi casuale, eppure funziona. A me non piacciono le scarpe stringate con il jeans ma queste hanno la punta arrotondata e soprattutto non sono nere, quindi per me è ok.

YES

Jurgen Teller’s lightning have no mercy emphasizing flaws. It has nothing to do with the beauty of the subject. If you get the american magazine, on the very same editorial you will see a picture of Mattew McConaughey looking like hell: a very simple styling, almost randomly put together but it works. I don’t really like lace-up shoes  with jeans in general but those are round toe shoes and they are not black , so it’s fine by me .

ESQUIRE USA

NO

Volevano ringiovanire Bacon con uno styling sportivo? Pessima idea. La maglia a V sulla nuda pelle è controindicata dopo una certa età ed è anche passata di moda tra l’altro, e la stringata a punta sotto il jeans (troppo attillato) è molto volgare. Mi chiedo cosa avrà detto l’agente dell’attore dopo aver visto questo scatto: forse nulla, dato che probabilmente sarà americano.

NO

If the intent was to make Bacon look younger with a sporty look it just didn’t work.Is better not to wear v-neck shirts on your bare skin over a certain age and it’s also out of fashion. Also lace up tapered shoes with (way too skinny!) jeans, look vulgar. I wonder what his agent thought about the picture: maybe nothing since he’s probably american,.

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JAGUAR 100 AROUND PROJECT – INTERVIEW TO ENNIO CAPASA FOR COSTUME NATIONAL

Ennio Capasa talks to Alessandro Calascibetta about the current Costume National Homme collection: his imaginary trip from London to Africa inspired by David Bowie has created new shapes.

MAKING OF AT VILLA NECCHI CAMPIGLIO

Andrea Valsecchi e Vittoria Vitali sono due studenti dell’Istituto Marangoni di Milano; sulla pagina Facebook di Andrea, avevo notato un breve video che aveva girato con l’IPhone durante l’ultima MFW, e l’ho invitato ad assistere ad un servizio fotografico a Villa Necchi Campiglio, a Milano. Il montaggio delle riprese è fresco e scattante e mette a fuoco – in maniera molto sintetica – alcuni istanti cruciali della giornata di lavoro. Oltre a questo, è possibile ammirare alcune zone della location, che fa parte dei beni culturali del FAI. La Villa è stata realizzata da Piero Portaluppi tra il 1932 e il 1935 per il nucleo familiare composto da Angelo Campiglio, sua moglie Gigina Necchi e sua cognata Nedda. Il mondo dei Necchi Campiglio è quello dell’alta borghesia industriale lombarda, classe agiata, ma anche tenace lavoratrice e al passo coi tempi. A Portaluppi subentrerà Tomaso Buzzi, che, nel secondo dopoguerra, conferirà alle sale un aspetto più classico e tradizionale. La Villa ospita inoltre la Collezione Alighiero ed Emilietta de’ Micheli e, al piano terra, la Collezione Claudia Gian Ferrari di opere italiane del XX secolo.

Andrea Valsecchi and Vittoria Vitali are students at Istituto Marangoni Milan. After I have seen the video Andrea shot on his IPhone during the last Milan Fashion Week and posted on his Facebook page I have decided to invite him  to come to a fashion shooting at Villa Necchi Campiglio, in Milan. He’s been editing a very crisp video, focusing on a few crucial moments throughout the workday. On top of that, it’s possible to admire the location, which is part of the FAI cultural heritage. The mansion has been built by Piero Portaluppi between 1932 and 1935 for Angelo Campiglio, his wife Gigina Necchi and his sister in law Nedda. The Necchi Campiglio were an haute-bourgeois family from Lombardy, modern and hard working members of the leisure class. Tomaso Buzzi succeded Portaluppi after the second world war giving the mansion more traditional and classic feautures. The mansion is also hosting the Alighiero and Emilietta de’ Micheli Collection and the Claudia Gian Ferrari Collection of 20th century Italian art on the main floor.

 

HARPER’S BAZAAR UOMO 1993

A typical 90’s styling, featuring some of the most mentioned brand of those years as John Rocha, Cult, Fabrizio del Carlo and Paul Smith, of course: his black leather jeans has been a must-have. The awesome Larry Scott (still long hair look), in the photo by Judson Baker.

SCHEMA LIBERO ALTA BORGHESIA

 

The filmography of Eriprando Visconti (1932-1995) encompasses only ten movies which have been filmed during the 60s until the last one, shot in 1982. Visconti, nephew of the more famous Luchino, won the critics’ choice award at Venice Film Festival when he started off in 1961 with “A Milanese Story” but never became widely known to the general public and that’s why it’s hard to remember him. The 1977 movie “Una Spirale di Nebbia”, based on the Michele Prisco’s novel by the same name, which I have now miraculously found in DVD, really affected me as a kid. Although the memory kept taking me back to the scenes of integral nudity that surprisingly haven’t been censured (Novecento by Bertolucci came out the very same year) and the audacity of the contents, I also remember very well the intimist and plush atmosphere..foggy indeed, built around the screenplay and the storyline. It’s a crude and realist plot, laying bare the Milanese upper class hypocrisy. A very contemporary film. Today more than yesterday. In the picture, a scene from the movie with Marc Porel.