The image of fashion_

«But fashion is not a constant challenge to the reality? (...) The aura of a perfect style and his time in an image remain intact forever. (...) Photographs and drawings fashion is equivalent to interpreting and express his plots and his reasons. His subtle intentions».
Cit. quirini Conti, "Mai il mondo saprà"

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Women and fashion_

«Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women». Elsa Schiaparelli

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The democracy of fashion_

«Fashion is like the snow, takes the form of what it covers. Settles on what it finds.
Does not discriminate and has no prejudices. Runs to his goal without regard for anyone:the exaltation and the amplification of what it found»
Cit. Quirini Conti, "Mai il mondo saprà"

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Vivienne Westwood activism_

"The most important weapon we have is public opinion: go to art galleries, start to understand the world you live in. You're a freedom ' fighter as soon as you start doing that, and you get a perspective on everything, not just on consumer life."
Vivienne Westwood, 2009

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There is only one Kate in the World_

«I've seen Kate Moss for the first time eleven years ago during a fashion show in Milan(...) Drinking a Bellini and laughing, chatting with her friends. No one was able to take his eyes off her(...)
Kate was completely inaccessible. At the center of attention without caring too much. (...) All bet she would not last more than a week. She was to fragile, too true, too natural. Now (...) she still resists. Supernatural, hyper-real, immutable.
(...) But, look at her pictures.Browse the multitude of images: there is not even one bad. (...) She never told us what he thinks of us.
She is the last great silent star.A postmodern and ubiquitous Garbo.
(...) Kate Moss had learn something from our noisy era of stupid chatter. That less is more, that there is honesty in the silence».
Cit. A.A. Gill, Vanity Fair 2006

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Made in Italy_

«Craftsmanship means for me to create unique pieces. With a strong personality and away from mass production. An handmade object  expresses something personal, speak of the person it belong to.The luxury and uniqueness consists in being able to appreciate the manual process behind the creative process» Silvia Venturini Fendi

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Genius_

«You have to know the rules before breaking them» Alexander McQueen


«My work is an expression of what I live» Alexander McQueen, 2001


«...courting controversy as headlines hailed him as the new enfant terrible» Design Museum


«McQueen was here, and maybe there is still» Bronwyn Cosgrave


«ll the hurt, the loneliness, longing for beauty that endures even when fireworks would be if Alexander McQueen had not committed suicide. Nothing requires coherence if not the pain» Gabriele Romagnoli, july 2011

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Couturier_3

How could they write, build, sculpt shapes with the same awareness, they could built forms, mix material and colors, destroy weights and thicknesses. Without any decorative or practical purposes. But with a lucid determination to build and deconstruct, or contain a flexible and adaptable material of slender in a poetic structure. A poetic which has in the human body his only expression.
Cit. Quirino Conti, "Mai nessuno saprà"

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Couturier 2_

"What is a poet for you? Write a writer without being"_ Coco Chanel

This was a Couturier. One moment nothing more than a great scorer clothing.

Immediately after a lucid intellectual thought and wrote through the images with the garments and their construction.

 

Couturier_

"...what drove Cristobal Balenciaga to linger so long on the techniques of Zubaràn and of iberian art before before asking his hand to built those daring constructions unbalanced back like if they were built in error, for an oversight, and invest almost the body of his customers with those volumes, so little inclined to flatter.  Proud instead of being different, to talk about something else. Unsustainable and different as anything that reveals a new beauty and that before it became comfortable in his time was inevitably intolerable?"
Cit. Quirino Conti, "Mai il mondo saprà"

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