The Cult of the Model

“Models have learnt that beauty plus personality is an intoxicating mix, and are using it to powerful effect”.

Freja Beha Erichsen? The Chameleon. Alexa Chung? The Tomboy. Erin Wasson? The skater girl. Check out this story about the most prominent models in the fashion world featured on Vogue UK.

Arizona Muse

She is one of my favourite model at the moment. Arizona Muse was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I love this image shot by Peter Lindberg for American Vogue and styled with a natural beauty by Tonne Goodman, fashion director of US Vogue.

Keira By Tom Ford

Keira Knightley looks stunning on the cover of Elle UK, March issue. Photographed by Terry Tsiolis, the actress is so sexy and sophisticated in this total look Tom Ford styled by Anne-Marie Curtis.Will the Brit star become the next muse of the fashion designer?

The Cluth Bags Trend

Tommy Ton, photoblogger for Style.com, shot the scene at the last menswear shows in Florence, Milan and Paris. And one of the most fashionable trend is again the Clutch bag. Love them all.

Bread & Butter Berlin 2011, Opening Party

Burlesque Show by Ginger Synne and Vicky Butterfl, Black Jack and three live boxing fights Boxing at the Bread & Butter Opening Party one week ago, what a night! This season’s motto “ABSOLUTE” promised high quality fun and the “Absolute Cotton Club” revived the 20´s with a wild, sexy and vibrant program.

Gangster, diva, dandy, gigolo, bohemian: in the style of Richard Gere and Diane Lane, the dress code was to be decadent and extremely glamorous! Once again, the BBB party was amazing!

The Selby

Just got this book “The Selby is In Your Place” for xmas and now love even more The Selby project. Todd Selby is a portrait, interiors, and fashion photographer and illustrator. His project The Selby offers an insider’s view of creative individuals in their personal spaces with an artist's eye for detail. His blog is food for the mind. www.theselby.com/

I love my scarf by Hermes

This is a very nice project done for Hermes by young photographer Matt Irwin. Finally a youth and fresh vision of the famous brand that looks accessibile to all. http://www.ilovemyscarf.com/

Archie Grands: notebooks for friend and foe

We want tons of these booklets, collect, fill and write them all. And we know exactly to whom they should be addressed. Archie Grand Notebooks came for this purpose in 1980s, a gift to aid friend and foe in their creative pursuits. http://www.archiegrand.com/legendarynotebook.html

Yaya Store, Paris: une boutique pleine de surprises

Yaya store is in the heart of Paris, in vibrant and cool Rue Montmartre 55. It looks like a Souk Market directly from Marrakech because it’s full of atypical and unique products coming from all over the world.

Handmade bags and shoes from Italy, no-logo items selected with fine research in Japan and Usa, limited and special collection just available in the store: this make Yaya store a unique place. I have worked with Valerie Blanchard, the owner, for many years and here you can see all her passion and cool hunting job.

http://www.yayastore.fr/

Velvet, 50 covers

Last week we have been invited to a cult disco in Milan called Plastic to celebrate Italian magazine VELVET and its cover no. 50. Cool people, wild dance and the beautiful covers on display have characterized the nice evening. Launched in November 2006 and directed by great editor in chief Michela Gattermeyer, the magazine is stylish and glamorous. We love the graphic, so fresh and contemporary. And all covers. That we collect jealously.

VOGUE EXPERIENCE

This is a good memory of a special saturday spent at Vogue's office in Milan. Enjoyed speaking with editors and stylists. Next goal is to become a Beauty Editor and get tons of free sample, goodie bags and spa treatments. A VERY demanding role.

Paris, mon amour

Enjoyed few days in Paris at Hotel Plaza Athènèe, in the footsteps of Carrie Bradshaw, Jackie O and Edith Piaf. We loved all the xmas lights, the very first snow, the fois gras, the tour Eiffel, the Louvre, Lina's soups and sandwiches. Best restaurant tip http://www.squaretrousseau.com/, rather disappointed instead by the service and menù choices at Costes http://www.hotelcostes.com/ that was one of my favourite. Need to start french lessons, now!

Le French Dresser

Le French Dresser: every girl should have one! http://warymeyers.blogspot.com/

Anna Dello Russo

It is ANNA DELLO RUSSO golden moment. Her twitter account has more than 25.000 followers and magazines do fight to write articles about her. This is the latest one featuring an exclusive interview about her 2 flats... 'one is just for my wardrobe', she says to the italian Il Corriere Della Sera.

http://www.corriere.it/spettacoli/10_novembre_20/persivale-abitare-abitazioni_cd1a377a-f477-11df-b9c7-00144f02aabc.shtml

The Soft Parade

We are featured here http://soft-parade.tumblr.com/ Nice blog!

Lomomania

Few experiments done with my cool Lomo Fish Eye at Rockers vs Hip Hoppers party. What do you think?

Kitty Usb

Love this hello kitty usb. More characters on http://www.mimoco.com/

Libra sign by British Vogue

Love the way Tim Gutt matched fashion with astrology for British Vogue. This is my sign, Libra.

Groove Armada at O2 Brixton Academy

The year 2010 has been a massive year for Groove Armada. They released their sixth studio album Black Light to great acclaim and followed up with an explosive string of concerts and festival appearances across Europe, America, and Australia. And suddenly they announce that they are retiring and that the last date of the tour at Brixton Academy last 16th opf October was their last as a live band, what a feeling of melancholy! Tom Findlay, Andy Cato and SaintSaviour bounded onto the stage and launched straight into “Look Me in the Eye Sister” and “I Won’t Kneel”, the effect was incredible. SaintSaviour’s vocals are more impressive and powerful live than we could ever have imagined and she is was fantastic with her energetic dancing, crazy outfits, and amazing voice but she was not the only star vocalist of the evening. Up next was MC M.A.D. the distinctive ragga voice behind some of Groove Armada’s biggest hits. It was an incredible show and with the help of SaintSaviour and MC M.A.D., Groove Armada delivered some of their biggest hits including “My Friend”, “Paper Romance”, “Cards To Your Heart”, “Fogma”, and “Madder”.

La prima cosa bella

'La prima cosa bella’ is a melting and poetic family portrait set in Tuscany and was chosen to represent Italy in the next Oscar race for the Best Foreign Film that will be held in Los Angeles in February 2011. Challenging goal for the film director Paolo Virzì which tells the story of the disillusioned Bruno and his relationship with his mother Anna, a beautiful and energic woman. Bruno, the eldest, is a professor of literature unhappy, insecure and problematic, with no relations with his mother and sister Valeria that is a neurotic employee fled into the arms of a talkative husband. Bruno reconciles with the two women only after learning that his mother is seriously ill and this will be an opportunity for him and his sister to digest a mother really bulky, but also capable of outbursts of unusual love. The childhood memories are the real filter of this story of Bruno and Valeria, both adults and suffering. And around the charismatic Anna the story turns around and takes form. Touching.

People meet in architecture

These are images taken at the 12th Venice Architectural Biennale. This edition is called ‘People meet in architecture’ and is curated for the first time by a woman, the architect Kazuyo Sejima. The choice of the 53 national participants in the exhibition and collateral events is related to how architecture can clarify new values and propose a new lifestyle for the present due to the many radical changes that are taking place in our life. The Biennale will be open until November 21st 2010 and is worth a visit. http://www.labiennale.org/

Little Red Riding Hood by Maripol

Remember Maripol? She was the beautiful French art director, stylist and photographer that scouted in 1983 an aspiring dancer and singer named Madonna Louise Ciccone. After working as art director for Fiorucci in New York and designer Reissue, she started working in photography and she loved working and playing with Polaroid camera. After her first book Maripolarama released in 2005, last month she published this new book from Damiani: a collecction fo the polaroids, art and designs.

Thailand: a journey through Kanchanaburi, Lopburi, Ayutthaya, Chiang Mai, Ko Samui and Bangkok

There are images that lead us into an unknown and sometimes forbidden world. There are images that make us dreaming of distant and exotic lands. This is a journey through several Thai provinces. Gianandrea Rodato, narrator of this story and author of the pictures below, misses a lot the Pad Thai every time he goes to eat pizza to the local trattoria. And keep thinking that Bangkok is only 11 hours away.

Photo courtesy Gianandrea Rodato gianandrea.rodato@gmail.com
http://www.livincool.com/photography/thailand-a-journey-through-kanchanaburi-lopburi-ayutthaya-chiang-mai-ko-samui-and-bangkok

Notting Hill Carnival 2010

London’s Notting Hill Carnival returned for its forty-sixth year in 2010.
Check out the parade route, costumes and masks, the great soundsystems (they were massive speakers stacks everywhere) and Caribbean food stalls with jerk chicken, rice and peas and rum punch as well as the odd taste of other exotic cuisines. This is a gallery of what we have seen at Europe’s biggest, brightest and best street party on Monday 31st of August!

http://www.viragoentertainment.it/gigs.php

L.E.D.

L.E.D. : London Electronic Dance Festival. During the massive UK bank holiday weekend, Victoria Park hosted its last festival of the season. The Friday’s instalment boasted headline sets from house giants Calvin Harris (follow him on http://twitter.com/calvinharris , his tweets are cool!), our beloved Belgium brothers Soulwax and Mr. David Guetta, just back from another successful F**K Me I’M Famous night at Pacha Ibiza. Another big crowd was pumped by electro-banger Tiga and mask-wearing Italo duo The Bloody Beetroots in the big tent opposite the main stage. Saturday’s line up with Goldfrapp, Leftfield, Annie Mac and many more had to compete instead against SouthWestFour festival at Clapham Common, big hitter of the season, sold out weeks before. Check out our photo gallery!

http://www.viragoentertainment.it/gigs.php

A weekend in Oslo

Are you planning a trip to Oslo? Few tips from us for a fantastic stay in the Norwegian city capital! Oslo is green, bring your sport gear for a healthy run in one of the beautiful park (you can easily choose the Royal House Park or the amazing Vigeland Park) or rent a bike; get blond hair so people will take you for a local native; do cool hunting, street shots are recommended for good fashion tips; do not get shocked if you meet just families with at least 3 kids and a dog, it’s the house rule; order dinner before 9.30pm if you do want to invest your money in McDonald and Tgi’s Friday; do not feed seagulls at Aber Brygge, by the port, these animals can become really bad enemies of your sunset break; bring at least two credit cards, euros is not welcome and cash (locally called kun) just in very rare places.
Enjoy the gallery of an extraordinary sunny weekend in Oslo!

http://www.viragoentertainment.it/travels.php

Electro-Venice

The electronics music has landed in Venice, Italy. A week after the Heineken Jammin Festival, the beautiful lagoon city is still the leader: Saturday, July 10, from early afternoon till late at night, more than 25.000 young danced continuously on the lawn of San Giuliano Park 'burned' by four previous days of real rock. International line-up, people from all over Italy and swarms of mosquito killer: this was the right mix of Electro-Venice. See the gallery featuring Digitalism and Guy Gerber dj set and the magnificent live of Moderat, The Bloody Beetroots and superlative 2manydjs. www.electrovenice.com

Urbanautica

The July issue of Urbanautica is out now with a contemporary exhibition by Brian Ulrich, the invisible cities by Giustino Chemello, the ‘foreclosure USA’ project by Kirk Crippens, the lateral view of Kerim Aytac, the ‘Ciudad De Los Reyes’ portrayed by Carlos Jimènez Cahua and much more! Urbanautica is a research platform centered on photography and the human landscape. A navigation by sight, a trip around the ideas, people and what makes them part of nature and the world. Each month Urbanautica publishs a selection of international photographers who have developed artistic research topics and fine art works that concern landscape, urban transformations, habitat, pollution, abandoned places and our relationship with nature. Urbanautica has great plans for the near future, subscribe the newsletter and stay tuned!

Frida Kahlo in Berlin

Be enchated by the wonderful and intense universe of Frida Kahlo, full of femininity, true passion and colours. Check out the exhibition at Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin in association with the Kustforum of Wien till August 9th, 2010 and get inspired by the 150 works (paintings and drawings) of one of the world's greatest and most fascinating artist. This is the most comprehensive show of Frida’s Kahlo’s work ever staged. She is still a timeless female role model and fashion icon. www.berlinerfestspiele.de

Åsa Tällgård photography

We love the latest editorials from swedish photographer Åsa Tällgård. One is called ‘Road Trip’  with Sara Von Schrenk and the other one ‘Easy Rider’ with Janeta Samp. Both for Elle Sweden. Cool casting and an interesting focus on denim. http://www.tallgard.com/