fashion

by alexia|20 October 202022 October 2024|ART

He wears a perfectly tailored suit, round glasses and polished shoes. With neither pride nor pretension, he stands next to three dress forms and smiles with modest assurance. He is showing three examples of design suffused with Asian references: an...

Mary Katrantzou The Outsider

by alexia|20 October 202022 October 2024|ART

Walking into Mary Katrantzou’s London office, I encounter a happy Cyclops, a figure with a wide-open eye and long voluptuous hair wearing a dress from her 2009 collection inspired by perfume bottles. The portrait by artist/illustrator Craig Redman, who uses...

Christian Louboutin Wildflowers

by alexia|17 October 202027 February 2022|ART

In 1873 Impressionist painter Claude Monet in Coquelicots painted a vibrant splash of red poppies across the lush green fields of the French countryside. French shoe designer Christian Louboutin has created a similar effect in today’s fashion landscape. Did the...

Laudomia Pucci Used to Colors

by alexia|10 October 202022 October 2024|ART

The Villa Granaiolo in Castelfiorentino, once a 13th-century fortress, is where the Marchese di Barsento Emilio Pucci and his wife, Cristina, used to host glamorous parties in the 1960s. Visible from the green steps of the villa is the former...