Visiting ‘Fotografia Festival 2011’  in Rome

what I liked more is to discover ‘Ninagawa Baroque’, a catalogue made with poor paper and superb images by Mika Ninagawa _  black & white power images

http://www.fotografiafestival.it/

I struggled through this Collection.. all my September spent working at it. I think I can die now ..

hhttp://www.style.com/fashion-shows/spring-2012-ready-to-wear/vivienne-westwood

uncoming inspiration for a new piece of Living Room Collection.

Reiko Ike portayed in Gendai paruno-den, sentensei inpu (1971)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiko_Ike

Something captured my attention ..the award-winning short film “The Thomas Beale Cipher” by Andrew Allen, telling an intrigue in Wolrd War II.

Criptography and a creative collage of animation styles..

http://www.thomasbealecipher.com

A shoot with 78rpm _ I want to thank for the gramophone Libreria Brac, a delicious place in Florence where to spend lovely time

Music always played a strong role for me.. in solitary moments, with friends and also to create new ideas.

For Living Room Collection Current 93 albums follow my inspiration during the silent night, in daily time I fallen in love with the late 30/40’s period.
It was amazing to understand more about the role of music in that period, from Richard Strauss to Wagner (read more on ‘La Storia Illustrata’ no.301, december 1982),  from Marlene Dietrich to Frank Loesser, Louis Armstrong, Martha Tilton, Louise Brooks, Rina Ketty,  Lena Horne, Frehel, Jack Harris, Jean Gabin, Tino Rossi, Raphael Canaro, Jeanne Aubert.. the list can continues with extraordinary names.

I researched for my visual story 78rpm from La Voce del Padrone and I collected an example of music war department.

Herbert Von Karajan during a music performance at the Opera of Berlin, 1943

I am glad to finally present my new Collection.

I want to thank all the people who collaborated for the visual portrayal of my ideas. First of all my greatest gratitude is for Max Pruneti from Knuk for his assiduity and great work. Then I would like to express my most heartfelt thanks to the hair dresser Iacopo Nucciotti, to Valentina Artini as assistant stylist, to the video maker Roberto Schoepflin, to the full staff of Knuk, to FlareStudio, to Daria Missori, to the models Vanessa Berti, Eliza Blaettner, Gaia Bacci, Sara Martini, Esprit Model Management and finally to everyone believing in this project.
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A special thanks to Fours Seasons Hotel, Florence.
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A more introspective thanks to Vivienne Westwood and David Tibet that always inspire my work.

Ikonostas knickers and collar jabot

stylist: Camilla Bresci, photographer: Valentina Eleonora Costa