Versace Pre-fall collection 2016 for an urban powerful women. May be a roman one?

Oversized drop-shoulder coats and jackets. A fitted and sculpted waist. The new Versace pre-fall collection is modern and wearable. I will definitly take my clients to try it on. Leather is refined in tailored shapes. I love the drop shouldered biker.  Since a couple of years the brand is very fresh and cool.  Here is Donatella Versace statement :"I want women to have everything they need to be at their best". She is right. www.versace.com

Rome is waiting for Toulouse Lautrec

The 4th of December starts the Toulouse Lautrec exhibition in Ara Pacis. Over 170 masterpieces coming from the Budapest Museum of Beaux Arts. A lot of affiches, posters and the first advertising campaign. Some are extremely rare because they were done by the artist in limited edition. Considered one of the brightest illustrator of his time, Toulouse Lautrec portrayed Balls at Moulin Rouge, french can can and other aspects of parisian life from the end of the XIXth Century to the beginning of the XXth. The exhibition will last until the 8th of May. Not to be missed. www.arapacis.it

Henri de Toulouse- Lautrec : The english man at the Moulin Rouge 1892

NOT ONLY SHOPPING, ALSO THE HISTORY OF ITALY AND USA

     This afternoon the weather in Rome is supposed to be bad. Shopping with my clients from Hotel de Russie might be really painfull. A good alternative could be to take them to visit "War is Over" at Palazzo Braschi. It is an amazing photo exhibition with about 140 pictures from the Istituto Luce and the U.S.Signal Corps. The photos were shooted between 1943 and 1946, some are them were never shown. I went to see it yesterday afternoon and I discover a lot of things such as that the Viareggio rail station had been bombed, that the American had a kind of fascination for "The Bel Paese" even if it was completely destroyed. You can do some shopping buying the nice and interesting catalogue published by Contrasto.