GIADA A BRAND TO WATCH CAREFULLY

 In february 2015, Gabriele Colangelo, an italian talented designer, who is 40 years old,  has been appointed as Creative Director of Giada. Colangelo won in 2008 the Vogue Who's on Next concourse. He has his own brand and, the Giada nominee, is the result of his growing success. Giada has a flagshipstore in Milano in via Montenapoleone. It has been founded in 2001 by Rosanna Daolio and it is owned since 2011 by the chinese group Redstone. I like it for the precision of cuts, the choose of fabrics and the contemporary esthaetic. The palette is very natural, from beige to grey.

IN ROME WATER AND FASHION

Sometimes, part of the Shopping tour in Rome, can be the visit of a fashion and /or creative exhibition. A perfect example is the one called "IN ACQUA H2 O MOLECOLE DI CREATIVITA' ". It takes place at the Planetarium of the monumental complex of the Baths of Diocletian. You will be able to admire not only dresses from Giorgio Armani, Roberto Cavalli, Issey Miyake, Gattinoni, Romeo Gigli, but also the beautiful pictures of Paolo Belletti. The exhibition is up only to the 12th of June. Don't miss it.

Every movement is part of the process #2 photo by Paolo Belletti

ANTONIO MARRAS IN NIA FOR A ROMANTIC SHOPPING EXPERIENCE

Last saturday I was on a shopping tour in Rome with two american ladies. We stopped by Nia, two boutiques in via Vittoria (just off the spanish steps). In one of them there was a lovely embroidered jacket from Antonio Marras, one of the greatest italian talent. My clients were extremely impressed. Here below his new fall winter collection based on:  layered skirts with fringes, brocade dresses, velvelt flowers, silk gowns. His muse, for this particular collection, is Adèle H, the daughter of Victor Hugo. A romantic and disturbed girl madly in lovely with British Army officer Albert Pinson. She followed him in Nova Scotia, Barbados and Sardenia. No happy ending as it has to be in real romantic story as Goethe taught us in " The Sorrows of young Werther".