Reading his biography my head is spinning. This is what I call “a business instinct” . He has started of by opening the Studio 54 with his business partner Steve Rubell, which followed by the opening of the night club Palladium in the old Academy of Music building in New York City.
Month: October 2013
The 70’s DNA.
70s, Studio 54 : The era that left the largest milestones in fashion, music and design. We can start with some names to get an idea of who are the idols of fashion designers today: Farrah Fawcett, Bianca Jagger, Iman, Debbie Harry, Diane Von Fusterberg, Faye Dunaway, Joni Mitchell, Angelica Huston, Jane Fonda, Nico, Jerry… More
A visual story.
For the most of us fashion is a dream, a fairy-tale and every time we go for shopping, all we want is being part of this creative world. We dream about a bag or about a pair of shoes or anything else. Once we are in the shop, our questions are more like : You know… More
The book: “Grace, A Memoir ” Grace Coddington with Michael Roberts – Random House NY
It has been already one year since I bought this book online , but for several reasons I never read it until now. To be honest, despite loving fashion, I didnt know much about Grace and I started to refer to her name only after I’ve seen “The September Issue”. Yet , buying the book,… More
The Book: “In my shoes”
‘The Sunday Times once wrote that I seemed ‘less an actual person than the heroine of some dicey Danielle Steel Bonkathon’. The basic Danielle Steel conceit is to take a plucky heroine, set her on a quest, and then subject her to every villain and viper and obstacle imaginable. Which, I suppose, is not an… More
Discovering Irving Penn….
“A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.” Irving Penn