Fashion, events and visual culture, told by Francesca.
PROFESSION FASHION DESIGNER: FEDERICA GALLO Making graphic sketches, choosing fabrics and colours, tailoring clothes, fitting them to the client’s body: these are just some of the activities of a fashion designer. Creating as if by magic, out of nothing, garments that aim to quickly become genuine objects of cult for thousands…
Vogue Archive: the magazine’s history at a click “In the collective imagination fashion remains a supplementary, functional skin; for the less interested it is good for protecting the body from the cold and hiding its nakedness. It doesn’t matter that the fashion object contains sweat, research, courage. It doesn’t matter that behind…
In the spirit of “let him who is without sin cast the first stone”, I'll start with a very simple question: how many of you take at least one photo a day with your phone? Whether it's of your cat, to update your socials, to send to a friend or to take a selfie with a stranger…
It's them. The undisputed stars of the fashion parading through the streets of Milan: elegant, eccentric, colourful. Influencers, Italian and otherwise, are the most anticipated and talked-about figures of fashion week. We see them arrive at the shows, flaunting the trendiest looks of the moment, previewing the trends of the coming season…
Sanremo: the Italian Song Festival. But not only that. It's history, of music and of our country. It's art, poetry of sound and emotion. It's a show, for the people in the studio and for the millions watching from home. A full immersion of five intense, long, eagerly awaited days. Days in which…
A contest. Six judges. Thirty-two make-up artists. Fifty minutes on the clock. A battle to the last brushstroke! The organiser of it all is Bruna Trebar, a make-up artist from Catania. A competition between her students, trained in recent months at her Instagrammable studio Makeup Studiolab, opened in May 2018. The competition was held…
The only rule of travel is: don't come back the way you left. Come back different. (Anne Carson) A journey enriches you. It always enriches you. You observe, discover, learn. And the more the reality in front of you at that moment differs from your own, the greater the wonder. Each of us carries a baggage…
Francesca Santangelo. 26 years old. Photographer. Little but essential information. You know butterflies, right? The beautiful result of a deep metamorphosis. “When the caterpillar finds the right environment, it turns into a chrysalis, and this is the phase in which the greatest transformations take place.” The world of photography is my “right environment…
