Happy birthday to my queen of punk!
DEBBIE HARRY posing for the poster for Blondie’s debut album Blondie, december 1976
Tag: fashion
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happy birthday
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ciao baby
I first discovered the story about EDIE SEDGWICK during one of my trips to New York in the early 80’s. I fell in love!
I loved her androgyn beauty, her great talent and her minimal style.
Edie Sedgwick was the darling muse of ANDY WARHOL and soon became the queen of The Factory, the creative studio for artists and celebrities in Manhattan founded by Andy Warhol in 1964
With her great talent and her distinctive style, which featured miniskirts, simple striped black and white T-shirts worn over hot black tights, short hair dyed with silver spray, heavy eye make-up, false lashes and chandelier earrings, Edie was the style icon of the sixties.
Whatever she wore became a trend.
She was the superstar in many of the underground Andy Warhol’s movies between 1964 and 1966, she was photographed for LIFE Magazine and VOGUE and inspired a number of artists. BOB DYLAN’s Like a Rolling Stone, Just like a Woman, Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat were inspired by Edie, THE VELVET UNDERGROUND composed for Andy Warhol the song Femme Fatale and the English band THE CULT dedicated to Edie the song Ciao Baby.
She was the most beautiful, the most charismatic, but also the most fragile, an explosive mix of beauty, innocence, sensuality, suffering and mystery.
Happy birthday Baby! -
à bientôt
Today is the last day to visit the Centre Pompidou before it closes for five years for renovations. Designed in the 70’s by two young unknown architects, the Italian RENZO PIANO and the British RICHARD ROGERS it was officially opened on 31 january 1977.
And it was a shock! “Paris has its own monster, just like the one in Loch Ness” said the French magazine Le Figaro, “Notre Dame des Tuyaux“, “Centre Mochebourg“, “Oil refinery” were some of the nick-names but at the end it was a popular success with more than 200 million visitors since 1977.
And it was a shock even for me the first time I visited Paris.
It was at night, the Piazza was deserted and I saw an alien spaceship landed in the heart of the city, was I living in a sci-fi movie?
Today I still love this radical and futuristic architecture, I love the lightness, the transparency, the see-through, I find it so elegant and so sexy!
Inside I love the bright, open and wide spaces, the feeling of being inside the building but at the same time, still inside the city and I love spending hours in the bookstore looking for a new book.
Outside I love all these tubes and pipes, I love the bold colours used as symbol, blue for air-conditioning, yellow for electricity, green for water and red for pedestrian circulation.
I love the periscope-like giant air vents of an imaginary transatlantic space liner, I love the red zigzag and I love the unique view of Paris from the 5th floor.
I am sure, next time I will be in Paris, I will miss you!
Photo: Antonello Tabarelli de Fatis
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ci vediamo a san remo
If anyone needs me, I’ll be in San Remo in two hours!
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new shoulder-bags
I love shoulder-bags!
Animation for the new shoulder-bags T90 designed for SUPERLEGGERO. The new collection of shoulder-bags is available here . . . -
r.i.p
“La macchina da rally non ha bisogno di essere bella, ma se non avesse vinto sarebbe rimasto almeno il bello.” [cit.] MARCELLO GANDINI
Marcello Gandini was one the most famous, talented and visionary car designers. He was known for the masterpieces he created for Lamborghini, Alfa Romeo and Lancia.
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“Fioeu e ricurdeves che se vurí andá fort, bisogna cuilá no!”
[cit.] EBERARDO PAVESI
L’Avocatt in bicicletta as he was defined by GIANNI BRERA was the most famous Italian team director. Under him corridori like ALFREDO BINDA, GINO BARTALI, FAUSTO COPPI, ERCOLE BANDINI and many others, made the history of the grande ciclismo Italiano. -
birthday girl
Happy birthday to my British Queen of cool!
