Tag: style

  • happy birthday

    Happy birthday to my queen of punk!
    DEBBIE HARRY posing for the poster for Blondie’s debut album Blondie, december 1976

  • ciao baby

    Edie Sedgwick

    I first discovered the story of EDIE SEDGWICK during one of my trips to New York City in the early 80s and I immediately fell in love!

    I loved her androgynous 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 magnetic charm and her distinctive style, featuring miniskirts, simple black and white striped T-shirts worn over black tights, short hair dyed with silver spray, heavy eye make-up, false lashes and chandelier earrings, Edie became a true style icon of the sixties. Whatever she wore quickly turned into a trend.

    She was the superstar in many underground films by ANDY WARHOL between 1964 and 1966. She was photographed for LIFE Magazine and VOGUE and inspired numerous artists. Songs like Like a Rolling Stone, Just Like a Woman, and Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat by BOB DYLAN were inspired by her. The VELVET UNDERGROUND recorded Femme Fatale and the English band THE CULT dedicated the song Ciao Baby to her.

    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

    Paris Centre Pompidou

    Today is the last day to visit the Centre Pompidou before it closes for five years for renovations. Designed in the 1970s by two young, unknown architects — the Italian Renzo Piano and the British Richard Rogers — it 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,” and “oil refinery” were some of the nicknames, but in the end it became a popular success, with more than 200 million visitors since 1977.

    And it was a shock for me too, the first time I visited Paris.
It was night, the piazza was deserted, and I saw what looked like an alien spaceship that had 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 sense of seeing through it — I find it so elegant and so sexy!

    Inside, I love the bright, open, expansive spaces, the feeling of being inside the building but, at the same time, still within the city. And I love spending hours in the bookstore looking for a new book.

    Outside, I love all those tubes and pipes. I love the bold colours used as symbols: 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 that the next time I am in Paris, I will miss you!

    Photo: Antonello Tabarelli de Fatis


    


  • ci vediamo a san remo

    Nice-San Remo-Nice

    If anyone needs me, I’ll be in San Remo in two hours!

  • superleggero T90 — shoulder bag animation

    I love shoulder-bags!
    Short animation for the new T90 shoulder-bag, designed for SUPERLEGGERO.
    The collection is available here . . .

  • happy me!

    LETRASET EUROSTILE BOLD EXTENDED

    Happy me!

    Last week I found a trunk full of LETRASET EUROSTILE BOLD EXTENDED and MEDIUM EXTENDED.
    This clean and futuristic typeface was designed by ALDO NOVARESE in 1962 and was largely used in the 70’s sci-fi movies and tv shows.
    In the original STAR TREK tv series and movies, the font appears on the exterior of all Starfleet vessels and insignias worn by the crew.

    The right type for intergalactic communications!

  • r.i.p

    Marcello Gandini Lancia Stratos

    “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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  • superleggero RACE LEADER — shoulder bag animation

    A short animation for the shoulder-bag RACE LEADER, designed for SUPERLEGGERO.
    The collection will be available exclusively here . . .

     

  • [cit.]

    Squadra ciclistica Legnano 1963

    “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.