Venice: Palazzo
Mocenigo – Diana Vreeland cocktail. The
view from Palazzo Mocenigo on the Grand Canal where the cocktail party was held
after the opening of the Diana Vreeland After Diana Vreeland exhibition at Palazzo Fortuny. The cocktail was given by The Bauers president, the attractive Francesca Borolotti Possati.
Professor Frances Corner OBE, Head of College, London College of Fashion, Amy De La Haye from the London College of Fashion, Co curators of the exhibition, Judith Clark and Maria Luisa Frisia with keynote speaker, Harold Koda, Curator in Charge Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Hostess, Francesca Bortolotti Possati and her children Olimpia and Alessandro Possati.
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Frederick, Alexander and Olivia Vreeland.
Curator of The Peggy Guggenheim Collection Luca Massimo Barbero and La Maison Européenne de la Photographie's Adele Re Rebaudengo.
Gaby Wagner and Empire historian, Jérôme Zieseniss, president of The Comité Français de Sauvegarde de Venise.
Art historian Cristina Beltrami and visual artist Anita Sieff.
Art critic Mariuccia Casadio, W magazine's editor-in-chief Stefano Tonchi and couture-collector Cecilia Matteucci Lavarini.
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Veruschka
Director and
curator of the Roberto Capucci Foundation, Enrico Minio Capucci, Sovrintendente
Musei Provinciali di Gorizia, Raffaellla Sgubin and Vogue’s Cesare Cunaccia.
Akiko Fukai, Director and Chief Curator Kyoto Costume Institute.
Maria Luisa Frisa, Dean of Fashion, Universita Iuav di Venezia and ex top model Mirella Petteni Haggiag.
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Benedetta Barzini and Mirella Petteni
Art historian Roberto De Feo, designer Umberto Branchini and La Biennale's Manuela Lucca' Dazio.
Architect and author Philippe Duboy.
Artist Tony Corner and his wife Professor Frances Corner OBE, Head of College, London College of Fashion.
Alexandra Palmer, Senior Curator of Textiles and Costume, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.
The Venice International Foundation's president Franca Coin and designer Rosita Missoni.
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Photograph by Cecil Beaton
Venice: Correr Museum – Diana Vreeland dinner.
The dinner
for the exhibition Diana Vreeland After Diana Vreeland at Palazzo Fortuny was
held in the sumptuous and opulent neo-classical ballroom of the Correr Museum in Saint’s Mark’s Square and was hosted
by the president of the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Walter Hartsarich.
Above: Lisa Immordino Vreeland, who commissioned the exhibition, host Walter Hartsarich, Gabriella Belli, director of the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, entrepreneur Luigino Rossi and Alexander Vreeland.
Frederick Vreeland and Katell Le Bourhis.
Claire Lotti and writer and landscape designer Umberto Pasti.
Antique dealers, New York based Christian Lapeyre and Milan based Carlo Orsi.
Universita Iuav di Venezia's Maria Luisa Frisa and Mario Lupino.
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Benedetta Barzini
The "king" of Paisley Gimmo Etro.
Giulia Cogoli, president of the Venice International Foundation, Franca Coin, fashion designer, Stephan Janson, Daniela Ferretti curator and coordinator of exhibitions at Palazzo Fortuny, Rosalba Parodi and Alessandra Mancino.
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Jean Shrimpton
Italian Vogue's Carlo Ducci.
Lisa Immordino Vreeland and Walter Hartsarich.