Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Venice: Diana Vreeland Cocktail and Dinner



 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

  Courtesy Palazzo Fortuny
DV cover for VOGUE 15 September 1964 


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.

Courtesy Palazzo Fortuny
DV cover for VOGUE 1 April 1967
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.

 Courtesy Palazzo Fortuny
 DV for VOGUE 15 September 1968
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.
 
 Courtesy Palazzo Fortuny

  DV for HARPER'S BAZAAR August 1955
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.

Courtesy Palazzo Fortuny
 DV for VOGUE 15 September 1968
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. 

Courtesy Palazzo Fortuny
DV cover for VOGUE 1 September 1963
Jean Shrimpton 


Italian Vogue's Carlo Ducci.


Lisa Immordino Vreeland and  Walter Hartsarich.