Milano: Missoni Fall/Winter 2011-2012 collection.

Photograph courtesy Missoni press

Missoni: Fall/Winter 2011-2012 collection.  To a standing ovation, Missoni’s creative director Angela Missoni takes the runway after the beautiful Missoni Fairytale collection with her father Ottavio, who just turned ninety years old.

Missoni: Fall/Winter 2011-2012 collection.  Fairytale creatures is how the maison describes the clothes for the Missoni Fall/Winter 2011-2012 collection.  Dreamy, languid, enchanting and enchanted fairies. That spring out of the dream to appear “very real” thanks to men’s volumes, cuts, fabrics and accessories.

Missoni: Fall/Winter 2011-2012 collection.  An enchanted forest where knitted lace suddenly turns into a cloud of feathers.

Backstage: Missoni.   Teresa and her brother Francesco Maccapani Missoni.  Teresa was Angela’s inspiration and muse for the collection drawing on her daughter’s wardrobe of sweeping skirts, men’s jackets and oversized knitwear.

Missoni: Fall/Winter 2011-2012 collection.   Fairytale pastel colors on long sloppy cable knitted mohair sleeveless tops are worn over watercolor prints of flowers and elephants by artist Tiana Langdon.

Backstage: Missoni – make-up.   Eighteen mirrors on the long make-up table, one after the other, are set up in one of the daylight corridors of the Universita Statale where the show was held.

Backstage: Missoni - make-up. Make-up artist Lucia Pieroni at work.

 

 Backstage: Missoni - make-up. “The make-up is inspired by the movie Pulp Fiction, it’s cool girl and punky.” Lucia Pieroni explains.  The cool girls wore a dark red bordeaux lipstick called Media by M.A.C., pale complexion and a little bit of eyeliner around the eye compliment the look.

Backstage: Missoni – hair. The scene in one of the halls of the university designated to hair.

Backstage: Missoni – hair. Martin Cullen manager for Wella’s global creative director Eugene Souleiman (sans bowler hat).  Martin manages the Wella team that travels with Eugene all over the world for the shows.  Altogether about nineteen hairdressers work on a fashion show.

Backstage: Missoni – hair.  “The hair is two opposite things, it’s Parisian Haute Couture chic and a double French pleat like a cycling helmet and the hair hangs over at the back. Everybody is asking for contradiction in hair this year.  It’s very exciting time for hair, and I can’t wait to have more fun it Paris.” Eugene Souleiman explains.

 

Missoni: Fall/Winter 2011-2012 collection.  A world inhabited by pythons in soft candy-colored shades that become maxi coats.

Missoni: Fall/Winter 2011-2012 collection.  The tension between candy sweetness and patchwork biker boots.

 

Seen at Missoni.  Margherita Maccapani Missoni and Martina Mondadori.

Seen at Missoni.  Eugene Niarchos.

Seen at Missoni – British Vogue. British Vogue’s fashion director Lucinda Chambers and its editor in chief Alexandra Shulman.

Missoni: Fall/Winter 2011-2012 collection.  Deconstructed coats and jackets, cardigans, trousers and shorts in menswear cuts serve the purpose of bringing us back to the “here and now”.

  

Seen at Missoni – the art critics.  Mariuccia Casadio and Michela Moro.

Seen at Missoni – the politician. Emma Bonino.

Seen at Missoni – the founders.  Last but not least, the founders of the Missoni brand, Ottavio and Rosita Missoni who celebrate their fifty-eighth wedding anniversary this year.

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Milano: Maliparmi Autumn/Winter 2011-2012 collection

Palazzo Visconti: Maliparmi Autumn/Winter 2011-2012 collection.   “Alchemy – Hands that transform” is the title and core concept behind the narrative journey in the Maliparmi Autumn/Winter 2011-2012 collection.   “A mosaic of ages, professions and beauty”, says Annalisa Paresi (above), president of Malìparmi, “Women who give full expression to their personality, free from rigid, clichéd roles - women who live normality. The result is an alchemical mix offering icons a range of women can identify with”. Malìparmi’s new collection springs from a mix of several narratives, inspired by a profound reflection on society and its constant transformation. 

Maliparmi: accessories. Since the very beginning accessories have been fundamental elements of the company’s research. 

Maliparmi: the Women. Theatre actress and mother of twins, Lucrezia Lante della Rovere.

Maliparmi: the Women.  Theatre and cinema actress and mother of two, Giselda Volodi.

  

Maliparmi: the Women. Top model and mother, Marpessa.

Maliparmi: the Women. The model, Lu Chen.

Maliparmi: accessories – a detail. In the foreground the scarf worn by Lu Chen, is part of the new Scarves Project.  Also in the project is the Vest/Scarf an alchemical fusion of a vest and a scarf, which is to be worn as a vest, under a jacket or coat, and offers the elegance of a scarf with mixed embroidery and prints.

Maliparmi: accessories.  The shoes are platformed suede sandals. 

 

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Milano: Daniela Gregis Autumn/Winter 2011-2012 collection

Daniela Gregis Autumn/Winter 2011-2012 collection.  In the oratory of the Basilica di Sant'Ambrogio, one of the most ancient churches of Milan, built by Saint Ambrose (patron saint of the city) in 379-386, Daniela Gregis held her fashion show of the Autumn/Winter 2011-2012 collection. The oratory was Christo wrapped and draped with transparent plastic and eccentrically the Bergamo based designer showed to an audience of only fifty people amongst whom trendy buyers and press and members of her “radical” intellectual chic clientele.

Photograph by G. Bucci courtesy Daniela Gregis

Daniela Gregis Autumn/Winter 2011-2012 collection.  The Daniela Gregis Autumn/Winter 2011-2012 collection is named Madio, short for ar-madio or wardrobe. Madio is the world next door to go back and forth from, a stash, a hiding place, as solid and subtle as memories that  the designer invents, using whatever there is, opening the cupboard doors, emptying and filling up wardrobes, taking out the superfluous, adding the necessary and the serendipitous. 

 

Seen at Daniela Gregis. Journalist and stylish lady Renata Mohlo interviews the designer, Daniela Gregis.

   

Seen at Daniela Gregis. Top model and journalist, Benedetta Barzini entertained the small audience with a performance before the show. She chats with designer, Lavinia Caccia Dominioni.

Seen at Daniela Gregis. Designer, artist and graphic designer Hisayuk Amae wears his grandfather’s coat, harem pants he had made in Morocco from Peruvian fabric bought off a market stall and the red tie was also made in Morocco from camel skin.

 
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Milano: New trendy restaurant - Giacomo Arengario

New restaurant – Giacomo Arengario.  The spectacular view from the terrace of the new In restaurant, Giacomo Arengario, which is located on the third floor of the new Museo del Novecento in Piazza del Duomo. The restaurant was designed by Roberto Peregalli and Laura Sartori Rimini in the 1930s style of the Fascist building.  

  

New restaurant – Giacomo Arengario.   Giacomo Bulleri offers classic cuisine specializing in fish. The Tuscan chef is already well known to the Milanese trendies with his first restaurant in Milan, Da Giacomo. 

 

Lunch at Giacomo Arengario.   Art collector Laura Mattioli and Marina Prada.

 Lunch at Giacomo Arengario.   Anteprima’s creative director Izumi Ogino and her husband Masaaki.  Anteprima held its fashion show in the tent set up right in the middle of Piazza del Duomo last Thursday.

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Milano:Gianfranco Ferre Fall/Winter 2011-2012 collection

Backstage: Gianfranco Ferre Fall/Winter 2011-2012 collection.  Three looks from the new Gianfranco Ferre Fall/Winter 2011-2012 collection designed by Tommaso Aquilano and Roberto Rimondi. The collection which transforms light into opalescence and sensuous atmospheres with constant chromatic/materic references, sublimating the principle of sartorial perfection in shapes and structures that reflect a feel for the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright.

Seen at Gianfranco Ferre.  The new president of Gianfranco Ferre, Ahmed Sankari and it’s CEO Michela Piva.

 Backstage: Gianfranco Ferre. A three flap fronted coat has a very architectonical feel.

Seen at Gianfranco Ferre.   Ferre designer Tommaso Aquilano and the Daily Telegraph’s Hilary Alexander.

Backstage:Gianfranco Ferre.   Ferre designer Roberto Rimondi greets Vogue Japan’s Anna dello Russo and fashion blogger Brian Boy.  ADL is dressed all in Prada and Brian Boy is wearing red and orange leopard print H & M pants and a trench coat by Olivier Theyskens.

A detail.  Anna dello Russo’s Prada jeweled orange clutch bag and fox fur stole.  Note the silver nails.

Backstage: Gianfranco Ferre – make-up.  The make-up was created by Peter Philips who is the global creative director for Chanel make-up.  Inspired by the 1960’s Philips used shinny black eyeliner and lots of mascara.  

Backstage: Gianfranco Ferre – a detail. A detail of a pocket, note the metal bar on the slit.

 Backstage: Gianfranco Ferre – a detail.   A detail of a drop waisted white fur coat with glossy silver leather piping.

Backstage: Gianfranco Ferre. Shoes and boots are supremely feminine and sexy.  Note the metal architectonical detail up the side and the subtle white two-tone leather.

Backstage: Gianfranco Ferre. Models catch up on sleep whenever they can.

 

 

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