Fashion Theories
This summer, be a flower among flowers in an overflowing garden. How can we translate this imperative? Whatever you choose, make sure your foot is held on the shoe either by tiny flowers – a myriad of cyclamens in the Dior version – or by a giant bloom, as in the seductive pink sandals by…
I would not hesitate to draw inspiration from Jonathan Anderson’s Fall–Winter 2026 show for Dior. At least two dresses are made for a woman with a strong personality, as beautiful as the flowers of an enchanted garden. Your entourage will be spellbound by the dress in figured silk in shades of pink, edged with irreverently long ostrich…
May is the month of springtime splendor, of the desire for rebirth, of a renewed sense of wonder at the sight of nature. Our afternoons slow down and linger as the days grow noticeably longer. There is a life after work, and every year it feels as if we were discovering it for the first…
“Translation Service Learning for Future Africa” is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action, but it is much more for my students, my co-bearer Joanny Moulin and for myself. It is a dream come true: the coronation of two years of hard work thinking about the way we, as a community, can serve African society and most of…
Most of our pop stars and movie stars are unanimously called “queens”, and by doing so we definitely signify that we love them. God save our beloved pop queens that bring joy and hope into our lives just by being the incredible artists they are. Even in our everyday life, we are used to calling…
France and fashion have gone together since the days of yore. Paris streets are the most sensible fashion thermometer when you want to know how to be glamorous in everyday life. I am Italian, but I have been living in France longer than in my homeland, and since my twenties, I have been addressing the…
At least once in our lifetime, we have been dreaming of wearing a powerful untamed apotropaic Cartier panther. We may have wisely driven away such a fantasy because of its somehow obscene character for all the reasons we profoundly know as daughters of this aporetic world: of course, this is not a time for pomp…
Last August I went with my beloved husband at Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome to visit Dolce & Gabbana’s traveling exhibition “Dal cuore alle mani” (“From the Heart to the Hands,” soon at ICA Miami). We were prepared to be overwhelmed by the general splendour of Dolce & Gabbana’s artwork, but we were not prepared…
In The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility (1936) Walter Benjamin asserts that the literary work of art is less subject to “a decay of the aura” than fine or decorative art. For, he says, “What, then, is the aura? A strange tissue of space and time: the unique apparition of…
