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“Italiana”: An Italian style comedy by Luca Finotti
The Matt Silk Collection for SS12 is cool, pretty and perfectly in tune with this season’s main trend: Fifties. Luca Finotti, an up and coming Italian director was charged with creating a video to contextualize the inspiration behind the glasses. Drawing from by the classic Italian Fifties comedies, the video tells a story of ironic jealousy between mother and daughter. Think classic car, Bianca Balti, vintage music, Italian scenery. The story for the video was created by Swide, styled by Yuri Ahn and directed by Luca Finotti. A Fifties day out for a contemporary woman.
The self-taught talents of Maelle Rajoelisolo
I completely fell in love with Maelle Rajoelisolo’s illustrations when I first visited her blog. I find her illustration style to be very playful, yet her characters are beautifully crafted. The most impressive factor is that Maelle uses only colour pencils to create her works and this is very rare for illustrators. Today, I am very honoured to have her on Swide and to let you explore her illustrative world.
Young and Talented: Lucio Palmieri, a visionary storyteller
Lucio Palmieri, Milanese by adoption, recounts his world through colourful, vibrant images. Swide tells his history, revealing how to never stopped dreaming.
Gerardo Larrea - illustrations with a touch of sarcasm
Gerardo Larrea is one of the fashion illustrators that I have had on my radar since last year. His illustration style is very whimsical and fun, yet I love how, at the same time, he can illustrate all the details of the outfits. Today let me introduce you to Gerardo Larrea as my first 2012 featured illustrator.
Tim Ruger is a smoking gun
Berliner Tim Ruger not only shares a name with a certain brand of firearm, but this guy is cocked and fully loaded. Swide caught up with Ruger backstage at the Dolce&Gabbana SS 2012 show to discover a little more about the man behind the modelling and what makes him tick.
| Mar 15, 2012 | Faces > Celebrities
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Dolce & Gabbana Milano Thunder shot by Mr. Porter.com
When the male counterpart of online style editorial and shopping portal Net-a-Porter, Mr. Porter, came to the Dolce&Gabbana Milano Thunder Gym to shoot some of our fighters we saw it as a sign of the Zeitgeist. Boxing is very much in Fashion, and with the Thunders, Fashion is in Boxing.
| Mar 13, 2012 | Faces > Celebrities
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Celebs are seduced by the Dolce Bag
The continued love affair between celebrities and the Dolce Bag is the stuff dreams are made of.
| Mar 13, 2012 | Faces > Celebrities
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3 songs to... remind you of a simpler time
Mood Swings is bringing you 3 songs to remind you that there was a life before Facebook and Twitter and that we were able to create our entertainment before all this kicked off.
5 songs to… get you through the fashion hangover
And it's back! You miss it when it's gone and dread it when it's here, but it's back. Are you ready for your next fashion hangover?
Spotted on Twitter: What is Giovanna Battaglia wearing?
Giovanna Battaglia, the Italian style icon, knows clothes. Revered as one of the trend setters from the Italian peninsula, Giovanna is always elegant, never crass, whether she’s wearing a razor sharp masculine look or something straight off the couture runway.
| Feb 18, 2012 | Faces > Celebrities
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At 27, Dolce&Gabbana have achieved an impressive status, client base and cult following. The brand’s capacity to take the artistic traditions and aesthetic of Italy and make them their own is unsurpassable and highly romantic to fashion lovers. Their idiosyncratic designs, ironic take on classic dress and the brand’s emblematic items have all contributed in making Dolce&Gabbana a household name. For this instalment of our archive lead considerations of what makes up the Dolce&Gabbana DNA we concentrate on maybe one of the strongest statement the designers have made over the years: the corset.
When I was a child, my parents used to take me to a little village, where we would have almond “granita” and collect fresh water form a little drinking fountain, afterwards. This little place is called Scopello and it was time for me to return to my childhood and explore as an adult.
The scenario is…you are only in London for 24hrs. This doesn’t have to mean being stuck in your hotel wanting but not knowing what to do. Enlightened travellers continually ask the question - What would a Londoner do? Have no fear Luxury London is here…
There’s no need to go far afield to exotic locations to find adventure. In recent years adventures have been rediscovering urban winders right on our very doorsteps. Urban Exploration, known also as Urbex or UE, is an (often illegal) activity that explores unseen or unknown sights in the urban environment.
It appears that Ivan Olita’s scouting has led him straight to New York City’s very own scout, a movie location scout to be exact. Nick Carr’s job means that he gets to explore every nook and cranny that NYC has to offer, allowing him to discover the hidden details that many wouldn’t see. Ivan Investigates…
Whilst collaborating with Swide for The Matt Silk Collection SS12 video, Luca Finotti gave us the chance to get him in front of the camera for an exclusive interview. Whether it’s talking about his love affair with the camera, his views on what ‘ugly is’ or how he keeps himself sane, the up and coming fashion director was as natural in front of the camera as he is behind it.
The Cannes Film Festival is the epitome of European high glamour on the French Riviera. Sun, surf and…suits. Swide catches three stars who put their best foot forward in Dolce&Gabbana. Gerard Butler, Mathew McConaughey and Zac Efron got suited up to face the onslaught of press photographers that infest every event at Cannes.
Kylie Minogue has had a very very good week indeed. Sparkling brighter than ever at the Cannes Film Festival premier of ‘Holy Motors’, wearing Dolce&Gabbana, and then causing explosive reaction throughout the internet when her new single and video ‘Timebomb’ was dropped today.