ISN'T IT LOVELY?!?!

Tomorrow morning I'm gonna go at my workplace wearing my watch... 

See what happen... 

Sure my ex boss (a beautiful, fashionable woman) will appreciate it!!

ANGELS

Working with my imagination, starting from my new watch!

MY NEW SWATCH

I knew this watch would be mine!!!!

I saw it for the first time two months ago in Milan, at Swatch Flagship Store in Corso Vittorio Emanuele and I fell in love with it from the very first moment.

I didn't want to buy it 'cos that day I had already spent loads of money in other useless things so I was not totally sure, but when I got off the shop I regretted it.

Then my watch broke so I thought that the time had come to buy that crazy white watch! :-) But when I came back to the flagship they told me that they were run out of it.... that's why I regretted even more!!!

Finally today in Parma I had the change to see it and I knew that I couldn't miss it! 
This piece is one of the 777 white winged swatch designed by the american designer Jeremy Scott.

So happy to have the opportunity to wear something special and unique that only other 776 people have in the whole world!
:-)

MOVES LIKE JAGGER

THUMBS UP 4 MY FAV SONG SO FAR!!!

this song is driving me crazy!!!

so fresh and perfect for the summer!!

think that this song is going to be a HUGE hit!!!

RELAX! DON'T DO IT!!!

THIS IS THE AMAZING VIDEO OF "RELAX" TAKEN FROM THE SOUNDTRACK OF "BODY DOUBLE".

IT FEATURES SCENES TAKEN FROM THE MOVIE!!

OH, I REALLY LOVE THIS SONG!!
I'VE BEEN SINGIN' IT ALL NIGHT AND DAY!!

GORGEOUS!!

BODY DOUBLE

It's AMAZING!! 
It's really AMAZING this Brian De Palma's masterpiece. Everytime I watch it  seems to me that I can find new meanings, new ways to interpret the movie and the story. 
BODY DOUBLE is absolutely my favorite movie and I consider it a real piece of ART.

Body Double talks about the cinema itself and makes you realize that, during a movie, you cannot never believe your eyes 'cos it's all about fiction and you're never gonna see the truth. 


Body Double is a movie within a movie which is, again, within another movie and each character always plays, at the same time, more than one role according to the perspective you're using to read the movie. 


Jake is one of those frustrated actors of a splatter 80's B movies (the first story) looking for fame and fortune who suffers from claustrophobia who find himself involved in a mysterious situation (which is the second story of the movie). He falls in love with a mysterious woman who strips every night in front of her open window until she's murdered. Jake, who used to watch the girl every night during her private show, is the witness of this murder and tries to solve the crime in which he's been involved.

During his journey he meets Holly Body, a rising star of the Hollywood porn industry.


But at the end of the movie Jake realizes to have played the part of the witness in another one's own story: the story of a friend who was interested in killing his wife and needed an alibi and a witness to prove his innocence, and the girl that Jake used to watch every night at the window was not the real Gloria (the friend's wife) but Holly who was a body double payed to play the part of Gloria and deceive Jake.


The movie is all about crossing the line between fiction and reality and the director is interested in making us realize and be always conscious that what we're always looking at is always fiction (a movie).


This De Palma's inspiring masterpiece, whose plot borrows from two of Hitchcock most famous movie (Vertigo and Rear Window), is really my favorite movie and every time I watch it, it blows my mind.

COINCIDENCE

Leaving my hometown for Milan, a pleasant coincidence occurred on the train.

I selected the random mode on my iPod. I wanted to be surprised.

The first track that my iPod played was the Soundtrack of Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" (the one also used in the intro of Lady GaGa's video "Born This Way"). This track is so powerful. It creates an incredible atmosphere of suspense.

Then the second track was a track taken from my favorite movie of all the time: Brian the Palma's "Body Double". The music is the one taken from the telescope scene when the protagonist Jake watches her neighbor stripping in front of her open window every night. This music recalls in my mind images of a mermaid who whispers and sings to seduce a man.

It's funny that my iPod decided to
make me listen these two tracks, one straightly following the other, 'cos actually they're taken from two different movies that are incredibly interconnected. Brian the Palma is obsessed with Hitchcock's movies and he loves to fill his movies with images and quotes inspired by Hitchcock and "Body Double" is an incredible manifesto of De Palma idea of "cinema" ("The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second.") whose plot actually starts and borrows from Hitchcock's "Vertigo" (La Donna che visse due volte) and "Rear Window" (La finestra sul cortile).

Think I'm gonna watch "Body Double" soon...

SUMMERTIME

So good spending some spare time relaxing in the garden away from the humdrum of Milan.

Sunbathing. 

Sleeping.

Listening to some good music.

I've got PEACE in my mind.

Trying to enjoy this little time when I can be totally selfish and take care of myself up to the very last moment, before coming back to Milan tomorrow evening and to work on Monday.

HOME SWEET HOME

Ohhhh... It's so good to come back to my hometown during the weekend.

It's a feeling of coming back to my origins, to be on holiday, have a rest and enjoy two days of genuine things.

When I come back home from Milan on Saturday noon me and my mom have this habit of having lunch with this "special saturday pasta".

My mom knows very well my passion for pasta so she cooks for us this special plate with pasta, tomatoes, aubergines and mozzarella that I REALLY LOVE.

MY NAME

I've just found out this exciting way to create headlines and writings...
SO COOL!

PEOPLE THAT INSPIRE ME

I'm seriously in love with K A T E L O V E S M E (http://www.katelovesme.net/), this fashion blog run by this guy called PELAYO DIAZ.

I'm following him since June 2010 and I totally love his style. 


I even copied one of his creations (he's also a fashion designer)... 


Take a look at this fabulous tee designed by Pelayo:

I have my own version in white that I wear sometimes when I'm not @ work! :-)

I LOVE NY

NYC is the most exciting place in the world.

Can't wait to be back for my 3rd time this year!

I'm coming soon!

MOVIE NIGHT

I've always loved watching my favorite movies again and again... 
Yesterday night I was in the mood for a horror sophisticated movie so I took out of my movie box "Bram Stoker's Dracula" from Francis Ford Coppola.

What can I say?.... One more time...WOW!! 

Even though Coppola significantly changed the subject compared to the original novel (which I really really loved and that I consider one of the best book I've EVER read) I really think that he did a great job. 

STUART DAVID PRICE

Jacques Lu Cont, Les Rythmes Digitales, Man With Guitar, Paper Faces, Pour Homme, Thin White Duke. 


In two words: STUART PRICE.


A British musician + DJ + Producer. 


It's incredible that most of my recent favorite album have been produced by him.


3 examples:


Madonna's "Confessions on a dance floor"


Kylie Minogue's "Aphrodite"


Take That's "Progress"


Isn't it enough? 
Well, he also was the musical director of 3 of Madonna's world tour: Drowned World Tour (2001) that I had the chance to see in Milan; the Reinvention Tour (2004) that I saw in Paris and the Confessions Tour (2006) that I saw in Rome.


Isn't he an inspiring guy?

WHEN ART IMITATES ART

Take a look at these Steven Klein's photos. 
I really think that they're truly AMAZING and inspiring.
It's funny that very famous artists tend to repeat themselves and fill their creation with constant references. 
They love to constantly explore and deepen the concepts that inspire them in many of their works.

The Equestrian Style

 

The Contortionist

 

The War and the Gun theme

The Woman in the iron Bed

Marie Antoniette

 

The Guy with the Golden Gun

 

90's REVIVAL

On my way to work I'm losing myself in 90's dance music. 


Have u ever heard of Gala? 
She's an Italian singer born in Milan who bacame very famous in the 90's all over Europe for her hits "Freed from desire" and "Come into my Life". 


I'm watching her "Let a boy cry" video. OMG, I love this song and this video so much! It's so 90's and I think it's so cool. Talks about rebellion and being brave enough to be different and express your identity and uniqueness as an individual.


"and they say say silver, I choose gold (whoa-oh-oh!) I've never done as I've been told (whoa-oh-oh!) "

The simplicity, the clearness of this Black&White video with those models wearing long hair reminds me of the 90's b&w Calvin Klein advt campaigns.  

I can feel that this need for simplicity and clearness, is increasing and growing day by day.


It's a revival of the 90's... You can see it in today's music that takes inspiration from the sounds of the '90s. You can see it in fashion and design and in the attitude of nowadays' real trendsetters.

COOL ADS

Tonight I was browsing the internet taking a look at some funny yet really creative ads.

They're so cool and smart!

Aren't they?

Makes me wanna look for more... :-)

WOULD YOU LIKE TO RIDE?

If you ask to a fan which is his favorite song or his favorite show of his preferred artist, he will find himself in a very difficult sitution. That's because a true fan loves whatever his artist does and can truly understand the messages hidden behind all the creations of his favorite artist, so the idea of choosing something and not something else is frustrating because it is seen and lived as a rejection and a refusal of part of the artist's creation and growing up process. That's my case with Madonna.

She's so inspiring in everything she does and that's why I really admire her and her art and it's very difficult for me to say which of her creations I like the most 'cos I love them all in different ways, for different reasons in different moments of my life.

But if I had to choose to see for the very last time one of her performances, right now I think I'd choose the opening act of her Confessions Tour when she performs Future Lovers/I Feel Love.

I had the chance to see her in Rome in 2006, on August 6th at Stadio Olimpico with other 70.000 fans coming from all over the world.
I personally think that she's amazing dressed in her black Jean Paul Gaultier equestrian outfit and this kind of entrance is both spectacular and magical.

The opening video is directed by the visionary artist Steven Klein, one of the best photographer of our times and Madonna plays the role of a horse rider in an outfit with some S&M reminescents while she sings and dances between her male dancers dressed with "horse-inspired" costumes.

At the same time, in the backdrop videos, Madonna dances imitating the moves of a a horse and she's portrayed like a modern "human-horse".

The atmosphere, the colors and the setting of this video recalls in my mind the ancient greek myth of the Centauromachy.

The Centaurs were hybrid  legendary creatures of the Greek mythology half-human and half-animal. They are portrayed as creatures with the torso of a human, joined at the waist to a horse's withers. This mythological creature with two natures (the human one and the animal one) should represent the outcome of a mix between the human being's thinking ability with the untamed potency and strength of an animal. The upper part of the centaur indeed is the one that is faced  to heaven (the Greek "Hyperuranium"), the world of perfection, and stands for "the reason" while the lower part of the centaur's body is faced to the earth and stands for the untamed strength, the passion, the animal brutal impulses and the "un-reason". So a centaur is a creature in which both natures co-exist at the same time.

Steven Klein seems to be obsessed with the "human-horse" theme. He's worked on this concepts in many other works and shootings.

So Madonna decided to portrayed herself as a modern centaur in this performance. She can be both rebellious and beautiful, smart yet dangerous, good and evil. She's the good one who has to tame her horse-dancers but at the same time she's an evil and bad creature that has to be tamed.

It's a play between opposite concepts.

And meaning (and art as well), arises only when there is a tension, an opposition of concepts (as the French semiotics professor Jean Marie Floch used to said).

Madonna seems to have learnt the lessons. Her creations are so full of meanings and inner tensions and that's the reason why we can call her performances "ART".