Elsa Schiaparelli's eyebrow cap 1949… Prada's eyebrow glasses FW2010//11

Elsa Schiaparelli's visored evening cap from 1949 in red satin with an elongated peephole for the eye, has been embellished with a precious diamond clip from Van Cleef&Arpls creating a weird eyebrow [left]…and Miuccia Prada's FW2010//11 eyebrow glasses [right].

Starting in May 2012 the Metropolitan Museum will show the exhibition 'On Fashion", that will reveal other similarities of this two designers. The exhibition will be organized by curator Harold Koda and creative consultant Baz Luhrmann.
The exhibition will explore how both women employed unconventional textiles, colors, and prints to play with conventional ideas of good and bad taste, and how they exploited whimsical fastenings, fanciful trompe l'oeil details, and deliberately rudimentary embroideries for strange and provocative outcomes.
Experimental technologies and modes of presentation will bring together masterworks from the designers in an unexpected series of conversations on the relationship between fashion and culture.

INSPIRATION John Currin 1997... HARPER's BAZAAR 2008

The painting 'The Cripple" of American artist John Currin [left] has been certainly an inspiration for this picture of actress Julianne Moore taken by Peter Lindbergh for the may issue 2008 of Harper's Bazaar [right].

INSPIRATION 'American Gigolo' 1980... GIORGIO ARMANI lingerie AD SS//2009

The movie 'American Gigolo' [left], with a wonderful Lauren Hutten and Richard Gere, might have been the inspiration for the Giorgio Armani lingerie AD campaign for SS//2009, featuring Victoria Beckham [right].
The most sexiest movie of the eighties was written and directed by Paul Schrader, and Richard Gere's entire 'gigolo' wardrobe was created by Giorgio Armani.

INSPIRATION BALENCIAGA AD SS//2010... Pringle Of Scotland AD SS//2012

The SS//2010 AD campaign of Balenciaga photographed by Steven Meisel might have inspired the Pringle Of Scotland one for SS//2012, photographed by David Sherry.

INTO THE SAME IDEA ...Givenchy and Gareth Pugh SS//2012

WHITE WAVES/ ONDE BIANCHE... Read the full story on Grazia.IT, my weekly column for Italian Grazia magazine.

INSPIRATION FRIDA KAHLO 1926... Givenchy FW2011//12

A wonderful picture of Frida Kahlo taken in 1926 by her father Guillermo Kahlo [left]... and an outfit of Givenchy's FW2011//12 collection [right]. Similarities in the flower arrangement that frames the pictures, the dresses and the hairstyles.

With this post I recommend the book:
Self Portrait In A Velvet Dress: The Fashion Of Frida Kahlo by various Authors

INTO THE SAME IDEA...Haider Ackermann and Céline SS//2012

OSCURE SCULTURE/ DARKEN SCULPTURES...Read the full story on Grazia.IT, my weekly column for Italian Grazia magazine.

INSPIRATION Vogue Italia 1977... JASON WU FW2011//12

A beautiful black Chantilly-lace mask from the collection Valentino Couture FW1976//77 photographed by David Bailey for Vogue Italia [left]... and a similar way of styling for the outfits at Jason Wu's FW2011//12 fashion show [right].

With this post I recommend the book:
Valentino by Suzy Menkes

INTO THE SAME IDEA ...Nicole Farhi and Mary Katrantzou SS//2012

ARTISTIC ORANGE... Read the full story on Grazia.IT, my weekly column for Italian Grazia magazine.

INSPIRATION COCO CHANEL 1957... Dolce&Gabbana FW2005//6... MIU MIU SS//2011

'Mirror, mirror on the wall...." Gabrielle Chanel photographed in 1957 at her Atelier in 31 rue Cambon...[above]...the Dolce&Gabbana AD campaign for FW2005//6 photographed by Steven Meisel [center]...and Miu Miu's AD campaign for SS//2011 photographed by Mert Marcus [below].

INTO THE SAME IDEA ...3.1 Phillip Lim and Jason Wu SS//2012

STREET PINK... Read the full story on Grazia.IT, my weekly column for Italian Grazia magazine.

INSPIRATION Elvis Presley 1957... PRADA AD SS//2012

The new Prada menswear ad campaign for their fifties inspired collection, photographed by David Sims and featuring beautiful Michael Pitt [below],... show some similarities with an Elvis Presley backstage photo shoot during the movie 'Jailhouse Rock" in 1957 [above].

INSPIRATION VOGUE UK 1965... Marni SS//2012

The fractographic 'chevron pattern' has always been an expression of modernism and modernist fashion:... like in this sixties outfit worn by model Patti Boyd and photographed by Brian Duffy for Vogue UK in 1965 [left], and in the latest collection of Marni for SS//2012 [right].

With this post I recommend the book:
Duffy: In His Own Words by Chris Duffy

INTO THE SAME IDEA... Etro and Gucci SS//2012

DÉCO DELUXE... Read the full story on Grazia.IT, my weekly column for Italian Grazia magazine.

INSPIRATION VOGUE PARIS JANUARY 1969...Vogue Paris January 2011

A photo shoot by Guy Bourdin for the January issue of Vogue Paris in 1969 [left]... and a contemporary version for the January 2011 issue of Vogue Paris by guest editor Tom Ford [right].

With this post I recommend the book:
In Between by Guy Bourdin

INSPIRATION Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1868... Yuval Hen 2011

The painting 'Lady Lilith" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, showing his muse Fanny Cornforth [left]...and a picture of photographer Yuval Hen for Financial Times magazine 'How To Spend It" [right].

With this post I recommend the book:
Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Russel Ash

INTO THE SAME IDEA... Narciso Rodriguez and Ohne Titel SS//2012

ORANGE COLOR BLOCKING...Read the full story on Grazia.IT, my weekly column for Italian Grazia magazine.

INSPIRATION Max Ernst 1940....Giles SS//2012

The painting of German surrealist Max Ernst 'Attirement of the Bride" from 1940 [left] might have been an inspiration for this outfit of Giles' fierce and savage collection for SS//2012 [right].

With this post I recommend the book:
Max Ernst: A Retrospective by Werner Spies and Sabine Rewald

INSPIRATION Bruce Davidson 1966 ...PRADA FW 2011//12

A wonderful picture of a mother and their daughters on East 100th Street in New York, wearing their best Sunday outfits for church, photographed by Bruce Davidson in 1966 [left]... and an outfit from Prada's FW 2011//12 collection [right].

A friend of Cartier-Bresson and New York photo-journalist Bruce Davidson, built an international reputation with black and white photographs which reveal effortless sensitivity to his subjects and their lives.

With this post I reccomend the book:

Bruce Davidson: East 100th Street by Mildred Feliciano

INTO THE SAME IDEA ...Bottega Veneta and Marni SS//2012

MODERNIST STYLE/ MODA MODERNISTA... Read the full story on Grazia.IT, my weekly column for Italian Grazia magazine.