Simonetta Vespucci, muse of the Renaissance
Many of you don’t probably know the name of the muse who inspired this painting. However, the Sandro Botticelli’s Venus is one of the first images (...)
Mary Waters’s Spitafields silk bride dress
She chose a very daring wedding dress design for the time. A fascinating dress made in silk from Spitafields in green decorated with flowers in salmon, (...)
Jordi Gual’s style is disturbing at the very least.
2014 ended a few days ago. So did my Project “12 meetings with Photographers” with the last master I’m reproducing and writing about; Jordi Gual. (...)
With “B” for “Brooch”
The root of a brooch is the fibula, a piece as old as the Bronze Age. The use like we know it today – piece of jewelry – started during the Classic (...)
Virginia Woolf: The art of writing that only lost against illness
The big screen brought to us a few years ago the image of one more woman ahead of her time: the British Virginia Woolf (played by Nicole Kidman). She was (...)
“Givenchy, the history of a genious”
This is something I was looking forward to this November, a visit to the first retrospective about the French fashion designer Hubert from Givenchy, a (...)
With “A”: for Aljófar Pearl
That curious name “aljófar” comes from the Arabic language. It means: small pearl or group of them with irregular shape. The poets use this word more (...)