I've been planning this for a while, since I saw the Frika Kalho exibit two years ago. I was really impressed by the collection of her dresses which closed the exibit and by Vogue's pictures of her.
In fact I'm planning a whole collection ispired to her style, but as I saw this first outfit I thought that a series of good photosessions, one for each dress, would suit the whole concept better.
So this post is just a photo session. I used my new Lumix with Leica lenses, natural light (I've been waiting a while for "perfect light") and the "miniature" artistic setting. Probably this post is too long and has too many pictures, but I just could not resist!
The model is going to be Veronica, this style really befits her.
In the background you can see my collection on Mexican titbids. The calla flowers are an hommage to one of Diego Rivera's favourite themes. I'll try to find some more for future photosessions!
Somehow she's got something of Miss Havisham, and a feeling like she's one of Isabelle Allende's characters. Sort of House of The Spirits vibe. Got to find a huge dog for the next photosession.
After a rainy and damp summer, we're having a fine autumn. I sew this dress for Agata, after a Lagerfeld's model of a couple of years ago, and she decided to take a straw in the center of the town.
Piazza Colombo
On the occasion she's going to visit a very interesting exibit at Palazzo Ducale about Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera! The exibit will be opened until the 8th of february 2015.
She's starting from Via San Vincenzo, where you can have some good coffe and pastry or buy some wonderful shoes
but you can also have a kebab, if you like....
then she took Via XX Settembre, up to Piazza De Ferrari....
Agata poses in front of the secondary entrance
In the main courtyard of the Palace Agata met Bartolomeo, he's an artist and he's going to accompany her to the exibit.
The last room of the exibit shows a selection of Frida's famous dresses
Agata wants to buy a Frida souvenir.....
The exibit was wonderful. There are many canvases and drawings, a complete collection of original pictures of both Frida and Diego, and it is punctuated by home movies, and a multimedia room about Diego's murales.
I'm not a huge fan of Frida Kahlo as an artist (I like very much Rivera), but I admire her as a very corageous woman, and find her paintings very interesting: some of them are truly inspiring!
The exibit is worth seing just for the fact they are showing these two pictures, which really stunned me:
Diego Rivera - Sunflowers
Frida Kahlo - Embrace of the Universe
It was a surprise to see a doll in one of the canvasses, this was in fact a bride doll that Frida Kahlo bought in Paris at a flea market in 1939
The Bride Frightened at Seeing Life Opened - Frida Kahlo
Agata was impressed too. She is in front of the main entrace of the Palazzo
Soon Agata will show you more of her new wardorobe and of Genoa!!!
Our soundtrack is one of my favourite songs by a genoese songwriter, Fabrizio De Andrè, who did several concept albums dedicated to his town mixing various sounds from the mediterranean area, this song is called "Creuza de Ma" and means little road going to the sea, and is about seamen ashore
