The year was 2009, and in spite of a lack of radical fashion, Maison Martin Margiela released a pair of shoes that defied the year's conventional aesthetic: Clear, Cinderella style glass-like heels that encased the wearer's pedicured feet.
Diaphanous silk dresses printed with images of lithe fairies, checkered skirts and their matching tops, golden dresses rendered in lightweight leather--these are the things that Prada's spring/summer 2008 collection were made of.
Giulietta degli Spiriti (Juliet of the Spirits) was Federico Fellini's first film in color. The surrealistic imagery and wicked illusions created only by the master of fantasy and baroque himself, Fellini, were made even more exquisite by the set and costume designer, Piero Gherardi.
Peggy Guggenheim (1898 – 1979) was a American art collector and friend to the surrealists who chose to wear her butterfly sunglasses like a badge of honor.
Marcel Broodthaers loved words. Language, metaphors and puns were all integral to Belgian artist Broodthaer’s work when he decided to pursue visual arts after having a career as an avant-garde...