The Style Post: 02/21/11

Monday, February 21, 2011

The top came from the East

It will be a cliché, but it truly looks like a bit 'all. And they are all beautiful. The new star of the catwalks come from the Far East-unpronounceable names to unforgettable faces

Oriente Province (wikipedia)

Are from the East and conquered the catwalk Fall / Winter 2011-12: the Asian models are becoming increasingly popular, and among them is hidden (maybe) the next top. The new Naomi? You can bet that will have almond eyes. Announced by the increasingly strategic role played in the Asia policies of luxury brands, advances the position of the mannequin that come from the Far East (PHOTOGALLERY>>).

Italy in the cinema

From Palermo to Aosta, Italy has loaned to the seventh art its landscapes, its cities, its streets and squares, as a great location in the open. A theme is an exhibition that opens today at the Casa del Cinema in Rome, entitled Travels in Italy 2. Set of the Italian cinema 1960-1989, the second chapter of a three-year project started in 2010.

On stage until April 25, will be fifty stolen shots during the filming of famous Italian films that have chosen suburban or urban settings, cities or small country town of the beautiful country, as a background for a story. It starts from Sicily so wild and almost "rough" in L'Avventura, Michelangelo Antonioni's masterpiece of 1960, to reach the rich humanity of Civitavecchia What time is it?, Directed by Ettore Scola in 1989.

Love at first sight? Born in head

Not a question of believing or not. The lightning is not an issue of views, but the result of the combination of certain chemicals in the brain that produce feelings of euphoria. Stephanie Ortigue of Syracuse University, USA, analyzed scientifically love at first sight and has published the results of his study in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.

This kind of spell would be, in reality, the result of the release of chemicals such as dopamine, oxytocin, vasopressin and adrenaline. And then, surprisingly, the "thunderbolt" ignite the brain, rather than the heart. "In fact, even the heart has an active role in this process," says Ortigue.

Pleasant this technology!

It's called Happy Tech. Machines with a human face, at the Triennale Bovisa since 22 February, and interprets the technology is in its traditional grindstone so to speak, just implementing technology, both through the manipulation of international artists: as Mark Napier, who uses the network to create a site where anyone can create their own artwork, or designs that Cao Fei hyper city on Second Life.

Lecce, the capital of the weekend

Proud to be a monumental and artistic heritage of great prestige, but always young and fresh air: this is the identity of Lecce, which is about to become a destination weekend, but ... Who dares to say that there will be the capital of the weekend next spring. From March to May, the town of Salento has announced a full program of events and initiatives of a certain thickness.

And the new Ryanair flight intended to give international visibility to Lecce and province, are the perfect option to take advantage. Some examples? Proposal by APT, the local guided tours as part of Open Cities, 2011, while those who want to discover the secrets of the cardboard and craft Lecce may participate in the tour of taste or craft to the discovery of arms and doors adorned with garlands , secret courtyards and alleys of the old housing the workshops of the new artist-craftsmen.

Donatella Finocchiaro, "We women are not empty boxes'

It 's a woman full of surprises Donatella Finocchiaro. A lawyer from the past and a present from actress, able to move between theater and cinema, drama and comedy. Beautiful and sensual, but far from the stereotype of the femme fatale, Kathy has made simplicity their rule of life. Currently on stage with The Two Women, directed by Roberta Torre, is also among the leaders of Manual of Love 3 by Giovanni Veronesi, soon in theaters.

Opening party for Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry

Many famous faces of the film at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum to honor the inauguration of Set in Style: the Jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels, the largest exhibition of jewelry, watches and accessories of the first of 900 signed by the multinational luxury. Click to find out who was there (and which parts of the house wearing)

Van Cleef & Arpels (homepage) Van Cleef & Arpels (wikipedia)

London: Tom Ford, collection top secret

Vivienne Westwood is in its way, a queen. It will be true, perhaps, not surprising that its collections more: we all know by now what to expect from the runways of the lady of the British Empire that gave birth to punk. The unexpected and effect is so much a part of his design DNA, not nearly as surprised.

A kind of addiction? In a way, every show is a small fragment of this vast, endless parade that is his style and his taste. And that goes for the Autumn / Winter 2011/12 Red Label, on the catwalk yesterday in the calendar of London Fashion Week. Overlaps that defy all laws of balance, mix and match at least bold, references to the history of fashion heterogeneous anomalies that add up to one another seamlessly apparent ...

Coolshaker: movida to read (and see)

For lovers of art, design, music and trends, there is a brand new portal, "Coolshaker" - a creative vision on culture, lifestyle and Mixology. It is a sophisticated web platform and rich urban culture and news of emergent phenomena. But also unique and creative forms of art. Launched by Absolut Vodka - Swedish brand style icon - the new platform is characterized by the contributions of the most popular bloggers and input from the sites most visionary, both Italian and international level.

Ask a question in GLAMOUR Carolina Crescentini

This time you do the journalist Glamour. That is: you ask a question and send it to us here at Carolina Crescentini. The question I want to: on his life, his dreams, his goals (also about love? Course). Glamour of April, in fact, devote a service to Carolina and will turn the most beautiful among those questions posted.

Carolina returns to the movies with Boris, a very funny film taken from the famous TV series for Fox. The plot: a TV director try the leap, would turn an art film after many years of fiction on police, hospital and intrigue costume dramas from the early evening ... It will be an all laugh.

London 11-12 TO: bags

From the catwalks of London, all the bags of Autumn / Winter 2011-12

Artificial intelligence (wikipedia)

In a painting by Renoir

The colors of the French countryside in summer and place and atmosphere of the Aube Champagne at the time of the Impressionists. And 'we would view that awaits those who pass through Essoyes, a small French town, and takes the opportunity to see the multimedia project, Du coté des Renoir. Suspended in a wheelchair, a symbol of his courage in recent years, when ill, defied the doctors with a "I'd rather paint than walking," a walk in the garden and an area of creative thinking up the Atelier, while the gap, the fluid and large, takes the viewer from one theme to another, making it move in a circle.

London faces a front row AI 11-12

In the photographs of our photographs the look of the coolest people fashionista who sits on the autumn / winter 2011-12 being held in London. See also NEW YORK

Artificial intelligence (wikipedia) London (geolocation) London (homepage) London (wikipedia)

Meetings Travel

Photo of Paul: "It is the wailing wall in semi-human version. I met this weekend to the BIT, Tourism Exchange in Milan. Stationed at the stand of Israel, speaking, and helps you focus before you write your prayer and reliable way to bring it to Jerusalem. "

A school environment with the help IMQ

The Italian Institute of Quality Brand invites students of primary and secondary schools to participate in the contest "SOS Planet Green." The initiative seeks to increase environmental awareness by imagining a project that falls into one of three sections: If I were mayor, with photos, text and video to document a plan for environmental improvement of their city.

This I did, displaying a draft environmental compliance made by the class during the school year. Archimedes Jr., with the presentation of a useful invention to reduce the impacts on the environment. You have until April 30. Up for grabs, iPad, cameras and digital cameras. You can participate until 30 April 2011.

Pasarela Cibeles February 2011: Day 4

The fourth day of the Pasarela Cibeles February 2011 is about to open its doors. Are you going to lose? At 12 am, Andres Sarda will kick off the fourth day of the Pasarela Cibeles in February 2011 with her fashion collection autumn-winter 2011, and we are eager to see it! For now, we leave you with a picture of your collection to last season.

Go to "Special Cibeles February 2011"

Land and air

Carlo Romiti painted with the earth. His work starts as the collects, and is often the earth itself, with its range of tones and hand-ground in stone mortars, suggesting the subject. "The earth and air" is his new pictorial journey, edited by Donatella Bagnoli, designed just for the spaces of the Rock of Staggia to Staggia, where, once again, the stones and the colors of his works will confer with physical space.

Vivienne Westowood: eccentric visions

The British designer for the fashion show Red Label 2011-12 TO has paraded models rigged and combed differently from each other

Love is in the "hair"

The possibility of giving welfare to their hair thanks to a package of treatments at a discounted price here is what is promoting "Love your hair", sponsored by the brand Toni & Guy. The offer is valid for the entire month of February and includes Filler Intense, treatment - based on hyaluronic acid - that can give body and sheen to the hair and combat the problem of thin hair and brittle.

And H2O Colour Shine, a moisturizing mask with a special pigment contained in it, it helps to make the color more vivid and bright and make it last longer. These are the details of the offer, which some Toni & Guy salons will also extend to the first days of March (the council, then, is to ask the individual show info): 50% off total package for those who choose Filler Intense + Colour Shine H2O.

Jeggings rocks

They took the night hours to conquer the stage of the Ariston backstage of fashion shows