focus on: Cosimo Terlizzi

Marco Morandi - Il cuscino mio torace (2005)
Portrait of Cosimo Terlizzi
Courtesy of Cosimo Terlizzi
Cosimo Terlizzi's Official Site

Cinema, moda e web. L’arte non ha confini. Dopo la partecipazione a A Shaded View on Fashion Film e al Biografilm Festival, incontriamo Cosimo Terlizzi. Artista provocatore e intimista alla ricerca di senso, che ammicca a un’estetica del quotidiano e combatte la retorica. Trasformandosi in soldato in prima linea a difesa della bellezza...

Cinema, fashion and web. Art has no boundaries. After taking part in A Shaded View on Fashion Film and Biografilm Festival, we have met Cosimo Terlizzi. Artist against rhetoric, looking for intimate and provocative way, with an aesthetic of intimacy. A soldier in the front lines in defense of beauty.

by Leonardo Iuffrida

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Fall Spirits by Alexander Jordan

Photographer: Alexander Jordan
Stylist: Camilla Ashworth
Hair & Make-up: Lucie Oliver
Models: David & Peter @ Oxygen

David: Unconditional jeans and jacket, Henri Lloyd boots.
Peter: Matteo Bigliardi jumper and t-shirt, William Richard Green at Machine-A leggings, his own boots.

Unconditional jeans, F-Troupe boots,
William Richard Green at Machine-A jacket.

David: Jean-Paul Gaultier shirt, Martyn Bal jeans,
The Only Son jacket and boots.
Peter: Unconditional shirt and jeans, F-Troupe boots.

David: Satyen Kumar t-shirt, Henri Lloyd boots,
Martyn Bal jacket and jeans.
Peter: The Only Son coat, Stylist's leggings, his own boots.

Courtesy of Alexander Jordan

www.alexanderjordan.co.uk
www.alexanderjordanphotography.blogspot.com

Photo of the Week

"I'm a high school lover, and you're my favourite flavor"

Photographer: Viola Tavazzani
Model: Daniele Corradi

www.flickr.com/photos/scarletd
www.landvphotography.blogspot.com

Courtesy of Viola Tavazzani

Photo from Nob Flickr Group

*rubrica a cura di Alessandro Mancarella*

Nob @ Maison Perrier-Jouët Ball - Le Jardin Secret des Dandies et des Muses

Preview: Model Citizens for VMAN Magazine - Issue #20

Scoop, Copenhagen - Denmark
Photographer: Bo Egestrøm
Stylist: Wiktor Hansson

Sight Management Studio, Barcelona - Spain
Photographer: Xevi Muntané
Stylist: Alberto Murtra

Long Teng, Beijing - China
Photographer: Victoria Tang
Stylist: Stinger Wong

Editorial: "Model Citizens"
Preview from VMAN Magazine - Issue #20
Available at European newsagents from 4th November!

Courtesy of VMAN Magazine

It's Halloween! Thinking about blood & skulls

Skeleton
from "De Humani Corporis Fabrica"
by Andrea Vesalio (1543)

"First Signs of Fall"
by Spencer Draeger - 2010

Alexandre Herchcovitch F/W 2010-11

Daniel Palillo S/S 2011
Graphics by Alessandro Mancarella

Timex watches white zombie F/W 2010-11
Graphics by Leonardo Iuffrida & Alessandro Mancarella



Bell & Ross, Skull watch - limited edition

Aitor Throup

Aitor Throup
Graphics by Leonardo Iuffrida

Dsquared2 F/W 2010-11

Dsquared2 F/W 2010-11

La moda si sveste fino all’osso.
La ferita che un tempo presso i popoli guerrieri era simbolo di merito e d’orgoglio oggi è davvero diventata “distintivo d’identità o accessorio di moda”, come ha sottolineato il professore della Cornell University Mark Seltzer. Parole illuminanti se si pensa alle sfilate dell inverno 2010 di Dsquared2 e dell’estate 2011 di Jeremy Scott, trasformate in obitorio e mattatoio per il pubblico ludibrio, con spruzzi e colate di vivida emoglobina su volti tumefatti e abiti da passerella. Classici ingredienti con i quali il celebre fotografo di moda Steven Klein ha creato scenari inquietanti che hanno definito un genere, ultimamente fatto proprio da numerosi adepti come Andy Houghton, ma anche da Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott. Stesse suggestioni che hanno coinvolto Lady Gaga che, presente agli MTV Video Music Awards con un abito fatto interamente di fette bovine, ha giustificato l’outfit dichiarando: “Io non sono un pezzo di carne”. Un'esplicita vestizione di idee che risponde alle estreme conseguenze dell’esposizione mediatica e all’affermazione di Susan Sontag, che sosteneva: “Il pubblico moderno chiede l’autore messo a nudo, come le epoche di fede religiosa chiedevano il sacrificio umano”.
Più interessati ad una graduale vestizione che ha inizio dalla struttura ossea sono Katie Eary, Alexandre Herchovitch e Jean Paul Gaultier. Designers che paiono voler enfatizzare le loro doti sartoriali partendo dalla conoscenza dell’anatomia umana, a modello dei grandi pittori del Rinascimento, che riconobbero l’importanza del legame imprescindibile tra l’esterno e l’interno del corpo umano per il raggiungimento della perfezione formale.

Text by Leonardo Iuffrida
Translation by Alessandro Mancarella

Fashion undresses up to its bones.
The wound that among warrior people has once been symbol of worthiness and pride has just become “badge of identity or fashion accessory”, as the Cornell University’s professor Mark Seltzer underlined. These are enlightened words if we think about Dsquared2 fall-winter 2010 and Jeremy Scott spring-summer 2011 fashion shows, transformed in morgue and slaughterhouse for public scorn, with spatters and vivid haemoglobin flows on swollen faces and runway clothes. Classic ingredients by which the famous fashion photographer Steven Klein created disturbing settings that defined a genre, recently adopted by many disciples as Andy Houghton, but also by great duo Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott. These same suggestions involved Lady Gaga that, attending the MTV Video Music Awards with a dress entirely made of bovine slices, justified her outfit declaring: “I am not a piece of meat”. An explicit dressing of ideas that replies to the media exposure’s extreme consequences and to the statement of Susan Sontag, claiming: “The modern public requires the author laid bare, as the religious faith times requested human sacrifice”.
Katie Eary, Alexandre Herchovitch and Jean Paul Gaultier are more interested in a gradual clothing that begins from the bone structure. All these designers seem willing to emphasize their tailoring talents starting from the knowledge of human anatomy, harking back to the great painters of the Renaissance, that recognized the importance of the binding link between external and internal parts of human body to reach the formal perfection.

RollingStone's Cover
September 2010

Dsquared2 F/W 2010-11

Dsquared2 F/W 2010-11

Jean Paul Gaultier F/W 2010-11

"Prison Break"
by Kostas Avgoulis for Gamos Magazine - 2010

"Lost Boys" by Andy Houghton - 2010

"Lost Boys" by Andy Houghton - 2010

"The naked violence"
by Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott
for Interview - October 2010

"The naked violence"
by Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott
for Interview - October 2010

"The naked violence"
by Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott
for Interview - October 2010

Dsquared2 F/W 2010-11
by Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott

"Meat Packing" by Steven Klein
for L'Uomo Vogue n. 367 - Gennaio 2006

"Plasir Solitaire" by Steven Klein
for Vogue Hommes International
hors-série 10 - 2009

Jeremy Scott S/S 2011



Lady Gaga
on Vogue Hommes Japan
by Terry Richardson

Katie Eary S/S 2010

Illustration of muscles
by John Browne (1681)

Jean Paul Gaultier F/W 2010-11

Jean Paul Gaultier F/W 2010-11

Jean Paul Gaultier F/W 2010-11

Katie Eary dress S/S 2010
in "Daily Terror"
by Dancian on Zoo Magazine - 2010

Photo of the Week

"Beard II"

Photographer: Thomas van der Zaag
Model: Joseph Murray

www.flickr.com/photos/thomasvanderzaag

Courtesy of Thomas van der Zaag

Photo from Nob Flickr Group

*rubrica a cura di Alessandro Mancarella*