Visionaire is a multi-format album of fashion and art produced in exclusive numbered limited editions. Published 3 times a year, Visionaire features a different theme and format with each issue. Artists work in collaboration with Visionaire to produce their personal interpretation on a certain theme. Visionaire issue #60 goes on religion, being guest-edited by Givenchy’s Riccardo Tisci.

Tisci grew up in Italy and has a strong Catholic background – we feel it everywhere in his work, in all his fashion statements. With the Visionaire collaboration, he pushed the boundaries even more. Reenacting various biblical scenes for the Visionaire photo spreads, he re-defines the key religious moments in his personal way – a fashionable way. Madonna and Child, the Pietà, martyrs and saints, the Marriage and the Funeral are all there, featuring famous dramatis personae, like Lea T, Lara Stone, Mariacarla Boscono, Christina Ricci, Marina Abramovic etc. Not to mention the photographers involved: Inez & Vinoodh, Mert & Marcus, Pierpaolo Ferrari, Mario Testino etc.

The book comes bundled up in a wooden box, meant to evoke an altarpiece, and costs $495 – exclusive indeed! Contemporary black & white moods, dramatic styling, designers, photographers, models and celebrities  – to me, it looks like a delicious sample for the vanity of fashion.

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I saw this stunning textile piece some time ago, visiting  the Graduation Exhibition of Fashion Design students, at University of Art and Design, Cluj- Napoca. Loredana Novotni is a MA graduate, and the author of the red piece (actually there was a group of red pieces, entitled “Sacred”). Love her particular approach, the texture and the heart-shaped hips.

Look at these drawings! I’ve never seen anything like it before. That’s not about fashion, it’s about performing arts and finding inspirational connections.

This is Tony Orrico – American artist & performer, author of all these sensational graphite-drawings. The best part of his project is that he uses his whole body as a tool to create them, acting like a human spirograph.

Using his experience in dance and choreography and performing dance-like movements, Tony Orrico covers with drawings huge paper-canvases. Sometimes, he spend hours to complete one of his works. The drawings are abstract and beautiful. They also look familiar, because they spread from the symmetry of the human body. I love this kind of projects – a simple formula with a strong concept, technology merging with organic elements. The result, in terms of art or anything else, is complete. And amazing!

No need of artifice & make-up to reach the core of things, huh?

When people talk about fashion, they usually think: fantasy, artifice, vanity and…  tones of glitter. But sometimes glitter actually works!

Nightingale is a special series of  Robert G. Bartholot, a photographer who serves us his  “carefully crafted imagery“. This is a performance featuring Luizo Vega, fully covered in glitter. This is awesome!

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