Close your eyes and imagine the splash of the oar as it brushes the water, steering that symbolic vessel of Venice: the gondola. Through the sheer power of imagination you can plunge into another world and feel the lull of its slow rhythm among the canals and sounds of a bygone era. Long, slender, elegant, […]
Gondolas and glass-making. These are the two images that are unconsciously linked in the collective imagination with the city of Venice. They have now become symbols of the city. Wood and metals were cut and forged to build the ‘Queen’ of the lagoon. Sand, minerals and fire were skilfully mixed and blended with chemical knowledge […]
What is fashion? A decorous appeal to cover up our nudity or the need to protect our body? Is it a label of social status? Or a symbol of freedom? Is it a world in which desires and ambitions can be achieved or merely a superficial industry feeding on our dreams? It doesn’t matter. Fashion […]
