Monthly Archives: July 2017
Dolce Gabbana new Venice Boutique Palazzo Torres Venezia.Seguso Murano glass chandeliers.
Dolce and Gabbana inaugurated in June a sumptuous new boutique inside the fabulous restored Venetian Palazzo Torres, Calle Larga XX11 Marzo 9, Venezia. Architect Eric Carlson, of the renowned Studio Carbondale, who managed to retain the authenticity of this historic Venetian building, built around 1800. Glamourous Murano Glass Chandeliers by Seguso, as featured in the photo, and stunning gold mosaiques on the walls, and elegant marble floors.
Upon the occasion of the store’s opening Dolce & Gabbana launched a silk scarf collection dedicated to the Save Venice Fund, and funds will be donated to the save the Venetian patrimoine.
The boutique sells clothes, individually decorated hand painted Sicilian handbags, scarves, and the new D&G jewellery collection.
Dolce Gabbana Alta Moda. 2017. Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s “Il Gattopardo” Sicilian inspirations for Dolce Gabbana Alta Moda 2017 show on the baroque Piazza Pretoria Palermo, Sicily
Dolce & Gabbana Alta Moda Piazza Pretoria, Palermo, Sicily, 2017.
In our web magazine www.eluxetv.com May 26th 2017 in a feature on Melania Trump wearing the Dolce Gabbana stand out Sicilian rose coat, we mentioned Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s cult novel “Il Gattopardo”, set in Palermo that Visconti made into an epic film, The Leopard, with a sensational performance by Burt Lancaster, and starring roles for French heart throb Alain Delon, and the beautiful Claudia Cardinale.
Dolce Gabbana’s Alta Moda collections are enthralling classic Sicilian inspired art. It brings back the perfume of the di Lampedusa story, opulence and Sicilian decadence, in D&G’s sexy low key,elaborate “turn heads” casual style for today’s cool Jet setters. .
Sicily is famed too for its “Teatro dei Pupi” , costumed theatre……..
Palermo airport saw 150 private planes bringing in their top clients from around the World for a stunning show.
A Couture dress starts at £30.000, & by the next morning after the show most of the 116 outfits had, it seems, been sold. What a party those Girls must have had flashing the plastic, Dolce Gabbana have created an Event that overtakes “fashion”. It is participative “Art”.
Dolce & Gabbana Alta Moda Palermo July 2017
Dolce & Gabbana Alta Moda Palermo July 2017
Dolce Gabbana Alta Moda Palermo July 2017
Dolce Gabbana Palermo 2017
Piazza Pretoria, Palermo, Sicily
Caravaggio winning The Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot June 2017. Pete Mooney’s exclusive Pictures capture the moment
23 June 2017; CARAVAGGIO, Ryan Moore up, winning The Commonwealth Cup at Ascot. © Peter Mooney, 6, Cumberland Street, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland. Tel: 00 353 (0)86 2589298
23 June 2017; CARAVAGGIO, Ryan Moore up, winning The Commonwealth Cup at Ascot. © Peter Mooney, 6, Cumberland Street, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland. Tel: 00 353 (0)86 2589298
Royal Ascot 2017
Royal ASCOT 2017 Atmosphere caught by photographer Pete Mooney
Highland Reel exciting Royal Ascot finish. Exclusive photo Pete Mooney. June 2017
21 June 2017; Ryan Moore drives HIGHLAND REEL, left, to a decisive success over Decorated Knight, Andrea Atzeni up, second right, and Ulysses, Jim Crowley up, right, in The Prince Of Wales’s Stakes at Ascot. © Peter Mooney, 6, Cumberland Street, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland. Tel: 00 353 (0)86 2589298
“Chrysler” inspired icon.La Comete sculpture by Guirard-Riviere, Etling Foundry. See reference to the Chrysler building in New York.
La Comète
La Comète is a magnificent Art Deco sculptural image of a female nude modelled as a streamlined comet, her long hair trailing behind her as she flies through the clouds. The silvered bronze sculpture is heightened with parcel gilding and raised on a breche griotte shaped marble base, signed Guirard-Riviere and inscribed with the foundry mark Etling Paris. The sculpture’s composition displays a great sense of dynamism and movement.
This iconic design was considered the height of modernity and an example of the model was placed in the reception of the famous Chrysler Building, New York from 1930 to 1942.
See example with a green/brown patina which was sold at Sothebys, New York in 2014 for $ 60,000 USD
Hickmet Fine Art
