directed by Matt Tyrnauer (2009) Valentino: The Last Emperor is beautiful, inspiring, and as touching as it is uplifting. The film captures the process and excitement behind the couturier business as well as the glamour of the lives of those involved....

(2001) Every fashion loving aesthete dreams of being able to subscribe to Visionaire Magazine, a tri-annual, multi-format, limited edition style and art album. While the $700 subscription fee is simply out of many of our price ranges, fortunately, for...

by Nino Rota (1960) Nino Rota made beautiful music for films, and never more beautiful and fanciful than when working on a film by Federico Fellini, and never more whimsical and wonderful than his theme to the classic La Dolce Vita. It’s a piece of...

Couturiers It would have been quite impossible not to choose Valentino and his partner Giancarlo Giammetti as this week’s style icons after watching Valentino: The Last Emperor. Their career and legacy of making beautiful couturier clothes for...

Actress I went on a recent binge buying cheap vintage magazines on eBay and while flipping through a Vogue from 1972 I was struck by the spectacular bohemian elegance of Silvana Mangano, a “secret star” who “rejects fame to live on a country...