SHOOTING: Paolo Errico S/S 2012 Lookbook + Film

During the last weekend I have been in a small studio, near Monza, to shoot the Paolo Errico lookbook and film for S/S 2012. It was quite a non-stop, from 9.30am on Saturday from 2.30am on Monday. Anyway it was super funny. Paolo is this thirty-something guy, super kind ( he used to say "thanks" for everything) and, of course, as all the fashion designer of this world, sometimes in his own world.
The photographer was Francesco Brigida and the model was the lovely Melinda. This girl is 18 years old and, trust me, incredibly charming. At the same time she is a really hard worker, funny and smart. Sometimes is difficult to build a contact with a model because, at the end of the story, modelling it's not an easy job. You need to create a feeling with the model. Melinda is really able to do that. Hope to work again with her soon!!
Giuly, who used to be a make up artist and now is a stylist too, was the make up and hair stylist. Such a funny girl!

The first day we started shooting around 2pm, that's why we ended so late and I came back home very late. On Sunday, at 8.30 am ( I mean, 8.30 am, on Sunday morning!!!) I was at the "amazing" Famagosta tube station (there were just taxi and bus drivers at that time, so early!!!!) where Paolo and Giuly picked me up. After a long trip (and lost) in the middle of nowhere  (the designer was driving a van with is own collection inside, so underground!) we finally arrived on the set.

Sunday was the film day. I love fashion films, that's the future (and the present, actually). Sometimes you don't really understand fashion films, that's because to be able to do that you have to know not only fashion but also have a strong knowledge of film history. And photographers-turned-filmakers-turned-artists are not always really able to do that.
We finished at 0.30am on Sunday (well, Monday) and after another long trip in the middle of the countryside between Milan and Monza with Paolo and Giuly (and laughing at everything), at 2.30 am, I finally arrived home.

After this nice story about shooting's adventures and mishaps, let's speak about Paolo's collections and fashion.
Paolo does knitwear, not only but almost. In his collection there are some other things like a silk camisole or... well, or what? he is famous for his architecture-inspired knitwear. Geometrical figures, avantgarde references and elegance. His knitwear isn't something that you can use just one or two seasons, it's something precious that you can use forever. It's young but without age. I love it.

Melinda

dance lesson on the ste

Paolo while is shooting his shooting

Zen garden outside the studio

(I apologize for the low quality of these photos..but, you know, I was working...)

Welcome to My Black Boudoir

Hat: Panama, Bag: Dea Rosa Camarelle, Dress: H&M, Cuff: Vintage

 

Fashion is the 'fil rouge' in my life.

Indeed, it is.

If I should tell you when and where this passion of mine originated, we might go on talking long hours without being able to find out a precise moment, a real beginning.

It's that I have always had it.

It has always been like that, or else I would never have been the child who used to steal her mother's Elle or Vogue to read and collect them, then the girl whose best friend was the newsagent who provided her with the foreign issues of her beloved magazines.

In short, there is nothing to do, everybody has his/her passion, this is mine! 

So, when I had to choose a university, as a small genius of strategy,  I chose Economics and Management for Art, Culture and Communication. (I have to say that, thanks to university, I have understood at last that, even in fashion, numbers are important and not only when they refer to models' sizes and heights).

But, while I was still attending university in Milan, I packed and moved to London. Here I had the once-in-a-lifetime-opportunity: study Fashion Styling at the iconic Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.  

After that amazing experience, back again in Milan for preparing my degree’s thesis, I’ve enrolled at IED in a Fashion Styling Advanced course for professionals.

In short, here I am, since when I’ve been finishing the college, to work as a fashion stylist for photo shoots, shows, campaigns, videos and whatever else you could think!

My heart belongs to Givenchy, Audrey Hepburn’s movies, London and to the black colour, of course.

This blog will be about me, what I’m doing as a fashion stylist and what I’ve learned about it and from it. I’ll tell you everything about my learning experience at Central Saint Martins and at IED, about my works …about me, actually. Because this is me, through what I’m doing, what I know and what I like!

Fingers crossed and Good Luck at me!!!

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