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Sanremo 2021 ha segnato il trionfo del Made in Italy

Lo scorso sabato si è conclusa l’ultima edizione del festival di Sanremo. Tutti i ventisei cantanti in gara si sono esibiti per cinque serate consecutive, sfoggiando look molto ricercati ed elegantissimi che hanno segnato il trionfo del Made in Italy sul palco del Teatro Ariston.


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Courtesy of: Vogue.it, Valentino Haute Couture’22

Valentino Haute Couture 2021: between aspiration and inspiration

For the second consecutive season, the artistic director of the maison, Pierpaolo Piccioli, decided to present the new collection in Rome, precisely in Palazzo Colonna. 

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Elisabetta Franchi F/W 2021-2022, Courtesy of: https://runwaymagazines.com/elisabetta-franchi-fall-2021-2022/

Elisabetta Franchi, il F/W 2021-2022 in streaming for Milan Fashion Week

As managed by Giorgio Armani few months ago, also Elisabetta Franchi debuted a Fall-Winter 2021-2022 collection in streaming on small screen.


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Maison Celestino presenta in modalità digitale la collezione Madame Bovary

Lusso e lussuria. Segreto e mistero. Amore e infedeltà.

Maison Celestino scatena i sensi dello spettatore con la nuova collezione A/I 2021-2022, intitolata Madame Bovary e ispirata a Emma, il celebre personaggio della letteratura francese, che sarà presentata in esclusiva mondiale in modalità digitale dal 25 Febbraio.


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Ecosostenibilità, libertà e anni 70
sono i temi che hanno ispirato la collezione “The North Face x for Gucci”

Finalmente svelata la nuova Capsule Collection di cui si è discusso particolarmente negli ultimi tempi: The North Face x Gucci nella quale due brand, apparentemente diversi, si riuniscono per creare una collezione che esprimere i valori che caratterizzano due concetti: Natura e Libertà, attraverso i quali abiti, accessori, calzature e attrezzature da camping hanno preso vita rievocando agli anni 70.

Il tema della natura è stato, da sempre, parte integrante di entrambi i brand. L’importanza dell’ambiente ricopre un ruolo centrale nella collezione, il design dell’abbigliamento prevede colori e disegni che richiamano la natura.

La location scelta per la Campagna pubblicitaria sono le Alpi dove l’indipendenza viene interpretata come libertà d’espressione, introspettiva ed analitica, uno dei temi che ha ispirato l’originalità degli abiti realizzati del direttore creativo Alessandro Michele, il quale crede fortemente nell’importanza dell’espressione individuale. Meno astratto, e più tangibile, è invece il concetto di libertà di The North Face, più legato alla possibilità di esplorazione. Offrire la possibilità di esplorare è uno dei motivi per cui, sin dal 1966 il brand americano ha iniziare a creare un outfit in grado di permettere agli amanti dell’avventura di andare alla scoperta del mondo, ma sempre rimanendo fashion e soprattutto comodi!

Altro elemento imprescindibile della collezione è sicuramente il tema dell’ecosostenibilità: già particolarmente rilevante, ed è sicuramente destinato ad acquisire un’importanza centrale per la moda del futuro.

I nostri direttori creativi, infatti, desiderano tutelare l’ambiente, motivo per cui utilizzano materiali sostenibili per produrre la collezione.

Citando VOGUE Italia che riporta: “Gli articoli da viaggio sono stati realizzati usando Econyl, ossia tessuto di nylon ottenuto da materiali rigenerati mentre i porta abiti, le scatole e i sacchetti del packaging prevedono carta ottenuta con tecniche sostenibili.” Affermazione considerevole che si evince non solo nella presentazione della Capsule Collection ma soprattutto nel video realizzato da Daniel Shea, accompagnato dalla musica di sottofondo Bad Moon Rising, dove la scelta delle Alpi insieme ai suoi protagonisti che rappresentano un gruppo di hikers alla scoperta della natura, evoca l’immagine di un paesaggio sublime ampliato dall’entusiasmo dei ragazzi che ricordano i viaggi organizzati degli anni 70;  Viaggi in cui tutti erano desiderosi di contemplare la bellezza di una natura ancora incontaminata indossando The North Face della California, a Berkeley.

Tuttavia. sappiamo che un capo d’abbigliamento può sembrare apparentemente un insieme di tessuti, forme e colori ma egli può nascondere un significato emozionale molto più profondo della sua consistenza tessile. Infatti, la ricerca della libertà è stata l’ispirazione emotiva che ha spinto alla creazione della collezione Gucci.

La filosofia e il senso di questa libertà ci mostra come nella vita è importante riuscire a superare qualsiasi tipo di ostacolo, perché, solo superando le nostre paure potremmo contemplare la reale bellezza e assaporare un senso di libertà autentico, che ricorda quel senso di emancipazione permettendo di arrivare sulle cime più alte delle montagne.

Alessandro Michele ha dipinto la capacità di sentirsi liberi, associata al saper instaurare un contatto con la natura, egli crede che molti cadono in errore che interpreta cosi: “Il raccontare l’uomo come un essere diviso o espulso dalla natura. Ma in realtà noi siamo la natura e la natura è noi”.

La collezione Gucci sarà distribuita in diversi Gucci Pin temporanei. Ci sarà inoltre una selezione limitata di articoli disponibili su gucci.com e i temi della collezione appariranno sui Gucci Artwalls in varie città come Hong-Kong, Shanghai, Londra, New York e Milano.

Alissa Bianconi

Bibliografia

https://www.vogue.it/moda/article/the-north-face-gucci-collezione-foto

https://instagram.com/gucci?igshid=a7ocmuf84r6m

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Chicken Paella
The super-easy, super-healthy, super-smiley recipe for the new fresh year

Indications:
Serves: 2
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 50 minutes
Difficulty: Easy (single approved!)

Ingredients:
• ¼ teaspoon saffron threads
• 3 teaspoons olive oil
• 7 oz (about 200 g) boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into bite-sized pieces
• Sea salt and ground black pepper
• ½ small brown onion, diced
• 1 garlic clove, crushed
• 2 teaspoons sweet paprika
• 1 ¼ cups salt-reduced vegetable stock
• 4 ¼ oz (about 114 g) brown rice
• ½ medium red bell pepper, seeds removed and sliced
• 5 oz (about 142g) tinned crushed tomatoes
• 1 ¾ oz (about 54 g) frozen peas
• 2 teaspoons chopped fresh parsley
• 1 tablespoon pine nuts and lemon wedges, to serve

How to:
Place the saffron threads in a small bowl with 2 teaspoons of boiling water and set aside. Heat half of the oil in a large non-stick fry pan over medium heat. Add the chicken and cook for 5-6 minutes or until browned. Transfer to a heatproof bowl and set aside to rest. Season with salt and pepper, if desired.
Heat the remaining oil in the pan over medium heat. Add the onion and cook for 3-4 minutes or until soft and translucent. Add the garlic and cook for 1 minute, stirring frequently. Add paprika and cook for a further 2 minutes, stirring frequently.
Return the chicken to the pan, Add ½ cup of the stock and reduce the heat to medium-low. Simmer for 10 minutes or until almost all the liquid has been absorbed, stirring occasionally.
Add the peas and the remaining stock and simmer for further 5-8 minutes until the stock has been absorbed and the rice is tender. If the stock is all used and the rice is not ready, just add ½ cup of hot water at a time until all the rice is completely cooked. Stir through the parsley and pine nuts. Season with salt and black pepper, if desired.
To serve, place the chicken paella in two serving bowls. Serve with lemon wedges on the side.

Fanny Trivigno

Source:
Itsines K, (2016). “The Bikini Body: 28 -days healthy, eating & lifestyle guide”, St.Martin’s Press, 175 fifth avenue, New York (NY)

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Climate week and LIFE 360:
The new initiatives by which LVMH carries out its environment-friendly principles and launches its new rallying cry
“BE THE CHANGE!”

“Be the change!”

With these words the famous luxury group LVMH has introduced the new environmental protection’s program: LIFE 360 (Initiatives For the Environment for the next 3,6 and 10 years). Through this initiative the Maison wants to create innovative work policies that could also be time sustainable.

Therefore, LVMH is carrying out highly ambitious environment-friendly principles by setting some climate goals. For instance, all group sites will use 100% renewable energy and will dispose of fossil-based virgin plastic in packaging by 2026. For the French company owned by the Arnault family, the environmental issue is therefore a topic of primary importance.

In particular, the most important LIFE 360 topics are:

Climate, biodiversity, creative circularity and transparency.

The aim of the program is to reduce the environmental pollution caused by LVMH.

The initiative was born, first of all, from the necessity to help the modern society to face the climate change and secondly, from the constraint to sensitize not only the customers, but also partner and employees.

The global expansion that characterizes the Maison, made possible for LVMH to organize a special online event in which 160.000 employees were involved, together with some well-known personalities of Fashion including creative directors, senior LVMH executives and members of different LVMH brands.

In detail, a climate week has been set up in which there was a chance to talk about the key topics of LIFE 360.

The event in question took place from 8-11 December. The various meetings included the exchange of ideas, doubts and suggestions that guests decided to share in order to play an active role in the realization of a more sustainable luxury environment. 

Over the four days of the climate week, different themes have been discussed in turn accompanied by several characters.

The first day has been dedicated to biodiversity.

From the meeting, it emerged that all LVMH brands are particularly worried about the prosperity of biodiversity since the latter also depends on the climate regulation. Nowadays, further increases in temperature could negatively affect the eco-system.

And if the situation does not improve over the next years, the eco-system deterioration could create devastating consequences for both humans and other animal or plant species.

The second day of the climate week concerned the carbon offsetting.

From the online discussion emerged that, in order to respect the trajectory set by the Paris Agreement, aimed at stabilizing global warming at under 2°C, greenhouse gas emissions must be brought to zero by the end of the 21st century.

The French group is constantly facing these environmental challenges.

In fact, carbon offsetting, related to boutiques and production sites, has already been reduced to 25%.

Moreover, LVMH is focusing its efforts on emissions that do not come directly from manufacturing, but they come from other links in the product lifecycle – sourcing of raw materials, transport to stores or customers, etc.

Moving on with our week, only during the third day there has been a focus on the specific position of the luxury within environmental pollution.

In this regard, Antoine Arnault, LVMH communications manager, claimed that they are not a fashion group, but instead, they represent a luxury group.

And this is the reason why the holdings are far from the world’s most polluting industry.

In fact, LVMH carbon footprint represents under 0.5% of the total carbon emissions of the fashion industry. The luxury sector, therefore, acts for the fashion industry’s most sustainable segment.

The Group brought together four Creative Directors from its Maisons – Felipe Oliveira Baptista, Creative Director of Kenzo, Kim Jones, Dior Men’s Creative Director, Jonathan Anderson, Creative Director of Loewe and Stella McCartney, Creative Director of her eponymous brand. These Ceos created their sustainable luxury’s vision by using different strategies; for instance Jonathan Anderson created the upcycled collection Eye/Loewe/Nature, Stella McCartney built a strong relationship with Evrnu, a textile innovation company and Kenzo started a partnership with WWF.

Finally, the Climate Week’s success was also confirmed on the last day by the LIFE in Stores Awards. The recognition for the best initiatives that support progress and innovation, by increasing the environmental development, went to the following brands:

–Envelope Design and Energy Management: Louis Vuitton, Florence
–Lighting and Interior Design: Bvlgari, Milan Montenapoleone
–Interior Air Quality : Loro Piana, Munich
–Maintenance: Berluti, Paris Saint-Honoré
–Progression (special category) : Christian Dior

The climate week came to a close with these winners!

Sources:
https://www.lvmh.it/notizie-documenti/notizie/in-occasione-del-5-anniversario-dellaccordo-di-parigi-lvmh-mobilita-i-suoi-collaboratori-per-lanciare-una-nuova-strategia-ambientale/

https://www.lvmh.it/notizie-documenti/notizie/lvmh-climate-week-preservare-la-biodiversita-per-attenuare-i-cambiamenti-climatici/

https://www.lvmh.it/notizie-documenti/notizie/lvmh-climate-week-compensazione-delle-emissioni-di-carbonio-cambiamento-autentico-o-ecologismo-di-facciata/

https://www.lvmh.com/news-documents/news/lvmh-climate-week-can-the-fashion-industry-ever-be-sustainable/

https://www.lvmh.com/news-documents/news/lvmh-climate-week-culminates-with-spotlight-on-environmental-performance-at-stores/