Christina Aguilera's Candyman

Will the Swing be the fashion of this summer? It would seem so, the track by Christina Aguilera really rocks, by now used also in italian mobile telephones ads, and the video is a masterpiece, a deluge of vintage citations, with the music that remembers the era of Glenn Miller, Big Bands and boogie-woogie. The clip production is simply perfect in every detail, the photography is soft and the colors saturated as in 40's movies, not to mention the choreographies, special effects, setting, make-up, costumes and obviously the shoes, carefully selected from Christian Louboutin's last collections, of which Christina is known to be an affectionate fan.
She sings, dances and moves with great class and is gorgeous, I would say (a little malignantly) much better than natural, in her white uniform and her hair dyed in three different colors.
Take a look at this “The Making of” in two parts, because the job that they made deserves a little free promotion.

Vivienne Westwood Shoes 1973-2006 on exhibit in Vigevano

On September 16th, “Vivienne Westwood Shoes 1973-2006” was opened in Vigevano Sforzesco Castle. This retrospective, edited by Luca Beatrice and Matteo Guarnaccia, celebrates the genius of the British designer, an anarchical interpreter of the creation of symbol objects: the shoes. The exhibition travels over again her exceptional career main stages, going back to the punk origins in 1973 with the launch of the Sex Pistols, and introducing the models that dictated along the years the rules of a new style. The exhibition plays on the parallelism between the charismatic Duchess Beatrice d'Este, historical figure of the Lombardic town, and the Westwood, one of the most applauded and controversial designers of these days. A link that starts from the "Pianella" flat shoe displayed in the local Footwear Museum, belonging to the first one, in order to arrive to breathtaking and by now most famous model Super Elevated Gillie by the second one, in charge of Naomi Campbell's memorable fall during a catwalk show. The exhibition will remain opened until November 19th 2006.

Dita Superstar

Lovely Dita Von Teese is getting more and more famous even in Italy. Fetish and burlesque icon, but formerly known only among few affectionate fans, she recently published the book "The Art of the Teese", and she's more and more often seen on "respectable" magazines or on TV, modeling on fashion catwalks (Moschino Cheap & Chic) or just attending to the shows with her husband, the cult pop-star Marilyn Manson. But she now seems to be getting more attention than he is. Or am I wrong?