Why not eat peaches and pesto?

Peaches & Cream Oats--peach salsa----

Gorgonzola gnocchi with grilled peaches and pesto ----Pesto Pizza with Grilled Chicken, Peaches, and Provolone ------Pizza with Goat Cheese, Peaches, and Almond-Tarragon Pesto----

Bandiere, fanfare e piazze in festal'Italia è fatta, esultano gli italiani

re-dress yourself, reconstructed fashion workshops in Rome

FASHION WEEK IN ROME.....Alta moda Roma gennaio 2011 PROGRAM---EVENTS----

Lezione di economia sostenibile di Fabrice Leclerc, docente di Strategia e Imprenditorialità alla SdA Bocconi, esperto di green management e innovazione ospitato da AltaRoma sabato alle 17.00. Un appuntamento ospitato da Ilaria Venturini Fendi, presidente di AltaRoma, nel suo spazio RE(f)USE per Carmina Campus all'appuntamento con 'l'Ethical Fashion' della settimana della moda romana. Spesso ispiratore e leader di vari marchi e progetti di successo, Leclerc è consulente di imprenditori e società del top ranking mondiale sulle strategie per incrementare la performance di impresa facendo bene (doing good).

FASHION ON PAPER: TALK: LESS IS MORE CREATIVE....Editoria di moda al limite, tra web, carta e altro...some participants include: Angelo Flaccavento---DAPPER DAN MAG----The Style of Sviatchenko’s art is easily recognized. ---

TALK. INDIPENDENT'S LIFE.
Nuove identità del lavoro creativo
Domenica 30 Gennaio 2011 - 17.30 - Tempio di Adriano
Marco De Vincenzo, Fashion Designer Barbara Franchin, Talent Scout, ITS Director Sara Maino, Senior Fashion Editor Vogue Italia Federico Sarica, Giornalista, Direttore Studio Daniela Ubaldi, Next Exit ......Modera:Maria Luisa Frisa, Critico e curatore

rivista studio---

MORE fashion on paper---THE THIRD EDITION OF FASHION ON PAPER IN ROME HADRIAN’S TEMPLE----

ANDRÉ LAUG, André Laug's Haute Couture was established in Rome in 1968, combining refinement and sartorial skill, exclusive materials and the pursuit of an inimitable, original style.----

related: A SHADE OF FASHION----

Moda Romana.

ALTAROMA ----

Welcome Neighbor Rome, Welcome Neighbor gives you a chance to make new friends and find out lots of information about doctors, dentist, stores and others services in your neighbourhood. via IN ROME NOW

FRIENDS IN ROME----

Made in Market
26 Novembre 2010 dalle 14.00
Mercato Italia – Via Catania 70 – Roma

Venerdì pomerigio, andando a fare la spesa, troverete
gli artigiani e i creativi del quartiere San Lorenzo che
si destreggeranno tra i banchi del mercato Italia:
dallo stilista al disegnatore, dal designer al ceramista,
tutti insieme proporranno le loro creazioni,
realizzate con attenzione particolare all’arte del riciclo.

Artists and artisans will be displaying their works at the Piazza Bologna Market.

related: Rome Markets / Mercato---Rome Markets, The larger and more colourful and lively markets in the centre of Rome are worth to visit. They usually open at 7am-1pm, Monday to Saturday. Porta Portese is opened on Sundays. ---

OFFRIRE CULTURA IN CAMBIO DI ALTRA CULTURAQUESTO � IL MOTTO DELLA BANCA DEL TEMPO MULTICULTURALE DISOS RAZZISMO----

history of Rome: A Brief History of Rome---
The History of Rome, A weekly podcast tracing the history of the Roman Empire, beginning with Aeneas's arrival in Italy and ending (someday) with the exile of Romulus Augustulus, last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. ----

DA NON PERDERE: LUCY ORTA E TEDDY CRUZ

AL MAXXI

Ecologia, sviluppo sostenibile, dialogo interculturale, città a misura d’uomo, coesione sociale. Sono i temi al centro dell’incontro con LUCY ORTA, artista e performer britannica di fama internazionale e TEDDY CRUZ, architetto che da San Diego indaga i temi dell’abitare in una delle zone di confine più roventi del pianeta, quella tra USA e Messico, sabato 13 novembre al MAXXI alle ore 16.30. Con loro, il geografo Franco Farinelli.

sabato 13 novembre, ore 16.30

related: Clothing meets social activism---Lucy Orta-----In 1993, Lucy Orta and her partner, Jorge Orta, founded Studio Orta in central Paris----DRESS FOR STRESS WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY AND THE SOCIAL BODY----

Pierluigi and I decided to drive around Castelli Romani, a group of hills southeast of Rome . It's known for its white wines (malvasia and trebbiano grapes). But it's also know for the presence of CERN thus many scientific related events.

We had lunch at Hotel Cacciani and were told by the waiter that a movie with Robert DeNiro was being filmed at Villa Aldobrandi and that the Hotel was catering some of the food. Who knows what they ate. But we had pasta, of course, and Pierluigi and some great ravioli stuffed with an eggplant puree'.

foto: Frascati parking lot with Villa Aldobrandi in the background.

The first record of the Villa Aldobrandini date back to the 16th century when the villa was purchased by the Aldobrandini family. Prior to this it had been owned by a succession of minor Roman and provincial noblemen. At the end of the 18th century it passed into the hands of the Borghese family, who had in the meantime also inherited all the Aldobrandini possessions. ---
Villa Aldobrandi foto----

Frascati is a town in the province of Rome particularly famous for its white wine, the Frascati (wine), its notable villas of the old noble families. It is located 20 km south-east of Rome, on the Alban Hills close to the ancient city of Tusculum...

recipes: Eggplant Ravioli ---more Eggplant Ravioli----

ORANT AND EPIPHANY GESTURES.
foto, rupeste art in the alps
foto, Le incisioni rupestri... segni del pensiero
Incisioni rupestri preistoriche - orante femminile, Il parco incisioni rupestri si trova a circa 15' a piedi, percorrendo la mulattiera che si stacca dalla strada principale, a circa 100 da Baita Mario.
Uomo orante della Valle Intrasca 2. Riproduzione di un'incisione rupestre del 1500 A.C. circa - PRAYERFUL MAN. REPRODUCTION OF AN ENGRAVING ROCK. ABOUT 1500 BC
MORE--


Early Christian Orant Gesture in Prayer--Early Christian Art Borrows Forms from Roman (pagan) Art----Oran, Orante, Orans, What Is In A Posture?----Female orant.----

CATACOMB FOTO---

FOTO, The Door Panels of Santa Sabina ---

A figure in the attitude of prayer is called an Orant in icon painting. In this ancient Eastern position, the figure either stands with arms outstretched sideways or bent at the elbow with palms facing forward. In early Christianity martyrs and deaconesses were represented in this attitude, which they assumed for certain prayers. The name of Oranta was then conferred on representations of the Virgin in this prayer position.

Bellini's so-called Pagan Allegory ---

The tomb TT29 of Vizier Amenemope (or Amenemipet)----

in greece:

Deities lift both arms in the "epiphany gesture" or reach forward to give or receive. The pantheon of Mycenaean deities --

Worshipper and worshipped are identified in seals, rings and votives figures through their gestures: worshippers fold their arms, or raise the right arm in greeting, or place a hand on the forehead. Deities lift both arms in the "epiphany gesture" or reach forward to give or receive. Some of the deities are familiar—or at least their names are recognizably present in the Olympic pantheon of written myth.Our relation to nature is reflected in our depiction of animals, which are shown only in relation to man, or as victims of the hunt. Also, we do not have a priestly class.

singhakranta mudra:

Angkorian statues --

Singhakranta Mudra---

Raiperunanotte - Mario Monicelli - "ci vorrebbe la rivoluzione"

Plotinus lived in Rome from 244....

Plotinus---Plotinus was born AD 205,, Lyco, or Lycopolis, Egypt? d. 270, Campania ancient philosopher, the centre of an influential circle of intellectuals and men of letters in 3rd-century Rome, who is regarded by modern scholars as the founder of the Neoplatonic school of philosophy. ----

Porphyry: On the Life of Plotinus and the Arrangement of his Work....Plotinus, the philosopher our contemporary, seemed ashamed of being in the body.

Selections from "The Philospohy of Plotinus the Egyptian pdf----

Alighiero Boetti, Italian artist, is best known for his embrodieries. Not handmade by him, of course.

Alighiero Boetti----Archivio Alighiero Boetti-----

ABC embroidery----


CULTURA ITALIANA NEL MONDO - GERMANIA - ALIGHIERO BOETTI DA NEW YORK A BERLINO E' "INSICURO NONCURANTE"

There will be an Boetti catalogue presentation at MAXX Museo Nazionale:
24 febbraio 2010, ore 18.00 Auditorium del MAXXI presentazione volumeAlighiero Boetti Catalogo generale Tomo primo. Opere 1961-1971 direzione scientifica di Jean-Christophe Ammann
see: Un progetto in quattro volumi, pubblicati da Electa, raccoglie l'intera opera di Alighiero Boetti, artista dalla raffinata ironia concettuale che per tutta la vita si è cimentato in una complessa e variegata ricerca.

scART ATTACK....la prossima puntata di scArt Attack è fissata per giovedì 25 febbraio, i posti a disposizione sono 30 e le iscrizioni chiuderanno mercoledì 17. Fateci avere al più presto vostre notizie via email o telefoniche al 3929490037. Oppure passate il mercoledì all'Antù per l'ora dell'aperitivo ; )

Antù, lo spazio/laboratorio dedicato all’ecosostenibilità.
--
Suitcase Magazine


Frizzi Frizzi fashion blog----Estel Fashion blog----

Re-uSe è un momento di incontro e di scambio tra due inconsuete stiliste che creano attraverso l'arte del ri-uso e le numerose eco-fashionist della nostra città... Troppo spesso le donne sono incastrate nei loro ruoli di mamma, moglie, figlia, amante, efficiente segretaria o manager in carriera, tanto da trovare difficile anche ritagliarsi un momento intimo e rilassante per scegliersi un abito, per provare se quella collana dona davvero al proprio decolleté, per parlare di moda ma in chiave eco-sostenibile...
Lontano da luoghi convenzionali, ecco che Re-uSe sceglie un solo giorno a settimana, il mercoledì, e un orario diverso - dalle 18.00 alle 23.00 - per offrire alle donne una serata giocosa, divertente e spensierata, durante la quale scegliere o non scegliere con calma, ascoltare bella musica di sottofondo, degustare un aperitivo biologico e a km zero e conoscere nuove amiche... ---



Livia Risi: Twisted by Design.
Movement is at the center of my creations.
I love everything that changes and mutates. Everytime that from a drawing I get to the finished dress, I like to put it on, turn it around, twist it until I understand the many possibilities behind it.

alta roma website


AltaRomaAltaModa ---AltaRomaAltaModa---Al via AltaRoma: l'alta moda a Roma---Continua l’alta moda ad AltaRoma: stasera Curiel, l’ambasciatrice della moda----AltaRomAltaModa ---

QuitMag è stato invitato a partecipare a Fashion on Paper, prestigioso evento rivolto all'editoria indipendente organizzato da AltaRoma

VIDEOS

NIKI DE SAINT-PHALLE IN MOSTRA A ROMA

niki de saint phalle...for claudio

ALTA ROMA, ALTA MODA, AID FOR TRADEAN INTERVENTION SCHEME TARGETED AT ETHICAL FASHION-----The project proposed by ITC and Alta Roma to fashion companies in the Italian system is targeted at the achievement of excellence in high-end goods, through the promotion of a model of sustainable development. The aim is to equip ethical fashion with all the necessary tools to operate effectively within the luxury goods segment, while maintaining the qualitative standards of the product and its image appeal.

Pierluigi and I went to see the Dada & Surrealismo Show here in Rome but no sign of Elsa Schiaparelli who was from Rome.....

elsa schiaparelli website

Palazzo Corsini Roma

Elsa Schiaparelli, the flamboyant fashion designer of the Art Deco period, is renowned for her fabulous eccentricity and innovation. She changed fashion and people's attitudes to it with her scandalous dresses and colourful personality. Her legacy of spectacular designs and an entirely innovative approach to fashion design has moulded contemporary fashion and inspired countless fashion designers, including Galliano, McQueen, Gaultier and Yves Saint Laurent. In short, Elsa Schiaparelli was the woman who shaped fashion as we know it today - creating the pattern for all dresses to come.

elsa schiaparelli---more----

Elsa Schiaparelli - designer---- Elsa Schiaparelli once said of her career: "Poverty forced me to work, and Paris gave me a liking for it".


l'inimitabile----

surrealismo della moda----

moda, colori, visioni di artista----

avant garde fashion designer---

diego della valle and schiaparelli----

eclettica----

Elsa Schiaparelli was an Italian who began her career as a designer in 1930s Paris. While Coco Chanel and Madeline Vionnet designed easy, soft clothes, Elsa Schiaparelli designed unusual, almost shocking garments.
She invented shocking pink and introduced mad prints, buttons and accessories. She was the designer for hard chic, those who want to be shocking. Elsa introduced the upturned shoe hat which became very famous.
Elsa Schiaparelli was the first one to do the boutique look in a store when she started selling her sweaters and accessories in the corner of the her salon. This idea was copied after World War II, and the boutique was born.
World War II marked the end of her business. She retired and never returned to fashion. She died in 1973 at the age of 83.


Elsa Schiaparelli----

Elsa Schiaparelli was the leading Parisian fashion designer of the 1920s and 30s after Coco Chanel. Elsa Schiaparelli was born in Rome on September 10, 1890, of Italian and Egyptian heritage. She was great-niece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, who discovered the canals of Mars.

Dolce & Gabbana copy shocking pink-- The surrealist queen of fashion, Elsa Schiaparelli has been the inspiration of Dolce&Gabbana Fall 2009 collection---

Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) who, together with Coco Chanel, dominated fashion between the two world wars. Schiaparelli designed for the modern woman and had a close relationship with the Parisian artistic community of the 1920s and 1930s. In addition to over 150 dresses.....

Aftershock What happened to the provocative Elsa Schiaparelli?

Elsa Schiaparelli: Shocking-Pink-----

Shocking! The Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli book review

moda surrealistica---

a collection of articles----

beaded bolero for sell--

Elsa Schiaparelli at flickr--

Elsa Schiaparelli Quotes---

Evening jacket, 1938----

Berry Berenson: Elsa Schiaparelli--- marisa berenson---

MOTHER OF INVENTION.( articles)

As Time said of her in 1934, despite putting her on their cover, “ Though her fame continues to spread, one thing keeps Schiaparelli, now in her middle thirties, from becoming the very smartest of the Paris dressmakers. Her designs are too easy to copy. The mutton sleeves and tray shoulders which she sponsored last year were instantly popular on the Champs-Elysees and Manhattan's Park Avenue. But it was not long before every little dress factory in Manhattan had copied them and from New York's 3rd Avenue to San Francisco's Howard Street millions of shop girls who had never heard of Schiaparelli were proudly wearing her models.” This meant that while Chanel continued in the fashion buisness, Schiaparelli had to shut shop despite being more creative and innovative. She had given the world such radically new fashion objects that would one day become common like ensemble outfits, backless swimsuits, built-in bras, shoulder pads, wedgie shoes and waterproof cottons to name but a few, but her legacy could live on only in the work of others. She went into retirement in December 1954 and then wrote her autobiography, “Shocking Life.”

The Elsa Schiaparelli Skeleton Dress----

The Surrealist Who Dressed People Coco Chanel did not have many challengers, but she did have one serious rival, and that was Elsa Schiaparelli. Schiaparelli was known as '˜Schiap' to her friends......

Man Ray foto-----

Between the World Wars Schiaparelli was fashion’s darling, rivalling Chanel in the popularity stakes and helping to change the face of fashion. Not only did she sow the seeds of modern collections, placing the emphasis on creativity rather than traditional construction, she helped to inject a sense of fun and playfulness into an industry that took itself very seriously.

Elsa Schiaparelli Overview ---and some more----

Inspired by the novelty of 50’s jewellery and artists and designers such as Salvador Dali and Elsa Schiaparelli, the collections revisit a time when makeup and vanity items were the inspiration for playful accessories such as brooches or necklaces. ----

Piece Effort » Elsa Schiaparelli----

Elsa Schiaparelli blog----

viaje al trastero----

Simply Shocking Elsa Schiaparelli Fashion---

The Unforgettable Faces of Fashion---- ---


J'adore Trompe l'Oiel...----Elsa Schiaparelli hats---Hat, by Elsa Schiaparelli---- another hat---


Weekend Eye Candy - Schiaparelli Evening Gown for Wallis Simpson---Great Fashion Designers of the Past----

Living Room of Elsa Schiaparelli, Paris, 2002---Elsa Schiaparelli (right) social life----

passeggiate romane da mappare--- Un viaggiatore che oggigiorno si recasse a Roma unicamente con questo libro, e seguisse i differenti itinerari proposti da Stendhal, avrebbe, alla fine della lettura, una conoscenza esaustiva della città, della sua storia, dei suoi monumenti e dei celebri personaggi che la popolarono. Più ci s'immerge in quest’opera e più, con Stendhal «si freme riflettendo sulle ricerche che abbisognano per arrivare alla verità in merito al più futile dettaglio».

passeggiate romane---more passeggiate romane----and even more---

global climate wake-up

Dear friends,
The global wake-up is here – make a phone-call now to the government number in this email, find an event near you if there’s time, or just share images and experiences of this amazing day with others on our hub page:
Scroll down to find your government’s phone number, or check out the Global Wake-Up Call live online


AVAAZ

The global climate wake-up call is here! Now all of us can get involved from home -- by making a phone-call to our own governments, or following this extraordinary day of action as it unfolds around the world -- plus, there’s still time to join a local event near you!The press is reporting that global climate talks are in a shambles and the UN summit on Tuesday is the only hope to revive them. This Monday, we’re flooding media and government office phone lines worldwide with a wake up call for leaders to act -- with phone calls being made from over 2000 rallies, marches, meetings and "flashmobs" in public places across the planet, and by hundreds of thousands of us from home.We've sourced government phone numbers for your country, with suggestions about what to say. You find all the information you need about the great Global Wake-Up Call events and phone-calls on the hub page at the link below, including photos, video and a liveblog for us to share our experiences of the day -- make a phone-call from home or work and tell us how it went at this link, or find an event near you to attend:http://www.avaaz.org/en/sept21_hub/Here are the numbers to call in your country (Please start calling after 12.18pm Monday local time):
Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri Silvio Berlusconi(+39) 066 77 91

Ministero dell´Ambiente, Tutela del Territorio e del Mare Stefania Prestigiacomo(+39) 06 57 22 1 (+39) 06 57 22 56 08 (+39) 06 57 22 56 03 (+39) 06 57 22 55 80 (+39) 06 57 22 55 81 (+39) 06 57 22 55 85 (+39) 06 57 22 55 21

Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico Claudio Scajola(+39) 0667791

If you don't see any phone numbers here, or want to find different contact information, click on the link above.Make at least one call, and if you don’t get through, it’s probably because we’re jamming the phone-lines and it’s working -- so just keep trying throughout the day, or switch to another number!

We suggest you say you’re calling as part of an international action called the Global Wake-Up call, asking leaders to commit to go to the Copenhagen climate meeting in December and agree on a global climate deal that is FAIR, AMBITIOUS and BINDING (“FAB”), and ask them to register your call and convey the message to the decision-maker.Once you’ve made your call, visit the Wake-Up Hub at this link and post a short update on how it went in the live-blog on the [right] of the page -- you can also check out other people’s experiences there, and see photos and video from the wake-up call events as they are posted:




If you’d like to join a wake-up call event or flashmob in a public place near you, there may still be time -- click the link above and then click on the global map to find events wherever we are.
In recent weeks, we've stunned national governments, heads of state and political parties with sudden barrages of thousands of calls. These phonecalls tie up staff and shut down phone lines -- but they are never missed, and time after time, we're finding, they work. 14,000 calls reversed the Brazilian President's position on a new climate protection law, 3,000 calls persuaded the German Chancellor's party to engage with climate groups, just a few hundred calls got the attention of top advisors to French President Sarkozy.We have just 78 days left until the final UN meeting in Copenhagen, where we'll succeed or fail to get an historic global treaty to place binding global limits on carbon pollution, stop a climate catastrophe and unleash a new clean and green economy. Our leaders are nowhere near success, they're not even planning on going to Copenhagen. Let's send them a wake up call they won't forget. Use your phone now, and let’s share our worldwide experiences of this day on the hub page:http://www.avaaz.org/en/sept21_hub/With hope and determination,Brett, Paul, Iain, Graziela, Ricken, Alice, Ben, Paula, Pascal, Luis, Benji, and the rest of the Avaaz team PS - an amazing diversity of wake up call events are happening on Monday, from a drumming circle in Guatemala to a coastal ceremony in French Polynesia to a march in Kinshasa. But one exciting global event is the premiere of the new climate change film The Age of Stupid. Images and videos from the Global Wake-Up Call events will be combined, in a matter of hours, into a short movie to be shown in 700 satellite-linked cinemas at the Age of Stupid's global premiere. The screenings are one night only, September 21 in the US and Sept 22 in over 40 other countries. You can find screenings near you along with all our global wake up call events. For more information about the Age of Stupid movie (and to buy tickets), see:
The New York Times reports that climate talks are "badly stalled", with a breakthrough needed this week at the UN heads of state summit:

Vi aspettiamo dal 17 al 20 settembre 2009 alla Città dell' Altra Economia per la Festa Nazionale dell'Altra Economia. Il programma dell'evento prevede spettacoli, conferenze, animazioni e aree espositive sui vari settori dell'altra economia. L'orario al pubblico sarà dalle 9,00 fino a tarda serata.

Al centro di Roma, negli antichi spazi restaurati del Campo Boario di Testaccio, 3.500 metri quadrati di esposizione, vendita, eventi e incontri per la promozione dell'altra economia: agricoltura biologica, commercio equo e solidale, energie rinnovabili, riuso e riciclo, turismo responsabile, finanza etica, comunicazione aperta, bioequobar, bioequoristorante....La Città dell'Altra Economia è uno dei primi spazi in Europa interamente dedicato a quelle pratiche economiche che si caratterizzano per l'utilizzo di processi a basso impatto ambientale, che garantiscono un'equa distribuzione del valore, che non perseguono il profitto e la crescita a ogni costo e che mettono al centro le persone e l'ambiente.

Da domenica 13 settembre lo spazio del Riuso e Riciclo osserva i seguenti orari:martedì 10.00 - 14.00mercoledì e giovedì 16.00 - 20.00venerdì, sabato e domenica 10.00 - 20.00


Occhio del Riciclone Network


shopping party roma.......Con SHOPPINGPARTYROMA (novembre 2008) e successivamente con bCreative (febbraio 2009) Alexandra de Curtis e Simona Romagnoli hanno creato la combinazione perfetta tra, Creatività-Stile-Qualità. La singolare idea di organizzare 'shopping party' indirizzati esclusivamente al pubblico femminile, in cui le protagoniste stiliste, artiste e creative di vario genere propongono in una cornice esclusiva le loro creazioni, rende le due curatrici e le loro “seguaci” delle vere rappresentanti del “pink-power”! Con ironia e originalità Alexandra de Curtis e Simona Romagnoli sviluppano e portano avanti i loro progetti, risultato di un attenta ricerca e professionalità.

Villa Mercadante . Situata nel cuore di uno dei più suggestivi quartieri della città eterna, i Parioli, questa meravigliosa costruzione dei primi del '900 è stata riportata al suo raffinato splendore di un tempo da mani esperte che hanno saputo coniugare la sontuosità dei suoi ambienti con la calda atmosfera familiare che contraddistingue le tradizionali case padronali italiane.

Videocracy

Berlusconi, le tombe fenicie e le "altre" ragazze



Marco Travaglio: "Berlusconi e la questione morale" - Annozero - 11/06/2009


Bignardi vs Brunetta: "Lei è antipatico e permaloso"

Macro announces the first two special installations for its challenging spaces: Francesco Simeti's Pastiche, and Cuoghi Corsello's Exquisite Corpses. These works, explicitly commissioned by MACRO, are meant to give a new skin to the museum's re-awakening body.

On July 15 the new Director of MACRO, Luca Massimo Barbero, introduced the beginning of a series of special projects, which will occupy the Museum's previously neglected and forgotten spaces. MACRO is inviting young Italian and International artists to produce original works in order to transform the conformation, the atmosphere, and the visual aspect of the museum.

The series starts with the installations of Francesco Simeti for the halls' curve walls, and of the duo Cuoghi Corsello for the walls behind the glass elevators.

MACRO
Via Reggio Emilia, 5400198 Roma