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Elsa Schiaparelli in the Alinari Archives, Florence
Elsa Schiaparelli (1890–1973) was an Italian fashion designer. Along with Coco Chanel, her greatest rival, she is regarded as one of the most prominent figures in fashion between the two World Wars. Starting with knitwear, Schiaparelli’s designs were heavily influenced by Surrealist painters, like her collaborators Salvador Dali and Jean Cocteau. Her clients included the heiress Daisy Fellowes and actress Mae West. Schiaparelli did not adapt to the changes in fashion following WWII and her couture house closed in 1954.
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Hat of the italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
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Marisa Berenson (on the right, born in 1947), American actress, her sister Berry Berenson and their maternal grandmother Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973), Italian-born French top designer.
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The pillar silhouette returns: Lady Lionel Earle in a column dress of black mousseline gaufree by Elsa Schiaparelli. It is worn together with a Crusades-inspired Ihram of gold filet and pailettes. Date: 1935
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Two hat designs by the eccentric and inventive Elsa Schiaparelli (Sciaparelli). One has a large pink hat-band, the other a short black veil. Date: 1938
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Elsa Schiaparelli, French needlewoman of Italian origin, in 1936
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1936
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Emilio Pucci, stylist and designer (and politician)
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The brand-maker and stylist Emilio Pucci with a model on the terrace of Palazzo Pucci in Florence
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1955
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Florence, Palazzo Pucci
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Pucci Emilio
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The designer Emilio Pucci creation of the 1965-1966 collection. Model wears a wool dress coat-colored geranium characterized by a drawing in a herringbone pattern and the front buttons. The hat, reminiscent of a helmet, is matched to the dress
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Stylist creation Emilio Pucci Spring-Summer collection of 1965. The model is wearing a violet suit with short single-breasted jacket with three buttons and three-quarter sleeves. The knee-length skirt with faux pockets on the sides
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The designer Emilio Pucci creation of the autumn-winter collection 1965. The model is wearing a “ghost style dress” down to his feet with pyramid line. And ‘it meshes green-red bicolor and ocean and has a cross-neckline
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A creation of the fashion designer Emilio Pucci in Florence of the autumn-winter collection of 1965. The model is wearing a cream-colored wool skirt to the knee and a short jacket with reversible barrel neck cream and beige, a hat with a rounded chin. In the background the dome of Florence Cathedral
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Parade of swimsuits of the fashion designer Emilio Pucci in Florence on November 11, 1968
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Creation of the fashion designer Emilio Pucci of the winter collection of 1965. The model is wearing a fancy dress printed velvet knee-deep with matching stockings. The dress is yellow, periwinkle and black
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Creation of the fashion designer Emilio Pucci Spring Summer collection 1965. The model is wearing a patterned shirt with “batwing sleeves” and a straw hat
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Emilio Pucci in his fashion shop before attempting to make a name in politics, Florence
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1963
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Colorful Pyjama outfit from collection of Emilio Pucci, worn by Sandra Bernloher
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Group shot: the Surrealists
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The surrealists in the autumn of 1942: in the last row Jimmy Ernst, Peggy Guggenheim, John Ferren, Marcel Duchamp and Piet Mondrian, in the center row Max Ernst, Amédée Ozenfant, André Breton, Fernand Léger and Berenice Abbott, Stanley William Hayter, Leonora Carrington. Photography by Hermann Landshoff in the Münchner Stadtmuseum in Munich
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Ernst Max, Duchamp Marcel, Léger Fernand, Guggenheim Peggy (1898-1979), Mondrian Piet, Breton André (1896-1966), Carrington Leonora (1917-2011)
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Badiani Gelateria, Firenze & the invention of my favorite flavor: Buontalenti
Is it a surprise to you that Italians invented ice cream? Not me!
Made only of: Cream Milk Sugar Eggs
At the end of the 1960s, a contest was announced to commemorate the Florentine architect Bernardo Buontalenti, who is known to have invented the ice cream known as “gelato.”
Gelateria Badiani won a prize with a simple yet unique flavor, indeed called Buontalenti. Since then, this special cream based flavor has conquered the palate of Florentines and all good gelato lovers.
Despite many imitation attempts, Badiani’s gelateria is the only home of the real Buontalenti. And, it is still the most sought after flavor.
History of gelato and Buontalenti
It’s been said that the first to make true gelato, creamy and frozen as we know it today were the Florentines in 15th century.
It allegedly happened like this: during the mid 1500s, Cosimo I de’ Medici, elegant Lord of Tuscany, designated Bernardo Buontalenti to organize special festivities. The Lord intended to astonish a delegation of the King of Spain for political reasons, to support of Cosimo’s intention to incorporate Siena in the dukedom.
Bernardo Buontalenti, architect and creative figure, directed shows and fireworks and set up a program of festivities like no one ever before. He arranged sumptuous banquets, at the end of which he served a frozen cream to which he had added a very precious spice that was coming from the newly discovered Americas: sugar.
The Spanish delegation was enthusiastic with great satisfaction of the Grand Duke, who had to hire a number of cooks who could continuously prepare gelato.
However, it was thanks to Caterina de’ Medici, then Queen of France, that gelato spread across Europe beginning during the second half of the century. Since then the Queen summoned Florentine pastry chefs who had learned that art and she always served gelato to her guests, kings and diplomats, who then returned to their homelands with the recipe.
And, just for fun, here’s a vintage photo showing the ever popular combination of children and gelato, especially in Florence!
Piazza della Verzaia, Florence
An old view of Florence on a postcard of the Piazza della Verzaia, showing the medieval walls that still surrounded Florence. The photo would have had to be made before c. 1865, for when Florence was the Capital of Italy (1865-1871), the city walls were demolished.
You can find great info on Florence’s walls here: http://www.firenze-oltrarno.net/english/arte/mura.php
Grand Hotel de la Ville, Florence
Today’s Excelsior Hotel in Florence looks like this
It was originally named the Grand Hotel de la Ville, seen here in an old postcard from the late 19th-century.
The location of the palazzo which has housed hotels with several names, has always been prime real estate in beautiful Firenze.
How to move marble from the quarry, the old-fashioned way
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Two oxen pull a cart with a block of marble on the rails
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The quarries of Carrara
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“Marina di Carrara, a ship under load”: vessel used for transporting marble
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“Marina di Carrara, Carico dei Velieri”: marble blocks ready to be loaded on a ship
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from 1852
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“Carrara – Exterior of the Laboratory of the Comm. Carlo Nicoli, block of 52 tons”: a block of marble transported in the laboratory
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“Carrara – Miners on the Tecchia”: quarriers on the Apuane
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Florence’s Calcio storico, 1931
Piazza della Signoria, Firenze. Fase animata di partita di Calcio Storico Fiorentino. Foto del 1931.
Famous 19th-century Americans in Florence: Horatio Greenough, sculptor
From the book by Clara Louise Dentler: 
Where Greenough lived, worked, or exhibited in Florence:
- in a villa a mile out of Florence, thought to be opposite the Collegio della Querce on Via Piazzola
- he built a beautiful octagonal studio for the exhibition of his works at the corner of Piazza della Liberta’ (then called Piazza Maria Antonietta) and Via Santa Caterina
- places he lived include Casa le Blanc on Costa San Giorgio; Palazzo Pucci-Baciocchi on Via de’ Pucci; and the popular Villa Brichieri.
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