San Miniato al Monte in Florence Italy

San Miniato al Monte is directly above Piazza Michelangelo & is one of #Pierotucci ‘s special spots to watch over #Florence. Just look at the view.

Green with envy from Florence Italy

Cross Body Italian leather bags in a mix of vegetable tanned leather and a suede like canvans make a perfect match with Porselli Ballet Flats in beige leather

Reports from Milan Fashion Week left me inspired

after reading about the vintage inspired apparel and colors covering fashion designers such as Gucci, Missoni and others we felt inspired to look through our leather collection and to create a deep dark brown selection.  In Italian this color is known as testa di moro, and when seen in leather , since it is so close to a natural shade it comes in varying depths of intensity.

Vintage Inspired Brown by naturalitalianwoman featuring straight leg jeans

Levi Strauss & Co straight leg jeans
$64 - kohls.com

Grenson oversized shoes
£210 - allsole.com

Acqua di Parma fragrance
$150 - neimanmarcus.com

Genuine Italian Leather Sahariana Jacket in a vintage brown
€495 - pierotucci.com

Campomaggi Bags | Washed leather Briefcase and Laptop Bag
€440 - pierotucci.com

Tucci Slim Messenger Bag with flap over top
€285 - pierotucci.com

Toscanella Billfold with coin purse in a brown basket weave
€125 - pierotucci.com

Royal Higness Leather belt, silver colored buckle and contrast stitch
€77 - pierotucci.com

A little bit of help please

I am looking to do some advertising for Pierotucci, Leather Factory and I have two possible images to use. Have a look, and let me know which one calls your attention most – and what does it communicate to you.
I appreciate your help!

The first image centers on the fact that all of our products are handmade right here in Florence Italy – what I don’t like is that it doesn’t really show our full range of products.

The second pulls in a Florence skyline and a selection of our products, but I am not sure it really communicates that we hand make everything right here in Italy.

All the signs of Spring are in my back yard . . .

and not only in my backyard, but also in fashion.  This afternoon for lunch I jumped in my car, dodged all the incredibly slow drivers and made a bee-line for my own private oasis . . . my garden.   I munched down on some rather bland soup (the things we do for bathing suit season) and then moved myself outside to enjoy the signs of spring.

The first of which are the purple iris flowers that are blooming around the front border of my yard. In Italian these are called gigli  (one of those very difficult words to pronounce) and in the Florence area tradition wants them to be purple – the official Florentine color FORZA VIOLA!!) They also come in yellow and white, but since I live with a die hard Fiorentine man, they had to be ALL purple.  Here are the first courageous blossoms.

Tuscan Garden and the Viola Iris

Leather messenger bag in purple

Then there is my pear tree, just a wee little thing but with tons of flowers . . . all right tons maybe an exaggeration, but you can’t help but hoping that this years crop will exceed last years (1 pear).  This creamy white bloom reminds me of one of the new FORTUNATA handbags that just arrived in a limited Edition series.

Fortunata Tote, Designer Handbag in color Bright White

If you look real hard – and with maybe a bit of imagination – you can see my blossoming rosemary bush.  This makes the best ever roast potatoes.  This plant is always admired by my envious neighbors because it is incredibly old and very prosperous.  The blooms have a faint lilac color, reminiscent of the Chanel inspired handbag by Cosci.

Rosemary roasted potatoes and Chanel, now that's a strange match

Cosci quilted lilac colored leather

Then I have a cherry tree, which is just beginning to show its flowers – the thing about this cherry tree is that it looks adorable, has so many lovely flowers and even looks like it is going to stun us with a huge harvest only to end the season with 10 (yes, you can count them on one hand 10) cherries  and even those are hard to come by if the ravens and sparrows have gotten up earlier than you.

I have two apricot trees, one is a lovely, sweet, docile domestic tree that has light pink flowers (about two weeks ago) and large plump apricots – its only a baby so its production is a little limited.  Then I have a wild apricot tree that produces flaming pink flowers, grows like crazy entwining itself in the fencing for the dog area and producing a ton of very small but sweet apricots – perfect for making jam and salsa.

Apricot Blossoms in bright pink - vibrant and trendy

Fortunata Trendy Pink Designer Handbag for the Spring

I also have a fig tree, which doesn’t have any flowers – and at the moment it doesn’t even have any leaves.  This tree always has fruit that becomes ripe as I am away for vacation – missing out on that delicious sweet delights.

Un Carnevale Fiorentino

RE Blog from our guest blogger:

You know its carnevale in Florence when every time you wander around the city center you find tiny pieces of colored confetti scattered in the streets.

The Italians throw these brightly colored streamers and little pieces of wrapped candy in the crowds from the colorful, playful floats that they painstakingly prepare. Though many might think that this is just a type of Halloween in February they would be mistaken, because the outfits that are selected normally have nothing to do with warding off the evil spirits as in the tradition for All Hallow’s Eve. In fact when you mention Carnival, the image of scantily dressed Brazilians come to mind or maybe even the artistic and mysterious figures from Venice. However, for many regions it is simply a moment where the young and old are encouraged to have fun, laugh and be playful behind the anonymity of a mask.

 

Un Carnevale Fiorentino.

 

A Photographers version of the XII Valencia Fashion Week (VFW)

We are very happy to welcome our Guest Blogger: Print and Pattern, a blog that was born as a project to discuss everything related to art, focusing on fashion, cinema and photography. since we opened the site in September, we had a great reception and we are very grateful. We love so much photography so most of out photos are taken by us or at least edited by us to give them our personal touch. You can visit our site entering; printandpattern.wordpress.com or follow us on twitter; @Print_Pattern.

V F W

The XII Valencia Fashion Week (VFW), the more austere since her inauguration, has been held from 15 to 18 February. With a reduced budget of 200,000 euros, has drawn over 25,000 attendees, representing a record in this Winter edition of the famous runaway.

This has been ensured in a press communicate from the Fashion Week Association, who believe that this fact “confirms the positioning of the runway and endorsed as one of the most important platforms of spanish designers, specializing in presentations of local designers and emerging artist on the national scene “

The parade of Gabriel Segui opened on Wednesday the current edition with the assistance of eminent personalities from political, business and social, closed on Friday, by Higinio Mateu. Saturday, became the day of solidarity with four names as protagonists and the revenue from the sale of tickets to the benefit of NGOs. In total, 38 artists raised their collections to the whole runway.

The promoters of the event say that, “despite the institutional cuts, this issue is growing in the number of participating designers, collaborating firms and number of media, maintaining consolidated the event as one of the strongest alternative design has to to present their collections to national level. “

Thus, more than 25,000 participants have followed in the Agora (Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias de Valencia) and the Off runway (celebrated in the Umbracle) the evolution of the parades, with incalculable people who have passed through the city. As for media, over 300 journalists were accredited.

Print and Pattern were there and actually saw and documented some of the parades, our favorite was Dragomir Krasimirov, a new designer, who presented a very minimal collection that showed that sometimes less is more. All the photos taken by us are form his catwalk.

Chanel inspired spring outfit

Not that I am a fashionista that gets all excited about the new colors and styles, but this outfit is definitely on my wish list from Chanel:

 

These colors would be a perfect match to the new Cosci handbag we just put on line:

or the lovely dusty pastels in this shagreen calfskin bag by FORTUNATA:

 

Which do you think is a better match to my dream Chanel outfit?