I Want To Be A Battaglia

Kellina de Boer
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Francesca Berti
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR

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W: Stories
By Stefano Tonchi 

 

For the Love of Shoes
By Patrice Farameh

 

Jewels by JAR (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
By Adrian Sassoon 

 

Style Is Instinct
By Lori Goldstein

 

Swans: Legends of the Jet Society
By Nick Foulkes

 

Scalamandre: Haute Decor
By Steven Stolman

 

10 Corso Como: A to Z
By Carla Sozzani

 

Ettore Sottsass
By Philippe Thome 

lunedì
set262011

Happy 32nd Birthday Giovanna Battaglia!

To celebrate Giovanna Battaglia's birthday, I asked the editorial team to be creative in sending Gio our greetings and I love the sentiments that they each contributed in her honor. Happy Birthday, Gio! Many happy returns!

Kellina de Boer

Do you remember the birthday greeting that Giovanna devised for her friend Anna Dello Russo this year? She spelled out Anna's birthday message using her sparkling shoes so I was inspired to create a similar image using a photo of Gio's own shoes. Auguri Giovanna!!

Gala

"Quelle con la moda innata si riconoscono dal compleanno: Giovanna Battaglia, in piena Fashion Week!" Faccio i miei personali auguri di "Buon Compleanno!" alla nostra "Musina" con una battuta della giornalista di Vogue, Serena La Rosa, pronunciata lo scorso anno per la medesima occasione. Come darle torto?

Auguri Gio!!!
Gala.

"Those with fashion can be recognized by the innate birthday: Giovanna Battaglia, in the middle of Fashion Week!" I do my personal best wishes of "Happy Birthday!" to our "Musina" with a joke that a journalist for Vogue, Serena La Rosa, delivered on the last year for the same occasion. How could you blame her?

Greetings Gio!
Gala.

Happy Birthday Gio!!

While I know how much I love Gio and her impeccable style, now that I know she was born two days before me, and is also a Libra, I understand even more why I gravitate toward her. Born on September 26, Gio is a Libran. She is:

Diplomatic (That’s lovely, but try this instead, it might be even better for you)

Urbane (a meeting with the Queen, the President, pfff, I have the perfect dress and shoes!)

Romantic and Charming (champagne and candles for Vlad on the terrace on the Amalfi Coast)

Easygoing (I can find the bracelet for you on my next trip to Milan)

Sociable (Why don’t we go to all the parties for New York Fashion Week, I want to meet more New Yorkers)

Idealistic (Everyone should be able to have their own style and own it)

Peaceable (Yes, absolutely I can, of course, sure, I will try my best to help with the photo shoot while I’m in Paris)

Librans are also very indecisive, so my question to Gio, would be, how do you decide each day what to wear each day with your amazing wardrobe? I would be overwhelmed, but would welcome the opportunity! Applausi per una festa di compleanno bellissimo.

Francesca Berti

"Auguri stilosi"... in English is "stylish greetings."

Le Choix Trois

"We turn not older with years, but newer every day."

— Emily Dickinson

Happy Birthday, gorgeous Gio! Looking forward to another year full of fashion inspiration!

Bisous!
Le Choix Trois

Isabelle Reford

Auguri to Giovanna!

Giovanna Battaglia photos courtesy of twitter.com/batgiovanna, Fashion Spot, Getty Images, Tim Walker, and Condé Nast.

sabato
set242011

Giovanna Battaglia: Poster Girls

Giovanna Battaglia styled a brilliant editorial titled "Poster Girls" for the October 2011 issue of W, a dazzling explosion of color that calls to mind all the lovely bits of the season. Josh Olins shot the pages featuring models Monika "Jac" Jagaciak and Anais Mali. Most interesting is the size and format in which Gio chose to work, the poster girls spanning two pages make the spread especially memorable. Which of Giovanna's autumn palettes is your favorite? I am most fond of the browns and greens, perfetto!

W editorial images © 2011 Condé Nast. All Rghts Reserved.

giovedì
set152011

Giovanna Battaglia At Alexander Wang By Darcel

Darcel created this darling image of Giovanna Battaglia as seen at the Alexander Wang show in New York earlier this week. Be sure to visit Darcel's fun site to see more of his tribute pieces to our favorite fashion icons.

Giovanna Battaglia illustration © 2011 Darcel. All Rights Reserved.

martedì
set132011

Giovanna Battaglia At New York Fashion Week

Giovanna Battaglia and Stefano Tonchi at AltuzarraStefano Tonchi and Giovanna Battaglia in "Carine's World"

Carine Roitfeld, Stefano Tonchi, Giovanna Battaglia

Giovanna Battaglia at Thakoon

Giovanna Battaglia at Alexander Wang

Giovanna Battaglia photographs © 2011 Condé Nast, Getty Images, and teampeterstigter.com. All Rights Reserved.

lunedì
set122011

Battaglia At Richard Hambleton: A Retrospective

Giovanna Battaglia photos © 2011 Condé Nast, Guest of a Guest, Billy Farrell Agency, Patrick McMullan. All Rights Reserved.