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From the 8 to 30 of May Giglio Boutique will exhibit the work of the Sicilian designer and photographer Guido Giuttari.

This creative collaboration takes place to give the possibility to admire the grace of fashion and the dizzy depth of art mixed together! To enjoy  the strength and beauty of two similar but still different elements mixed together in one space! The Giglio group has always been encouraging about these collaborations, and to offer their  luxurious and avant-garde spaces for such events!

In fact the emotion is twice as strong, imagine walking trough the luminous Giglio boutiques with only the most prestigious labels around you mixed with colourful designed art objects. To see the refinement of Moschino, Versace, Emilio Pucci and more, among fresh designed objects. The combination undoubtedly creates an unforgettable milieu to breath in slowly and carefully.

The opening of the exhibition will take place at the Giglio Boutique on Piazza Crispi (Palermo) on Friday the 8 of May starting at 6 PM with an opening cocktail with the artist.

Driven by his passion for art Guido Giuttari moved to New York to continue his art development. New York got him to know some of the most notable artists who pushed him to discover the photography.

About the turn of the century the photographer initiate his path as an interior designer, he creates decorative panels with motifs and colours from the nature, and a lot of other beautiful and colourful objects for the interior design. He finally finds a method to fuse the photography with the interior design! As well as in New York he also exhibited his work in London at the luxurious Harrods.

From the 8:th of May and two weeks ahead it’s possible to find numerous designed objects from the multitalented artist in the Giglio boutique. A piece of contemporary art will be exposed for the public to enjoy!

Have we hit upon the right idea of Fashion? The process which has been going on ever since the world began seems to have a defect in it. When you have got a woman thoroughly civilized and well fashioned you cannot do anything more with her. And it is worth reflection what we should do, what could we spend our energies on.

We do not like to admit that fashion process has its cycles, that fashion and women, like trees and fruit, grow, ripen, and then decay. The world has always had a conceit that the globe could be made entirely fashionable, and all over the home of a society constantly growing better. In order to accomplish this we have striven to eliminate bad taste in women and in nature: 

Is there anything more unsatisfactory than a perfect color, perfect fabric, perfect texture, design and print brought into the most absolute harmony of taste and culture? What more can a woman do with it? What satisfaction has a woman in it if she really gets to the end of her power to improve it? There have been such nearly ideal situations, and how strong nature, always working against woman and in the interest of untamed wildness, likes to riot in them and reduce them to picturesque destruction! And what sweet sadness, pathos, romantic suggestion, the human mind finds in such a ruin! And a fashion that has attained its end in all possible culture, entire refinement in style, in tastes, in the art of elegant intellectual and luxurious living–is there nothing pathetic in that? 

London is probably the most civilized centre the world has ever seen; there are gathered more of the elements of that which we reckon the best. Where in history, unless someone puts in a claim for the French Lady, shall we find a woman so nearly approaching the standard we have set up of civilization as the English Lady, refined by inheritance and tradition, educated almost beyond the disturbance of enthusiasm, and cultivated beyond the chance of surprise? We are speaking of the highest type in manner, information, training, fashion, in the acquisition of what the world has to give. Could these women have conquered the world? Is it possible that our highest civilization has lost something of the rough and admirable element that we admire in the heroes of Homer and of Elizabeth? What is this London, the most civilized city ever known? Why, a considerable part of its population is more unfashionable, more hopelessly unstylish, than any wild race we know, because they are the refuse and slag of the civilization, if we dare say that. We can do something with a degraded race of bad fashion, if it has any stamina in it. What can be done with those who are described as East-Londoners? 

Every great city has enough of the same element. Is this an accident, or is it a necessity of the refinement that we insist on calling fashion? We are always sending out designers, models to savage or perverted nations, we are always sending out emigrants to occupy and reduce to order neglected territory. This is our main business. How would it be if this business were really accomplished, and there were no more peoples to teach our way of life to, and no more territory to bring under productive cultivation? Without the necessity of putting forth this energy, a survival of the original force in man, how long would our fashion last? In a word, if the world were actually all civilized, would not it be too weak even to ripen? We have a gay confidence that we can do something for Africa. Can we reform London and Paris and New York, which our own hands have made? 

If we cannot, where is the difficulty? Is this a hopeless world? Must it always go on by spurts and relapses, alternate fashion and bad fashion, and the bad fashion being necessary to keep us employed and growing? Or is there some mistake about our ideal of fashion? Does our process too much eliminate the rough vigor, courage, stamina of the race? After a time do we just live, or try to live? 

These questions are too deep for these pages. Let us make the world pleasant, and throw a cover over the refuse. We are doing very well, on the whole, considering what we are and the materials we have to work on. And we must not leave the world so perfectly civilized that the inhabitants, two or three centuries ahead, will have nothing to do.