Photography by Dido Fontana from didofontana.com

I got an email today from an enterprising young Italian photographer named Dido Fontana who shoots in 35mm and Polaroids. His work is showcased on his eponymous website didofontana.com. His mission statement on the website (which also has a shopping page for his new book) declares :

Paris in 1980 was certainly more...sybaratic .

Legend has it that on Newton shoots, if anyone were to ask for one of his polaroids as a keepsake,

Seriously..every story IS about love or detah or a combination thereof

"I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?"

Arthur Schnitzler

Egoiste is the ideal design wise, right this minute for TI

Elsa Peretti PH: Helmut Newton: A picture that made you want to move to NYC

To have conventional (or even unconventional) beauty and then to have a mind than can craft beautiful objects...it' s the kind of unfair blessing that only makes sense in fashion. Our case study for the theory today? Elsa Peretti, she of the well to do Roman family, educated, according to Wikipedia at the Volbicela School in Rome, with a diploma in interior design. 5' 9" and of course an ex-model, Elsa fled to NY where she fell in with the Halston circle and started designing the landmark jewelry that became inextricable in spirit from the clothes.

Lagerfeld Confidential:Dir:Rudolph Marconi: