Donatella Versace said that the baroque aesthetic had been her inspiration for the collection.
"Baroque is a key element of the Versace history. And yet it is contemporary, and works for this moment in time. Baroque brings drama, but to make it modern I kept the line very clean, and used 'pop' colours,"
Apart from not quite grasping the thrust of her arguments (and saluting the re-appearance of 'this moment in time' for 'now') Angels hopes that, as the world of cash-seeking fashion and music continue to stain the 21st century cultural aesthetic perhaps, at last, Bach, Couperin, Scarlatti (A. and D.), the great opera composers of the Florentine Camerata, even, dare it be said, Vivaldi - to name but a few of the detained - can be released from the 'baroque' cultural prison into which they were thrust by vulgarian 20th century musicologists.
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Oh honestly, Baroque is so last decade, 2009 was the year of Baroque. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/classical/baroque09/
As Frankie sang in "The Lady is a Tramp:: She's baroque but that's oque" maybe?
I notice that some of that wonderful music can be down-loaded as a ring-tone according to the V&A section, B. At the moment I'm with the Titifers singing their song, but next up is definitely going to be from there.
Nomad, if I asked you to sing 'Tripoli bel sul d'amore' I expect you could.
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