design Shopping in Rome

Scavenger Hunt Shopping 12-8-08 1stevendepolo / CC BY 2.0

As I love fashion I can’t avoid talking about two streets in Rome with plenty of vintage shops, one of them is “Via del Governo Vecchio” and the other one is “la Via del Boschetto”.

At 45 Via del Governo Vecchio we can find “Vestiti usati Cinzia” a great vintage store. Upon arriving at “Cinzia” you can’t avoid to stop; infinite lines of 70’s handbags, shoes, boots, and even YSL shoes from the 60’s for a ridiculously good price. There are also sunglasses, party dresses, jeans, jewellery … everything you can imagine from the past and ready to take home with you!

Moreover, once you put your foot inside you can’t leave; you get completely indulged in a “grandma- wardrobe- smell”, a little dog just by the door looking at costumers expressions when they walk in, a vintage expert and the managers of “Vestiti usati Cinzia”. This is one obligatory stop when you go to Rome.

The whole street of Via del Governo Vecchio (from the unmatched sculpture of Pasquino) is truly an exposure of antique libraries, young fashion designers, artists and sculptors who settled their studios here. If you’re hungry there is also a pretty good ice-cream shop …

Finally, I would like to talk about “Pulp” which you can find on 140 la Via del Boschetto. This road also has very interesting shops but with a different atmosphere; the previous one is like experiencing the deepest of Italian art whilst this street is more cosmopolitan.

You can find shops with ballroom dresses, cosmopolitan pizzerias, climbing plants that are all around the facade and in the middle of this you will find PULP. It’s shop that every Thursday receives exclusive vintage collections from Gucci and even Channel. Of course it’s very cheap prices; I think it’s a bargain to shop vintage Versace for less than 60 Euros! The only problem is that they don’t always have clothes to sell… but when they do, they are simply the best.

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Como me gusta mucho la moda no puedo evitar hablar de dos calles de Roma plagadas de tiendas vintage, una es la Via del Governo Vecchio y la otra la Via del Boschetto.

En la primera podemos encontrar “vestiti usati Cinzia” en el número 45 de la Via del Governo Vecchio, toda esa calle (partiendo de la inigualable escultura de Pasquino) es una auténtica exposición de librerías antiguas, tiendas de moda de diseñadores jóvenes, artistas y escultores que tienen sus talleres allí, también hay heladerías buenísimas…

pero al llegar a “Cinzia” uno no puede evitar pararse, hileras infinitas de bolsos de los 70’s, zapatos y botas,¡ incluso llegué a ver unos zapatos de YSL de los 60’s por un precio de risa!

También tienen gafas de sol, vestidos de fiesta, vaqueros, joyas… ¡todo lo que puedas imaginar llegado del pasado y listo para llevar a casa!

Además una vez pones un pie dentro ya no puedes salir, te envuelve por completo el olor a “armario de nuestra abuela”, hay un perro pequeño sentado a la entrada mirando las expresiones de la gente, un experto en vintage él y los dueños de “vestiti usati Cinzia”, una parada obligada al ir a Roma.

Para acabar me gustaría hablar de “PULP”, en la Via del Boschetto 140, esta calle también tiene tiendas muy curiosas pero con un aire diferente, así como la anterior es como meterse de lleno en el arte italiano más profundo, esta otra es más cosmopolita.

Con tiendas de atuendos para bailes de salón, pizzerías cosmopolitas, plantas enredaderas que se comen todas las fachadas, y allí está “PULP”, tienda que recibe cada jueves prendas exclusivas de colecciones vintage de Gucci e incluso Chanel.
Y desde luego todo a precios muy bajos, yo creo que comprar un Versace vintage por no más de 60 euros es un lujo. ¡Pero ojo! que no siempre tienen venta pero cuando tienen… son los mejores.

El vintage de lujo por no más de 6o euros en “PULP”, Via del Boschetto, 140. Y el paraíso vintage y de segunda mano,con piezas perfectamente conservadas en “Cinzia vestiti usati” en Via del Governo Vecchio, 45.

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designmusicsocialstreet art Daydreaming about Italy

Colosseum at Night, Rome, Italylightmatter / CC BY 2.0

Today I’m feeling a bit unfocused, I’m still in holiday-mood and I’m dreaming of all the places I want to visit and experience. I thought that having a look on the Go Find It map would help my daydreaming a bit. It sure did: the map is filled with so much stuff I wish I could do and see. I’d love to save up a huge amount of money and just travel the world. Clearly I won’t have the money to do this for a very, very long time but planning for the future is never wrong ;)

Italy caught my eye and I got stuck looking for places there, it seems like such a lovely country.

I would love to experience some Italian shopping (who wouldn’t?), this store is one I’d like to visit. Then I’d love to go to an art museum and also look at some of the street art Italy has to offer, this one seems quite nice, don’t you think? Finally I would have to have dinner, I love Italian food so I don’t think I would have a hard time finding a restaurant, but Fuori Luogo seems like a great place. Of course I would also have to try out the night life: Tunnel in Milan is probably a place I’d like since underground clubs is my thing.

Oh, lovely dreams, I better start saving straight away…

designstreet art CITIES – Places visionaries (Rome, Italy)

Cities

28th September – 10th October 2009.
A group show curated by Camilla Boemio, with the support of the city of Rome.
Among others, some works by Gabriele Basilico, Michael Wolf and Shaun Gladwell. Auditorium Arte – Parco della Musica, Roma

Go Find It is a blog about street art among other things, all right, but I’d like to step forward… The topic is captivating: is it possible to speak about architecture as a form of art? Man has always had the need to express himself through signs and lines, i.e. art, even since prehistory. This discipline has been cultivated through the centuries and it has evolved in many forms. The most practical form of art, i.e. architecture, draws its origin from the need to defend man from nature, and along the years its role has become that of shaping what is around him.

So I would like to recommend to you the first exhibition of the art show of light forms/and urban visions created by Daniela Pastore and promoted by the Studio of Contemporary Architecture, in collaboration with the Celebration of Architecture “Festa dell’ Architettura”, curated by Camilla Boemio. “Cities – places visionaries” confronts the theme of Architecture to the polyhedral panorama of international cities- emotional foreshortenings, planning. It’s about rediscovering the city as if it was an absolute protagonist: unpublished views are continually in fermentation: change and metamorphasing structures are considered in the concept of “no space”.

A travel in the contemplation and the city exploration.

A participating collective of some of the most famous European photographers have dedicated their own artistic search to the industrial landscape and the city areas: Gabriel Basilico, Marco Zanta, Michael Wolf and Peter Schloer.
There is a double level to read the concept: it was analyzed as well using the video art by two of the most interesting international video artists of the last years. They have reinterpreted the topic of the city architectures: Shaun Gladwell with “In a station of a Metro” (2006) and Damir Ocko with “The end of the World” (2007) (with Dmitry Gutov).

Collaborating galleries include: Bugno Art Gallery – Venice, Zonca & Zonca – Milan, Studio La Città – Verona, Nina Lumer – Milan, Gallery Tiziana di Caro, Salerno – Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt.

You can find Max on Design Radar and on Twitter.

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