A spectacular style statement by Melania Trump at Jimmy Carter’s funeral 🌹
With impeccable elegance and mastery, she delivers a stunning moment that blends art, fashion, Italian designers, Rodin’s sculptures and a heartfelt tribute to love
Let’s explore why in this Thread 🧵
Everyone wondered what Melania Trump was wearing
Well, she was wearing a magnificent black coat by the Italian fashion house Valentino, embellished with a large white collar depicting a sculpture
It is a print from Valentino’s 2019 collection, depicting two lovers in a passionate kiss surrounded by flowers and butterflies
This marvelous 2019 collection featured this romantic, delicate, and passionate print on various designs, including the one chosen by the future First Lady 🌹
A tender, delicate, and appropriate tribute to Jim and Rosalynn Carter 🌹
But there’s more
The creative director of the fashion house at the time was the famous Italian 🇮🇹 Pierpaolo Piccioli ✨
Pierpaolo, an artist of extraordinary talent, incredibly poetic and virtuous, was inspired by the famous sculptor Rodin for this collection!
Bringing together art, fashion, sculpture, talent, and poetry 🌹
Moreover, at the end of the runway show for the collection, an excerpt by Scottish poet Robert Montgomery was included, reading:
“The people you love become ghosts inside you, and like this, you keep them alive.” 🤍
At this point in our analysis, would you agree with me on how wonderful and delicate Melania Trump was?
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One of the most striking painting cycles in art history
From Romantic and Roman aesthetics to a haunting prophecy of fortune’s reversal
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The Course of Empire is a series of five paintings created by Thomas Cole between 1833 and 1836
A leading figure of the Hudson River School, Cole used this cycle as an allegory—often interpreted as a reflection on America—to depict the rise and fall of human civilization
A newly published book and a 30-year-long unprecedented study tracing Leonardo’s DNA
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For over five centuries, Leonardo da Vinci has been celebrated as a visionary artist, scientist, and inventor
Now, an international team of researchers is closer than ever to unlocking the biological secrets behind his extraordinary genius
The book “Genìa Da Vinci”, Genealogy and Genetics for Leonardo’s DNA by Alessandro Vezzosi and Agnese Sabato presents 30 years of updated genealogical research, tracing Leonardo’s lineage with new insights