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Moschino is the italian brand founded by the whimsical fashion designer Franco Moschino who died precociously in 1994 and now has as creative director the designer and Franco's friend,Rosella Jardini. Franco was known in the fashion world because of his creative and contester opinions against the traditional and classic fashion of Chanels and Cia. His fashionable target was the freedom of dressing with an humoristic and irreverent facet, after all, for Moschino "the good taste does not exist". He became a great name in the fashion scene to be remembered, not only because of his eccentric and happy work , but also because of his charismatic way of taking the fashion to the heart (but, in a contradictory manner, not so serioulsy to the heart) with vanguardist touches of pop culture, an aesthetics he was a true fan and also the graceful spontaneity, so commom in italian fashionists as Domenico and Stefano of D&G.
Moschino has always been a brand which follows a type of " fashion militancy", after all this competitive fashionsphere nor even has funny stories to laugh. Many times, to dress well is related to dress an Armani or a Chanel, but considering the immortal phrase of Moschino, Cris Rosa Negra tell you: "In my opinion, the good taste does not depend on a cloth or not even a fragrance", the good taste and all the features of a person who is well-dressed and well-fragrant, charismatic and joyful with the life is in us, as the consumer of our own fashion, of our own clothing or fragrance. This was the heritage that Moschino left to us, which implies the good humor sense, the funny and the chic in the fashion, but above all, the grace, the originality, the fashion plays, being ourselves no matter if we do not please both sides and even people want laughing... they can laugh, bah! The ridiculous act is being hidden or keep quiet behind the fashion choices, is not being a type of "Moschino way of being".
Ironically, Couture is a very elegant fragrance in comparison to other Moschino fragrances which have the eccentric approach starting from their bottles, for example : Cheap and Chic, I love love, L'eau Cheap and Chic e Oh!, in the format that reminds me of a toy. These fragrances have a minimalism in the blending of notes, sometimes an aroma that is fresher, more citric, sometimes more floral, but above all creations which label the skin with a more natural scent, smelling the energy of living that is in us, in the spontaneity of our self.
Created in 2003, Couture is chic, starting by its name. The word C O U T U R E, means sewing in French, picturing the image of the Haute Couture (high sewing ) and also the parisian Prét-à-Porter parisiense, expression that means "ready to use, to dress", refering to the massive fashion production . Altough the haute couture and the prét-à-porter have different concepts, in one side, a ellaborated and distinguishable production that has rules as those of Haute Couture Chambre in Paris, on the other side, the "ready to use, to dress" is the standard that places in the recent fashion, in the mainstream as a democratical practice, it is possible to assimilate a type of irony to this fragrance, mainly when there is some awareness of the Moschinian universe. The irony to be elegant in Couture without to be slave of the couture. For me, Couture of Moschino is revealed on my skin following this reasoning trail, pure irony, pure freedom in being "trés elegant".
Couture is a woody floral, influenced by sweet and peppery accords. It features notes of bergamot, pepper, mandarim orange, peony, jasmine, pomegranate blossom, yellow poppy, poppy seeds, benzoin, vanilla and cedarwood and has an advertisement approach for women who are self-confident and sensual in their spirits, for those, the fragrance has to be done to fit as a couture piece of clothing. The fragrance opens citrus notes blended to the feminility of peony and a timide jasmine that, in an evident manner, are invanded by the personality of the exotic, sweet and fresh mandarin that, in my opinion, has one of the best apparitions in Moschino Couture.
The mandarin is very intriguing because it has a sweet and peppery accord, influenced by the notes of pepper which provokes a sultry touch and the poppy seeds which provokes the sweeter scent, narcotic smell as a sensual drug. These notes warm the fragrance up, heating the senses, disturbing the imaginary for the best of the Couture creations, also warming the ideas. It is a elegant game of freshness and heat, gentleness and unquietness that play with the skin , the nose and the thoughts. It is like to imagine a woman in a restroom, clean, totally well-decorated in a minimalist way with objects that follow a pop aesthetics of Moschino. She is intelligent, ironic, sarcastic. She has a captivating look but hostilises everything that is futile in the fashion, everything that is a garbage, so she keeps her pose but laugh, with the most refined and sweeter laughter that exists. She is the good taste in person, she attracts the looks through her aroma, because she keeps her self-confidence even when she is alone in a room, keeping the good humor and the desire of being a type of contemplation, the most elegant one of the fashion black humor.
The fragrance is also warm and remarkable due to the benzoin note which , in the sillage will be more linear putting into action the comfort of the vanilla and the softness of the cedarwood. The longevity is spectacular, immortalizing the enigmatic aura of the Moschino Couture woman, opinion maker, whimsical, unique and, sarcastically, able to wear her perfume as a mitic resource, as well the repetitive and mass idols paitings in pop art painted by Andy Warhol , in order to ironize the art massification, the mass production without any creativeness, any vivacity, any attitude. This mithy dynamic of the Pop art which was so admired by Franco Moschino shows that wearing the refined Couture can be as showing the flag for the humor sense and against those Prét-à-Porter that are senseless, against the fashion without soul, without freedom, without happiness, without Moschino.
Rights reserved: Moschino ad (Moschino site), Prêt-a-porter ad (movie of Robert Altman at Cinemotions.net) Pop Art room (Modern interior art), Pop art drawing (The Matthew)

















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