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Pleated skirts are back in fashion and since Donatella Versace included them in her collection for H&M they went right in my diy list. A pleated skirts should be not too difficult to make and I hope to be back to you soon with a tutorial to diy a pleated skirt and be party season ready!

Le gonne a pieghe sono tornate di moda e da quando Donatella Versace le ha incluse nella sua collezione per H&M sono finite nella mia lista dei modelli da realizzare. Spero di potervi presto aggiornare con un tutorial per realizzare una gonna a pieghe da sfoggiare sotto le feste natalizie.

Here's the shirt tutorial. I took a real man shirt and then I pinched and pinned it around the waist to make it more fitted. You can choose any shirt and then follow the 3 steps to cut it out.



Wear you shirt and mark out with a pin where you want the see throught part to begin. Lay down your shirt and make a loose stitched  line that will help you to cut straight.

Indossate la camicia e appuntate uno spillo sul davanti per segnare il punto da cui iniziare a tagliare. Partendo da lì fate un'impuntura da parte a parte che vi aiuterà a tagliare dritto.

Many winter looks are inspired by men style. What better than a classic man shirt to jump on seasonal trends? I spent this week examining minutely this piece of wardrobe and at the end I couldn't resist giving  it my own twist. There are many beautiful details in a man shirt: the stiff collar and cuffs,the button line so I thought it would be cool to emphasize these details and make them pop out of the shirt.  I cut out a piece from the front of the shirt and I subsituted it with a very light weighted tulle. I think I obtained a masculine look with a feminine twist, what do you think of the result? Tomorrow the tutorial!

Read the Cut out shirt tutorial now

I've been dreaming about a micro studded cloth for a while but the idea of inserting each mini stud by hand was just unrealizable until I found these "beads in a bottle" (doesn't it sound like something came out from Wonderland?). It's a gummy product you can squeeze onto fabric and that makes a ball that looks like a bead.  I found my "micro studding machine"! I picked the metal colors series and I started "to stud" a pair of black jeans. The inspiration is Versace. I decorated them around the lateral seam with the greek fret then I added a spiral on the front.

Ho sempre desiderato possedere un abito decorato con mini borchie ma l'idea di applicarle manualmente una ad una era semplicemente non realizzabile fino a quando ho trovato una ragionevole alternativa: perline in bottiglia (dal nome sembra un oggetto proveniente dal paese delle meraviglie). E' un prodotto viscoso che può essere applicato sulla stoffa e forma una pallina dall'aspetto di una perlina: una perfetta "macchina borchiatrice"! Ho scelto il prodotto in colori metallici affinchè la perlina sembrasse una borchia. L'ispirazione è Versace, ho decorato i pantaloni con una greca intorno alla cucitura laterale e ho aggiunto dei decori sul davanti.


A special thanks to Beth Livesay and Stampington for sending me a bag full of these special beads for my fashion experiments. Visit Beth's blog: Couture over Coffee

Take all your vintage pendants and brooches and sew them one after another to make this unusual jewellery holder! This one is from Chanel 2008 collection. Too difficult? An eaasier version of this jewelled top can be to pin all the vintage brooches onto a nude or pink top, the wow effect is assured!

My last trip to Zara left me overwhelmed: I liked the explosion of snakeskin, both on clothes and shoes and a few frivolous pieces for the night like the feather waistcoat and the silver painted top. This one that can be easily done using a summer lace top and silver fabric paint! Paint it,iron it and wear it! Are you ready to diy?

I've just finished this colored corset. I've made this with several meters of colored elastics bands. The thing that i like about this corset is that when you handle it it looks unstructured because the bands are sewed together only in a couple of places but when worn the bands stretch and go in place and the corset looks made of a single piece. What do you think of the result?


Ho appena finito di cucire questo corsetto, è costituito da diversi metri di fasce elastiche. L'idea che mi ha portato a sceglierle come materia prima è che il corsetto guardandolo appare destrutturato, ma indossato gli elastici si tendono e acquista l'aspetto di un pezzo unico. Che ne pensate?

This is the dress i made inspired by the feathered Versace one. Its shape is basic, i put all the effort in making the necklice with satin fabric. I'll show you how to make a band of  fabric that turn. Meanwhile what do you think of the dress?

Questo è il vestito che ho realizzato ispirandomi a quello di piume di Versace. Il modello base è semplice,la difficoltà sta nello scollo fatto in raso. Vi mostrerò come ho realizzato la striscia di stoffa "che gira" dietro al collo. Nel frattempo che ne pensate del vestito? 

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Feather dresses have recently been spotted in the latest Versace ad campain,over the Elle US cover and worn by Naomi Campbell. Like furs,feather cloths are the right choice when we want to make an appereance. I recently found this fluffy orange fabric you see above and i thought it could nicely fake feathers so during the next days i'll show you my diy project based on a Versace dress.

Vestiti di piume firmati Versace sono stati avvistati nelle ultime campagne pubblicitarie,sulla copertina di Elle US e indossati da Naomi Campbell. Così come le pellicce (finte),le piume sono sicuramente dei capi che catalizzano l'attenzione. Recentemente mi sono imbattuta in questa stoffa arancione ed ho pensato che potesse simulare l'effetto delle piume. Nei prossimi giorni vi mostrerò il vestito che ho realizzato ispirandomi al vestito di Versace.

Today for the 4th of July anniversary we can craft something inspired by the american flag! I have to admit that both the american flag and the UK one are very fashionable,it will be too difficult to think dresses and accessories based on the italian flag: who thought that bright green and red could go along together? It's so obivious that our flag wasn't designed by a woman or a gay man,now i understand why men always choose blue and hardly move from that!
What diy projects we can do with the american flag? here's some ideas:
Sewing lovers who may want to craft more difficult projects can use the flag as a fabric to craft tote bags or even shirts and blouses.




these last two pics are from tthe 2010 Zanotti collection "American flag",aren't these shoes amazing? I really want to try to diy them.