Resourceful how an italian architect changed two homes into one. We start off with a name name synonymous with flashy flamboyant high fashion versailles the label was created by the italian designer johnny in the late one nine hundred seventy s. And soon became a sensation in the fashion world now its signs were largely influenced by greek history with bold vivid colors it wasnt to everyones liking though perhaps but ever so she was quoted as saying that he didnt believe in could taste well his highly successful career came to a sudden and tragic end when he was suddenly murdered outside of his miami villa in one thousand nine hundred seven well some twenty years later the largest wretch retrospective of his work is on display in berlin. These creations are not part of a new connection them its from the nineteen eighties and nineties all designed by johnny visit. This extraordinary fashion show in berlin was mounted to open a new exhibition as a tribute to the late italian designer some of his arches former associates came to the corn princess napoleon berlin for the ending. His creations revived memories. For geniuses for designing i think it was all the models for him to work with them all the photographers want to work with them and theyre always on the walls to bust out first and the best shows so it was really an on earth to work with the hobbit do i discover Johnny Versace for germany and who only in florence and its very important to me to be here today. Or to look just like that badly at the end gentleman he was a real gentleman and a family man with a great great talent for what he did and it is now and for communicating that great love he had for fashion and for people in the boat it would feel like. The retrospective includes over three hundred designs covering Gianni Versace as an entire career the largest exhibition of its kind in the world so far some of the highlights of beaded busty a dress inspired by painter and go stuff. There are pieces from his pocket collection and clothes designed for stylists like this tailcoat ensemble for british thing us things wedding. In a mention that its who shot it and we want the visitors in to feel like theyre getting a good idea of the scope of his Creative Work not just the borrow cocoa and gold and bling bling but the more classical things he did as well he also dressed lady di every room in the exhibition is devoted to a particular events on. His famous miami print shirts for example. The gold and black cream presents pieces from the seminal bondage collection International Collectors have also known for their price massages. One is an example stephanie of brazil a collector and founder of the Fashion Designer since nine hundred eighty nine. It was not only true. But true was something that was about more about pleasure at that. Here wally his well we about that sometimes the to watch with the bad taste but a. Way a prize for that the beautiful. This is the first time and stephanie has shown these pieces from the sanchez mens collection in berlin in the one nine hundred ninety s. For designing liberated mens fashion from old constraints using among other things pretty colors and striking. He was one of the same attention for the mines and the womans i mean he also used the same inspiration for both. By the time Gianni Versace was murdered in one thousand nine hundred seventy he was a legend centric and flamboyant as his own creation. He gained International Fame in the one thousand nine hundred. His current included princess diana. And singer elton john. In the era of supermodels like. Naomi campbell and kate moss. The exhibition trace his chains rise from fans to star designer. You see all of the development it was much more intellectual than it became more sexy than was appeal for celebrities and i want to show off all religious diversity for everybody. Swedish top model Marcus Schrenker berry. One of alexander stephanys outfits in the one nine hundred ninety s. He was by such as favorite male model. The model im a collector and still enjoy donning the design is outfits for special occasions. But for the street i think Santa Stephanie doesnt limit himself to vintage up around. The times has cherish the bling bling we dont dress the way we used to dress but there is always the ill be ideal for a down for file sean that yami used to be using his every day. The retrospective in berlin presents a designer who wrote fashion history now Gianni Versace his fashion is at least twenty years old anything but old fashioned. Definitely not old fashion art looking on now to a brief overlook add other stories making headlines on the culture scene coming up in express. In. The uk heavy hour was celebrated on the Shetland Islands on tuesday held each year on a last tuesday in january the fire festival is a highlight on the islands which belong to scotland torchlight processions are held participants dress and costume each drink in saying the torches are used to set fire to a replica of a viking longship in accordance with norse tradition. In trento italy cellist giovanni salema has played a concert using a very cool instrument an ice challenge he performed in a bubble when the temperature was at cheney minus eight degrees celcius his cello was crafted on the percent by american sculptor tim lin hot its a sculpture its a complicated Ice Sculpture you know our sculpture i have two kinds of ours i use the white which. See which is the body of the instrument is made of snow water and the bridge which is the clear part. Of the ice chan i will tell it to me in a refrigerated truck until an early february. The International Toy fair opened its doors in nuremberg on wednesday robots are a big trend this year even children can program in control that technology also plays a part in poor games these days with the secret eating game players get their instructions via a smartphone or tablet. But classic toys like skateboards remain popular to first held in one nine hundred fifty the nuremberg toy fair is the largest event of its kind in the world. One mans trash is another mans treasure and you certainly see that when you go to a flea market but if you have an eye for art and you will see thousands of designer pieces just waiting to be rescued and restored and that is where tim best shot comes it now he works tirelessly to restore iconic design objects made of plastic that are in danger of losing their shape color or form well as expertise is in especially in high demand in modern art museums. A keyboard melting away. Some art is transitory especially if its made of plastic natural chemical processes have caused this spoon to splinter. Basically plastics have an internal clock ticking away inside up and sometimes it disintegrates fast and sometimes slow as a lot. One comes into action of course you can ask what will become of our generation our era what well enjoy looking at that sea. To target is waging a battle against time hes responsible for over one hundred thousand design objects from the noise im not at the International Design museum in munich many of them are made of plastic. Oxygen and light make them age faster the most fragile pieces are in storage or. This chair for instance isnt any good for sitting on anymore. When its hit all forward if i were to press on this the foam cell structure would completely disintegrate. It this year this is just an example of course that would rather not demonstrate on the object itself this is it and when i press on is firm which is just as old everything crumbles right away and as its a huge problem of course especially with the padded furniture from the late fiftys speaking moment thats when they started being made so if you cross them too tightly everything crumbles right off. The supports that are as follows. There are many different signs of aging this shopping cart hybrid is slowly turning brown. This adding machine has turned prematurely gray from exposure to light. Across the salt is forming on the aging painted this hi fi system. But not all plastic objects are vulnerable in the same way when some softening agents decay the. Asked extern brittle. Discover first from iran compares some plastics to chocolate thats relatively soft melts quickly and is easily damaged or you might say ah those are more like breast or achieves a chemical consistency off the baking so its more stable. Contemporary arts too can post just as much of a challenge so its artist thomas hill seans Double Garage for example one of the primary materials he used was cheap and he said take. He created the one hundred forty square meter collage shortly after nine eleven the few years that have passed since have left their mark doesnt so much fear the truths that machine was bend over from its own weight so we straightened it up. Off to the states. With the school so it was that the really big surprise was that most of the tape used is Still Holding so while its. One installation needs constant attention and ultraviolet filter on the lamps can keep the newspaper clippings from fading for a while but the most sensitive parts need more protection. Than here here the tape is still sticking so if it were to fall down it would get all tangled up and that would amount to major damage to the space. For does this tire. Especially fragile pieces from the design storage also require special treatment a baby in kept from the late one nine hundred ninety s. Can only really survive indefinitely in an oxygen free environment. In foreclosure thoughts we want to compare if you had kept a conventional bathing cap like this in an attic somewhere and now it would look only slightly better than some old crispbread of business and because it was click report. One of the largest plastic projects of the past decades was there for tour it was designed. The one nine hundred sixty s. As a speak out and the boil crisis of one nine hundred sixty three raised the price of the polyester plastic and spelled financial disaster for the few turow restoration that this badly weathered design classic has been going on for over a year. The museum creates the ideal climate and light conditions but even here one of mexicos monumental column Musical Chairs made of plexiglass is turning brittle. The first cracks appeared after just fifteen years in spite of the concert maters best efforts artists provide no guarantees. As a. Piece of contemporary art has a quiet its because its qualities are appreciated enough to be part of the collection with. The artist may not have taken the longevity of a piece of work into account was the one thats just the way to. The expense of simply preserving our plastic creations is the norm is a necessary one no doubt design and art will someday tell our story including our mistakes and who we were and wanted to be and for that the originals will be needed. Right from design icons to young a budding a talent now miriam bought Sanjeev Billy is only twenty four four years old and shes still a student and yet shes already regarded as a piano virtual so the b. B. C. Has singled her out as a new generation artist promoting her as one of the worlds most promising talents while shes touring europe this year playing in the most renowned concert venues for Classical Music including the berlin philharmonic call or we take a closer look now at the musician during her rehearsal before an upcoming performance. Bailey is one of europes most promising young pianists. The b. B. C. Recently named as one of its new generation artists a scheme to nurture exceptional young talent. Even to him i always wanted to perform musings from this very different commands is. Fishy that accompanies that and help me get that i think i have something to santa of us because i understand what composers ronnies as the company stand by and ive always tried to delve deeply into the music and find out what the model of the piece is what out it tells us took us to bring all that out and present it to the audience. Now spinning it off from public on so so given. Sash really was born in the georgian capital tbilisi and nine hundred ninety three by the time she was six she already knew that she wanted to be a pianist in twenty eleven she made her first trip to weimar the german city where her favorite composer france list once lived and worked here she won the france list competition for young pianists i decided to study with grigori grossman. Harper who had been the good ive had to alter my teaching a little from our in all of this is there are the three of us and often things which seem obvious and good to me arent so its a symbol for her thats good at that but converse lee things that i view as inaccessible huge challenges or problems mari and cracks just like they were nuts the news. With his support really has won more major competitions. Does best the best thing is that listening to many of my students i hear myself but with mari im i dont. Hear an echo of myself only her. Body about sash really has given recitals at renowned concert halls in more than thirty countries. She throws audiences wherever she performs like here in fine its our home away from her. And these are these are you for this feeling that you get of being zero mostel a really demanding schedule of being able to relax for a bit so thats the way im feeling of. Desolation right. Time now for my favorite part of the show where we get a sneak peek into someones humble abode but how do you spice up an apartment from the one nine hundred sixty s. In a contemporary way without destroying its actual character when we travel to rome to find out. Its a part of rome few tourists ever see the a work district with its wide boulevards and grandiose buildings still quite that after one of its best known structures is currently the headquarters for Luxury Fashion label fendi opposite this water tower a nine hundred sixty s. Apartment loft rises up it was one of the first ever built in rome here italian architect massimo that is sandal has transformed two separate apartments into one modern flat. Third up to three completed this apartment with all the decor last year. Main problem was that the lower house didnt get much light. Ensuring theres enough light was crucial. So we had the idea to create large openings in the room above. So that light can shine through. The lower part of the apartment boasts large format photographs by contemporary artists. The owner collects modern art. Lockout so we decided to furnish this one nine hundred sixty s. Plot with some design classics from that time. Like this one nine hundred fifty s. Table by italian designer joe poncy the furniture over there was designed by. The apartment owner let masino choose the furniture and so now the lower level apartment not only has contemporary art but also design classics imbuing it with a museum like field aside from these one nine hundred sixty s. Classics department is also furnished with modern day design pieces like this sofa by the come on our brothers. The staircase leading to the top floor has been designed like a wooden sculpture and is an art work in its own right. With story out of that up for me there is the familys living quarters out there were. They how theres even here and all of their books. Weve gone to lots of trouble designing shelves cupboards and media units so that all perfectly harmonized with everything here and with the art collection. Idea that theyre going to put out. By then we havent just doubled the size. We didnt just lose the upper and lower level creating two novels you will instead of basically created three spaces. Created a third shared room with a unique quality of its own. Four hundred square meters of sure a luxury mussing would alessandro was pretty much free to realize all his ideas as money. Clearly it wasnt an option. And if you would like some tips on how to spruce up your home or apartment then please check out our special you tube channel. And finally if you ask. From italy what she does for a living you would be surprised at her answer and thats because she is a mermaid of a high profile and well it started three years ago shortly after her sixteenth birthday and its already turned into a successful career. This mythical creature isnt some character from an underwater movie. Shes a certified mermaid from the city of bring it in south to roll in northern italy her name is katia written. In i usually mean and given to the opening possibly i always wanted to be a mermaid go a little water baby since childhood going swimming every week as a child i tried out what its like to swim as a mermaid thats why you feel totally free in the water and food so youre fast you feel liberated when youre swimming without oxygen tanks thats why i like free diving of the time you hold your breath but you arent scared of suffocating you glides through the water nothings in your way. And be the villain only does it was fun as much but. Cloudy as transformation began three years ago she slipped into her first swimmable fishtail when she was sixteen back then nobody really thought shed make it as a professional mermaid. Made up. A monthly getting nobody took me seriously they thought it was just a silly idea. Theyd say what do you want with that fish tale. But my parents supported me a lot. My friends are already used to my crazy ideas and just thought oh there she goes again. But ive been doing this for three years now its really what i want to do. Thats a deficit in. Quality i became a true professional last summer when she completed a freedom. Having chords. Now she can stay underwater for three and a half minutes. So beat her iridescent mermaid outfit claudia is essentially an extreme athlete. You could easily break your ankles with these heavy fins. You need to train constantly so youre Strong Enough and yoga helps with the breathing. And. All that hard work is paying off katia recently made third place at the Miss Mermaid International competition in egypt. She was also crowned miss red sea in two thousand and seventeen. It just keeps im not alone there are lots of mermaids around there are conventions where we need ten swimming large pools and we often chat about our outfits and mermaid tail brands which ones are good which ones are not so good. She just typical mermaid talk. Now plenty of photo shoots and further competitions await the professional mermaid cartier rudeness childhood dream has finally come true. All right well before we go just a reminder of our contest this week in the spirit of venice is carnival we want to know what your favorite carnival custom is just go to our website for all of the details and by taking part you will qualify to win a euro maxa watch and with that were out of time with thanks for joining in and we will see you again tomorrow. Next time on your attacks. As the one hundred fifty strand from spring to probably has jumped through the streets carrying garbage bags and collecting trash the name is a combination. The swedish words fall and. Cloaking with x. Time. 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