Piano Glam!

Opera Chic confesses to wearing couture when she's playing the piano -- the vintage Chanel cuffs and Dior rings get temporarily shelved, although we've found strangely enough there's better control of the pedal in Fendi heels (perfect for some stormy, kick-a$$ Rachmaninoff). So we're flattered that Vogue Italia's March couture supplement featured a photo spread by Miles Aldridge, "High Glam", with a white piano (from these guys) as the protagonist.

 

Many more photos under the cut!

Comments

[Greir]

Very nice. They should do things like this more often! Piano lessons for me when I was was a kid traumatized me! I never practiced and my teacher would slap my hands!

[Fiamma.]

The last dress is sheer beauty.
The rest are almost nothing.

[Eric]

I envy your fabulous life, Opera Chic!

[Constantine A. Papas]

The cigarette is tacky, uncool, and outdated. I'm sure a class act like OC wouldn't approve it. Cigarette and glamour are no longer together.

[Ken]

All very pretty, but not very enticing -- must they look so grim? What a difference a few smiles would have made.

[JulaGem]

love it, especially the last dress, but idk if long red nails and chunky rings would facilitate lovely playing...@Greir. I WISH my piano teacher had slapped my hands, maybe then I could actually play...

[VN]

I don't get this spread. The chain smoking mama forces the unwilling and supremely unhappy children to play the piano whilst precariously balancing a coffee cup and pink ribbon(?) on the keyboards? Maybe it's tacky on purpose? Is it supposed to be ironic? And the spread is just not doing any favors to the dresses... Oh well, maybe it's just unfashionable me.

[Elektra]

Is this an April Fools joke? So campy!!!

[Bluey]

VN, you're not supposed to "get" it. It's art!

[deadtenors]

love it. the two photos with the boy - especially the second one - are clearly intimate moments between miles and miss jessel. The look in Miles' eyes in the second photo suggest the caption, "didn't know i could play THAT now, did u?" or perhaps, if it is shown in sequence after the first photo, "who's in charge now, b*tch". jessel looks very "satisfied" with the shift of power. new desktop image thanks OC.

[david johnson]

though all just fun it does parlay the myth of culture being for the very rich and stupid

[Ysabel]

I don't think it's a mom and her kids. Clearly, it's a very strict piano teacher with her students. If you miss a note, she doesn't slap your hands, she burns you with her cigarette. Or lobs a wine glass at your head.

[Alexander]

There is apparently no much joy in these kid's faces;) The first pic below the note reminded me of my own childhood. I won then and refused to go for "piano" !!! White moggy in the background is cool.It would be much cooler for them to have a white wolf howling somewhere in the foreground also;)
... even child knows "to kiss a smoking lady is the same as to lick an ashtray":)))) Probably the prosess of kissing should take additional champagne, speaking in the manner of realism...The key issue is - how many bottles;))))))

[Alexander]

Yeah, Ysabel, I spelled "prosess" instead of "Process". Are you gonna spill your wine on my head, or what? No cigarette pls, I rather kiss you without champagne;))))))))

[Ben.H]

Not bad, but I'd still prefer Isabelle Huppert.