The winter sale season in Milan is upon us and Lawd have mercy for those on a tight budget. Prices slashed 50% on every store from Miu Miu & Alexander McQueen to Jil Sander & Chanel make couture (marginally) affordable (even for those on a budget) and have the fashion fetishists's fingertips quivering as they reach for their platinum AmEx.
As OC was elbowing through the crowds on Milan's Via della Spiga, she spotted the windows Italian label, Roccobarocco. The Naples-born fashion designer (who changed his birthname to his label) chose a classical-themed window for his self-titled store, with sheet music from Swiss pianist & composer Joachim Raff's paraphrase of his BFF&E Franz Liszt's 1843 "Du bist wie eine Blume" littering music stands.
Du Bist Wie Eine Blume (You Are Like a Flower) is a poem by the 19th century German Jew Heinrich Heine, written for his kissing-cousin Therese. It was also set to music in 1840 by Schumann in his Myrthen (Myrtles) Opus 25, a collection of 26 poems composed as a wedding gift to his wife.
Under the cut, Thomas Quasthoff sings the work set to music by Schumann.