The Opinion is a space curated by Raimondo Rossi, A.K.A. Ray Morrison, our Editor-in-Chief, recognized internationally in the field of fashion and photography. Here, you’ll find reflections that explore the connections between fashion, photography, art, and the emotions of the human soul, or insights on events we’ve attended, where Raimondo has taken us behind the scenes into spaces inaccessible to the general public.
The focus is always on seeking something that transcends external style, aiming instead to respect and enhance an inner elegance—an idea reflected in The Style Researcher, a term coined by Raimondo in 2014. In the early years, Raimondo was even internationally identified by this acronym, The Style Researcher, which gradually evolved into his blog and later into a select group of passionate individuals interested in culture and the world. Over time, it further transformed into this online magazine.
This space also includes explorations of certain films that may have been dismissed by the majority of critics as low-quality. However, Raimondo offers a fresh perspective, uncovering elements within these films that deserve to be appreciated and highlighted.
TWO
“Two” is a tribute to love, which takes life in so many different and amazing ways. Ray and the models Miriam and Federica, also a couple in the daily life, gave shape, through the camera, to images that highlight the pureness of the feelings, typical of the relationships of love. One of Ray’s priorities is to give us images where everything goes beyond the locations, the models or the moments captured in the shots. And in this collection, we can see Miriam and Federica, but at the same time we see what invisible line lives in them and in all of us, as well as in all the human beings who will be born in future or ever had life in past.
THE FACES OF GIORGIO ARMANI
As probably each and everyone of you are probably aware, since the first ever fashion shows the importance of choosing the right models to present the collections is fundamental.
Even if people say that in Paris already back in the nineteenth century there were the first examples of catwalks, it’s from the beginning of this century that in New York City the shows started to be well organised, and after years, in Italy too.
MY VOICE
La storia ci insegna quanto sia difficile raggiungere, in ogni campo, la parità di diritti e la sconfitta di discriminazioni e abusi. Poeti, scrittori, combattenti di ogni tipo, sono ricordati per aver provato a migliorare le cose, alzando più o meno la voce. Ricordiamo qui il testo della celebre canzone Strange Fruit, interpretata da tanti autori nel corso della storia, quali Billie Holiday e Nina Simone, che recitava queste parole e invitava, toccandoci dentro, a riflettere sul dramma vissuto tanti esseri umani.
DRESS ME - VESTIMI
"Vestimi", un lavoro dell’art director Raimondo Rossi, in arte Ray Morrison, che vuole ricordare quanto sia importante il rispetto delle diverse personalità di ognuno di noi, soprattutto in età adolescenziale, da parte della società, delle famiglie e dei media.