“It is in an encounter, in encounters, that we become what we are”: F. DeClercq. This is a story of encounters. One with Mickael Casol. One with a painter, Massimo, needy of a model. Another of an ex ballerina turned model. The dogma: “warmth, serenity, power”, as Maryse Casol paints for us. An unexpected photoshoot in a tiny studio. Diana Krall, elegantly sensual, as background music. The freedom and pride of saying “Je suis un fauve”- “I am a wild beast”. What was denigrated in 1904 is what we call Matisse, Vlaminck, Derain. “A pot of paint over the public” was the criticism. But now…ah, how good can a pot of paint feel over us, we proudly reply.
Text, Concept & Modelling by Maison Casol Italy Ambassador: Giulia Meregalli
Photos by Massimo Geloso
MILAN, September 2009
“ è nell’incontro, negli incontri, che diventiamo ciò che siamo”: F. Declercq. Questa è una storia di incontri. Uno con Mickael Casol. L’altro con un pittore, Massimo, in cerca di una modella. Incontra Giulia, ex ballerina, nuova modella. Il dogma, Maryse Casol docet: “calore, serenità, potenza”. Scatti fotografici inaspettati. L’eleganza sensuale di Diana Krall come sottofondo. La libertà di dire “Je suis un fauve”-“sono un animale selvaggio”. Coloro che vennero denigrati nel 1904 ora sono per tutti Matisse, Vlaminck, Derain. “ma è solo tempera lanciata sul pubblico” fu la critica. Ora, orgogliosamente rispondiamo…”ah, ma com’è gradevole essere ricoperti di tempera”.
Testo, Concept & Modelling dalla Maison Casol Italia Ambasciatore: Giulia Meregalli
Foto di Massimo Geloso
MILANO, Settembre 2009
GIULIA ROSA MEREGALLI
About the Author
And the story goes, a little girl who spent the summers on the island of the wind near Africa loved to swim but didn’t like to sit in the sun.
She’d spend her childhood reading le petit prince over and over again, thinking about how difficult it must have been to be TAMED into friendship. (The fox) Ballet-ing in the meantime.
“Travelled the world and the seven seas”, being the best literature student in the school, passionate about Measure for Measure by Shakespeare, as by Marguerite Duras and her The Lover.
She bought a silk, ancient rose dress to feel more like Marguerite. And wore her nonno’s elegant hat in St Tropez.
Danced the night away at the Caves du Roy, but wouldn’t sleep the morning in order to see the fishermen leave and have a view of their boats in the distance.
Reading. dancing, meeting. I do believe that encounters, in an encounter “we become what we are” as said by Fabiola.
After that she was The Little Girl lost, to quote Blake, could go to any uni but was emotionally restless. So never stopping, always moving, always another place. Never naming Holly Golightly’s nameless cat.
Well now, it is about time I name the cat. Time to let myself be tamed.
And stop running away from myself and whatever scarred me when I was eine kleine girl.
I always wear pearls. I like silk.
I like the smell after it has rained.
I love to run and see the dawn.
I love to hug a friend and talk the night away.
I don’t miss an art exhibition, oh no no no way.
I use Rose essentielle by Bulgari, because, the rose, ah the rose, not only romeo and juliet, but also my second name.
I am often around with a white rose. The Weisse Rose, the only students that opposed Hitler. I am the one who wakes up in the morning and decides to pay an homage to their courage. Take a train to Munich, go to the university where they threw anti-hitler leaflets and throw 50 white roses.
It is worth it, living without hiding, because I have been, for a special person, “Meine kleine Weisse Rose”
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