When art meets fashion: here fiction replaces reality in the illustrations by Andrea Tarella; a man in a Gucci suit visits an imaginary art gallery. Ph. Luigi Miano, Styling Alessandro Calascibetta.

The set and the cinematographic lights, the pose and the suit (Lardini) remind us of the pictures of the stars of the 40s by Elisa Luxardo (Dario Argento’s mother). Ph. Luigi Miano, Styling Luca Roscini. Model James Smith.

Snakeskin. Edoardo Purgatori is a roman actor. He was born in 1989, from german mother and italian father (Andrea Purgatori, screenwriter and journalist). He starts his career in theatres. His debut in a tv series is in 1997, but he doesn’t give up the stage, where he acts in italian, english (The Glass Menagerie and The Shape of Things) and german. He has already acted in a dozen of movies. We’ve worked with Edoardo for several fashion shootings. He’s a sensitive, polite, determined man. He owns such a natural elegance, that he can wear a snake jacket and a pair of jeans without looking like a naff (this was the risk). But follow my advice: wear leather with finer fabrics. Not with jeans, absolutely not total leather. Unless you have the appeal of Brando (do you remember The Fugitive Kind, 1959?) or Edoardo Purgatori, indeed. The actor Edoardo Purgatori in a picture of Luigi Miano for Max (2010).