This corner of the site holds work from the years I spent inside fashion — as an art director, stylist and photographer. I keep it here not as a timeline of trends, but as a record of a visual education. Every project taught me something about composition, light, texture and the quiet tension between elements. Those lessons didn’t leave me when I started paying more attention to doorways, courtyards and the way a room holds its furniture. They simply found a new subject.
What you’ll see below are projects where fabric, bodies and empty space were the raw materials. You might notice how a draped sleeve echoes the fall of a curtain, or how a colour palette from a 2015 editorial reappears in a photographed corner of a Milanese apartment. The archive isn’t a separate world — it’s the visual foundation everything else now rests on.
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Fashion styling
Editorial and commercial work where the focus was always on silhouette, material and the relationship between body and space. Many of these images taught me how a room can dress a person, or how a garment can define a volume. You’ll see less seasonal fashion and more studies in form and surface. -
Art direction
Campaigns and lookbooks built around a single visual idea. Here I learned to hold a mood across a series of images, to let light and setting carry as much weight as the clothes. The same thinking now helps me shape a visual diary of residential Milan — coherence without repetition, atmosphere without forced narrative. -
Photography
Personal and commissioned images where the camera was often my first tool for understanding a space. Even when the subject was a model, I was already watching how daylight wrapped around a shoulder the way it now wraps around a staircase. The archive includes early experiments with natural light, shadow and reflection that still influence how I capture interiors. -
Set design & still life
Small constructed scenes — objects arranged on a table, fabrics pinned against a wall, a chair positioned in an empty room. These were the closest I came to interior styling before I had the language for it. They remain some of my favourite work because they’re pure exercises in balance, weight and visual rhythm.
Browse freely. The archive is open, and I hope it offers a different kind of context for the journal that lives on the rest of the site. If you see a thread between a 2012 editorial and a recent apartment visit, you’re probably seeing what I see too.
— Ilaria