Author: Tomasso

  The Birth of Italian Style. With exiled fashionista & BBC South American football expert – Mr Tim Vickery I sometimes think that Pellicano was set up with me in mind. It was Karl Marx himself who accused the English of ‘silly Italianism.‘  But how, I ask, could it otherwise be, condemned as we are […]

The Breton Cap -Style Icon?   John Lennon, Jeremy Corbyn and Paul Weller cannot all be wrong!   As with many items: denim work trousers, the duffel coat and popover shirt to name a few , the Breton mariners cap started as a functional, utilitarian  piece which has transcended its original design brief. “Caps of […]

Tim Vickery : exiled fashionista and BBC South American football expert talks James Bond and the style of Intelligence Sock it to ’em TV … After the disastrous Suez military campaign of 1956, beleaguered Prime Minister Anthony Eden took refuge in some rest and recuperation at ‘Goldeneye,’ the Jamaican house of Ian Fleming, creator of […]

It’s a busy life, snapping the Giro d’Italia, but Scott Mitchell – official photographer to Sir Bradley Wiggins, Mark Cavendish and presently Team Dimension Data -took time out to discuss all things mod, cycling and photography with Pellicano. Scott, for those who don’t already know you … “I’m a cycling photographer with a fine art […]

Part 2 of “I’m an Absolute Beginner “ By Tim Vickery – BBC south American football guru and fashionista   Tim sporting his Marco Paisley button down – handcrafted of course! ‘Absolute Beginners’ was published in 1959.  The audience would have been well aware that MacInnes was not being entirely faithful to fact – though […]

“The first building block is modern jazz.  These days it is hard to imagine the traction that jazz had in the time before The Beatles.  But there was a rift in youth culture, before Mods and Rockers, that came to the surface in the 1960 Beaulieu Jazz Festival “

My alterations tailor in Rio de Janeiro is highly skilled, fourth generation in the profession, no less – but he had never heard of mohair, and flipped when I showed him my suit in the diamond fibre. This made me think of those aspects of our culture which have crossed the Atlantic, and those which […]

Memphis 68 – The Tragedy of Southern Soul    Following the highly successful ‘Detroit 67’ Stuart Cosgrove follows it with part 2 of his soul trilogy (Detroit 67 review – click here)      In this, the second volume in Cosgrove’s forensic recreation of three pivotal years in the story of American soul music, the […]

“Hello, darkness, my old friend.” “The Vietnam War” – A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick – THE SOUNDTRACK   Anyone who saw the epic TV history series, “The Vietnam War”, on BBC 2 recently will know just how much its visceral power and ultimately elegiac mood was created through the juxtaposition of devastating […]