The smell of leather hits me, and my eyes take in my fashionista friend's loan for the weekend, a stunningly beautiful black and tan (Ombre corn) alligator clutch. Its dimensions are larger than what I had imagined in length and height, which makes the bag both stunning and serious. By elegant ancestry, made in Italy by Florentine artisans and designed by jeweler Paul Morelli, whose Philadelphia workshop produces gold hardwear (lock, accents, chainlink strap), "Al" card alligator also has an unusual accessory of his own : meditation bells, Morelli signature that chime when you go or when you open the clutch is spread.By the time Al and I arrive at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica for our group date with Plácido Domingo, who will conduct the world premier of Dulce Rosa, a new opera based on the Chilean author Isabel Allende's novel "Una venganza" I am hopeful I can pull this off.
I have never understood that wearing a valuable handbag is a certain kind of work, like wearing a diamond tiara or a one-of-a-kind haute couture evening dress, not that I've done either. Another friend, in a flurry of texts with photos attached, convinced me to borrow her buttercup yellow Max Mara dress summery with an echo of Gatsby-paired with vintage pointy toe Mary Jane heels from France.My costume is no less real than the singers who will soon make their entrances.I walk into the lobby of the Broad Stage and clear the other women in the audience in their sculptural dresses, sequins, snakeskin totes and metallic purses. In truth, clearly we are together, the show before the show. All commands attention, but no approach. When we chime our way to our seats, I begin to enjoy our complicity. Al stays in my lap the whole performance, and we control the perfect silence.There are many bags there and used during the dramatic scenes in Dulce Rosa: a doctor's bag, lady bags, a briefcase and backpacks belonging to the revolutionaries. Opera is located in an unidentified South American country in the early 1950s, a time of political unrest. The heroine, Dulce Rosa defending his father and his land, and yet can not help but fall in love with his nemesis, a revolutionary who kidnaps her never carry a bag, no purse or backpack or suitcase because she never intends to leaving home.
Tomás, a medical student and her boyfriend in the opening scenes, asking her to go with him to California, where he will continue his studies. She refuses.Judith Clark and the Simone Handbag Museum quickly worked over two years from 2010 to 2012, to assemble the collection of 300 valuable bags dating from the sixteenth century to the present day, work, said Clark is normally "over the centuries, or at least a lifetime "in his essay" The Making of a Museum of handbags. "In July, the famous museum icts first anniversary with a special exhibition of traditional Korean arts and crafts bags with hand painting, wood, lacquer painting, embroidery and nodules. The museum has three floors of the good known as rear floor built to resemble a giant hand and bag designed by architects UAD Korean building. The other floors of the building includes a café Bags floor museum with a rent-free space for new designers and a workshop where everyone can make a bag with leather and leather working tools under the guidance of a skilled craftsman.