Cristina Galbiati

An Inspirational Garden For Christmas Dinner

2011-12-01T13:31:00.000-08:00

I am finally coming back with new pieces, I am in the fase of gathering anything that would inspire me and this picture is one of those that caught my attention and made me stare at it for a long time. It has a magical aurea.

Christmas is really close by and thousands of great designs have been added their charm to the city buildings, streets and inside people's home and gardens.

A father's Day

2011-06-07T20:35:00.000-07:00

Rem Tene Verba Sequentur.
Paradoxically this is the only full quote I remember in Latin. I say paradoxically because it means that if you grasp the subject the words will follow and I have memorized something whose message is about "forgetting" or "not knowing": how many times I said myself "if only I had reviewed those pages or read the whole chapter.." I would know what to say...
As a non professional writer I realize how words come easier when you deeply know what you are talking about especially when the topic or your ideas are rooted in youself and you already have an opinion about. There is no improvvisation.
Father's day is coming up. The place where I live masters in marketing any kind of celebrations and its message echoes on every billboard, commercial, newsletter etc. Therefore memories multiply in a sequence of photographes, short films created by our mind and probably also alterated by the passing time.
So here is a photograph into another photograph, something extremely artificial. Does two times artificial become natural like the grammar rule of two negatives make a positive? Eventhough it doesn't really work like that I see some more realism that somehow let me enter into the shooting moment. I see myself staring at the peaceful picture of a dad playing with his children (notice those three funny heads coming out of the sand).
A current black and white shot for old comforting memories. This is father's day.

Boutique

2011-02-28T09:46:00.000-08:00

On my Owl

2011-01-29T14:35:00.000-08:00

No matter what you do, how much you try to avoid it, everyone reaches a point of no return when he/she asks him/herself what is doing, what is going to happen in the next future, and how can he/she finally take control of it. What if there were someone wise who could tell you what is best for you? In ancient cultures like Greek, Egyptian, Celtic to Hindu, the Owl is depicted as a symbol of wealth, status and of course wisdom.
It is also described as the guardian of the underworld and seer of souls. As ruler of the night a misunderstanding probably occurred in the action of handing down the symbolic meaning: the owl is sometimes presented as symbol of death or destruction, but that is a misinterpretation of its natural habitat, dark and gloomy, and its powerful eyes which should be seen as an advantage and not a thread towards human beings.
Great doubts should arise when knowledge is passed for too many years, its change in meaning is frequent and tricky; the solution is to go back to the main source and to focus on the primarily significance.
The owl's fine sight was originally a symbol of wisdom, since it permits to see what others cannot, to reach what's beyond everybody sight: Wisdom.
I wish Archimedes (The Sword in the Stone -Walt Disney) could help us in ruling our lives like he trained Wart to rule a country and become King Arthur.

A new collection of pieces of jewellery is on its way...

Little owls are paired with semi precious stones like quartz and onyx and can be worn day and night to wise us up!

We won't be on our Own.

Time.. where are you going?

2010-11-19T19:42:00.001-08:00

Have you ever thought that time passes by too fast sometimes and that the nicest moments are gone in a glimpse? Memories are precious like the actual minute that every so often we forget to savour. Pictures are memory keepers, they are great to refresh that patina that covers old instants. They are plain images for those who cannot add anything else to them, that see just with their eyes and not with their heart, but they represent a whole new world for the others. I took pictures, an exagerated number that dicreased by the time I felt less a stranger in my new city, but no matter if my camera wasn't always with me, I never lost the enthusiasm for looking for details that I have eventually missed at first sight. And I guess I would never loose that. The clock is ticking...Am I wasting time?

So here is a striped tiny bathroom that I never had the chance to paint but whose picture is still cherished in my notebook things to do or a bike around Central Park that I haven't done yet. I feel that I would have time. Again. Time to prepare a nice dinner for the people I love, time to wear a fine dress, time to capture what sorrounds me, time to develope an old style polaroid. And if won't?

I will see all these moments. Again.

October 31st

2010-10-29T18:14:00.000-07:00

A Parisian-New Yorker Pretzel Lady

2010-10-22T14:45:00.001-07:00

Waiting for Il Fuori Salone di Milano a New York

2010-10-14T08:33:00.000-07:00

White TearDrop Quartz

September...

2010-09-18T14:21:00.000-07:00

Do you know the feeling that comes in September when you are back home from your holiday and that ceaseless routine that you couldn't stop complaining now surprisingly doesn't seem that bad anymore, and you just cannot remove a smile on your face? Memories come up to your mind, you feel relaxed, regenerated and ready to go..You feel at peace.

You look back again at the souvenirs that you brought home like a file rouge that keeps you connected to that particular place, emotion, nice sensation. Among thousands of colourful scarves, new sandals, earrings and bangels, there are also little pieces that you just picked from the environment that sorrounded you, that cute instinctive gesture that hasn't changed along the years...
So here I am holding a smooth white sea stone. The only one that I decided to bring home after years of unexperience in which I carried different stones, postponing the time to choose and creating such a meaningful collection that would always ended in the bin.

Holding that stone is like going back in time: it gives you a calm and relaxing feeling. It reminds me of the pleasure that any baby feel when they hold with their tiny little hands their mother's pearl necklace and they can fall asleep in a new comfort.
I believe that human beings have a predisposition for smooth objects. They are naturally attracted to.
Therefore the sea stone.

2010-09-08T15:49:00.000-07:00

Marc Jacobs Menswear Cruise Collection Party, Nyc

Juliana Jorge's collection and Cristina Galbiati jewellery

2010-07-15T12:29:00.000-07:00

Sailing where the flowers bloom...

2010-06-10T13:00:00.000-07:00

It's a safe trip, a sailing journey across the Ocean towards The Great Britain, to a little enchanted place called Liberty. It has nothing to do with the Statue of Liberty that domains our Island with its honorable value, because the "Liberty" that I'm talking about, likewise important, it's a great shopping experience divided into several stories of wooden floor and crackling stairs whose sound reminds us how much history is contained in this place. I remember going up to the stairs to the fabric and linen floor to browse the famouse Liberty prints. This is what I have found, this is actually what I would have found if I only had recently been there..

The maritime theme and flower prints belong to this land where in its little towns it's extremely common to see old man with a tatoo on their arm that resembles sailing adventures or an old lady with a pastel tone flower print shirt dress whose taste has never faded into upcoming or current trends.

So this is another side of the beloved British look, there is no Kate Moss nor Vivian Westwood' eccentricity but you can actually breath this style on the countryside ouside London.

2010-05-15T11:47:00.001-07:00

Navy and Ecru' colours: a peek into New Yorkers' luxury apartments.

2010-05-15T10:48:00.000-07:00

New Yorkers have a distinguished good taste.

They not only know how to dress, how to come up with an oustanding result by mixing what's best from every single culture, but they also know how to entertain themselves, how to trasform a simple event into a 'I must be in that crowd' party, and along years they have also learnt how to refined their appetite and known the name of dishes from every popular worldwide cuisine.

Their home is therefore a reflection of it, of their world, of their habits and their style.

These houses are like journals made of pictures.

Signature Necklaces May 2010

2010-05-15T09:57:00.000-07:00

Signature Necklaces made of a trimming base embroidered with beads and rhinestones. Onixe charms complete the shape of the necklace and the back is finished with soft leather.

Signature Necklace in bordeaux colour

2010-05-08T11:09:00.000-07:00

New Ideas inspired by Indian colours

2010-05-07T12:58:00.000-07:00

A window to Mumbai

I have never been to India, I have never really crossed the borders to the Orient, the only form of knowledge that I have comes from movies that I watched when I was extremly young such as Passage to India, and City of Joy or from books that I have read later on grasping a deeper insight for instance with Heman Hesse's Siddhartha but I have always been fascinated by the colours, parfumes, and markets of those remote places. In those areas you can find the true origin of any form of outcome, the primary ingredients that wisely mixed together, create an outstanding result. This maestry of combining elements belongs to them, to their ancient tradition, to their culture.

I have opened a window into the Orient trying to bring some of their expertise into my work. That's the reason why my new collection of necklaces uses vivid warm colours, embellishments made of beads, shapes that remind traditional Indian fabric drawings and a process of handmade dying that allows me to reach the perfect, desired hue of colour.

Fine trimming necklace embellished with handsewned beads, a centered rhinestone and a semi precious stone charm. The back is covered by soft leather and the whole is attached to a long chain.

Earring made of dyed trim, embellished with cristals and acquamarine pendant stone

2010-04-07T09:33:00.000-07:00

On my journey from Santorini to Paros I was trying to find a delightful escape from the 1pm heat that you can find on a Greek Island in August. The ferry boat
sails away and a warm, weak
breeze starts to blow. I have the monthly Greek Elle magazine whose writing is still indecipherable notwithstanding my five years of Ancient Greek translations at school.
...But pictures tells a lot or at least they give you a start for a creative transportation. It's a stream of consciousness of images and memories that address to a spontaneous enlightment.
The result is a combination of photos coming from the seascape and its variety of blues I face from the boat, and the dry land I'm abandoning that gets smaller the more we sail.
From the magazine, Balenciaga Fall 2007 collection captures my attention for its colourful and ethnic look that is blended together with a blazer style. Its fringes, detailes and vivid colours give me a multicultural feeling, light my exploratory behaviour and enrich my mind with new pictures and perspectives coming from a new thrilling place I am stepping on.

Inspirational collection
Balenciaga Fall 2007

gros grain bracelets with rhinestones
and bead embroideries

Bright Colours