Da Vinci, A fashion designer?

The sketch above is an actual design by Leonardo Da Vinci, the same Da Vinci who painted the Mona Lisa and constructed ideas for helicopters, parachutes and submarines!Who would have thought he had intentions of being a fashion house of sorts?

There were only fragments of the sketch and scholars managed to put the pieces together to come up with a clean and clear sketch as seen above. Gherardini, a luxury fashion house from Florence brought this sketch to life by manufacturing it as a calfskin bag called Pretiosa which means Precious.

Apparently Mr Da Vinci designed various fashion accessories, I can't wait to see what will crop up from him again.

There are only 99 bags at the moment and they will be on sale at Gherardini boutiques at the beginning of March. I can only imagine the price.

Odd: Mario Balotelli

Mario Balotelli

Now how will this footballer even make it to a fashion blog you ask?
well he tried to anyway...

Probably taken inspiration from the penguin from Wallice&Gromit's , Mario Balotelli who was previously spotted with green and orange high tops with a neon-like blue quilted jacket, was found wearing a rather interesting hat.

Harvey Nichols-where the city's footballers are known to shop, denied selling this glove header number.
Perhaps it was from a Christmas market?

Well, a London based hand-knitting website picked up on this soon enough and offered to maker versions of this hat in 24 different colours!If anyone's interested to conform to this trend, you can get this hat from
www.granniesinc.co.uk


Looking forward to what else this guy would come up with.