FASHION

Gio’s Journal: Rainbow Bright

For W’s glamorous globe-trotter, Giovanna Battaglia, it’s a fab, fab world.


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Stylist: Edward Enninful
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Stylist: Edward Enninful

“I was wearing this House of Holland dress I got at Opening Ceremony especially for Art Basel Miami. And I was standing next to this Murakami sculpture, and my boyfriend, Vlad, said, ‘You look just like it!’ It could have been my date for the night—and with the little kid, too.”

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Stylist: Edward Enninful

“There’s a company in Milan called Moving Shop—they drive around in these Piaggio Ape vehicles selling clothes. They also do made-to-measure, but I’m like, ‘Where do you do the measuring, on the street?’”

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Stylist: Edward Enninful

“You know how in the movie Amélie there’s that garden gnome and they have pictures of him in different spots all over the world? This Fendi bag is my garden gnome—I take a photo of it everywhere I go. Here it is on the balcony of my room at the W hotel in Miami, where I was working while everyone else was hungover.”

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Stylist: Edward Enninful

“This is from New Year’s Eve—I was resting between dancing at an afterparty at a yacht club in St. Barths. Just before, I was with Dasha Zhukova at her boyfriend Roman Abramovich’s house, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers performed. You couldn’t dream of a more energetic way to start the year!”

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Stylist: Edward Enninful

“The Marvellini artist duo are so genius. They take vintage photographs, put superhero masks on them, and put them into vintage frames. I love that this woman’s expression is so sweet and then she has a latex cat mask on.”

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Stylist: Edward Enninful

“These mini envelopes are from Giòsa, one of my favorite stores in Milan. It’s a boutique and factory combined, and they carry only crocodile and alligator pieces. And all in the craziest colors—it’s very Willy Wonka!”

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Stylist: Edward Enninful

“Here is Dior accessories designer Camille Miceli at the W magazine and Dior party in Miami. I just fell in love with her that night. We were together even for the after-after-afterparty!”

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Stylist: Edward Enninful

“The Mike Kelley sculptures at Art Basel reminded me of the thoughts floating in my mind, because each one is like a different world—there’s the tiger one, the pink one…”