Francesco Vezzoli

Vezzoli's exploration of visual history, spanning from the glamour of Italian cinema's golden age to the sacred motifs of religious iconography.

Francesco Vezzoli's work revels in the power of nostalgia, fame, and sorrow, threading cinema, embroidery, and art history into a singular, melancholic vision. His bejeweled tears-stitched onto the faces of film and fashion's great icons-transform heartbreak into ornament, elevating sorrow to spectacle.

This book traces Vezzoli's engagement with visual history, from the golden age of Italian cinema to the devotional traditions of religious iconography. Through film, needlework, and performance, he reframes longing and loss as a conceptual thread linking cultural memory with contemporary image-making.Francesco Vezzoli: Diva is a study in beauty, artifice, and catharsis.