Per discrezione, per tatto, per modestia. Irene Brin

A prominent commentator in the social columns, Irene Brin (born Maria Vittoria Rossi in 1911), led a dazzling life, as an acute observer, producing extraordinary studies of manners, an inflexible writer and critic of books and films, a promoter of fashion houses in vogue and a successful gallerist who mixed with the international jet-set

An cosmopolitan woman, always in the know, she traversed the history of Italy, from Fascism to the hectic boom years with a refined modernity, cultured and confident, crossing boundaries and genres. Incisive and happy.

The volume is part of the OILÀ series, edited by Chiara Alessi, which presents the stories of leading women of the twentieth century. Female figures who, on the Italian and international creative scene (from design to fashion, architecture, music, illustration, graphics, photography and literature) were distinguished in fields and occupations that have always been considered the prerogative of men. The books, designed to be read aloud from beginning to end in forty-five minutes – a short journey – are stories of people viewed through a special lens on their biographies, works, private lives and public achievements.
The graphic design is by Studio Sonnoli.