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The Valeria Orlando effect!

“People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.”
Salma Hayek

Introducing the Valeria Orlando Inter-View Effect.

Valeria Orlando was Born in Reggio Calabria in 1971,but lived in Catania (Sicily) in the adolescence Valeria Orlando works with the agencies Renato Bernardi Make-up Image in Milan and Carla Magrelli’s Sie photo in Canada for Corbis and Rome /New York for Master file.
She is freelancer :having chosen as her natural dimension.her work ranges from hair and make-up for fashion shows,editorials,advertising,beauty,catwalks and makeup styling for celebrities.
Valeria Orlando from Sicily is an all-round “image artist” and has carved out a successful international career from her creativity and passion.
Actually,the starting point comes long back, when practicing hair and make up on her dolls at home and then on my friends at school! “I’m not joking,she adds,ever since I was a child I’ve been instinctively drawn towards this industry.”
She has worked with important designers including Marras,Cavalli,Versace.In the last,Versace one,her Calabrian origins were a determining factor building confidence with Donatella Versace.”When I found out that we were from the same place it broke the ice straight away.
She is an extraordinary woman because she has had the courage to express her ambition to the world.
I can still remember the excitement ; And that was just the beginning because then I started doing other ad campains,events,celebrities like Catherine Zeta Jones,Lenny Kravitz,Elton John,George Clooney until they eventually chose me to do Donatella Versace’s look,a procedure i’ve enjoyed so much”.she remembers.

MY VISION:

Beauty is a trump card.The finishing-line for many and the starting point for a lucky few.Nowadays we are victims of the exhausting search for the elixir of long life and don’t accept that time passes!!
With the use of digital photos,magazine image often appear timeless with no recognizable signs.Aesthetic perfection is threatening to diminish the personality that makes each face unforgettable.

The search to achieve aesthetic harmony in a face, a photograph or the clothes on a catwalk is a partly driven by the awareness of its explosive ability to transform beauty into desire in the eyes of whoever is looking.

Valeria Orlando

Contact details:

Valeria Orlando
cell. +39 339\6448375
tel. +39 06\30816087
fax. +39 06\45472121

www.valeriaorlando.com
www.myspace.com/valeriaorlando
www.profile.to/valeriaorlando
www.spectacularstudios.co.uk/artists/
www.nineteen74.com/contact/valeria_orlando

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Mortifying Vanity

“Those who live on Vanity must,not unreasonably,expect to die of mortification”
Alice Thomas Ellis

Ashes or I talk to God but the sky is empty.

I have done it again
One year in every ten I manage it–
Dying Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well

Ash, ash–
You poke and stir.
Flesh, bone, there is nothing there

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