Feeds to Follow #11
People (and artists) I love to follow.
I truly consider the 1300+ feeds I follow on Instagram a highly curated pack of people that inspire me on the daily basis. And I openly confess that I might spend way too much time on browsing my feed, but even if it seems to be a form of leisure, it’s 90% work-connected! And well, I love beautiful things that please my eyes and intriguing people that stimulate my mind, both IRL and digital. So, I decided to start sharing with you from time to time my favorite accounts I follow and which you might also fancy following. Here are this month’s five picks:
I’ve discovered - and eternally fell in love with - Francesco Clemente’s work the day I saw Alfonso Cuarón’s “Great Expectations”, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Ethan Hawke. The latter was a painter, and all his works - including Estella’s portrait - were actually by Clemente. Then, the next week I attended a lecture at my uni about the Transavantgarde, a neo-expressionist art movement that swept through Italy in the late 1970s and 1980s. Clemente was one of its leading artists. There’s just something impossibly beautiful about his dreamlike, watercolor-ish visions based on esoteric themes of sexuality and spirituality. Whenever I see his work, old and new, it unlocks something in me. It’s definitely worth following his studio on the ‘gram.
And now you can imagine that when I saw that Anthony Vaccarello commissioned Francesco to paint (yes, paint!) the spring-summer 2025 Saint Laurent campaign, I was absolutely thrilled. The big-scale portraits of Zoe Kravitz, Penelope Terres, Ajus Samuel and Isabella Ferrari are just heavenly.
As
commented under my post about this unique collaboration, “more this, less AI”.
Speaking of creatives I admire, it’s always a bliss when Kristen McMenamy posts an auto-portrait to her feed. This incredible woman shows that the moment you stop taking yourself seriously, life becomes fun.
And why not stage your Instagram photos like Steven Meisel editorials? Once you start following Kristen, all the “minimal” girls turn even more… beige.
My favorite, favorite, FAVORITE vintage shop to follow?
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