VENUS BELT LA PETITE

Name: VENUS BELT LA PETITE - The Great Gatsby - Benedetta Bruzziches
Brand: Accessories
SKU: Venus Belt La Petite - the great gatsby

THE GREAT GATSBY

Venus Belt is the organic silk satin belt with hand-applied crystal-inlaid aluminium mesh and jewel buckle. Myth has it that Venus was born from the sea foam and that the Sun, upon seeing her, stole the first kiss. From that moment on, she did nothing but shine. Entirely handcrafted in Italy.

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GOLD/BLACK

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Strap: Aluminium crystal mesh
Hardware: Zamak, Crystals

Strap length: 100 cm
Strap height: 3 cm
Weight: 140 g

Strap: Gold
Hardware: Black

Aluminium crystal mesh: Clean gently with a soft, dry cloth. Do not use chemicals or abrasive products. Avoid impacts that may damage the crystals. Store in the dust bag provided.
Zamak: Clean with a soft, dry cloth. Do not use chemicals or abrasive products on the galvanic finish. Avoid prolonged contact with water and humidity.
Crystals: Clean gently with a soft, dry cloth. Do not use chemicals or abrasive products. Avoid impacts and direct pressure on the crystals.

The bag will be carefully prepared for shipping inside the Benedetta Bruzziches box, protected by the microfiber pouch with logo.

Myth tells us that Venus possessed a belt capable of enchanting anyone, even those with neither beauty nor charm. All they had to do was wear it. Benedetta spent nearly three months sitting on the sofa in her living room, wrapped in metal mesh. “The shape emerged slowly,” she says. “As if the material itself were guiding me. A silent dialogue between my hands and its rebellious nature.” Our seamstresses sew each belt by hand, crystal by crystal, onto a silk base. Some work at the kitchen table, with the television on and their children coming home from school; others in the warm light of the Bottega in Viterbo. It is the same gesture once repeated by the women here who knitted for the great fashion houses: patient, precise, inherited. Every Venus Belt is different from the next, because no hand ever repeats the exact same gesture twice.

You were about to go out wearing your usual jeans and the T-shirt that makes you feel like yourself. Then you saw the belt resting on the edge of the bed. Two seconds. One gesture. Your waist responds: it doesn’t change, it remembers. As if something precise and luminous had always been there, and you had just found it.

TO DO

Wear the Venus Belt and notice whether something changes in the way you occupy space.

TO READ

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, "Venus in Furs", 1870. Not for the reasons people think: for the way it describes power as a fabric that wraps around the body. The belt as a pact.

TO WATCH

Claire Denis, "Beau Travail", 1999. Bodies in the Foreign Legion in Djibouti. Discipline as a form of power. The final scene, three minutes of solitary dance, is the most beautiful gesture of liberation cinema has ever filmed.

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Italy Free shipping 1-2 working days Shipped by GLS
Europe €15 1-2 working days Shipped by DHL
Rest of the world €35 2-3 working days Shipped by DHL

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At Benedetta Bruzziches we design bags made to accompany you through life. We believe in the strength of things that last: repairing your bag instead of replacing it is a small but meaningful way to be kinder to our planet.

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