Achieving an interesting combination of Hollywood Glamour, Aristocratic elegance and earthly naturalness, these three elements combined to form a type of glamour that is associated with Italy and Italianess. A world made up of gorgeously stylish designs, culture and a Mediterranean nature. Known for her own signature style, the style of Hollywood boudoir, Italian elegance, luxury and fashion combined with a nod to playful femininity. Each and every item from the Catherine Trifiletti luxury loungerie collection is elegant sensuality with a tiny touch of Vegas sparkle.
Catherine’s total belief in the power of self confidence is a serious inspiration to her designs for the cosmopolitan woman who has travelled the world but who never forgets her roots. A woman who always wears her head high. That gives her both an extremely feminine and sexy way of feeling and of course lounging when almost always required.
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A picture entitled, “Scene of the Crime” will be part of a group exhibit entitled: People, Places & Things at Stanek Gallery, 242 North 3rd Street in Philadelphia. The opening reception is this coming Friday, May 4th from 6:00pm to 9:00pm. This picture is part of a series of tableaux vivants created by Tony Ward between the years 1993 to 2000. This will be the first time the artist exhibits this particular body of work in Philadelphia, where the pictures resulted in his second monograph, Tableaux Vivants, Edition Stemmle. Zurich, Switzerland, fpublished in 2000. There are very limited editions of these vintage silver prints available and are now being offered for the first time to collectors at Stanek Gallery in Philadelphia. In 2005, “The Figure” another picture from the series sold (modern print 42″ x 62″) at an exhibit in Paris to a collector from London for $18,000 dollars, the highest price paid for a single work by Tony Ward to date.
Holly and I had worked together many times before leading up to this shoot at the Jersey shore. I first met her at Delilah’s Den, a well established gentlemen’s club on Delaware Avenue in Philadelphia. Back then she was a shot girl and one evening she came over to me while I was seated at a table next to the main dance stage when she asked if I wanted a shot? I said no but I would like to have your number. I explained that I was a contract photographer for Penthouse and was at the club that evening scouting for new models. She reached for a napkin on her server tray and jotted down her contact information. That marked the beginning of 1o year run between a photographer and young woman that would quickly become his muse. At 21 years of age Holly began to appear in countless Penthouse pictorials, Playboy and she even crossed over briefly into fashion layouts for mainstream publications based in New York. This particular photo was created in the parking lot of a seedy Atlantic City motel where we set the stage for a series of fashion fetish photos featuring Holly as a fetishistic bon vivant.