La bella corsara 美麗の海盜

The costume is a female pirate from the 1700s.

18th-century fashion was characterized by elaborate styles, with French fashion setting the standard in Europe. Women's attire featured gowns, petticoats, and panniers (hoops for shaping the skirt), while men wore three-piece silk or wool suits. The century saw a progression from the late Baroque/Rococo style of the early 1700s to Neoclassical influences by the end of the century. 

Garments, especially for women, were adorned with lace, embroidery, and ribbons, often in luxurious fabrics like silk, satin, and brocade.

The early 18th century saw a focus on wide panniers and elaborate court dresses. The mid-century was marked by the height of Rococo, with floral-patterned silk gowns and serpentine trimmings. By the end of the century, Neoclassical styles, with their emphasis on Grecian and Roman influences, began to emerge. 

The emergence of fashion magazines, originally aimed at educated readers, became popular among all classes, reflecting the growing interest in fashion. 

This is also the Golden Age of Piracy - a period between the 1650s and the 1730s, when maritime piracy was a significant factor in the histories of the North Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

Histories of piracy often subdivide the Golden Age of Piracy into three periods:

1. The buccaneering period (approximately 1650 to 1680), characterized by Anglo-French seamen based in Jamaica, Martinica and Tortuga attacking Spanish colonies, and shipping in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific to western Pacific.

2. The Pirate Round (1690s), associated with long-distance voyages from the Americas to rob East India Company targets in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea.

3. The post-Spanish Succession period (1715 to 1726), when English sailors and privateers left unemployed by the end of the War of the Spanish Succession turned en masse to piracy in the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, the North American eastern seaboard, and the West African coast.

   
   

Narrower definitions of the Golden Age sometimes exclude the first or second periods, but most include at least some portion of the third. The modern conception of pirates as depicted in popular culture is derived largely, although not always accurately, from the Golden Age of Piracy.

Factors contributing to piracy during the Golden Age included the rise in quantities of valuable cargoes being shipped to Europe over vast ocean areas, reduced European navies in certain regions, the training and experience that many sailors had gained in European navies (particularly the British Royal Navy), and corrupt and ineffective government in European overseas colonies. Colonial powers at the time constantly fought with pirates and engaged in several notable battles and other related events.

The model is just a local teenager celebrating the Venice Carnevale with her family. She looks like a real doll, a fashion model...she looks like she's just walked out of a movie scene...

The Venice Carnevale is not solely about masks. Local Italians and an increasing number of foreign costumers now prefer historical costumes or painted faces. During Carnevale, the whole Venice becomes a real life theatrical stage, and many of these historical costumes carry deep perspectives...

And as usual, the portraits are just done on the busy streets of Venice and using natural lighting only...It is not an indoor photo studio, there is no artificial lighting, flash or reflectors...With my costumed friends, we just take our street portraiture to an all new level....