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Zibeline
Wool fabric with a combed warp and a carded weft. Produced in plain colors, it is dyed in rolls on spiked frames.
Zebrato
Used to describe a pattern of irregular horizontal light-and-dark or black-and-white stripes that imitates the zebra’s coat.
Zingone
Corrado Zingone(1906). Children’s clothing manufacturer in Rome. Starting in his premises in Via della Maddalena, Zingone built up a small empire that justifies the slogan “Zingone dresses the whole of Rome,” but ambition altered this to become “Zingone dresses the…
Zuffi
Piero Zuffi (1919-1998). Painter, set and costume designer. He had a long and happy collaboration with the dressmaker Germana Marucelli, who, in the postwar period and on the trail of Elsa Schiaparelli, stimulated the alliance between fashion and the arts…
Zip
In 1893 William Litcomb Judson from Chicago patented a fastening system with hooks that could be quickly opened and closed with a clasp. In 1913 a Swede, Gideon Sundback, perfected Judson’s invention, making a zipper with metal teeth. Initially it…