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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.

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    Zebrato

    Used to describe a pattern of irregular horizontal light-and-dark or black-and-white stripes that imitates the zebra’s coat.

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    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…

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    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…

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    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…