Fortunato. Italian writer. In 1917 he organized the first Congresso Nazionale dell’Industria e del Commercio dell’Abbigliamento (National Congress of Clothing Manufacturers and Merchants) in Rome, in which those invited from Milan did not participate, in order to avoid disputes with…

Nikolas Apostopulos (1952). French designer of Greek origin. He has multiple degrees, in law and political science from the Univ. of Athens and from the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1985 he opened his griffe Nikos, after working as a manager…

Heider (1970). A Colombian designer born in Santa Fe de BogotÄ and raised in Ethiopia, Chad, France and Algeria. He then moved to the Low Countries where he attended the Academie Royale of Antwerp in Belgium. While a student he…

Amaya (1970). Spanish designer. She followed in the footsteps of her mother, Maria Luisa Navarro, a knitwear designer who controls the largest Spanish group in the field, Elipse. Amaya was born in Lerna, near Burgos. She maked her début in…

Boutique opened in Paris in 1990 by Marthe Desmoulins with a preference for the fashion of the 1920s and ’30s.. She prefers strong colors and shaded tints to black in order to create elegant, poetic and very feminine lines. She…

Korean brand connected to Moda e Parfum Beauté and created by the designer of the same name. For years it has been one of the best-known brands from Korea, carrying Korean culture to the world. The designer made his international…

Maria Vittoria. Journalist and writer, she began her career working for the magazines Mamme e Bimbi, Marie Claire and Bellezza. She wrote a woman’s column for several newspapers such as La Gazzetta di Mantova, la Gazzetta del Sud and Giornale…

Aléoutienne is a silk fabric, stiff and bright.

Natalia Aspesi (1929). Journalist and writer. She was born in Milan, and still lives and works there. A columnist for the newspaper La Repubblica, she has followed fashion for years, with a sharp and ironic pen, and paying special attention…

Adeline (1946). French designer. She created the single-leg skirt, a garment which covers one leg totally and leaves the other completely bare. Some of her designs are on permanent display at the Fashion Institute of Technology. From 1969 to 1972…