Mariantonietta (1937-1999). Journalist for specialized periodicals. Hired by Rizzoli in 1958 as a fashion editor for the magazine Annabella, she worked there for almost ten years. In 1969, she went to Mondadori, working first at Arianna, and then at Cosmopolitan.…

French brand of prêt-à-porter, created by the Turkish designer Ece Ege (1963), daughter of a jeweler from Bursa. She began her career by opening a small jewellery shop in Bodrum, a tourist spot on the coast of Anatolia. She moved…

Patrick (1943). French photographer. Born in a small village near Paris, he spent his childhood and adolescence in Le Havre. At the age of 17, he began to fool around with his first camera. At 20, he moved to Paris,…

Lizzy (1972). English designer. A graduate of the Saint Martin’s School in London, in 2002 she became artistic director of Jacques Fath and marked the return to the runways of this prestigious maison. In decline in 1998, the griffe was…

Holding company that controls several firms, especially in the textile field. The headquarters is in Capri and the firm is led by Renato Crotti and his sons Daniele and Davide. The lead company of the group is Sinanco, established in…

Italian design house. In the early 1930s, Aristotele Guido, a young entrepreneur from Lecce (Apulia), took over the tailoring workshop at Corso Concordia 12 in Milan and transformed it into the first Casa Modellistica Italiana (Italian Design House ). It…

Italian group at the forefront of the high-quality sunglasses field. In terms of volume, it ranks second in the world, with 30,000 pieces a day. It was established in 1978 by Ennio De Rigo as a simple workshop in Pozzale…

Salvador (1904-1989). Spanish artist. Clothes reflect his personality, the duplication of the “Ego,” of dreams and desires. Such thinking prompted Dalì to design fashions. The clothes and accessories he designed for Schiaparelli date to 1936. Some of them would be…

A term which entered the French language in the 1700s and has everywhere since then indicated the deep, generous neckline of a bodice, a blouse, or, above all, a dress. A new word was needed to differentiate the term décolleté…

Carla (1959). Italian milliner. After completing her studies at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy in Florence, she moved to New York, where she attended the best design and fashion schools. In 1987, she went back to Italy. After moving…