Italian women’s weekly. The first issue, on the stands March 8th 1988, sold 600,000 copies. After a few weeks, it settled at 350,000 copies and later reached more than 500,000. With 92 pages, columns that were short and others very…

JerÂme (1975). French designer. A multifaceted creator, he was noticed for the first time in November 1998 at the Paris Collections. Immediately, his very structured style and his skill, quite noteworthy in such a young man, contributed to the talk…

Terence (1936-1996). English photographer. His first jobs were in London, on Fleet Street, as a lithographer and pressman. At the age of 15, he became interested in photography. In 1959, after an apprenticeship as an assistant to the photographers Adrian…

Randolph (1958). American designer. He is interested in almost all the areas of leisure time and sportswear, but prefers bathing suits and beachwear.

Manufacturer of men’s wear. Its name comes from the village near Carrara where the company was established in 1957 by the Ackermann family, which had behind it a long tradition of tailoring and of ateliers in New York. In 1994,…

Philip-Lorca (1953). American photographer. He completed his photography studies in 1979 and moved to New York, where he began a series of photos of people encountered in the street chosen for their immediacy and spontaneity, using a technique that required…

Liz. Designer and artistic director of the Next department stores in England, which opened in 1986 as part of the mini department stores Hepworths & Son. She is inspired by fashion trends, although maintaining a certain simplicity and a precise…

Nicole (1933-1969). French model. She died quite young, when still in the forefront of fashion, much loved by the great photographers of the 1950s and 1960s, especially Peter Knapp, who discovered and launched her in Elle, Bailey, and Bourdin. She…

American house of women’s wear named after its designer, Dana Buchman, a native of Memphis, Tennessee. After graduating from Brown University and attending the Rode Island School of Design, she presented her first Collection of women’s wear for work and…

Nancy. Hall Historian of photography. In 1979, she published the critical survey The History of Fashion Photography. The book has a foreword by Yves Saint-Laurent. She was among the curators of the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman…