Italian company of children’s fashion. Established by the Comunello family in Ponzano Veneto (Treviso) in 1978 and managed by Piero Comunello and his brother Adriano. It owns the brands Papermoon and Cacao and the Reporter Junior license for the Inghirami…

Asia spring exhibition of fibers, yarns, and fabrics. Held in Hong Kong every six months, it has more than 300 exhibitors and more than 10,000 visitors. Since March 2002 an ad-hoc pavilion has been dedicated to the latest novelty materials…

British magazine founded in 1980 by Terry Jones, the graphic and artistic director of the British edition of Vogue. It was initially launched with a low circulation as a quarterly, but in 1983 it became a bi-monthly, a point of…

Women’s weekly with Corriere della Sera. Directed by Fiorenza Vallino, it made its debut on March 23, 1996, born from the transformation of Donna Oggi. The editorial staff was composed of 38 journalists and excellent collaborators including Lucia Annunziata, Lilli…

Free University of Languages and Communications with premises in Milan and Feltre. Since 2002 it has run a short-study degree in communication in fashion and design. There also courses in marketing, management, consumer sociology, sociology of communications, semiotics, history of…

The International Wool Secretariat is an organization established in 1937 by the sheep breeders of New Zealand, South Africa, and Uruguay (80% of the world production) to promote the use of pure virgin wool. The headquarters are in London with…

Any printed fabric. The most famous imprimé are in silk or chiffon.

Style of clothing associated with a conservative American undergraduate dress code, named after a group of prestigious American East Coast colleges including Harvard, Princeton and Yale. Ivy League is more commonly used to speak of men’s fashions than women’s; the…

Italian clothing group. It is among the four most important conglomerates in Italy. It controls more than 40 companies in Italy and overseas, with a total turnover of about 700 billion Lira. Within its structure, it counts some of the…

Irina Ionesco (1935). French photographer. After studying in Romania, she returned to Paris, where she still lives, in 1946. A famous dancer, she was forced to cut short her career after an accident. She became interested in painting, first of…