Established in 1989 as a organization whose purpose was to promotion fashion and international exchanges. In 1990 it transformed into the Association of Japanese Fashion under the management of Goto Noboru, President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. It…

Multinational company selling luxury products. It started with a boutiques in Hong Kong and Kowloon, which took their name from their founder Joyce Ma. Opened in 1971, they represent the nucleus of the present Joyce Boutique Holding composed by about…

Cloth of printed cotton, usually reddish or light blue on a ecru-colored background, with patterns showing country scenes. Called Toile de Jouy, from the name of the manufacturing company in Jouy-en-Josas, where Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf established the first cloth printing mill…

Stephan (1957). French designer. He works in Italy. His shows have always had the atmosphere of an out-of-the-moment event, fantastic and mundane. He creates designs without following trends, but reelaborating the seasonal themes in a new and original fashion and…

The world’s most famous milliners. Established in 1676 in London, the shop is still where he opened more than 300 years ago at 6, St. James Street. Its fame is linked with bowler hats, both city and horse-riding versions, and…

Charles. French shoemaker. Born in Romans. In 1921, at the age of 38, he started his own business. In Paris he opened an atelier at the 1, Boulevard Voltaire and hired 30 artisans, who were able to manufacture 40 pairs…

Fantasy three-thread yarn, each in a different color. The fabric obtained with it, mainly in wool, is worked to obtain a variegated effect. It looks like straight ribbed gabardine.

Accessories brand. Created by the designers BenoÑt Jamin and Isabelle Puech who won the first prize at the Hyères festival for young designers in 1991. Their production is in excess of 20,000 bags a year. At the beginning, they used…

Brand of the American designers Jan Pottorf and Carlos Baker. They work in Italy and presented their Collection during the Autumn-Winter 1996-97 shows at Milano Collezioni. They want to design, in their words, “clothing pieces free from conventions that transcend…

American knitwear company. Established in Portland (Oregon) in 1910 by John and Roy Zehntbauer, sons of a cooper from Missouri, and by the Canadian Carl Jantzen. The factory, with the name of Portland Knitting Company, would have continued to manufacture…