Spotted animal fur, very rare and expensive. Characterized by small black spots on a white or golden brown background.

Professional name of top model Lucie Daouphans (1922-1963). She died very young after founding a retirement fund for models. She worked ten years for Dior (1950-60).

A less elegant term for “style,” a word that well defined people such as Jacqueline Kennedy, Marcello Mastroianni, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and even Mother Teresa of Calcutta. If style is connected to the body and soul of…

Italian menswear company. “Service is a strategy” is the motto of this company established in Mantua in 1911 by Luigi Bianchi. The company focuses on the combination of craftsmen’s skills with the benefits of industrial production, to make high-quality suits…

Charles (1897-1985). American designer and costume designer. He won three Oscars (Eve against Eve with Edith Head, The Tunic and Love is a Many Splendored Thing). He is part of cinema history, in particular for clothing Marilyn Monroe in her…

Brand of men’s and women’s ready-to-wear fashion designed by Luciano Barbera and made using the high quality fabrics produced by Carlo Barbera & C. from Biella. It offers classic designs and accessories distributed by Grilux Spa. In 1975 another line…

Italian men’s fashion magazine founded in 1967 to accompany Vogue Italy, and from the second issue already an independent magazine, first bi-monthly then monthly. Under the direction of Franco Sartori (until 1976), Flavio Lucchini (1976-79), Cristina Brigidini (1979-92), Aldo Premoli…

Synthetic fiber produced in Italy. It has several advantages: it is resistant, soft, light and elastic.

Clothing brand created in 1990 by Li-Ning (1964), Chinese Olympic champion (3 gold medals at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984). It has a catalogue of one thousand products distributed through multibrand stores and exclusive sales points. In Europe his…

Rosita (1898-1985). Scholar of clothing. An intellectual of the upper Milanese bourgeoisie, she was defined “the lady of Italian costume” by Guido Lopez in an article written after her death in 1985. A self-taught historian, her life was spent studying…