Zelja. Russian designer, with a diploma from the Institute of Technology at Omsk, an important centre north of Kazakhstan. She makes fashionable clothing, with faint constructivist echoes, not only in the choice of materials, but above all in the desire…

Carlo (1905-1973). Italian designer, architect and photographer. He designed public and private buildings, furniture, and prototypes of cars and planes. He referred to himself as an eclectic figure who used photography as the common element where all his projects converged.…

Martin. Pseudonym of Martin Marmorstein (1896-1963). Hungarian photographer. Worked mostly in the United States. Always took photographs from a completely original angle, for example, outside, in the water, or from a vehicle at high speed, all of which made him…

Harry Ossip (1911-1991). French photographer of Polish origins. His images are unusual for their depiction of figures against a white background, without perspective. He began in the world of cinema and continued to borrow its tools, he worked for the…

Gene (1955). American designer, with a passion for color. His original and anti-conformist menswear uses strong tones, particularly for the accessories. He was born in New York and after brilliant results at the Parson’s School, he began to work in…

A Portuguese brand named for its two founders, who opened a boutique in Bairro Alto in Lisbon in 1981. The two designers also produce theatre costumes and collaborate with the brands Carlo Giotto, Mauritius, and Quazar. &Quad;1995, the move and…

Husseren-Wesserling, France. Museum dedicated to the textile arts of the region, housed in the former printing works of the city of Wesserling. Displays include traditional dress, textiles manufactured by Boussac (active until 1978) and technical materials.

(Duffle coat). Large woolen jacket with a hood, reaching down to the thighs or the knee, fastened with frogging made of olive-shaped braid pulled through buttonholes made of loops of braid or leather. In its most classic version, it is…

A minimum cannot exist without a maximum: this is the key to interpreting the minimalist phenomenon (simplify, clean, reduce) that characterized the early 1990s, in contrast with the early 1980s, which were full of color, consumerism, and goods. Everything was…

Ready-made women’s clothing company. Founded in the 1960s in Arezzo by Mimmina Rachini, it employs roughly 100 members of staff. It has own-brand stores in Milan, Forte dei Marmi, Paris, Geneva, Japan, and Mexico. It produces 5 lines, characterized by…