Women’s ready-to-wear label. Oscar Raajmakers and Suleyman Demir were both born in Holland in 1972 and they followed the same course at the Fashion Department of the Arnhem Arts Academy from 1992 to 1996. They started off working together for…

Todd (1962). American fashion and interior designer. Originally from Texas, he became established by selling his creations to Neiman Marcus in Dallas. He then moved to New York and signed a contract with the Japanese distribution company Kashiyama to produce…

Italian ready-to-wear label, founded in 1983 by the journalist Sergio Vismara and his wife Ornella Benedetta. The label, named after a famous American boat, first became known for its sweatshirts, making them for the America’s Cup in the 1980s. They…

Italian textile group, based in Grumolo delle Abbadesse, near Vicenza. Founded in the 1980s, Olimpias brought together a group of textile manufacturers and related companies (yarns, fabrics, dyeing, and finishing) with the aim of offering a complete range of services…

Label founded in Brussels by Thierry Rondenet (1965) and Hervé Yvrenogeau (1966), to develop fashion, home furnishing, and graphic design projects. They both took diplomas in screen printing and the printed image at La Chambre in Brussels. In January 1999…

Jessica (1970). English fashion designer born in Jamaica to a large family. Her father was a television director and her mother a Bounty model. She moved to London to study sculpture at the Byam Shaw School of Art. Although she…

1960s art movement that had a great influence on the fashion of the time. Taking inspiration from Victor Vasarely’s paintings, designers such as Cardin, Balenciaga, Castillo, Heim, and Lanvin created optical illusions playing on depth and relief and the relation…

New York ready-to-wear label. Orfi stands for Organization for Returning Fashion Interest, which, contrary to how it sounds, is not a social organization, but a designer label run by three New York designers: Donald Hearn, Scott Kruger, and Ana Gonzales.…

Milanese ethnic and antique jewelry shop. Founded in 1995 by Giovanna Frossi, who had worked at the Milanese Jewelry mecca “Il Discanto” for thirty years, under the direction of Rosanna Giancola. Frossi has been assembling an impressive collection of necklaces,…

Luciana (1933). Journalist and editor of Annabella magazine from 1976 to 1982, when the feminist movement was at its most active. It was important for the editors of fashion magazines to create a rapport with the public during that turbulent…