Bernard (1942). French designer. His mother was a dressmaker, which is why at the age of 17 Bernard left to enrol at a fashion school in Paris. By 1962 he was already Guy Laroche’s first assistant, then moving on from…

Roy (1910-1944). American chemist who worked at the DuPont research laboratories and who invented Teflon (polytetrafluoroethylene) in the 1930s, a material defined by Guinness as “the slipperiest in the world.” First used as a non-stick coating for cooking utensils, it…

Italian fashion house. A few years before World War II, after a few modest but lucky business ventures in the clothing sector, Emma Maria Bonfanti used her intelligent creativity to start producing designs from what was little more than a…

Metal ring or small object, usually made of steel, used particularly at the end of the 1990s to decorate and embellish various parts of the body: a sort of extreme evolution of the use of earrings. However the practice of…

Arnaldo (1926). Italian sculptor. In 1951 he founded Studio 3P with his brother Giò and Giorgio Prefetti to produce jewelry and gold pieces. These unique pieces were displayed at the X Milan Triennale and also stole the limelight at the…

A pierced earring with extra pieces to decorate the edge of the ear as well as the ear-lobe.

The Pal Zileri brand represents the pinnacle of the Forall Group: on average it produces about 1,100 formal jackets, 500 casual jackets, 1,800 pairs of pants and 1,400 sports items a day. Forall Confezioni S.p.A. was founded in 1970 in…

Italian youth movement: a fashion and lifestyle phenomenon that filled the Italian news programs for a good part of the 1980s. Born around a bar in the centre of Milan (Il Panino, from which the name comes) they were middle-class…

Brand of sportswear for children and teenagers. The company was founded in 1996 by two very young business partners who still hold all the capital: Diego Barbaresi, the designer, and Marco Nicolini, the managing director. Over the years the company…

Fabric where the different colored weft and warp yarns create a short of chessboard pattern. The name refers to the effect obtained, which looks like a chicken’s footprints. Made from carded or combed wool and used for men’s and women’s…