Italian ready-to-wear fashion label. It was owned by the Sartorie Riunite. It was founded in the late 1980s. The company, founded by Giovanni and Paola Gamba, was located in Molina di Malo, Vicenza. In Milan, it had its showroom. In…

Label of the Dutch fashion designers Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren, both born in 1969 in the southern Netherlands, the same Holland that produced so many “subversive” cultural movements that contributed to the creative expressions of the present day. For…

French apparel house. It was established by Vanina Buston (1915) in 1935, in Paris. It specialized in knit clothing, and the maison shut its doors in 1951.

Italian eyewear manufacturer. It exports to about 70 countries with its own sales organization in Austria, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland and Spain. It has production of more than 1.5 million items annually. Among its lines are Anne Marie Perris and Chagall,…

Barbara Vitti (1939). Italian public relations consultant. She was born in Milan, and began to breathe the air of fashion as a little girl, attending runway presentations with her mother Gemma, a fashion journalist, and helping her in her work.…

Christian Vogt (1946). Swiss photographer. After studying at the School of Decorative Arts in Basel, he traveled extensively, worked as an assistant in Munich for Will McBride and, since 1970, has run a studio of his own in Basel, where…

American brand of women’s underwear. Founded in San Francisco at the beginning of the 1970s, it was purchased in 1982 by The Limited Inc. From that moment on, it began its great expansion, with the opening of 790 shops throughout…

Javier (1953). He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Madrid and, though he continued to work as a painter, he began to work as a photographer, moving into the fashion business in 1978. A complex and fascinating artist,…

Fibers. They were the product of the process of cellulose spinning discovered in 1891 by da C.F. Cross and E.J. Bevan, two chemists who patented the process in 1892. It was only many years later that Courtaulds Ltd. began to…

A cultural phenomenon. A sentimental concept. A transverse trend. Which, instead of wearing the clothing of novelty, prefers to wear memories. In fashion, vintage is the rehabilitation of the cult of the “poor” look of the 1970s, which for wearing…