D’Amico Antonio
D’Amico Antonio (1959). His interest in fashion came from his mother, who was a dressmaker. The most important meeting of his life was with Gianni Versace, in whose firm he worked for 13 years up until Versace’s death, attending to…
Spectator
American two-tone shoe: black-and-white or brown-and-white. Demonstrating extreme elegance in terms of color, this shoe was originally part of the sporting wardrobe. It is also known as a correspondent shoe. They were first worn in the 1920s and stayed in…
Pianegonda franco
Pianegonda Franco is an Italian company that produces polished rhodium-plated sterling silver jewelry, without the addition of chemical substances. Founded by Franco Pianegonda in Camisano Vicentino in 1994. Their collections immediately found a market thanks to their original sculptural designs,…
Sacchetti Enrico
Sacchetti Enrico (1877-1967). Italian illustrator and poster designer. For Lidel and French women’s magazines, he recorded the fashions of the 1920s and 1930s in a non-calligraphic style and with an ability to capture the essence of a design. He worked…
Polaroid-AMERICAN EYEWEAR BRAND
American brand of eyewear. The brainchild of Edwin Land (1909, Connecticut), an aspiring inventor with his own laboratory in Cambridge (Mass.), who received an order from Eastman Kodak for polarizing filters for cameras worth 10 million dollars in 1934. Land,…
Pecci
Picci is an Italian wool manufacturer, based in Capalle (Florence). Picci is an Italian wool manufacturer, based in Capalle (Florence).One episode from the company’s history demonstrates its capacity. In 1951 the US army based in Germany ordered 1,800,000 blankets to be…
Magli Bruno
Magli Bruno. Italian shoemaker. A Bolognese family firm: Bruno and Maria began making shoes by hand in the 1920s. In 1936 they headed a small company and, after an enforced gap during the war, work got underway again in 1947…
Rivella is a Turin fur shop famous in the 50s and 60s
Exhibition for the international clothing market, organized by Ente Italiano della Moda and various associations of dressmakers and fashion manufacturers. It was operative in Turin from 1954 until the mid-1960s. Its winning formula is to bring together and compare not…
McDowell- english writer and journalist
McDowell Colin. English journalist and writer. Passionate about the world of fashion and an expert in all its secrets. He was once a designer himself for 8 years in Italy, with Pino Lancetti and Laura Biagiotti. He teaches at the…
Museo Boncompagni Ludovisi
Rome. In addition to the departments of painting, sculpture, and graphic art, this museum has a section dedicated to the decorative arts, architectural ornamentation, fashion, dress and design, for the historical period corresponding to that covered by existing departments, i.e.,…
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