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    Fashion and Cinema

    Only about twenty successful movies focus specifically on fashion. Naturally, most of them were made in Hollywood though the Italian cinema was quick to follow. Curiously, only one such film has been made in France. The list begins with Sinners…

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    Seven Jeans

    Seven Jean :”Mysterious” brand Seven Jeans “Mysterious” brand of jeans set up by Jennifer Scruby at the beginning of 2002. According to some observers, the underplayed launch of this line of pants, T-“shirts, jackets, and miniskirts was a well thought…

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    Javits Eric (1956)

    Javites Eric (1956)is an american milliner. His hats, devoid of useless decoration, tend to look like sober sculptures for the head and frames for the face. Among his various designs, which promoted women to regain a taste for hats, an…

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    Nyl

    It is an Italian prêt-à-porter brand. It was launched in January 2001, designed by Raimondo Ciofani and produced by the clothing production group Lamberti. Two years of preparation were required for the first Fall-Winter line, followed by a debut on…

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    Smock

    At some time during their childhood, all little girls wear a smock dress for a smart occasion. This type of stitching holds together lots of little folds, forming embroidered honeycomb stitching on a square section or on the whole of…

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    Studio Talbot

    Taking just one of the names of Henry Fox Talbot — one of the inventors of the photographic process known as calotypes — the less famous Studio Talbot specialized in the 1910s in fashion images produced by making albumen prints…

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    Sorelle Fontana (Fontana Sisters)

    Italian dressmakers and label. Zoe (1911-1979), Micol (1913), and Giovanna Fontana (1915) were born in Traversetolo in the province of Parma. As young girls, they learned the trade in their mother’s dressmaker’s workshop. Zoe, the eldest, after brief stays in…

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    Schettino

    Shop in Capri that sells hand-made sandals. Giovanni Schettino started it up in Anacapri at the end of the 1920s, when he was just 15 years old. Since then it has produced made-to-measure, leather, monk-style sandals, but also criss-cross strappy…

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    Kitten Heel

    “I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot,” Marilyn Monroe once said. Certainly, the heel, with the toe, constitutes the most decisive component of all models of shoes. It draws attention, it determines the…