Messages Enhanced by the Message: Valentino Des Ateliers Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2021–22
Through society, fashion communicates what it thinks of the world. This is one of the many ideas Roland Barthes puts…
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Technological Chic: Coperni. A conversation with Sébastien Meyer and Arnaud Vaillant
Wit and vision are two key ingredients for the act of creation. So is independence, feeling free from judgement and…
The Cycle of Life through the Eyes of Doug Aitken: Saint Laurent, S/S 2022
The sky’s many color transitions at the Isola della Certosa in Venice are made even more complex via the mirrors…
Alchemy SS21: Marco Panconesi between tradition and object design
Marco Panconesi embraces beauty since his first steps, assembling contemporary fossil-like jewels, by dipping them in color and mystery. In…
Thirty Years of Slam Jam: Luca Benini on the Origins and Future of One of the Most Influential Contemporary Street Culture Brands
Thirty years of passion and clothes. Street fashion and culture in the 1980s was a vision belonging to the crazy…
Open dialogue project: Coding PriscaVera
The imaginative power of PriscaVera’s campaigns is one of the driving forces of her brand. The women wearing PriscaVera’s clothing express…
Haute Couture Remastered: Valentino’s Code Temporal
“The mastery of the handmade as a timeless code and value” was the first thing that Maison Valentino communicated to…
Long Dark Night of the Toile: Margiela’s Gothic Co-Ed SS21
Uncertain times. Strange and difficult times. You can’t get an email these days without some similar variation of this phrase,…
Medea: from myth to community. The "dynamiters" Giulia and Camilla Venturini
The Venturini twins: power and unpredictability, color and intuition, lightning and thunder, skin and wigs, art and ideas, all combined…
Of Grace and Light: The New Renaissance by Pierpaolo Piccioli & Nick Knight
Gea Politi e Cristiano Seganfreddo: We have lived through a long period of apparent light that exalted values of financial…
The magical neo-Tyrolese world of Cormio
Cormio was born in 2019. It is a fashion line that seems familiar yet dysfunctional at the same time. Their…
"Beneath the beautiful" of Valentino
Fashion is a great producer of contemporary culture. A profound cultural engine, its impact on our surrounding visual and emotional…
Bottega Veneta: Men’s file
The white wall still sweats the dry heat of the Salento sun. It is a new Cinema Paradiso in a…
Tradition Translated by DIOR: The Cruise 2021 Collection
Translating a classic or traditional language in a contemporary way, using stylistic elements and characteristics from the past, is a…