Ring The Attico for good times. Street-style darlings-turned-designers Gilda Ambrosio and Giorgia Tordini injected a much-needed jolt of sexiness into the Milan fashion calendar with the first-ever runway show of the brand they launched in 2016 and that translates into “penthouse” in English. They abandoned the comfort of their...
In less than two years, Matthieu Blazy has energized Bottega Veneta with a truly original design vision steeped in invention, storytelling, intensive craft and showmanship. His spring show was gripping, transporting and often breathtaking, with an electricity rivaled in Milan perhaps only by Prada. You could feel it immediately...
Andrea Adamo has joined the growing legion of Milanese designers looking to display female power in their spring collections, taking the legendary, kohl-eyed Italian singer Mina as his muse. The designer said he was inspired by Mina’s gutsy feminism and efforts to juggle work and family as she built...
PARIS – In the end, it was bananas. After a daylong “Shark Tank”-style pitch session with six final teams, Stella McCartney presented this year’s Hult Prize to banana leather developer Banofi. Founders Margaret Boreham, Isobel Campbell and Jinali Mody were awarded $1 million seed funding toward the development of...
Ermanno Scervino’s show in the grand baroque cloister of a 15th century hospital, now a state university building, was a love letter to craft, and one of his best yet. Scervino works with a couturier’s hand and his aim is always to translate those designs into versatile, everyday clothing...
Rocco Iannone cleverly set the stage for his fifth Ferrari collection with models walking on a circular white podium at Teatro Vetra, the rounded walls partly covered by a silver and metallic slate, a string orchestra playing Antonio Vivaldi juxtaposed to crescendo techno music. The references to the automotive...
Fashion risks are about as hard to find in Milan this season as a day without brutal traffic — or intermittent showers. In this sense, Maximilian Davis is bang on trend at Ferragamo, where he turned out more sleek tailoring, luxed-up casual wear, and roomy leather bags — here...
Vivetta Ponti has set the bar high, staging original shows — one saw ice skaters model looks on the rink – and collections full of offbeat, baroque touches such as bejewelled hands squeezing glittering nipples on shirts or denim jackets. Since she founded her brand in 2009, Ponti has...
Boston is not a town that calls to mind fashion, but a century or two ago, it was the epicenter of the textile industry. Mills across New England wove fine cotton and wool cloth and later crafted finished goods from topcoats to shoes. By the time John Singer Sargent...
What do office cubicles and office attire say about work culture and power? At Friday’s night Boss show for fall (the brand went see now buy now seasons ago), those questions literally filled the air. For starters, the parade, which started not-so-fashionably late, was set in a futuristic office...
