I once asked him to tell me about the times when we were young, naive, hot-headed, silly and simple – minded. « There is something left, apart from youth», he replied. With a sorry face, the old professor paused to dry a tear that was shining in his eyes. Then …

The feminine forays in the male world of the tie are scarce and fleeting , but significant nonetheless. The range of options for women goes from the sexy colour matches to the androgynous ambiguity to the professional uniforms. With cosmetics and womenswear, chromatic vivacity is not a taboo which might …

Le incursioni femminili nel mondo maschile della cravatta sono fugaci e minoritarie, ma non per questo meno significative. La gamma delle scelte della donna va dalla intonazione sexi all’ambiguità androgina, alla ufficialità delle uniformi professionali. Nella cosmesi e negli indumenti femminili la vivacità cromatica non è tabù, e così la …

      Royalty, spirituality, passion and love. The traditional color of the mystical realm, and yes of spirituality but also of erotic fascination, purple suggests the union of opposites—impressionability.