The Modigliani affair exposed the merchandising issues of originality and authenticity within the markets and in the art critics’ circles. Thanks to a joke, everyone realized that an artist’s signature is a serious matter, to the extent that, from the worlds of fashion to art, a signature actually created new …

Battles of fashion They might have been messy butchers, but the English generals in the Crimean war were very elegant. This forgotten war remains unforgettable for the look. We are still calling the jumper with buttons down the front ‘cardigan’, named after James Thomas Brudenell seventh Earl of Cardigan who …

Battaglie di  moda Saranno stati anche dei macellai pasticcioni, però i generali inglesi in Crimea erano elegantissimi. Questa guerra dimenticata resta indimenticabile per il look. Ancor oggi, il maglione con i bottoni si chiama “cardigan” da James Thomas Brudenell, settimo conte di Cardigan, che guidò la Brigata Leggera nella famosa …

With long legs falling under the loops helping create the impression of a clover this knot was also defined as the “Shamrock “

The reflections of several great authors of the 19th century on fashion through their observations of the early stages of this phenomenon and the opening of many interesting paths, although fragmentised, might incline us to believe that a rapid diffusion of Fashion Sociology had taken place. Unfortunately, this was not …