b Protagonists

Returning to Paris she came into contact with Madame Gerber, one of three sisters who headed the couture house Callot Soeurs, at the time one of the most well-known in France. Having gained experience, she founded her own couture house in 1912, which met the haute couture clothing requirements of …

  Madeleine Vionnet ( Chilleurs-aux Bois,  22 Giugno 1876 –  Parigi, 2 Marzo 1975) has been a french stylist. Creator of one of the most prestigious haute couture labels (the Maison Vionnet) in all of France, which put her amoung the precursors of the twentieth century fashion revolution, through the …

It was his way to go on, to build, to renew himself, to give shifts , to briskly break any kind of scheme. Ready to get angry, obstinated, superstitious, perfectionist. He used to exhaust himself by bringing all his emotions to the extreme. He knew to have an erotic panic …

He adopted, from the tailor who dressed rich women in a poor way, the experimentation with the fabrics. Especially for the knitwear. It is the unisex, launched by Chanel in the Twenties. A challenge against the conformism, an arrow launched to shorten the distance between man and woman. Chanel represents …

“MY CHILDHOOD BETWEEN PLAYS AND FABRICS” Angelo Zegna, the patriarch, is 86 years old and live in Switzerland. Angelo Zegna is the son of the founder Ermenegildo, he started the role of entrepreneur since he was a kid. “When I was 12 I was in the factory. During the summer …