Tag Archives: clothing

The discover of a young Milanese photographer, Daniele Tamagni, and the story is very interesting: a fashion-victims community of absolute elegance lovers, able to run into debts and to do a lot of sacrifices for an impeccable man suit, all living in Bakongo, the district of a until yesterday unknown …

One of the most eccentric and eclectic artists in the history of art, Salvador Dalì, Spanish painter, sculptor, film maker and designer, who loved to declare: “We must systematically cause confusion”,that is, start up the creative process, makes the acquaintance, around mid 1930s, of Elsa Schiaparelli, an ingenious and ground …

Bargain hunting in outlets and chain stores. Poor but beautiful, or the other way round: beautiful but poor. First of all, select the best clothing from your wardrobe and then decide whatever cheap and fashionable item may go with it. There is a lot of choice; just enter Zara, H&M, …

There’s a war to be fought: nine out of ten Italian products are imitations. Southeastern Asia is known to be the paradise of fake products, with China and Korea followed by Italy, number one in Europe in the imitation industry. This system is consolidated throughout the country and provides labor (mostly black market) …

(Tarbes 1811 – Neuilly 1872) In his essay “De la mode” published in 1858,  Gautier tries to define the need of the individual to distinguish himself from the others. His reflection has an anthropological approach: clothing becomes a peculiarity that distinguishes human beings from one another; thus the aesthetics of …