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MONTGOMERY

This duffle coat takes its name from general  Montgomery (1887-1976) who adopted this three-quarter-length jacket after copying it from the white ones worn by the Canadian troops during the 1st World War. Sir Bernard Law Montgomery was born in Ireland and started his military carrier at an early age. He …

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LEONARDO. THE INVENTION

Twenty centuries of evolutions and metamorphosis could induce to believe that the tie has reached the end of its road. What is never going to happen is that facts exhaust or precede inventions. A fertile tie science fiction has been underway for a long time, able to imagine fractal ties, …

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DIONYSUS. HEDONISM

In is inquiry into Western culture, Nietzsche discovered two souls to our civilization: one Apollonian of rationality and formal perfection and a Dionysian one of pleasure and profligacy. The vitality and variety of the tie are more representative of a Dionysian world , especially in the eighties distinguished by the …

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VENERE. THE WOMEN WEARING A TIE

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 …

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ZEUS.THE PERSONALITY

Amongst the complex factors creating and defining personality, an appreciation of fashion is in the front line. For someone making a profession out of their personality, the tie becomes unmistakable style: seductive with Valentino, impeccable with the Beatles, ironic and harrowing with Charlie Chaplin.

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