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Proportions, chromatic and stylistic standards are occasionally set in the worlds of forms, art and fashion, in order to provide a guide, a model of perfection. It is the challenge facing the classics, able to contend with and often succeed against the constant changes of taste and costumes. In the …

The tie is regal for its strut as well as its blue blood. Its dynasty get its ancestor from the Roman “Focale”, which appears in no less than emperor Trajan’s Column. The first one to speak of it was the philosopher Voltaire, having noticed the Croatian soldiers would wear one …

Right from the start the tie reveals itself as being unable to meet the usual functional roles of any item of clothing: to shield, protect from the cold. In actual fact, only a cold functionality obsessed individual would reduce the act of wearing clothes to a purely utilitarian requirement: men …

Extraordinary myths were “weaved” around the loom by the ancients. Penelope, whom, during the interminable wait for Ulysses, weaved during the day to then undo it during the night and the Fates who controlled the metaphorical fatal thread of life of every mortal and immortal from birth to death. Equally …

The semi rigid felt hat (from the piedmontese and Lombard lobia: name of the covered gallery of modest houses) also owes its success to the deputy Cristiano Lobbia (1826-1878) who was wearing it. Cristiano Lobbia was born in Asiago, was a famous patriot, he joined the 1848 insurrections against the …