Tag: italy
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Pitti Uomo 91 to focus on homegrown talent, as well as Japanese and South Korean designers
Italian menswear event Pitti Uomo 91 has revealed the designers set to take part in its ‘Pitti Italics' program next January. Pitti Italics promotes upcoming fashion designers and labels that design and produce in Italy, offering them a platform from which to showcase their latest collections. Tuscan designer Carlo Volpi, who won the “Who is…
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Benetton to launch new ‘Made In Italy’ fashion line
Global fashion brand Benetton is on track to launch a new “Made in Italy” line layer this year, in a bid to bring the company back to its roots and “refocus on its main expertise”. The collection, to be made in Treviso and titled “TV 31100” in a nod to the city's postal code, is…
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Youth has final word as Milan Fashion Week wraps up
MILAN (AP) — Milan Fashion Week made way for young talent on the last day of preview shows for next spring and summer Monday.
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Was ‘Iceman Otzi’ a Copper Age fashionista?
The 5,300-year-old Alpine mummy known as the Tyrolean Iceman died wearing leather clothes and accessories harvested from no less than five wild or domesticated species, a DNA analysis published Thursday revealed. Frozen solid after being fatally wounded by an arrow in the back, the brown-eyed, Copper Age nomad, nicknamed “Otzi”, was discovered in 1991 in…
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Exclusive: Dior to appoint Valentino’s Maria Chiuri as creative head – sources
By Astrid Wendlandt PARIS (Reuters) – Christian Dior is set to announce after its couture show in early July that Maria Grazia Chiuri is joining the French fashion house from Italy's Valentino, two people familiar with the matter said. Chiuri will be taking on one of the most important jobs at Dior. Dior was not…
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Kendall Jenner morphs into ‘goth goddess’ for Marc Jacobs
NEW YORK (AP) — Kendall Jenner has turned herself into a “goth goddess” for fashion designer Marc Jacobs' new fall campaign.