06.07.2015
ERMANNO SCERVINO: ELISA SEDNAOUI, TESTIMONIAL OF THE 2015-2016 FW COLLECTION
Ermanno Scervino chooses the model and actress Elisa Sednaoui as the face of the 2015-2016 Fall-Winter Collection.

"Beautiful, International, cool" – says Ermanno Scervino, "Elisa is a multifaceted talent, she interpreted my creations with great charm". Sednaoui is of French-Egyptian descent and has strong ties to Italy. Her life has been devoted to music, cinema and above all social activism: her ESF Elisa Sednaoui Foundation is an interactive platform to promote the educational development of young people in the rural areas of Egypt. "Elisa embodies the qualities and values of the Ermanno Scervino woman," continues the designer: "Committed, sensual, a charismatic woman. We are happy that she has also been chosen as the host of the 72nd Venice International Film Festival".

Photographer Peter Lindbergh, who shot the campaign, expresses the Ermanno Scervino 2015-2016 Fall/Winter collection with highly evocative looks: masculine and cozy fabrics highlight Elisa's femininity and her natural, cosmopolitan beauty takes on gipsy nuances. "Working with Peter again was exciting", said Ermanno Scervino, "It reminded me of our first campaigns together. Words cannot describe his passion for fashion and image: one shot is enough for him to capture all the intensity of the subject ". The location of the shoot is the Camargue, in the south of France: wild expanses, a constantly changing landscape dominated by nature with its iridescent water bodies, endless fields and the low moan of the steadfast wind for a soundtrack.
23.06.2015
MILAN MEN'S FASHION WEEK SPRING SUMMER 2016: ERMANNO SCERVINO
The Ermanno Scervino Man for Spring Summer 2016 abandons himself in a glamorous dégagée dimension. Military inspirations meet the sartorial world, resulting in unexpected combinations. The Collection plays with natural fibres to obtain new materic effects: jute, hemp, linen, cotton/paper. Blazers and unstructured jackets in vintage linen, raw cut, highlight a new silhouette. Knitted sweaters are decorated with floral inlay works or by wires of sequins in dusty shades.

The macro houndstooth is matched with the camouflage, while the "Napoleonic" jacket becomes duvet, or pea coat in hemp. The regimental stripe is the protagonist and describes geometric patterns in contrast. The Jacquard floral fabrics express lightness on denim, on damask linen shirts, or they are embossed in tailored suits. Details: passementerie for brooches, scarves, macramé accents, regimental ties and motives are the twist of the

www.ermannoscervino.it 
22.06.2015
MILAN MEN'S FASHION WEEK SPRING SUMMER 2016: KITON
After a long and constant research at their own woolmill for the most prestigious fabrics and the most precious materials, KITON launches the first 12.8 micron wool, proposed in 20 different colours. Throughout the years they have meticulously capitalized the very small quantities of this thread available in the world and succeeded in producing a small number of pieces. The exclusivity of this thread together with the excellence of the quality of the final product are the perfect interpretation of the requirements of all Kiton gentlemen when it comes to style.

It was Naples in the 40's that inspired the new Spring-Summer 2016 Kiton collection for men. In those years Neapolitan men had an exemplary and distinctive aesthetic code: they loved to dress well and they normally changed three times a day, wearing the most suitable garment at every time. The perfect jacket for each occasion, from coloured linen for a walks during the day, to much darker suits for the evening or dinner jackets to be worn to attend a performance at Teatro San Carlo.

Once again the next summer the jacket dictates the trends of style codes, the most representative garment of Kiton's "savoir-faire": in the double-breasted version with firm but not exasperated revers, cashmere is matched with linen to give garment a soft touch, round but still fresh, amplified by the return to a range of colours that reminds us of the bright shades of the Mediterranean such as yellow, turquoise, cobalt blue, emerald and cherry red. According to the strict Neapolitan tradition, ties must be assembled with seven pleats. They had a very important role considering that the Neapolitan homo elegans normally owned a large quantity of ties to change it several times during the day, brighter and fuller colours in the morning and darker shades after the sunset.

Always in the 40's Neapolitan men couldn't renounce to elegance even for the most informal events. Lovers of the sea, they often spent their free time at the traditional yacht clubs. The Kiton Spring-Summer 2016 sportswear line is inspired to that pleasure of knowing how to dress with style in such occasions.
A collection that sees luxury interpreted as objective quality perceivable through the body and the senses, to offer the contemporary men garments of contents, that live beyond the concept of fashion.

Cashmere and refined wools are certainly part of the casual wardrobe. Cashmere outerwear becomes almost weightless (140 gr.), almost as a shirt: wool is combined with silk with a double process specifically thought for jackets. A new concept for wind jackets, an authentic variation of Kiton tailoring sportswear par excellence: single-breasted with rever and buttons, wool and silk combined to provide protection against wind and water.
Again for the next season the CIPA capsule gets inspiration from the 70's featuring Irish linen suits, cottons, silk shantungs in their classical colours such as beige and shades of blue. Jackets hint at the old light wool pieces that the Ciro Paone woolmill used to produce in the 60's.

www.kiton.it
04.05.2015
JMLEGAZEL AND THE ART OF PATINA: TODAY'S MODERN ELEGANCE
A unique concept in Paris, JMLeGazel boutique invites the art of patina on shoes into today's modern elegance. An ultimate lover of Dandyism and an eye for high quality materials like the best French leather called Les Tanneries du Puy.

32 year old Jean-Marie Gazel, a graduate of Ecole de Beaux-Arts, invites people discover the "Exclusive Collection" of shoes manufactured at the workshops of Carlos Santos, the Portuguese shoemakers. A selection of derby, moccasins, and oxford shoes in astonishing colors are shown in the space dedicated for patina works. The patina and shoe-shining works is performed by the hands of JMLeGazel's skillfull personnel upon the desire of client, on either new or used shoes. Years of experience and distinctive elegance is what built up JMLeGazel's exceptional know-how, along with focus on details and excellent customer service. 

Shaking up the industry, JMLeGazel has elevated the work of patina on shoes into a level of art on its own, turning shoes to be a display of unlimited creativity. A deep purple with a shade of intense black, a mottled blue rose recalling Claude Monet's waterlilies, a striped red hot brown Japanese wave breaking on anthracite leather, a burning skull on a navy blue background, or roses in full bloom.. JMLeGazel grants the wildest fantasy.

Thanks to its close collaboration with Carlos Santos, the famous footwear manufacturer, JMLeGazel is able to receive directly raw shoes that are ready to be dressed by the talent of young artists. Each shoe takes several hours of fabrication. By brush, cloth and even fingers,  JMLeGazel touch every curve of the shoe with hints of colors and layouts, in the manner of a painter. He reveals the depth of the leather through a developed sense of aesthetics and not even afraid to transform the original design of the shoes. Offering customers a unique and personalized object is the primary ambition of JMLegazel, combined with quality, comfort and an avant-garde approach.
15.04.2015
EVA BLUT: UNCONVENTIONAL BAG DESIGN FROM VIENNA
In 1999 the designer Eva Blut founded her own accessory label in Vienna to represent a new way for innovative and conceptual fashion and accessory design. Eva Blut's aim is clear; she wants to create functional, versatile yet elegant objects that fulfil the highest demands both to quality and design. Eva Blut's bags have a strong impact thanks to a playful and tactile dimension but, above all, to their unconventional aspect; each bag is unique for shape, design, colour and material.

Eva Blut's bags are made for the urban user of today, for women who desire to be chic but, at the same time, need comfortable accessories for their everyday endeavours. She produces her bags following the best Viennese leathergood-tradition. 

www.evablut.com
30.03.2015
GEOX FOR VALEMOUR
Geox has launched its new and colourful sneakers collection GEOX FOR VALEMOUR.

This summer collection is fresh and original and its value goes far beyond the well-known technology and aesthetic pleasure.

Indeed, this collection has been made by Fondazione Più di Un Sogno Onlus, that  in partnership with VALEMOUR, gives kids affected by the Down Syndrome, the chance to start a professional path in the fashion industry and to feel independent.

32 interpretations that varies for colours and materials but that all share in common the texture that the kids designed for this special project.

Every shoe is completely unique and combines the external net provided by the new partner Panatex with the classic Geox technology.

All the models will be sold in 175 Geox stores and on an e-commerce website: part of the earnings will be devoted to the Onlus.

www.geox.com/valemour
10.03.2015
MILAN FASHION WEEK FW 2015-16: BYBLOS
Unconventional and feminine, with its FW15/16, Byblos portrays a woman that wears violent colours and elegant lines, perfectly merging two sides of a same soul.

Through magenta, cyan, black and white flashes, Byblos tries to grasp the perfect shape; the inspiration is an obsessive rhythm that makes every form explode, transforming the body, through contrasts and apparent asymmetries, in a different and brand new something.

Circular, jagged and angular cuts, unseen textures, unexpected mix of crepe, silk, wool and technical textiles play with the body, giving life to it, nullifying it and containing it in garments that show a double-nature like the bi-dimensional outerwear: soft on the front, ovoid at the back.

A collection that looks full of energy and full of life. A Big Bang.
03.03.2015
MILAN FASHION WEEK FW 2015-16: MISSONI
Armed with neo-body-consciousness, seduction and spontaneity, Missoni woman for Fall-Winter 2015-16 is, of course, deeply knitted up, but in a more avant-gardist way.  

New space-dyed patterns recall to the blurred bands of an old television, while trompe-l'-oeil leggings transform the legs of every woman in marble and wooden columns.

Marquetry of cuts, graphic patterns and sheer textures give the playful freedom of the mix and match. All the garments are like an abstract, spectacular and iconic game where different colours energetically alternate and where masculine and feminine structures unexpectedly interact in harmony.  

The FW2015-16 collection by Missoni, dreams of a woman that is like a piece of Postmodernism, in a tribute to the art of Richard Artschwager.
27.02.2015
MILAN FASHION WEEK FW 2015-16: FRATELLI ROSSETTI
First launched in 1975, the iconic ankle-boot by Fratelli Rossetti is the new source of inspiration for the fall-winter 15-16 collection.

The brand, founded in 1953 by the visionary genius  Renzo Rossetti, surprises  everyone at Milan Fashion Week 2015 with its well-known simplicity, this time enriched with an unexpected and colourful twist.

The collection shows different styles –two boots, two ankle-boots, a pair of shoes and a bag- that share an elegant and bi-color design so to highlight the artisanal structure with great contrasts both in materials and in colours.

The philosophy behind this collection is a reinterpretation of the Bauhaus' principles: through a clean-cut style being rationally...timeless.
20.02.2015
MARINA HOERMANSEDER
Franco-Austrian fashion designer Marina Hoermansender is a "conventions-breaker" whose collections re-write the idea of beauty and ugliness, thus evoking a precise allure that plays distinctively with elegance and eccentricity.

For her first collection, Marina took her inspiration from 18th century orthopaedic devices and created fitted leather corsets that interplay avant-garde and ready-to-wear, exhibiting her own extravagant taste and passion for details and highest craftsmanship.

Her garments unconventionally mix the lightness of silk with the thickness of a leather that moulds to the body. Along with the progressive cuts and with the intricate fetish closures come delicate colours and flowing fabrics that reveal the desire of experimenting, the unique signature of the designer.
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