Behind the scenes: first autumn/winter 2013-'14 arrivals
The relentless heat we are currently experiencing is not slowing down our preparations for the upcoming fall season. As the courier services continue to bring us deliveries, opening the boxes to f...
But we could also say “young prospects!” to introduce that curious collaboration between the proactive enthusiasm of a group of twenty-year-olds, lovers of photography, music, art and the long IVO ...
As many of you know, IVO MILAN of Padua had the honour of hosting the first exhibition by the Friulian designer Lucia Venturini from 5 to 18 June this year. It was an exciting experience, not jus...
By taking the opportunity to look beyond the offerings of the online catalogue we indeed find not so well-known combinations of clothing with unfamiliar names and limited shop distribution that hav...
From virtual to real, part II: the storefront...
The aesthetic dimension of the showcase... We have spent many years arranging our shop window as the natural showcase for the collections that change from season to season inside the store. It is ...
During an interview given shortly before the Spring/Summer 2013 fashion show, Yohji Yamamoto said that he was not in the least interested in producing recognizable clothing styles bearing his name ...
Issey Miyake...Spring-Summer 2013!
"[W]e find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates". Junichiro Tanizaki - In Praise of Shadows It is no co...
F/W 2013-2014 Previews: Daniela Gregis!
From Milan, our simple and personal reportage about Fall-Winter 2013-2014 Daniela Gregis collection...good show!!! and then...the skilled workers!
Mentaelimone (Mintandlemon) - written as one word - is the name of the Spring/Summer 2013 collection by Daniela Gregis. It calls attention to the goods that the earth has to offer and provides a c...
F/W 2013-2014 previews...from Paris Fashion Week!
The incredibly hectic days of the fashion week in Milan and Paris have come to an end. So, there is no better time than now to share our wanderings with you: catwalks, showrooms, people, encounter...
No-one can say with certainty that winter is over, but the upcoming spring-summer is really taking the lead in store. It’s probably true that we aren’t able to observe the absolute sense of timing ...
Bubble wrap...Issey Miyake style!
The online catalogue is just about to be updated with the new Spring-Summer collections now in the shop. But while awaiting milder temperatures, let's go on a trip to find out more about one of thi...
Winter sales...and brand-new outfits!
Dressing on the sale doesn’t mean having to make do with clothes that are uninteresting or even mediocre. When there is an extensive choice, only a cursory glance, and items characterised by a cert...
...Waiting for the year to come!
After a year of shots, recommendations and sharing of timeless clothes...our wishes for what's to come? ...that 2013 can turn feelings, spirits and strain into profitable occasions for making life ...
Daniela Gregis...F/W 2012-2013
One of the constant features of Daniela Gregis’ collection is definitely her unique and exclusive ability to naturally combine two temporal and spatial dispositions that are distinct opposites of o...
Junya Watanabe Fall/Winter '12-'13
At first glance the cuts and fabrics of Junya Watanabe's 2012-2013 winter collection call up images of the everyday male wardrobe at its most rigorous and monotonous. Wool pinstripes, tweed overche...
Living Large: Comme des Garçons F/W 2012-2013
"The strength of Rei Kawakubo is definitely the fact that she has never let herself be drawn into some kind of insidious artistic laziness, to which, her many collections for Comme des Garçons, cou...
Previews from Paris: spring-summer 2013
The Paris Fashion Week has just come to an end, and it is with great pleasure that we wish to share with you the spaces, previews, discoveries and friendships we experienced, which, over the years,...
Spring/Summer 2013 collection previews: Daniela Gregis
As many of you know, the Milan Fashion Week, the semi-annual event dedicated to women’s Spring/Summer 2013 collections will be underway shortly. We look forward to spending some of our short stay ...
A triple play on words, whose different meanings and similar sounds form the meaning of both the HaaT brand name and project, launched in Fall/Winter 2000 by the legendary Maison Issey Miyake texti...
This title serves as a perfect introduction to the meeting between the shots taken by the young photographer from Padua, Giulia Magnaguagno, and the offerings for autumn from the store IVO MILAN. ...
Between the folds of Issey Miyake
It is with great pleasure that we present the first publication of the publishing house Taschen dedicated entirely to Pleats Please, the most famous line of pleats by Issey Miyake. The book, edite...
2023 Collection... previews by Elle Venturini!
No, it's not a joke; rather it is a fully cognisant challenge and approach to design as it relates to clothing. Collection 2023 is the title of a work in progress, which is taking shape in a manne...
Photo by Steven Meisel for Vogue Italia, July 2012. There is no difficult technique to make the clothes of this collection. To make clothes without techniques is the most difficult think. The best ...
First arrivals fall/winter 2012-2013
As summer is moving forward, end of season sales give way to the new Fall/Winter arrivals. IVO MILAN’s new catalogue is growing day by day as new boxes are delivered. Spectacular pieces emerge fro...
The sense of quiet resonating from the old wall behind the outfit in the foreground bring to mind that calm and carefree holiday described so well in the first chapters of Tender Is the Night by F...
Traces of a midsummer afternoon...
In the sun-drenched, baking courtyard just outside our Padua shop, among pastel walls and porticos, the colours of an ongoing summer season blend together. Clothes, hats, bags and shoes, all suitab...
New perspectives...now on sale too!
Do you think sales just mean the present season’s end-of-the-line products? Browsing an online catalogue that displays the same garments and suits for months on end can bore you and stifle interest...
Trippen...an avant-garde shoe!
It may seem paradoxical to present a footwear product from an entirely intellectual perspective. Yet, when it comes to Trippen shoes, it is truly impossible to get away from the philosophy that sta...
Yohji Yamamoto, spring-summer 2012
Yohji Yamamoto’s opening and his entire show to present his spring-summer collection for 2012 will be accompanied by the calm and sensual voice of the great George Moustaki. The only interruption w...
Appearances can be deceiving...
An easy cardigan?...Paper and acrylic barré knitted! For some reason whenever we go into a store, or even more so, whenever we happen across an online clothes catalog, our approach tends to be...
The minimalist design of the exclusively hand-made line of hats made for the German brand SCHA, belies the expert craftsmanship of the Polish designer Ewa Kulasek. Having studied painting and sculp...
Simona Tagliaferri, spring-summer 2012
Completed studies in architecture, specialising in gemmology. Training that ranges from the macro to the micro, within which Simona Tagliaferri developed her passion for accessories, and more gener...
Contrary to what you could think on reading the name, Peter Non is an all Italian product with head office just below the splendid Dolomites. Peter comes from the Greek term “petros”, rock, and ind...
Shu Moriyama Spring/Summer 2012
Shu Moriyama’s training took shape and developed in the long, trusted collaboration with Yohji Yamamoto. During that extraordinary experience, many years ago, he consolidated his professional skill...
"Knowing how to reinvent yourself, while remaining faithful to your stylistic identity" might just be the simple, albeit elusive, key to enjoying spectacular success on the international fashion ...
Junya Watanabe Spring-Summer 2012
There is an unexpected concession to the exuberant iridescence of the natural world in the collection for Spring/Summer 2012 by Junya Watanabe, a longtime collaborator of Rei Kawakubo of Comme des ...
Comme des Garçons Spring/Summer 2012
The Comme des Garcons spring/summer 2012 collection, baptized White Drama by Rei Kawakubo, is steeped in symbolic meaning. The title introduces the major role played by the leading color of the pa...
Spring-Summer 2012, new arrivals and backstage!
We are photographing the new collections… keep up with us to find out all the news, the opening of the shop in Padua and the catalogue, which is growing day by day! The photographer, Orlando, and t...
The cold is upon us, even as the season is already preparing for the new spring/summer arrivals. Yet, there are clothing items which are perfect for when the temperatures of the winter month...
The bitter cold of recent days might just be an excellent opportunity to stock up on exceptional winter clothing items. Prices are not only discounted but, until 9:00 am Tuesday, February 14, shipp...
Remember our report last year about London's Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition, devoted entirely to the work of Yohji Yamamoto? Of course, the master himself couldn't help but be a part of it....
More than a clothing brand, Cosmic Wonder is a philosophy of life and a conceptual project conceived by the Japanese artist Yukinori Maeda in 1997. At the very center, serving as the common thread...