Final Home...Life, Survival, Protection!
Sun, rain, hot, cold…It’s really difficult to decide what to wear when the weather is unsettled, maybe we are even far from home and it’s not possible to sheltered from sudden meteorological change...
The placid summer calm of the sunny and semi-desert city alleys during August bank holidays clashes with the rapid pace of IVO MILAN shop... Couriers, boxes delivered, boxes to be opened, pictures ...
Summer time, holiday time, time for yourself...
Summer time, holiday time, time for yourself. Departures time and packing time. For this new tour through our summer suggestions we took inspiration from that pre-departure trepidation, recurrent o...
"No Clothes" - Comme des Garçons Spring/Summer 2014
The dresses of Comme des Garçons are asymmetric, essential, pure expression of a deconstructionism deeply rooted in the brand identity. In these dresses it is possible to perceive a sort of charm f...
Paamboli?... Daniela Gregis spring/summer 2014
Paamboli, the name of a very simple Spanish dish consisting of bread and tomato, becomes the title of a summer collection which the Italian Elle editor-in-chief pointed out at the beginning of the ...
Issey Miyake: But don't call me a fashion designer!
He just turned seventy-six years old and he spent forty of them doing what he loves the most, the designer. And not a fashion designer but “simply” a designer as Issey Miyake prefers to be defined....
Have you ever thought about communicating through what you wear? Silvia, a very fond client of IVO MILAN, talk about this in a text she sent us after choosing with great determination the dress tha...
Events, tips and... Heart Box!
Before we give you our usual wishes for the upcoming holiday season, here is a look at the latest happening in the store, the exhibition by Laura Stefani, Eva Franceschini and Alessandro Zaffagnini...
Future Beauty: Avant-Garde Japanese Fashion
Are you planning a trip to the U.S. soon, or perhaps you are already in the vicinity of Salem, Massachusetts? If so, then don't miss the opportunity to visit the Peabody Essex Museum exhibition goi...
MAKING A DIFFERENCE...Reportage!
This obvious borrowing from Apple's famous 1997 ad campaign Think Different is meant to introduce an event which, for the first time in Italy, will bringing together the works of two Finnish desig...
Fall/Winter 2013-'14...proposals!
A week after the Milan Fashion Week and the Paris Fashion Week, we are finally back with an appointment with our tutor Sari and her brand new combinations working beyond the catalogue. Some supp...
Paris Fashion Week, S/S 2014, part one!
Paris Fashion Week for Spring/Summer 2014 ended a few days ago and, though a lot has already been talked about in various online magazines, we can't help but share our enthusiasm and our experienc...
Paris Fashion Week, S/S 2014, part two!
Sari and Orlando Milan, among the people for the Vivienne Westwood fashion show...September, 28th, Rue du 4 September, Le Centorial ...and then, showrooms! To the Trippen...landscape shoes! ...
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...
From virtual to real, part I: Elio Armano sculptor...
Flowers and Terracotta... Cultural encounters and events allow us to remember that IVO MILAN is more than just an online catalogue available anywhere in the world and that it is first and foremost ...
The first impression one gets from Rei Kawakubo's summer collection is that it is suited for the Tin Man from Frank L. Baum’s famous book, The Wizard of Oz. This impression is highlighted by eccent...
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...
THE REDEMPTION OF THE OUTCAST...previews!
The IVO MILAN shop in Padua is currently presenting an exhibition entitled: REDEEMING VALUE The exhibition will be on display until Wednesday, December 13, 2012. A space has been set up for the ex...
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...
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 ...
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...
BaoBao Issey Miyake F/W 2012-2013!
Pieces of applied science (AT CASA September 2011 ). There is certainly no risk in making this statement when talking about BaoBao origami bags, the intellectual works created by Issey Miyake and ...
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 ...
Yohji Yamamoto at the Design Museum Holon! July 5 - October 20, 2012
Following on from Florence, Paris and London, the futuristic Design Museum in Holon will be the next stop to celebrate 40 years in the career of the great Yohji Yamamoto, with an exhibition running...
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...
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...
Comme des Garçons – White Drama, Paris, from April 13 to October 7, 2012
If you have not already planned one, here’s an excellent reason to arrange a trip to the Ville Lumiére in the next six months. Today they are inaugurating the reopening of the Musée Galliera insid...
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...
Light and color: with Pleats Please-Issey Miyake, the Mexico of Luis Barragàn is reborn
The title chosen for the Pleats Please winter collection is a tribute to the work of the most prominent Mexican architect, Luis Barragàn. Abstract shapes and lively multicoloured designs on bags, ...
Overviews, new outfits and details that can be seen from a close view from the Padua boutique. A real and evocative point of view, to make the acquaintance of the complex new collections o...
Comme des Garçons Trading Museum opens in Paris
On September, 30, Friday, at rue du Faubourg St. Honoré, 54, the new Rei Kawakubo's concept store has been opened. The following words, said by the members of the staff of the famous designer are i...
Irving Penn and Issey Miyake, on exhibit at 21_21 Design Sight in Tokyo
How great it would be, if we could use teleportation! Apart from its many advantages in terms of freedom, costs and pollution, this mean of transport would make it possible for us to go and spend ...
On the concept of "Radical Fashion"
This piece was thinked to be published in a kind of magazine such as ELLE UK, one of the best fashion magazine, where articles used to talk about fashion differently from the ordinary publications...
Certainly, only a few people know what happens when Ivo Milan is asked an apparently simple question, that is to wrap a gift. If the request comes from the web site, it is impossible to know how lo...
To show once again how the limits between art and fashion are indefinable within the so-called Japanese school, we report the curious installation the architect Yoichi Yamamoto made, for Issey Miya...