straight pleated calf-length dress with diagonal multicolour fantasy Despite of the resolute summer pace, with an alternation -in Italy at least- of anticyclones, here in the shop ar...
Something new in the shop? If some days before the summer begins someone has already started to ask for the new arrivals, maybe we need to stimulate a greater curiosity about what our colle...
Daniela Gregis's slow living: Spring/Summer 2015
In contrast with a world becoming more and more small, fast and homogeneous, Daniela Gregis insists in shaping what we could call a slow living, a reduced-speed and a man measured modus vivendi. Th...
It has been a while since we not coming back to the space/workshop that contains every our activity: online catalogue composition, shop windows, communications, presentations and everything in gene...
BaoBao-Issey Miyake: the high-tech bag
Born from a Pleats Please experiment, the Issey Miyake cult bag has been 'baptized' as an independent project with the name BaoBao only in the 2000, a symbolic tribute to the futuristic Guggheneim ...
Yohji Yamamoto Spring/Summer 2015
The unfailing exercises around the black colour of the great Japanese master compose a Spring/Summer 2015 definitely less austere and formal than the previous editions. Slimmer volumes, alternated ...
Daniela Gregis F/W 2015-16...Preview from the Milan fashion show!
Straight from the fashion show held in Milan at the Oratorio of Sant'Ambrogio last Thursday our preview of the Daniela Gregis A/W 2015-16 collection. Enjoy! &nbs...
Comme des Garçons abstract pea coat similar to a short cape made of technical treated polyester overlapping fabric layers , flared sleeve, raw cut trimmings, strap buckle closure on the neck. From ...
UN-NAMABLE Spring/Summer 2015...a preview of the video from the Carpi showroom!
Click here to watch IVO MILAN at work at UN-NAMABLE showroom in Carpi. Emerging reality, located in the famous textile district of Carpi, Italy, Un-Namable makes use of the precious local manufactu...
Verybusy F/W 2014-15...filming in the store!
Click here to watch the entire IVO MILAN staff at work in the shop trying on the Verybusy A/W 2014-15 proposals. Despite the meaning of its name, Verybusy is an Italian knitwear brand near to defin...
Y's Yohji Yamamoto F/W 2014-15... from the Paris showroom
Click here to see IVO MILAN at work at Y's Yohji Yamamoto showroom in Paris. The season sales could be boring, with the pedantic reappearance of garments already seen and maybe perceived, euphemis...
...Things you couldn't even imagine!
Packaging by Maison Issey Miyake for the circular pleated jacket. Issey Miyake 'sculpture’ short and fitted at the waist jacket in triacetate and polyester circular pleated printed with regular sm...
Yohji Yamamoto Autumn/Winter 2014-15
Celtic harsh resonances support the presentation of a simply great Yohji Yamamoto’s Autumn/Winter collection, in an alternation of folk melodies suggesting the thematic references chosen for the co...
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 ...
Spring/Summer 2014 Mix-and-Match
In the middle of spring and with the catalogue almost complete, we can finally give life to some suggestions with the colours and the movements of the real life. Yes, because it is inside the most ...
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....
The first arrivals (Comme des Garçons, Junya Watanabe, Vivienne Westwood, Yohji Yamamoto, for example) for the next spring/summer season are starting to appear in store, in anticipation of a se...
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...
This week we would like to be your guide to the store as if it were another stop on a sight-seeing trip through the charming streets of the historic centre of Padua. As you admire the last remainin...
"The infinity of tailoring" are the laconic words Rei Kawakubo used to close the Comme des Garçons Autumn/Winter 2013-2014 fashion show. The expression is well suited to being used as a pithy title...
What’s in fashion this year?...still asking these questions?
After many years working in stores, it still happens that someone stops by with a bewildered expression and asks the same fateful question: So, what's in style this year? A professional, objective ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Comme des Garçons and Yohji Yamamoto, books!
After the recent volume by Taschen on the Pleats Please by Issey Miyake, the most important European publishing house specialised in art, architecture and design is about to publish two monographs ...
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...
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,...
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...