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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"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 ...
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...
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...
More of the creative tumult that inspires the world of Flemish designer, Nico Uytterhaegen! From perfumes to jewellery, the artist is versatile and inimitable when it comes to producing leather acc...
The strength of globalization is at work here! From clothing to home accessories, the British designer brand Oyuna, has had the genial idea of combining the finest cashmere from its native country...
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...
Our overview of Ivo Milan’s shop goes on. It is dedicated, first of all, to all the women who haven’t had the opportunity yet to go to Padua’s city centre and visit the premises of the shop, in San...
After a long absence, a grand return. XII XII XLIX (12/12/49), birth date of the great Italian designer, marks the riappropriation of the brand after a long controversy. Today's collection is com...
Vlas Blomme, in Flemish, means “The flax flower”. This is a clear tribute to Flanders, the world's capital of the production and manufacture of this valuable fibre, and also a tribute to flax, the ...
After she finished the National Institute of Design and Technology at Ahmedabad, Aneet Arora started signing her own brand with the name Péro, that in Marwari, one of the languages of Rajasthan, me...
Despite having worked with Junya Watanabe and Rei Kawakubo for nearly a decade, Abe Chitose, the young designer of the Sacai brand, was able to distance himself from his illustrious masters and dev...
Issey Miyake’s art and vision can be defined in two short words: light and joy. His garments are a feast for the eyes and the soul, and attract, amaze and surprise even an audience that is indiffe...
Junya Watanabe Spring-Summer 2011
A long time collaborator with Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garçons, Junya is with no doubts the most attentive interpreter of the cyber metropolitan spirit of current urban cultures. He is now one o...
30 years of Japanese Fashion Exhibition in London
You have just a few days left to organize an unmissable visit to the Barbican Art Gallery in London. For several months now, Europe's largest multi-arts centre has been hosting this first European ...