Of weaves, visions and metamorphoses: Boboutic
In the past, we have already had the opportunity to present the exceptional nature of Boboutic, the Italian brand specializing in knitwear production. One would naturally expect the development of ...
An education at the China Textile University in Shanghai, followed by a degree in fashion design in London at Central Saint Martins, mark the beginnings of Uma Wang, the first Chinese designer to b...
''After the dust'' as Rei Kawakubo titles the 2026 Spring/Summer collection. An almost prescient expression for the history of the store. After years of dusty absence caused by the closure i...
Let's pick up where we left off...
Let's keep the thread of our usual posts, a brief “The Choices of Ivo Milan” on personal selections from Milan and Paris Fashion Week, during the various show-room experiences, while the pieces wer...
Bergfabel, a mountain tale in the world
When presenting a collection, the context from which it draws inspiration, the atmosphere and local culture that shape its identity, are often overlooked. In a way, getting to know a designer, a co...
After an incredibly long and demanding day at Comme des Garçons, in the historic show-room on Place Vendôme in Paris, I decide to push through a bit longer and visit Manuelle Guibal at Quai aux Fle...
Anyone passing through Padua is familiar with the windows of our store. An opportunity where the garment is placed on a sort of stage, set against a backdrop of backlit panels. These suspended pan...
AVANT TOI... hand-painting and knitwear
A story of craftmanship, family and excellence – this is Avant Toi, an Italian brand born in Genoa in 1955 with the purchase of its first knitting machine and the determination of Lia Gambetta, the...
CFCL: Clothing For Contemporary Life
A futuristic development of the ethics of Miyake Design Studio directs the philosophy of the Japanese brand, now in its ninth season—tenth, if we consider the presentation already held in Paris for...
We have already had the opportunity to present the work of one of our most recent new entries, Melitta Baumeister, but it is with great satisfaction that we share the prestigious recognition she ha...
We are in Bergamo, but the journey begins far away, in Tokyo, the city of birth and education. Risa specializes at the prestigious Tama Art University in textile design, a path that leads her to th...
Opportunities to showcase the work of Junya Watanabe, the Japanese designer historically produced by the Maison Comme des Garçons, have been plentiful. He was among the illustrious guests at the Ra...
From Saint Lucy to Saint Sophia...
After 24 years spent in our historic space in Santa Lucia street, the story of IVO MILAN starts again in Altinate street 149, along the continuation of the same ancient roman street, Annia Popilia,...
Winner of the 2023 edition of the prestigious CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund – award dedicated to the new design generations, established to sustain the most promising talents of the international scene i...
Introducing another new addition to the FW 2023-24 season: DAWEI. The eponymous brand of the young Paris-based designer, Dawei Sun, was launched in 2016 after his graduation from the École de la Ch...
ZIGGY CHEN Fall/Winter 2023-24
Far from being a newcomer to the world of design, Ziggy Chen, the pseudonym of Chen Xiang, launched his men's fashion label in Shanghai in 2012. This followed years of experience in teaching textil...
Agostina Zwilling, from culture to nature
Eco-fashion-designer of Italian-Austrian origin, Agostina Zwilling is an artist who investigates processes, scenarios, methodologies and best practices in design. Using the nunofelt technique, she...
We don't have half-seasons anymore! This popular saying has never been as real and true to its meaning. After two months of torrential rainfalls and winter temperatures, suddenly, summer is here. D...
The first change of temperatures allows us to finally experience the autumn season even outside of the online dimension 'catalogue' and of the daily spaces of the store. Now you can place the garme...
Dedicated to Issey Miyake, by Ivo Milan
How many times in the shop has an occasional and distracted adventurer started with this exclamation: "Oh, yes, Issey Miyake, the perfumes one!". An expression that, in all its naive purity, revea...
Mix and Match Spring/Summer 2022
While the summer insists on its hottest manifestations, longing for holiday destinations, regenerating rhythms and locations, we return together to Sari with some outdoor shots. An opportunity to o...
Early October 2021, it’s still hot during an atypical Paris Fashion Week, with few foreign presences, fashion shows, and showrooms (effects of the pandemic and all relevant restrictions). After alm...
'Tintinba' - Daniela Gregis FW 2021-2022
“It’s all hand finished!” That’s what said one of the more expert tailors of the city while caressing with great care the endless length of the rim to be adjusted, bottom part of a cashmere coat s...
We have already had the opportunity to meet Shu Moriyama before, and those who visited our store in Padua in the last years could know his work, his textile and styling know-how originating from hi...
BOBOUTIC Autumn/Winter 2019-'20
Boboutic was born in the year 2000 from the close collaboration between the designer Michel Bergamo and the architect and photographer Cristina Zamagni, today both professors of Fashion Design at t...
MARC LE BIHAN | Fall/Winter 2019-'20
When crossing the threshold of the 25th Henry Monnier rue, between Pigalle and Mont-Martre, a carpet of black sounding stones marks the sudden passage to another dimension. There is no longer the P...
Issey Miyake Resort F/W 2019-2020
New insights around the Issey Miyake Resort, a line of the Issey Miyake Maison that, first of all, launches the debut of the new Winter Season. Presented during the Paris Fashion Week for the 2019 ...
A respectable new entry for this season, Phaedo Studios, a brand of Chinese origin, whose name is inspired by a Plato work, Phaedo (in ancient Greek Φαίδων, Phàidō). Fascinated by the sound and the...
NICOLA BORTOLETTO | Primitivism of the Act
This is the first solo exhibition in its home town for Nicola Bortoletto, a young artist from Padua, class 1997. An episode of dialogue between distant and, at the same time, close expressive expe...
Issey Miyake Resort - Pre-collection 2019
Always present in the history of the Maison, the Issey Miyake Resort, once called Fête, is presented much in advance compared to the concerning season. Included in fact in the pre-collections calen...
Christmas 2018 | A special gift...
If only the Christmas holidays would be an occasion to offer not so obvious gifts, with redounded shapes and brands, but rather unique ones, for their material, for their creative ingenuity or tho...
RENLI SU / Instinct, courage and adventure
Already a regular guest at London's Dover Street Market, despite her young age, Renli Su unveils an unprecedented China compared to what usually comes in mind: a common place of low-cost production...
Fall/Winter 2018-'19 | Where is Rei taking us?
Sometimes we have noticed how, in the collections by Rei Kawakubo in art Comme des Garçons, we can find the textile expression of philosophical concepts or perceptions on the contemporary deepened ...
MIAORAN | New Fall/Winter 2018-'19 Collections
A made in Italy sustained by promising names is hidden behind the young Miaoran brand. Miao, the Italian-Chinese designer of the brand, after an education in design and pattern making at the most p...
At the acme of summer, the first winter arrivals distract us from the high temperatures and from the phlegmatic calm of the semi-deserted cities. In the store we can taste the new season that day ...
DANIELA GREGIS | spring-summer 2018
On the first day of Autumn, 21st of September, 2017, we find ourselves inside the Oratorio della Passione at the Basilica di Sant'Ambrogio in Milan, a large wooden structure brushed with blue, an a...
Comme des Garçons | Spring/Summer 2018
Much closer to a theatrical performance, the Comme des Garçons fashion shows have become an opportunity to witness the staging of a sort of textile fashion zeitgeist. The designer’s renouncement of...
Never as for the case of Gustavo Lins is the expression 'clothes as architectures for the body' more fitting. In fact the Brasilian designer is born as an architect but, after accepting the challen...
New Arrivals | Spring/Summer 2018
Daniela Gregis While winter insists in the slow progress of Febbruary, the new collections already anticipate a spring glimpse. The first deliveries of Issey Miyake, Pleats Please, Shu Moriy...
Gasa* and Native Village Autumn/Winter 2017-2018
And again Japan is the place from which a new entry comes with the symbolic name Gasa*, 'gauze' in Spanish, deliberately chosen by the designer Mie Igarashi, pointing to the close reference to one ...
New Entry F/W 2017-'18: Individual Sentiments
Sometimes, discovering new realities, flair and intuition serve very little. In the intensity of the Paris Fashion Week, it is not really possible seeing all the showrooms that one promise to visit...
Yohji Yamamoto Fall/Winter 2017-'18
Quai d'Austerlitz, at the Cité de la Mode et du Design, is the meeting of the Fall/Winter 2017-2018 presentation of the great master Yohji Yamamoto. A place unequivocally linked to the belonging se...
"The Dark Side of Daniela Gregis"
Autumnal fogs, suspended mists, muddy skies, burnished colors, the dried fruits of winter and the woody stumps, ardent in the domestic intimacy of the fireplace. And again the time, spent between t...