Una volta, c'era "solo" l'export del Made in Italy. Che non era niente male, peraltro, perche' dava profitti alle aziende che sapevano fare prodotti vincenti sui mercati internazionali, lavoro ai loro dipendenti, e prestigio al Paese. Oggi la missione industriale-commerciale resta per tutti gli imprenditori l'ovvia ragione per espandere le attivita...
READ MOREby Max Berlinger Last night, at Salvatore Ferragamo's two-story Fifth Avenue store, the high-end Italian brand hosted an intimate gathering to welcome their Su Misura made-to-measure program, a newly launched initiative that allows their male clientele to consult with an in-house team of fit specialists on a range of custom suits, jackets, pants,...
READ MORESecond appointment in New York with Yamamay to interpretate the new Fall/Winter collection 2013!I tried to highlight the most romantic side of the collection, which keeps its sophistication and simplicity. An autumn full of gentleness and tenderness with a touch of malice. The lace keeps being a must for the brand, being the essence of feminin...
READ MOREBy Katie Abel "Paris is such a great place for inspiration. It's so glamorous. The light is different here — I love it," said Gianvito Rossi a little more than a month before the devastating terrorist attacks in the French Capital. On this Sunday afternoon during Paris Fashion Week, the mood was energetic across the City of Light. &n...
READ MORE"You can't find it here," she'd say of her body-hugging magenta dress with all the cutouts, encapsulating the entirety of these United States of America in a syllable — "here" — and a shrug. "It's from Italy." Some of her clothes were produced by big name designers, while others bore Italian-named labels we'd never heard of. But who made the garmen...
READ MOREThe cloak of time that concealed them – not to mention the green grass that covered them – is gone at last, and the precious polychrome "fan-shaped" mosaics in [one of the] palaestrae of the Baths of Caracalla (Rome), dating back to the third century AD, have resumed their ancient luster thanks to the restoration work begun in 2015. The pr...
READ MOREAeffe USA is shutting the doors of its Philosophy di Alberta Ferretti boutique in New York. The company accepted Ferrim USA's proposal Wednesday to prematurely break the lease the fashion company had at 452 West Broadway. Aeffe USA is the property of Aeffe SpA, a company listed on the Italian Stock Exchange that controls the Moschino, Albe...
READ MOREWTI Magazine #37 2014 July, 2Author : Maria Teresa Squillaci Translation by: Today's big fashion news is that Giambattista Valli is introducing a new ready-to-wear line called Giamba, less than 10 years after he launched his own label.So what can we expect from this new line? Giambattista himself described it as powerful, active, on...
READ MOREYears ago—more years than I like to tell myself—I lived in Rome. And if you know anything about Rome, you know that every cliché is true: The pasta is that good, the pizza is that good, too, the city is a museum, the laundry hanging from the lines really is how they dry their clothes, and an Italian would run over his nonna for a properly ripened t...
READ MOREEntrepreneurship is probably difficult to acquire. But some men are just born with the gift. With ideas like milking wildebeest in Africa to how to fit a camera in a phone, Federico Marchetti, CEO and founder of the Yoox group, always knew he was meant to be an entrepreneur. It was just a matter of which direction to take. "I realised I wo...
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