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When you think of luxurious European cosmetics, I think we’d all look at the French beauty industry. It’s hard not to. With the likes of L’Oréal, LVMH, L’Occitane and Clinique all hailing from the country, it’s clearly a mecca for successful cosmetic powerhouses. However, there seems to be a rumble in the jungle of late, with the Italian government...

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For a certain rung of the world, sneakers and t-shirts might be covetable, but they aren’t the rarest thing within reach. The ultimate grail might be an emerald green sequin Valentino cape, a rose-print silk-chiffon gown trimmed outrageously with white ostrich feathers dipped in rose pink and leaf green, or the iconic Chanel skirt suit in “painted...

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The Italian textile company has a seven-year-old partnership with Hermès. By David Moin on June 27, 2018 With the opening of its showroom in Manhattan’s D&D Building, Dedar, a 42-year-old Italian textile design firm rooted in home fabrics and wallpaper, expresses an open-minded approach. “Our textiles are conceived and created for interiors, though...

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Cosmetica Italia è l’associazione nazionale delle imprese cosmetiche che dal 1967 riunisce oltre 500 aziende – dalle PMI alle multinazionali – rappresentative del 95% del fatturato del settore, vicino agli 11 miliardi di euro.  Un settore di eccellenza del Made in Italy ma che nell’immaginario collettivo viene spesso collocato in coda ad altri comp...

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Pasquale Giacobbe, 31 anni, barbiere da quando ne aveva 13. Una grande tenacia e una gran voglia di farcela che lo ha portato fin dall’altro lato dell’oceano. Dalla sua Napoli sbarca negli Stati Uniti 8 anni fa. Prima un anno a Miami e poi, finalmente, New York. Una valigia ed un sogno: aprire una barberia italiana. Sogno che oggi ha un nome e un c...

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Luxury Italian lifestyle brand Bruno Magli is setting up shop in New York. On Sept. 1, the company will unveil a location in the city’s trendy Soho neighborhood. It’s the second store opening in the U.S. since new owner, Marquee Brands, acquired the brand in 2015. The 2,000-square-foot store will be located in a shopping area that boasts designer b...

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The lambent new tower of art galleries Rem Koolhaas and his Rotterdam-based firm, OMA, have designed for the Prada Foundation is a chameleon. From the east, the elevation presents a slim, unadorned, milk-white concrete block, nine stories high, punctured by loggias — a signpost, like the traditional village bell tower, rising above a low, scruffy n...

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The weaving of plant fibres is one of humanity’s most ancient activities, and takes inspiration from nature and has been used over time to create a wide variety of containers and hats that protect against the sun’s glare. In Signa in 1714, Domenico Michelacci, known as Bolognino, began to cultivate 'grano marzuolo', a variety of wheat with small ea...

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Ermenegildo Zegna is a powerhouse in Italian luxury menswear. Superb textiles, impeccable tailoring, and inspired management have propelled the privately held 108-year-old firm to the head of its league, making it not only a global force with approximately 7,000 employees and 500 retail outposts in more than 60 countries but one of the best express...

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L’Italia a Hollywood è il titolo della mostra al Museo Ferragamo, aperta dal 24 maggio 2018 al 10 marzo 2019. L’Italia a Hollywood esplora il periodo che va dal 1915 al 1927, cioè gli anni che Salvatore Ferragamo trascorse in America prima di fare ritorno in Italia. E si tratta di anni che furono cruciali, perché videro il passaggio del testimone c...

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