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“I feel like an outsider in Italy, ‘cause I have more of an American mentality perhaps. But I’m also an outsider in America, because my mentality is more Italian than theirs,” says Moncler Art Director Francesco Ragazzi, who founded high-end streetwear brand Palm Angels in early 2015. The brand – which is based off a coffee table book about LA skat...

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A Milan-based fashion school with locations in Florence, Paris, London and Shanghai will soon open its first school in the United States in Miami’s Design District, The Real Deal has learned. Istituto Marangoni signed a $13.5 million, 10-year lease for the Design District’s tallest building at 3701 Northeast Second Avenue. Developer Alex Karakhania...

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New products, B2B meetings, forums and seminars on jewelry making have characterized the international jewelry show organized by IEG (Italian Exhibition Group), VicenzaOro trade-show which closed on Tuesday, January 25 in Vicenza. Italian-made jewelry, in spite of the crisis in the sector, is holding up in terms of turnover and exports. The Boutiq...

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Amanda Carye stumbled on the idea for her shoe company, Idoni, when she moved to Italy for a six-month business course. Strolling past gelato stands and chapels in Venice, she came across shops selling furlane, a slipper invented during the Second World War, when resources were scarce. At the time, Italian shoemakers—whose craft is still passed dow...

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La 12ma Conferenza dei Ricercatori Italiani nel Mondo si terrà il 25 Marzo, 2017 nell’Auditorio del Consolato Generale d’Italia a Houston (TX). È stata organizzata dal COMITES di Houston (rappresentante degli stati Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and Oklahoma) e dal Consolato Generale d’Italia a Houston. La conferenza ospiterà ricercatori Italiani di a...

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Il quarto flagship store Minotti negli Stati Uniti, trentunesimo nel mondo, ha aperto nel cuore del Miami Design District. Realizzato in collaborazione con DDC su progetto curato da Minotti Studio, lo spazio, con pavimenti in resina e pareti in cemento intervallate da boiserie in legno, si sviluppa su un unico piano di 900mq e declina materiali e c...

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Angela Missoni and Margherita Maccapani Missoni are receiving honorary doctorate degrees from the Academy of Art's School of Fashion.   The graduation and awards ceremony is on Thursday, May 8, but the designers (plus family matriarch Rosita Missoni) are en route to SF today, straight from last night's Met Ball festivities, to attend tomorro...

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Italia è sinonimo di fascino ed eleganza. In tutto il mondo gli italiani sono famosi per quel certo non so che che, anche quando sono vestiti con semplicità, riesce a distinguerli. Si chiama stile e a New York, dove la moda è una cosa seria, gli italiani hanno una vera e propria reputazione per essere stylish. Parlando di made in Italy, quindi, è...

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Kiton’s retail rollout is continuing. The upscale Italian brand will open a 2,500-square-foot store in San Francisco by the end of the month. The store, at Post Street and Grant Avenue, is located one block away from Union Square and will be housed in the Shreve Building, which was built in 1905 and survived the 1906 earthquake because of its then-...

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Ermenegildo Zegna, long a mainstay in the Italian luxury fashion world, got a high-wattage boost when it appointed visionary Stefano Pilati earlier this year as creative director of Agnona, the women's collection, and as head of design for Ermenegildo Zegna. Zegna's tradition of tailoring and leadership in fabrics, combined with Pilati's vision, wi...

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