Italian footwear brand DIS gets creative: an app that measures your feet for hand-made shoes
In Italy, where COVID-19 has had a massive impact on daily life, Design Italian Shoes (DIS), a start-up specializing in fully customizable, Italian-made footwear, has innovated with an app that scans your feet to allow them to create made-to-measure shoes. And in the spirit of the times, DIS says it will make its technology open […]
YOOX and Vogue Italia launch sustainable, responsible fashion programme with €50,000 top prize
Jacopo M. Raule YOOX and Vogue Italia celebrated the launch of their mentoring programme, the Vogue YOOX Challenge—the Future of Responsible Fashion, at the San Paolo Converso church in Milano yesterday, during the city’s fashion week. The programme aims to support and mentor designers, creatives and start-ups who are investing in social responsibility and […]
Twiggy returns as Bonaveri brings back Adel Rootstein mannequins
Lapo Quagli Bonaveri, the specialists in mannequins and bust forms, has launched a new Adel Rootstein collection after acquiring the brand in 2019. The new collection is based around 1960s icon Twiggy, the model who exemplified in many ways the spirit of Swinging London. Traditionally, Adel Rootstein was a forward-looking brand and considered […]
Travel alert: robbed in Italy—again
Benoît Prieur/CC-BY-SA A friend has been robbed in Italy again, the second time, and both events occurred while driving rented cars. The victim, a 60-something American woman, speaks Italian. The first robbery occurred two years ago at an Autogrill along the autostrada, those weird privately owned rest stops (owned by Benetton) found on the […]
Interior designer Kirsten Ford represents New Zealand at international Salone del Mobile competition
Hanson & Daughters The 58th Salone del Mobile Milano—better known to Anglophones as the Milan furniture fair—has a Kiwi representative this year, with Kirsten Ford from Auckland’s North Shore flying the flag for New Zealand as part of a global design competition. The fair, held this year from April 9 to 14, is one […]
Karl Lagerfeld dead at 85, according to French media
Top: The most recent photo we have on file of Karl Lagerfeld, with model Adut Akech Bior (photo courtesy Chanel). Above: Karl Lagerfeld in 2015. Left: Karl Lagerfeld and the closing bridal gown at the Chanel autumn–winter 2012–13 haute couture presentation at the Grand Palais. Reports are emerging from France that Chanel and Fendi creative […]
The revived Engelmüller brand has launched a range of gloves inspired by motor racing, including this pair named for female racing driver Eliška Junková. The E. J. 28 gloves, designed by Jana Rollová, takes the shade of Junková’s Bugatti Type 35B, which she piloted to a win at the Targa Florentino in 1928. The gloves […]
This year’s Green Carpet Fashion Awards, Italia, held at La Scala at Milano on Sunday, saw Suzy Menkes, Elle Macpherson and Donatella Versace pick up awards, along with four Australian farmers, who were awarded the Eco Stewardship Award. The event was opened by Carlo Capasa, president of the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana, who […]
Shawn Mendes fronts Emporio Armani Connected autumn–winter 2018–19 smartwatch campaign
Canadian singer–songwriter Shawn Mendes fronts Emporio Armani Connected’s autumn–winter 2018–19 smartwatch campaign. The new watches are now available for ordering (pre-sale) online at armani.com, and hit shelves in early September, at both Armani stores and selected retailers. The latest touchscreen smartwatches have a Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 2100 SoC processor running Google’s Wear OS, and […]
News in brief: Alfa Romeo wins 25th Compasso d’Oro; Bagazine launches; cannabis perfume hits market
The Alfa Romeo Giulia has won Italy’s prestigious Compasso d’Oro (Golden Compass) award, hosted by the Associazione per il Disegno Industriale (ADI). The sports’ saloon, developed in a record two-and-a-half years by a “skunk works” group independent of parent company FCA’s usual units, has already notched up considerable acclaim from the motoring press since […]
