Monthly Archives: August 2009

Here's a quick picture of the Rubelli window shop in Venice. Rubelli has been producing luxuriously amazing textiles for interior design products for over 150 years and, in more recent times, the company has also been associated with cinema since … Continue reading →

In the mid-1800s Italian tailoring houses were creating designs that mixed the latest fashion trends from France and England. The results of this combination were rather elegant and the tailor made designs were sold to the upper classes, from the … Continue reading →

There are quite a few queues around Rome’s St Peter’s Square, from the one to actually enter the Basilica, to the queue that allows you to visit the tombs of the Popes or to climb up to the dome and … Continue reading →

I perfectly understand that it can be rather sad passing through Piazza di Spagna in Rome and looking at the windows of designer shops in the area rather than at the monuments and art that surround you, but I somehow … Continue reading →

If you’re passing through Rome and rather than visiting museums and galleries you want to do a little bit of shopping or are a shoe addict and want to see some amazing architectural designs, avoid Via Condotti and such likes … Continue reading →

Mila Schön’s fashion house was among the most famous in Italy in the 60s. The late designer received many awards for her work, among them also the Neiman Marcus Award for her use of colour. The brand was well known … Continue reading →

If you like old fashion books, you may have often stumbled, while leafing through books or researching in a library, in illustrations portraying several women with the same tunic-shaped dress in differently coloured version. Such illustrations appeared in various fashion … Continue reading →

While looking at pictures and footage of crowded beaches on the Internet and on the news that showed how people are spending their summer holidays, my mind went back to some photographs taken on the set of the film Les … Continue reading →

A few days ago an article on the New York Times focused on the return of specific 80s trends. The journalist who wrote the piece also quoted the late Amy M. Spindler, a fashion critic I used to like, who, … Continue reading →

Among my favourite fashion images there is a picture taken by Gene Fenn in 1944. Entitled “Noguchi sculpture and model”, the photograph, used for a cover of Junior Bazaar magazine, portrayed a young girl wearing an oversized blue, white and … Continue reading →