Monthly Archives: October 2009

Being under 3 minute long, the mini horror shot by Amy Gwatkin in collaboration with fashion designer and embroiderer extraordinaire Scott Ramsay Kyle is probably the shortest film of its genre. Yet Twin Freaks is spooky enough to be on … Continue reading →

As you may have heard by now, forecasting an 18.8% drop in 2009 sales to 273 million euros ($405.6 million) and an operating loss of 30 million euros ($44.6 million), Versace announced it will cut 350 jobs, roughly 25% of … Continue reading →

The end of the year is near and calendar mania is, as usual, predictably rife. I quite like notebooks, but I have a sort of personal aversion for calendars and diaries as I see them as constrictive tools that try … Continue reading →

If there is one thing that makes me totally jealous about French and German TV viewers is the Franco-German ARTE network and the books and DVD produced by the ARTE group. Being Italian I don't usually watch a lot of … Continue reading →

The surnames Foale and Tuffin are often mentioned in association with popular labels from the "Swinging London" scene such as Mary Quant, Gerald McCann, John Bates's Jean Varon, Ossie Clark, John Stephen and Barbara Hulanicki. All these labels and designers … Continue reading →

A while back I had to enlist the help of a friend of mine to take the exact measurements of my body to have a jacket made. There are two main and very simple reasons why I had to ask … Continue reading →

In a way it was only natural that Rotterdam’s Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum became the chosen destination for “The Art of Fashion: Installing Allusions”, a new exhibition exploring the work of designers who have broken in their work the boundaries … Continue reading →

Last Saturday I pondered a bit on political plays and on Jim Allen’s Perdition. Today I feel like shedding some brief notes on one of my favourite political films, Giuliano Montaldo’s Sacco and Vanzetti (1971) and on the story of … Continue reading →

Elsa Schiaparelli may have used fabric with prints of newspaper articles for her avant-garde designs, but Italian designer Maurizio Longati decided that only original articles and iconic Italian adverts from the ‘50s and ‘60s would have done for his accessories. … Continue reading →

Innovative brand Audio Chi has just launched a range of technologically advanced headphones. I recently asked a few questions about the headphones to one of the brand’s in-house designers, Jili Allen. Allen studied Product Design at Edinburgh Napier University, but … Continue reading →