Monthly Archives: November 2012

If you're making lists of Christmas presents for family members and friends who work in the fashion industry and you're looking for something not too expensive, yet clever and useful, or if you work in fashion and you're on the … Continue reading →

So it's official: having your confessor in your Board of Directors truly helps your shares. At least that's what happens if we believe the latest Brunello Cucinelli story. The “Umbrian king of cashmere” entered with his Solomeo-based company the Milan … Continue reading →

In the last few years Italy has been the black sheep of the global fashion industry. Critics indicated different reasons behind this fall into disgrace, from the production being moved to other countries offering cheaper labour to Milan Fashion Week … Continue reading →

One of the most obnoxious trends for this sad fashion year that is very luckily dying away remains the flower crown. Sported by Lana Del Rey, seen on various runways and adopted by too many fashion aficionados gone twee at … Continue reading →

Crisis can have different effects and causes but they have in common a high degree of exchange market pressure. While the debate about how did finance cause the crisis, what should we do to manage its effects, and did the … Continue reading →

The Sunday Comparison column comes back today with another brief juxtaposition, this time between Alexander Wang's Spring/Summer 2013 footwer and Roger Vivier's iconic "Ara" sandals.    In his latest collection Wang tried to pull garments apart exposing their structure, almost revealing the … Continue reading →

From today and hopefully on a weekly basis, Irenebrination will follow the vicissitudes of the workers from the Chieti-based Sixty company through a documentary that could be considered as a joint venture between this site and the local workers. A … Continue reading →

The 13th Venice International Architecture Biennale wraps up on Sunday, so I'm republishing today a feature I originally did for another publication about the Torre David installation that won the Golden Lion for the Best Project. Visitors to the 13th … Continue reading →

Shoes are a key item in everyone's wardrobe, from fashion victims to ordinary people with no interest in following trends. Yet there's shoes and shoes and in Belgian Anne Poesen's world another type of footwear – mainly influenced by architecture … Continue reading →

It may be extremely difficult for most of us leading quiet and calm lives trying to put ourselves in the place of those people who went through major disasters and lost their dear ones and their homes during such tragedies. … Continue reading →