Monthly Archives: September 2017

Amazon has developed in the last few months a disturbing interest in the fashion industry: the Internet-based retailer has indeed launched The Fix, an in-house accessories label available exclusively to the retailer's Prime customers; then it started its own label, … Continue reading →

Naples celebrates today its patron saint, Saint Januarius, known in Italy as San Gennaro. The event is marked by a very special miracle – the liquefaction of the saint's blood that takes place three times a year (today, his feast; … Continue reading →

We do live in very incoherent times: one minute our attention is caught by serious global issues going from nuclear wars to climate change, the next we're preoccupied about more superficial matters like the latest model of high-tech gadget on … Continue reading →

There have been so many collections on the New York and London fashion week runways that featured items borrowed, stolen, copied or plagiarised from other collections that, by now, there doesn't seem to be much point in writing proper reviews … Continue reading →

In yesterday's post we explored the liquid inspirations behind a collection showcased during New York Fashion Week. In that case the designer moved from photographs of pools, but there have been other fashion collections for the next season inspired by … Continue reading →

A pool is an architectural structure that can be interpreted from metaphorical points of view and linked to social and personal experiences. Athletes may see a pool as a place where they train on a daily basis; owning a house … Continue reading →

If Miuccia Prada had a school where a young designer could learn from her how to borrow and remix ideas, garments and accessories from other times and collections in a convincing way and if Marc Jacobs had ever attended such … Continue reading →

New York Fashion Week closes today and, though its programme featured over 100 shows, as a whole this edition wasn't certainly memorable, especially considering random plagiarisms and assorted useless collections. One positive aspect, though, was that there was more diversity … Continue reading →

In yesterday's post we looked at two runway sets and made a comparison between them, wondering if the fact that they looked the same may have been a mere design coincidence or a plagiarism case. Yet it is clear that … Continue reading →

Popstar-turned-designer ‪Rihanna has so far been one of the main protagonists of New York Fashion Week: she launched last week in the Big Apple her Fenty Beauty makeup line, while yesterday evening her Fenty X Puma runway took place.  Her … Continue reading →