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Jean Paul Gaultier wasn’t meant to be a fashion icon, his parents hoped he’d become a Spanish teacher. But destiny had different plans. From a quiet Parisian suburb, the future gaultier designer found inspiration not in textbooks, but in his grandmother’s tarot readings and improvised style sessions. At just 18,...

Few garments in the history of fashion have achieved the status and symbolic richness of the Ferré white shirt. For the Italian designer Gianfranco Ferré, known as the “architect of fashion”, this piece was not just a wardrobe staple, but a philosophical statement, a creative playground, and the purest expression...

The Roberta di Camerino Bagonghi is more than just a handbag; it's a symbol of Italian elegance, innovation, and timeless design. From its inception in post-war Venice to gracing the arm of Princess Grace Kelly, the Bagonghi has transcended mere accessory status to become a symbol of sophistication and style....

The Kelly bag: its value, authenticity and how to style it today The Kelly bag by Hermès is a symbol of timeless elegance, exceptional craftsmanship, andenduring value. From its origins in the 1930s to its association with Princess Grace Kelly, this iconic accessory has captivated fashion enthusiasts worldwide. In this...

The Fontana sisters' fashion is particularly linked to their famous wedding dresses since the international press published photos of Tyrone Power's wedding to Linda Christian, celebrated in Rome on 27 January 1949, and confirmed rumours about the designers' choice of wedding dress: Linda Christian wanted a haute couture dress by...

Last January's edition of men's fashion was characterized more by the Omicron variant than by clothes, with several shows canceled at the last minute and a riot of swabs and infections that made people want the sofa more than Front Row; but a very crowded Design Week gave rise, even...

The dating game is changing at ultrasonic speed. To get married? You can but you shouldn't. In this era of fleeting relationships and dating apps, in which "single life" is presented as something to aspire to and no longer as a failure (fortunately), marriage appears anachronistic, something absolutely out of...

While it seems that the whole world, including fashion and art, have moved into virtual reality by trying their hand at creating NFTs and Metaverse-friendly projects such as collections for avatars and effectively non-existent works of art (if you connect the concept of existence , for example, to one's home...

With this message, the photographer David LaChapelle opens the exhibition “David LaChapelle. I believe in miracles”. After spending many many years in the Big Apple, since 2006, LaChapelle has lived on an organic farm in Hawaii, which he founded, where there is no trace of the modern world and everything...

Lovers of the history of costume and vintage (sorry, archive) fashion were awaiting this year's Met Gala with no small enthusiasm. The deus code Gilded Glamor - White-tie, aimed to reflect the Gilded Age (a term coined by Mark Twain in 1873) of New York, a historical period that ran...

Kimberly Thompson CREATIVE DIRECTOR Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. The spring summer 2022 fashion...

In 1948 Lyda Coppola in Toppo, Venetian by birth, founded the couture jewelery brand Coppola & Toppo together with her brother, after having attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and the laboratory of Ada Politzer, a well-known jewelery designer. Daughter of a Trieste mother of Jewish origins and...