Having previously lamented about the lack of summer in the UK (although it’s turning up right about now), I thought I’d roll back time to when I was in the Tuscan hills, taking in the spiritual home of Emilio Pucci. It’s rare that I get to go see the roots of Italian powerhouses unlike their… Continue reading Print Villa
Category: Art
For Raf-Addicts and Gosha-Heads
The excitement in the run-up to this particular edition of Pitti Uomo was palpable. The line-up of designer projects at Pitti have always been impressive but perhaps it was the combination of a) one of the most significant menswear designers to have emerged in the last twenty years and b) potentially one that will follow… Continue reading For Raf-Addicts and Gosha-Heads
Telling Tales with La Traviata
There are some press trips that you just don’t say no to. Try as I have done to limit my travel schedule this year, opportunities that involve the following… Rome, Valentino – both the founder of the house Valentino Garavani and his successorsMaria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli (who Garavani repeatedly refers to as his “guardian angels”), the… Continue reading Telling Tales with La Traviata
The Marriage of Manus and Machina
The quiet. The minute. The hidden. The unsung. These are the surprising elements of fashion that have come together in ‘Manus X Machina Fashion in an Age of Technology’, which is perhaps the most contemplative exhibition of all the “blockbuster” openings, I’ve seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. Quiet doesn’t mean it… Continue reading The Marriage of Manus and Machina