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Ethical Fashion Africa project by Vivienne Westwood – Pitti Uomo 80th edition

June 17, 2011 0

.00 a.m. and I’m blogging for you. This said, that’s not the only good reason to read about Vivienne Westwood’s new project: indeed, her new collection of bags and accessories for the Ethical Fashion Africa Project, have a good good soul itself. This line of accessories was created in collaboration with the International Trade Centre (United Nations + World Trade Organization) and was produced entirely in Nairobi, with the goal of generating production and employment for the local community, especially among single mothers or women suffering of diseases like AIDS.

A fake snake holed up in the bag . Freitag Special Edition

Bang on trend

April 11, 2011 0

Although it’s four weeks I’ve not been around the city (I’ve been resting by the sea to regain energy and be ready for the 50th Milan design week), two days ago I ended up attending an opening in Corso Como 10, my italian favourite concept store. It was actually the vernissage of another happening held in the first floor of the stunning shop (a design exhibition I’m going to talk about in the next weeks).

To bag or not to bag #2 . Bags turned natural

Mind the bag

April 4, 2011 0

Last year I wrote a post on a famous fairy tale and there I mentioned also straw. I thought that this material would be an interesting element to use for future seasons, both for fashion and furniture design. I was right. The idea came to me while I was preparing a post concerning the Walt Disney character “Rapunzel” and of course it made me smile. In creativity you never know where inspiration comes from.

When sweets meet purses in a trip back in time

Crafts or arts?

February 21, 2011 0

Walking through Paris in the famous Marais district, a place full of fashionable shops and charming boutiques, I came across Les Cakes de Bertrand’s store. At first I found the name quite bizarre, if you consider a fashion brand famous throughout the world for its romantic prints, but once I read the brand’s story, I got the whole picture. The brand was originally a bakery during the late 90’s, but with time the amazing prints that adorned their sweets’ packaging, became very popular accessories which recalled a kind of vintage style.

Roberta in the Scarpa

Crafts or arts?

December 7, 2010 0

Roberta di Camerino has been “One of The Women” in fashion. She explored her Venetian roots working on velvet, and her feature became the buckle and the belt (in her beautiful Logo). The woman she represents is ironic, comfortable, coloured, different, beautiful, feminine. no clichées. If you get to the city the exhibition will be open until the end of January, anyway the museum and over all the history of Triest make of that city a new and not obvious destination in Italy.