‘Fashioned from Nature’ is an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London that was inaugurated on April 21st, close to the Fashion Revolution week. I had intended so many times to talk about it but there was always something that led me to write about other topics. However
A few days ago I visited the Crypt Museum in Monsampolo del Tronto, a small village in the Ascoli Piceno’s hinterland; the Marche region is full of these villages located on the hill, surrounded by medieval walls, and they are very similar in structure but often it happens that everyone
In the July interview with Tiziano Guardini, among other things, it was found his participation in the short film “Made in Forests”, realized by the Pistoletto Foundation in partnership with the ‘Forests Department’ of the ‘United Nations economic commission for Europe’ (Unece / Fao) and the United Nations troupe Web TV
When we talk about environmental policies and sustainability in general, the northern European countries always seem a step ahead of everyone, compared to us Italians, then, the distance seems a million miles away. In terms of fashion, in addition to many eco-sustainable Scandinavian brands, the events that host them are
About the exhibition ‘Wearing Memories’, at the Museum at the Fashion Institute Technology of New York, I had already talked earlier this year, indeed, to be precise it was the first post of 2018. I go back to talk about it because, if then the project was still in the
Since the opening of this blog I have often dealt with the topic of how a quality dress that lasts over time, perhaps modified or readjusted or held in spite of imperfections or worn-out, challenges the concept of fashion as a strictly ephemeral, disposable commodity. That is the similar idea behind
“We have to have this conversation and we have to be held accountable”, the words of Stella McCartney summed up the last edition of Copenhagen Fashion Summit, concluded yesterday after two days full of meetings and presentations with the most important international speakers of the fashion industry, politics, NGOs, academia and the media. The
FieraMilanoCity. We wonder what a fair these days it is for, as if we did not already show enough. Organizing one has undoubtedly its economic advantages, but going to visit it? Why? We wondered about that, too. And we have some answers. Those who gave us the ‘Critical Fashion’ show inside
Duchesses, princesses, journalists and top models; there were so many last week at Buckingham Palace, all of them rushing to inaugurate ‘The Commonwealth Fashion Exchange’, the eco-fashion exhibition created and managed by Eco-Age, the ethical fashion company owned by the London-based green queen Livia Firth, once Livia Giuggioli, film producer,