Move over, dear fashion influencers, and aspiring Kardashians! The first and only true fashionista in history is a German man with a serious job that allows him to earn a lot of money, an impeccable sense of style in imagining his outfits to get noticed. At 29, he wasn’t ashamed to pose naked, showing (indeed, …
Category: Fashion History
Doria 1905, 110 years of hats
Doria 1905 celebrates its 110th anniversary presenting at Pitti Uomo 87 a limited edition of three hats for men and women. Let’s find out the history and the latest news of one of the best known Apulian brands.
BOGNER and the birth of Sports Fashion
Usually when you think of German fashion there are very few names that have made the history of costume, but among them there is BOGNER, the high-end sports brand founded in the 30s by the Nordic skiing world champion Willy Bogner, who together with his wife Maria Bogner invented the sports fashion. The history of …
Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton – The end of a fashion era
In the last few days all the fashion media mourn the end of the 16-year liaison between Louis Vuitton and Marc Jacobs, whose role as creative director could be given soon to Nicolas Ghesquière, who in turn was forced to leave the same position at Balenciaga one year ago. As usual, the “betting game for …
Europeana Fashion International Conference in Florence
Last week Florence hosted the Fashion Industry and the Glam Community International Conference, the event that drew the most important journalists, bloggers and fashion curators in the first capital of Italian fashion, for the official launch of Europeana Fashion, a huge fashion archive with 700,000 digital files coming from 19 museums and archives including the Victoria & …
Martin Margiela, the one and only
Finally the media stopped talking about Maison Martin Margiela for H&M collection. The web has been flooded with articles and posts about the mysterious designer who is (should be) behind Maison Martin Margiela brand. Honestly I got bored of reading superficial and confused words about it, so I’ve decided to re-build the unique career of …
Guest post on American vintage fashion by Monica D. Murgia
JANE STIEG – 1967 April/May in San Francisco on a cable car (credits: Stieg family) Dear readers, today, for the first time, I propose you a guest post from one of my readers. She is Monica D. Murgia (http://monicadmurgia.com) an American girl with Sicilian origins, who often comments the photos of TheFashion Commentator Fb page. Sometimes she writes …
Who is MARNI? – The Marni brand history
The announcement of the collaboration between Marni and HeM for the next Spring has spread all over the web in a few hours. Everybody is happy about it, but are you sure you know Marni? Consuelo Castiglioni
Which Versace are you?
In questo periodo la blogosfera è invasa da post, contest e articoli riguardanti la nuova collezione Versace for HeM. Anche io voglio parlarne, ma a modo mio, analizzando la rivisitazione degli archivi che Donatella ha effettuato per permettere anche alle nuove generazioni di vivere il mondo del lusso anni 90 in cui Versace ha stravolto …
Tommy Hilfiger: THE PREP STYLE CHALLENGE
Negli anni ’80 uscì nelle librerie americane “The Official Preppy Handbook”, un volumetto umoristico scritto da Lisa Birnbach, una neolaureata della Brown University, nel quale commentava e ironizzava sulle caratteristiche dei ragazzi preppy e il loro lifestyle. Quel libretto divenne un best seller, molti giovani vi si identificavano, o quanto meno desideravano far parte di …