What are the trendiest colors for Christmas 2009?
December 18, 2009Another year has gone by and Christmas is around the corner once more! Many people are already excited, looking for original Christmas gifts for their friends and relatives, while shop windows and streets are decorated more and more with shining lights and Christmas trees, looking forward to this wonderful time of celebration and joy. Yes,…
Luxury and elegance at Roberto Capucci’s exhibition
December 2, 2009The “supreme elegance” of Roberto Capucci on view in a new exhibition at Bracciano Castle The wonderful Odescalchi castle of Bracciano near Rome, till December the 13th, is the magnificent setting of a long anticipated event in the art and fashion world: the exhibition in honor of Roberto Capucci, one of the historic founders of…
Italian Artisan Manufacturers: choosing them for Style and Fine Workmanship
February 11, 2009
Women, who care about their elegance and gorgeous style, always look towards Italian artisan manufacturers as undisputed promoters of high quality and refined workmanship. It is not difficult to tell the enormous difference between a genuine Italian product and an item that just claims to be made in Italy! Genuine Italian products are steeped in tradition that is passed on from one generation to the other and this quality absolutely can’t be acquired by others through just a few years of training and experience in the sector. Tradition and Italian craftsmanship belong to the DNA of a person and can’t be obtained in any other way!
Fashion Report – The Dirt Beneath the Glamour (Part 3)
August 26, 2008Looking for some positive light for Italy’s future image Giannini turned to the Consorzio 100% Italiano…
In the luxury leather industry much of the work is carried out by hand using traditional skills, in order to achieve the best quality. An example of a good handbag made by these methods was estimated to have cost 90 euros in labour and, with fine materials, a total of 300 euros to produce, which makes its retail price of 500 euros a fair and reasonable figure, though these high standards don’t give anything like the profit margin that the illegal workshops do for those who use them..
Fall-Winter 20/21: 6 must have bags
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