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    Collecting Vintage clothes and accessories. Francesco Campidori talks with Alessandro Masetti

      Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli in Turin, Italy, continues its series of conversations on collecting, hosting a meeting dedicated to fashion. The main guest is Francesco Campidori, a collector of clothes and accessories ranging from the Fifties to the Nineties of the 20th century, with a specific attention to Italian and French productions. Alessandro Masetti will talk with him. Francesco Campidori began collecting clothes and accessories in 2001, driven by his great passion for fashion. After 16 years and over 1000 pieces collected – found in flea markets or international auctions – what he loves to define “the Archive”…

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    Merry Christmas!

    Christmas according to The Fashion Commentator in 3 points: 1) Buy the only gift you have to give, always and ever at the last minute. 2) Decorate the Christmas tree, always and ever at the last minute, although you patiently assembled it in a flash of madness on December 1st and left bare until the 24th (very useful!). 3) Decide the menu for the holidays, always and ever at the last minute! HAPPY HOLIDAYS to all !!!  

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    Hunting World: The adventure is back

    Accept an invitation from The Marquis, add a pleasant and unexpected discovery in the field of Tuscan fragrances, frame the whole thing in the first and unique European boutique of a major luggage brand worldwide, wet everything with one of the finest teas of the city while tasting a classic of the Italian pastry and you will have the recipe of the exclusive event Hunting World: The adventure is back held in Florence last week.

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    Costume Colloquium IV: the fashion, the arts and the colors

    From November 20 to 23, Florence has been tinged with thousands of shades both old and new, due to the fourth edition of Costume Colloquium, the biennial symposium of fashion culture whose theme in 2014 was Colors in Fashion. Leading experts and scholars in the field gave rise to an intense debate on the importance of colors in fashion history and everyday life. Given the huge quantity and high quality of the contents of these four days, I divide my reportage of the event into more thematic coverage, starting with the significant relationship between and among fashion, art and colors.…

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    Color bomb in Florence: it’s Costume Colloquium time!

    From the 20th to the 23rd of November the city of Florence will add many other fashion colors to its already wonderful palette thanks to the Costume Colloquium IV: Colors in Fashion, the two-year cycle of lectures organized by the Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation, in collaboration with the Associazione degli Amici della Galleria del Costume di Palazzo Pitti.