As everyone knows, or should know, the highly skilled artisan labour is one of the main riches of Italy that the whole world envies us. Never as this year it seemed that many fashion designers – among which Ermanno Scervino – wanted to claim the record on this field, proposing extremely luxurious garments, characterized by such elaborate handmade works that they could be hardly considered as simple ready-to-wear clothes. Ermanno Scervino in the backstage after the show
Even the Milan Fashion Week Autumn Winter 2014 has come to an end, but what were the most important facts that marked the week and which trend will actually mark the next cold season? Gucci FW 2014
Right after New York is the turn of the London Fashion Week, that brought a sense of light-heartedness and joy of living to the next autumn-winter 2014 thanks to a whirlwind of colors and prints. Here it is my top 3 of the best collections that definitely “animated” the London Fashion Week with an energy burst . Temperley London – FW 2014
The New York Fashion Week ended a few days ago and as many readers have seen in my daily fashion reports on the The Fashion Commentator Facebook Page, unfortunately it hasn’t been an exciting fashion week. Delpozo – FW 2014
On a sunny morning in late September, the Ermanno Scervino women’s spring summer 2014 collection paraded in Milan on the luxury yacht of Aristotele Onassis, the Christina O, while a calm blue sea was the backdrop of the most important models of the fashion system. Ermanno Scervino SS2014 – location
I’m leaving Florence for the Milan Fashion Week (which actually for me will be a Milan Fashion Week-End), but before starting to comment the Italian catwalks I’ll go back to the “Anglophone” ones including both the New York and London Fashion Week.
New York, First day of fashion week. On the catwalks seems to breathe a relaxed atmosphere. Few fashion designers among which the new names are interspersed with the old ones who built the American fashion system. The mood seen on the catwalks of the first day play on two main themes:
On July 21st in the exclusive location of the Circolo Canottieri of Florence (Florentine rowing club) there has been the Bisbigli Summer 2014 beachwear shows, in conjunction with the closure of the largest Italian fashion fair dedicated to swimwear called Mare d’Amare.
Tu mi fai girar/ tu mi fai girar/ come fossi una bambola… No ragazzo no/ tu non mi metterai/ tra le dieci bambole/ che non ti piacciono più/ Oh no, oh no… Looking at the photos of the San Andrès spring summer 2014 pre-collection by Andres Caballero which paraded during the last edition of AltaRoma (the Italian haute couture fashion week in Rome), I can’t get along without humming the famous song “La bambola” (the doll) which consecrated the Italian Pop singer Patty Pravo as the queen of the Roman nights in the 60s. San Andrès Milano…
My short trip to Milan for the last day of men’s fashion week, ended with the Vogue Experience at the Ermenegildo Zegna headquarters, where the editor in chief of Italian Vogue, Franca Sozzani, gave the opportunity to discover the Z Zegna Spring Summer 2014 collection and meet the designer Paul Surridge. Vogue Experience – Z Zegna SS 2014 backstage – Franca Sozzani, Paul Surridge