With knits we can move seamlessly between superfine, smooth and fluid qualities to coarse, strong, stiff effects, providing contradictory solutions as to fibers’ blends, yarn construction, finishing processes. This represents a revolutionary approach to garment design, combining the elegance, comfort and functionality with new shapes and extreme volumes, opening to sporty market segments, as well…
Our thinking on wonder is often distracted, superficial, careless. We think of it as an unimportant added extra; we often relegate it to childhood and dismiss it as sentiment that has little to do with being an adult. We tend to be complacent about it, as if it were a weakness or did not concern…
Often associated with comfortable homewear and bordering on the banal, the cardigan is enjoying a comeback. Fringed and oversize at Ports 1961, chunky and honeycomb at Brunello Cucinelli, technical at Miu Miu, and optical with geometric buttons at Missoni. Fasteners come in an eclectic variety of styles: plastic appliqués at Christopher Kane or lacing at…
There is growing attention from social partners, legislators and the production system to the issue of organizational well-being within companies as a strategic factor for growth, productivity and sustainability. It’s no easy, indeed, to talk about economic and environmental sustainability without serious upstream reflection on the social dimension of sustainability and the responsibility that companies…
With the last years of unsettlement in the world there is now an incentive for optimism, forcing us to changes, to open to new opportunities with more flexibility and elasticity. The complexity, the ambiguity and the volatility of business requires companies to adopt new mindsets, to look for innovative challenges and to create long term…
A basic, essential piece. A must-have in every wardrobe. For every style, occasion and season. For Spring/Summer 2023, the runways propose a thousand variations on the sweater. From soft and understated at Fendi to sheer at Prada and Bally. From layered at Miu Miu, mini (if not tiny) at Max Mara to chunky at Bottega…
