• Rendez-Vous At Tod’s Sitting Room.

    The smell of leather fills the crispy air of the early afternoon at Villa Necchi Campiglio, the location chosen by Diego Della Valle for displaying the new Tod’s F/W 2016 man collection.

  • The Business of Fashion Week

    Hey, it’s fashion week! Some of you are probably thinking ‘Oh god, another week of brilliantine, armies of models, maps in hand and crazy people strutting down the streets convinced they are THE new fashion icon’. Well, I can’t say that this won’t happen, but I can assure you, fashion is a lot more.

  • S/S 2015 Colors: yellow

    Yellow, the color of the sun and warmth, in other words, all that recalls summer! Designers have included yellow in a number of their designs for next season, so get ready to brighten up your outfits with this vivid color!

  • Academy Awards 2015 Best and Worst Dressed

    So something magical happened yesterday night, something that left us all with our noses glued to our tv screens at quite impossible hours, I’m talking about the Oscars, the most important and prestigious award show of the season! And if you’re not a movie maniac, we can understand you, neither were we thrillingly waiting for the actual prizes to be delivered, what all of us fashionistas were waiting for was the biggest, most star studded, most incredible red carpet of the season – if not of the year! The best moment to recognize new style icons, or diss inevitably some starstruck divas in weird outfits. Which ever was your intention watching the…

  • Milan Know-How: Dictionary

    APERICENA [name: /ape•ri•ce•na/] translation: impossible : a mystical meal that combines happy hour (aperitivo) and actual dinner (cena), a holy ritual that celebrates happiness and prosperity in the modern society. CAPPUCCIO [name: /cap•puc•cio/] translation: CAPPUCCINO: the only drug you will need to get yourself out of the bed every morning, perform your best at work/class and stay fresh and awake during the arch of the day. ABBONAMENTO ATM [name: /ab•bo•na•men•to atm/] translation: ATM BUS PASS: Milan version of teleportation – with more crowd and sweat smell… CONTROLLORE [name: /con•trol•lo•re/] translation: TICKET COLLECTOR: a mythological creature that haunts the dreams of young students who forget to stamp their ticket on the tram. PANZEROTTI…

  • Sine Modus – Vintage is in the air

    Walking along Pomponazzi road you couldn’t imagine to find a window that says “Vintage is in the air”! And so, walking just 20 minutes from Duomo, there’s a contemporary vintage boutique: Sine Modus. “We physically opened this shop in September” Chiara and Manuela – the two young and beautiful owners – started telling us “… our business [has been] on the internet for two years through social networking. We usually went to flea markets in Naples so we’ve always felt this passion for vintage stuff. We met at Excelsior where we were both working, and then we decided to invest a small amount of money in what combines us.” “We…

  • Suit 101: The white shirt – camicie su misura

    Note: This is part of an ongoing series known as Suit 101.  A white shirt can create emotion, even if it is just a shirt.  And if we look at shirt-making as an artform and an act of craftsmanship, then we began to sense the possibilities of making this staple…something special. – Sonya Glyn Nicholson, Parisian Gentlemen Bespoke shirts are no stranger to the man’s world — akin to how stilettos are no stranger to a woman’s world (Feminists may argue otherwise but let’s not get too deep here). Like shoes, a dress shirt — with its various permutations of patterns and colours — can give the entire outfit a fresh look. This could explain…

  • S/S 2015 Colors: Olive

    The gradient “Olive” has always been linked to mild autumn hues, but this season major fashion designers have reinterpreted it in a new fresh way and have inserted it into the spring/summer 2015 color scheme. Sonia Rykiel Chanel  

  • Grammy Awards 2015 Best and Worst Dressed

    So the Oscars of music happened last night and we were nose-glued to our televisions to catch all the fashion on the red carpet and this year we weren’t disappointed. There were stars and shooting stars, and today we present to you our personal Fab or Drab compilation of the Grammy Awards 2015. Just for funsies. Here we go! One can say Rihanna looks like a macaroons pile and I could argue that she is Bad Gal Riri and she can do whatever she wants! Even pull of a puffy dress in that color, because she looks absolutely, insanely gorgeous in this gown! Style Level: America’s Next Disney Princess. I don’t know about you, but…