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15 Jun

Contained in the LuisaViaRoma x British Vogue Show During

Contained in the LuisaViaRoma x British Vogue Show During
FLORENCE – 4 years after its 90th anniversary celebrations and fashion show with Carine Roitfeld, LuisaViaRoma returned to the panoramic Piazzale Michelangelo square here to stage the “Runway Icons” event with British Vogue on Wednesday. The name of the open-air multibrand fashion show proved to be fitting. For the occasion, the retailer and glossy magazine tapped probably the most iconic Italian music artists for a live performance – Andrea Bocelli – and had considered one of the most important movie stars in attendance, as Leonardo DiCaprio led the guest list that also included Tobey Maguire, Julia Fox, Lucien Laviscount, Moses Sumney, Liam Payne, Charithra Chandran and Elsa Hosk, amongst others.  These added to the style houses involved within the show – encompassing Giorgio Armani,...
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20 Apr

LuisaViaRoma to Stage ‘Runway Icons’ Event During Pitti Uomo

LuisaViaRoma to Stage ‘Runway Icons’ Event During Pitti Uomo
SHOWTIME: LuisaViaRoma is able to bring its showmanship back to Florence, with plans to stage a blockbuster event during Pitti Uomo. The posh retailer — which is thought for throwing buzzy gala soirées with UNICEF in Capri and St. Barths with performances from the likes of Jennifer Lopez, Drake, Lenny Kravitz and Dua Lipa — is to carry “Runway Icons” on June 14. Developed in partnership with British Vogue and its editor in chief Edward Enninful OBE, the open-air catwalk show will retrace the evolution of fashion through the many years, featuring looks from 50 international brands. Emerging and established labels might be involved within the project, creating exclusive pieces that might be modeled by talents and friends of the glossy magazine. To...
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10 Jan

Jan-Jan Van Essche Brings His Flair for ‘Open Shapes’

Jan-Jan Van Essche Brings His Flair for ‘Open Shapes’
MILAN – Jan-Jan Van Essche’s fashion must be examined up close to grasp where the designer’s creativity is channeled from. By his own admission, at first sight lots of his soft tailored pieces, deconstructed silhouettes, and handwoven garments look exactly like classical menswear tropes, except they should not only that. “I’m not going to reinvent the wheel; in menswear there are plenty of classic elements you can work around and that communicate very clearly… I attempt to reshape, literally reshape, these items by putting certain subtleties in the development, pleating elements and make them form of more sober, more minimalistic, one could say, even though it’s more like a concentration of an idea,” Van Essche said over Zoom. “I attempt to make them...
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