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Via Bagutta
The Quadrilatero della moda (; literally "fashion square"), or Via Montenapoleone fashion district, is a shopping district in the centre of the Italian city of Milan. Shops there include both Italian fashion and international brands. The sides of the square, located to the south of the arches of Porta Nuova, are formed by Via Montenapoleone (SW), Via Manzoni (NW), Via della Spiga (NE), and Corso Venezia (SE). Streets inside this area include Via Borgospesso, Via Santo Spirito, Via Gesù, Via Sant'Andrea, Via Bagutta, and Via Baggutino. The zone extends in practice also to the north-west of Via Manzoni with Via Pisoni, and to the south and west of Via Montenapoleone with Corso Giacomo Matteotti (this last meets Corso Venezia at Piazza San Babila), Piazza Meda, Via San Pietro all'Orto, and Via Verri. Streets and squares Corso Giacomo Matteotti Fashion shops include: *Abercrombie & Fitch Corso Venezia Piazza Meda Fashion shops include: *Hugo Boss *Calvin Klein Piazza S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Via Verri, Milan
The Quadrilatero della moda (; literally "fashion square"), or Via Montenapoleone fashion district, is a shopping district in the centre of the Italian city of Milan. Shops there include both Italian fashion and international brands. The sides of the square, located to the south of the arches of Porta Nuova, are formed by Via Montenapoleone (SW), Via Manzoni (NW), Via della Spiga (NE), and Corso Venezia (SE). Streets inside this area include Via Borgospesso, Via Santo Spirito, Via Gesù, Via Sant'Andrea, Via Bagutta, and Via Baggutino. The zone extends in practice also to the north-west of Via Manzoni with Via Pisoni, and to the south and west of Via Montenapoleone with Corso Giacomo Matteotti (this last meets Corso Venezia at Piazza San Babila), Piazza Meda, Via San Pietro all'Orto, and Via Verri. Streets and squares Corso Giacomo Matteotti Fashion shops include: *Abercrombie & Fitch Corso Venezia Piazza Meda Fashion shops include: *Hugo Boss *Calvin Klein Piazza ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poltrona Frau
Poltrona Frau is a furniture-maker founded in 1912 by Sardinian-born Renzo Frau in Turin, Italy, headquartered since the early 1960s in Tolentino and specializing in leather seating for interior and automotive applications. The company name combines , the Italian word for 'armchair', and ''Frau'', the last name of its founder. The company uses a 21-step leather tanning process (vs. industry standard ranging from 12–15 steps) where the leather#types, full-grain leather is dyed through, so a surface scratch won’t reveal a lining underneath. 95% of the company's products are made by hand. In 2014, United States–based Haworth (company), Haworth Group purchased a controlling interest in Poltrona Frau. Furniture In 2006, the company marketed a knock down kit, knock down version of its Viking chair at their SoHo, New York store. Beginning in 2011, the company marketed a sofa designed by French architect and designer Jean-Marie Massaud—called the ''John-John'' sofa, in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armani
Giorgio Armani S.p.A. (), commonly known as Armani, is an Italian luxury fashion house founded in Milan by Giorgio Armani which designs, manufactures, distributes and retails haute couture, ready-to-wear, leather goods, shoes, accessories, and home interiors. Among others, Armani licenses its name and branding to Luxottica for eyewear and L'Oréal for fragrances and cosmetics. It is considered Italy's third-biggest fashion group behind Gucci and Prada. In addition to the couture line Armani Privé, Giorgio Armani and Emporio Armani are the company's ready-to-wear lines that show at Milan Fashion Week. Selling at lower prices are Armani Collezioni, Armani Exchange and Armani Jeans. History Armani and his partner, architect Sergio Galeotti, founded Giorgio Armani SpA in 1975, reportedly on money from the sale of Armani's Volkswagen. Armani signed a license with Gruppo Finanziario Tessile (GFT) in 1978. The company also entered into a manufacturing and distribution license w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianfranco Lotti
Gianfranco Lotti is a designer leather handbag company based in Florence, Italy. Its founder and owner is Gianfranco Lotti. History Gianfranco Lotti opened his first workshop in Florence in 1968, after a long apprenticeship. Lotti opened his first boutique in Via de' Tornabuoni, in the historic center of Florence. In 2013, the original parent company of Gianfranco Lotti, Bottega Manifatturiera Borse SpA, was purchased by the German fund, Halder, with Franco Lucà as the new CEO. Lotti was named as the technical advisor to Gianfranco Lotti Retail S.R.L. In addition to the Florence boutique, single-brand stores were opened in Rue Saint-Honoré, Paris and Chongqing in China. There is also a single-brand boutique on Via Monte Napoleone, Milan Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Versace
Gianni Versace S.r.l. (), usually referred to as Versace ( ), is an Italian luxury elite fashion company founded by Gianni Versace in 1978. The company produces Italian-made ready-to-wear and accessories, as well as '' haute couture'' under its Atelier Versace brand and licenses its name and branding to Luxottica for eyewear. Gianni Versace being a native of Calabria, in the ancient Magna Grecia (Greater Greece), the company logo is inspired by Medusa, a figure from Greek mythology. The brand was founded in 1978 by Gianni Versace and run after his death by his family: his brother Santo Versace and sister Donatella Versace while Donatella's daughter, Allegra Versace Beck, became the controlling shareholder having inherited her uncle Gianni's share. Her brother Daniel inherited much of his uncle's art collection. In September 2018 the company was sold to the Michael Kors group Michael Kors Limited and in January 2019, Gianni Versace S.r.l. became part of the Capri Holding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Biagiotti
Laura Biagiotti (; 4 August 1943 – 26 May 2017) was an Italian fashion designer, and the founder of the House of Biagiotti. Early life Biagiotti was born in Rome on 4 August 1943. Her mother Delia Soldaini Biagiotti was a successful dressmaker who designed the uniforms for Alitalia staff in 1964. As a young student, she started to help out at her mother's atelier.Italian Fashion: Laura Biagiotti While studying archeology at Rome University, Biagiotti abandoned her academic career to focus on fashion design. She worked with her mother for several years during which she met her future husband Gianni Cigna. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valextra
Valextra is a brand of luxury leather goods and accessories based in Milan, Italy. The name is a portmanteau of "Valigia", the Italian word for suitcase, and "extra". History Foundation and early years The Valextra brand was founded in 1937 by Giovanni Fontana in Milan's Piazza San Babila. From the beginning, Valextra specialised in creating luggage, handbags and accessories from exotic hides such as alligator, hippopotamus and elephant. He set up a workshop above the shop where he worked with a model-maker to bring his concepts to life. In its first few decades, the company licensed over 100 patents and won a Compasso d'Oro, Compasso D’Oro for the 24 Ore bag, at the award's inaugural edition in 1954. Brand Evolution During the postwar period, Valextra started catering for entrepreneurs and international jet-setters. This coincided with the introduction of Fontana's son, Tito, into the company. Together with his son Stefano, Tito introduces a new, design-led direction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sisley
Alfred Sisley (; ; 30 October 1839 – 29 January 1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape ''en plein air'' (i.e., outdoors). He deviated into figure painting only rarely and, unlike Renoir and Pissarro, he found that Impressionism fulfilled his artistic needs. Among his important works are a series of paintings of the River Thames, mostly around Hampton Court, executed in 1874, and landscapes depicting places in or near Moret-sur-Loing. The notable paintings of the Seine and its bridges in the former suburbs of Paris are like many of his landscapes, characterised by tranquillity, in pale shades of green, pink, purple, dusty blue and cream. Over the years Sisley's power of expression and colour intensity increased. Richard Shone: ''Sisley.'' London: Phaidon Press 1999. Biography Sisley was born in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guess (clothing)
Guess Inc. (styled as GUESS or Guess?) is an American clothing company, notable for its black-and-white advertisements. Guess licenses its brand on other fashion accessories, such as watches, jewelry, perfumes, bags and shoes. History 20th century Guess began in 1981 as a book of styles started by Georges, Maurice, Armand, and Paul Marciano. The brothers switched to selling jeans with a light, form-fitting denim and zippers at the ankles. Guess began offering licensed products, including watches, eyewear, and a fragrance line. In 1985, it introduced black-and-white advertisements, which went on to win numerous design awards. Its fashion models have included a number of supermodels, many of whom first achieved prominence via these ad campaigns. In the 1985 Robert Zemeckis movie, ''Back to the Future'', Marty McFly ( Michael J Fox) wore Guess's denim clothing. Georges had wanted to sell Guess products in only the more exclusive stores, such as Bloomingdale's, while the other brot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boggi Milano
Boggi is an Italian brand of sartorial men's clothing founded in 1939 in Milano. Its first U.S. store is a 8,810 sq-ft space at 527 Madison Avenue Madison Avenue is a north-south avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, New York, that carries northbound one-way traffic. It runs from Madison Square (at 23rd Street) to meet the southbound Harlem River Drive at 142nd Stree ... on the corner of 54th Street. Carlo Zaccardi, then-CEO of Boggi Milano, died at the age of 58 on February 19, 2025. References {{Reflist Italian companies established in 1939 Clothing brands of Italy Clothing companies established in 1939 High fashion brands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
