Da due traiettorie diverse scaturisce l’identità culturale e progettuale di Nick Maltese Studio. Un redazionale racconta il loro linguaggio stilistico quanto mai articolato ed eclettico, mai banale Sarebbe buon dettame, ancor di più nell’attuale società dilagante di ego trip, evitare all’io dell’autore innuendi evidenti nella stesura di questo testo. Eppur[...]

Ancora un altro modo di essere. Rigore e ardore. Ingegno e concretezza. Decisione e purezza. E sopra ogni cosa, l’atto intuitivo. Gli ingredienti sono questi. Cioè, è uno solo: quello dell’idea coerente dell’eleganza, che sia per la prossima primavera-estate o che sia per il prossimo autunno inverno, cosparge lo stile Ferragamo di quella estetica distintiva,[...]

In the men's fashion week that just wrapped up in Paris, we are still talking about tailoring, and thoughts immediately turn to that formal wardrobe. Formalwear is a dress code consisting of rules and precepts that do not allow for exceptions. Still, it is also a comforting way of thinking, because it envisages for the wearer that everything is under contro[...]

Sembrano rimasti in pochi, si contano sulle dita di una mano, i maestri artigiani che, di questi tempi, hanno come unico scopo quell’ormai antico piacere di confezionare abiti per il semplice gusto estetico di fare alta sartoria, e ambientandola, come in questo caso, in un Grand Tour Italiano, senza clamori né iperboli. Domenico Dolce e Stefano Gabbana oltr[...]

Chi è stato bambino negli anni Settanta, è cresciuto con il mito dei giardini botanici e di quella cultura paesaggistica anglosassone, mai realizzata nell’aerea mediterranea della costiera amalfitana tra il 600’ e il 1900’. Spesso nelle camminate tra lo splendore del giardino botanico si riacquistava il quel senso di cultura romantica, che ci conduceva a ri[...]

The accumulation. The metaphor. The unusual pairing of objects and materials and heterogeneous shapes, and a sort of obsession with the black-and-white graphic universe. These are the recurring themes of the bustling atmosphere of the Rue Cambon Atelier where needles, thimbles, scissors, safety pins and spools can become the creation studio of Haute Horloger[...]

“Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future, and time future contained in time past.” Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) The Art Biennial opened in Venice just a few weeks ago, and there is talk of a sizeable presence of fashion insiders at this year's edition, as the relationship between the two worlds has always been solid, both in [...]

All designers have always traveled into the future. Starting from their school days when, through shapes and lines, they tried to invent something that did not exist. Afterwards they did it as adults, living every day as if it were tomorrow and not today. Innovation is their prime driver. Described as visionaries, they are the ones who lead us by the hand t[...]

I admit it, fashion is my passion. I follow it, I know it, I have understood it ever since I was a student in school. I know how important it is for the distinctive ethnos of our country and our economy. But please forgive me for this preamble and appreciate it for the sincerity of what I want to write in this column. There is a woman in the world of fashio[...]

"I've been working with diaphanous fabrics for a long time. The important thing is to maintain their nature." Yves Saint Laurent. A tale of passion, in fact a story about purity. About the provocative purity of the female body as an exercise of the opposite, reminding us that the visible is simply a projection of the invisible. "Nothing is more beautiful[...]