Thursday December 11 - 3.30 pm Library Of Congress Thomas Jefferson BuildingWashington 20540 The Library of Congress European Division, in partnership with the National Organization of Italian American Women, D.C. Chapter, presents...A unique review of Italian fashion magazines from the Library's collections providing insight into the history...

by Liam La Guerre Aquazzura, a high-end shoe retailer based in Italy, signed a 2,221-square-foot lease at 935 Madison Avenue for its first location in the United States, Commercial Observer has learned. The store will open February of next year at the base of the residential property between East 74th and 75th Streets.   The space incl...

Buckhead Atlanta really is getting a slice of Rodeo Drive.Italian luxury clothing company La Perla recently submitted plans for a new store in Buckhead -- its first store in Atlanta. La Perla has signed a lease at Buckhead Atlanta, a mixed-use development at Peachtree and East Paces Ferry roads. The nearly 1,900-square-foot store will sit on...

"People talk about how it's hard to mix Italian and American, but I think it's easy," says Anotonio Ciongoli, the 31-year old creative director of Eidos. Sitting back in his chair in Eidos's midtown showroom, surrounded by phalanxes of suits, Ciongoli--bearded, irrepressibly jovial--is the young pontifice presiding over the marriage of an unlikely,...

di Beatrice Bondi   Venerdì sera all'insegna della moda alla Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò della NYU, che ha ospitato una conversazione sul mondo del fashion tra Valerie Steele, direttore e capo curatore del Museum del Fashion Institute of Technology di New York, Grazia D'Annunzio, US Special Projects Editor di Vogue Italia, ed Eugenia Paulic...

Italian luxury fashion group Brunello Cucinelli SpA has reported an increase in full-year profit, thanks to double-digit sales growth.   Sales in the group's international markets, which now represent 79.3% of revenues, rose 21.4% during the year ending 31 December.   Read more   Fonte: Italian Good News  

October 30, 6:30 pm - 8:20 pm, Westchester Italian Cultural Center, 24 Depot Square, Tuckahoe, New York   Men Of The Cloth is an inspiring portrayal of Nino Corvato, Checchino Fonticoli and Joe Centofanti, three Italian master tailors who confront the decline of the apprentice system as they navigate their challenging rol...

Book Presentation of: Writing Fashion in Early-Modern italy From Sprezzatura to Satire (Ashgate, 2014) by Eugenia Paulicelli. The author in conversation with: Virginia Cox, NYU and Bella Mirabella, NYU Location: Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, 24 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011   The firs...

by Ron Miriello   Since viewing the John Turturro 2010 film Passione, I have been intrigued by the contradictions of Naples and, since seeing the 2011 Gianluca Migliarotti movie O'mast, I've been curious about its subject, the custom tailors of Naples.   Naples has always been and still is the bespoke tailoring center or Italy. Famili...

Giorgio Armani celebrated on Thursday the 40th anniversary of his fashion house and at the same time gave the green light to Expo 2015 as a Special Ambassador of the long-awaited event.   The event also included the inauguration of Armani Silos which will be at the disposal of whoever wants to know about the four decades of Armani style and...