Pamela Quinzi, Italian fashion designer from Rome, based in New York since 2009 presented her new Kilame Collection dresses and shoes during New York Fashion Week 2017. The fashion show took place at Megu, the prestigious Japanese Restaurant and event space inside the famous Dream Hotel, downtown Manhattan in the meatpacking district. Location excl...

Top-flight American talent may have deserted New York Fashion Week this season, but it's still the dream for at least one up-and-coming Italian designer who made his Big Apple debut Friday. GCDS -- aka "God Can't Destroy Streetwear" -- unveiled a fun, flirty fantasy inspired by Truman Capote's novel "The Swans of Fifth Avenue" on the second day of...

Lelli Kelly is looking to make a comeback. The Italian children’s brand has signed a licensing agreement with East Providence, R.I.-based North American Shoe Co. to relaunch this coming spring within the U.S. and Canadian markets. Known for its colorful, hand-embellished girls’ shoes, the 25-year-old brand enjoyed tremendous success in the States f...

Thursday, September 14, 6:00 – 8:00 PM. Furla Fifth Avenue Store | 645 5th Avenue at 51st Street, New York, NY 10022. Free with advance RSVP — invite your friends! Join us for a wonderful evening with the National Organization of Italian American Women at Furla—the exclusive Italian luxury leather goods designer Fifth Avenue flagship store. Preview...

From fashion to energy - the rind and seeds of Sicily's most famous citrus fruit, the humble orange, are being used in a range of greener, healthier business initiatives. In 2011, Adriana Santonocito was a design student in Milan when she first had the idea of making sustainable textiles from what was naturally abundant, and widely wasted, in her n...

For Diego Della Valle, the 63-year-old billionaire owner of Italian luxury leather and apparel giant Tod's Group, style has always trumped fashion. Considering the success Tod's has had since its formation in 1978, Della Valle has a point.

In 1909, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti—a member of the Italian literati who had studied in Egypt, France, and Italy—published his radical Futurist Manifesto, a document whose exaltations of technological disruption ignited the Italian Futurism movement. Marinetti called for art that embraced new innovations like automobiles, glorified war, “fought” mor...

Italian urban outerwear label Herno has set foot for the first time in the USA. The label, which started by producing men's and women's raincoats and later diversified into jackets and suits, has opened a 160 m2 store in SoHo, New York. The store has a homely feel to it, furnished with bookshelves and decorated with pictures and employee portraits,...

Tod’s New York flagship is getting crafty. The store at 650 Madison Avenue has installed a pop-up My Gommino shop — where shoppers can customize best-selling editions of Tod’s driving loafers. The pop-up opens today and will remain through October. Prices begin upward of $550. Shoppers are directed to a touchscreen where they can toggle with variou...

What we would give to be on the Amalfi coast—Right. Now. Historic cobblestone streets, colorful cliffside hotels, scents of heavenly olive oil and lemons wafting in the air. Naturally, we’re drawn to the sights and foods, but we can’t help but feel especially drawn to the sartorial style of Italy’s iconic women. Italy may be an ocean way, but what’...