Lots of Louis Vuitton, a fair amount of Chanel, a little Balmain and a hint of Jacquemus
The CFDA and KFN plan to restore American Fashion Week
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Is this the end of the large sales areas as we knew them?
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Ready, set, bet!
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Beyond the traditional realms of fashion
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Interview with the PROTOTYPES Duo
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with over 75,000 publications including magazines
all housed in a loft of over 500 square meters
Milano Fashion Library is the largest Italian archive dedicated to the textile
with publications ranging from 1850 to today
The collection includes countless now-out-of-print titles
which provide an inexhaustible source of inspiration for all creatives
emphasizes that the activity «is still in its infancy
but we can conduct an analysis of a market that is certainly influenced by various factors yet follows precise patterns
There are brand catalogs that can become highly sought after for one season only to be forgotten for years
The same happens with magazines: the December edition of Vogue can cost hundreds of euros more than the November issue of the same year
or designer was especially trendy at the time
But the services offered by MFL go far beyond simple sales and consultation
Alongside library and bookstore activities
there is a consulting service focused especially on iconographic research
the rental of publications for photo shoots
as well as sourcing rare editions upon specific request by international companies and style offices
the team is responsible for recreating entire archives for brands that
have made the mistake of not keeping track of their work
Among the biggest challenges is still digitization: «the real problem is getting online
To list a publication for sale on the website takes about thirty minutes; if we multiply that by the 75,000 volumes in our archive
it becomes an endless amount of time» says Valisi
Yet MFL has just opened the doors of a flagship in Dubai and the first in Modes on Piazza Risorgimento 8 in Milan as part of a series of shop-in-shop spaces in major Italian multibrand fashion stores
confronting us with the most precious asset for brands in the digital age: a physical archive
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It brings together two of her concertos: The Deceitful Face of Hope and of Despair
written last year for flautist Sharon Bezaly
and the relationship between soloists and orchestra invariably echoes that between priest and choir in Russian Orthodox ritual
The Deceitful Face is essentially meditative
the music swinging cyclically between sound and silence
but it's a curiously anodyne work from a composer primarily associated with visceral emotion
It's certainly not the equal of Sieben Worte.