Alessia Santi
For Alessia Santi, founder of the homonymous brand in 2018, the goal is “to express an identity through fashion”, to capture the changing personalities of women and tell them with garments and combinations reinterpreted by her sensitivity and personal taste: dresses, fluids trousers, outerwear, knitwear, all characterized by high quality materials and stylish details.
Alberto Biani
Born in Veneto in 1950, after studying philosophy, he founded New York Industrie in 1977, inspired by vintage, American films and Neorealism. His Beirut cigarette trousers with slits are very copied. In 1990 the Alberto Biani brand was born. With an essential, androgynous style and men’s tailored fabrics from London, he shapes impeccable trousers and coats, sober white shirts, which make him a cult name in fashion.
Lisa Corti
Born in Milan as a company of interior fabrics, Lisa Corti also designs a collection of clothing and accessories. Caftans and kurtas of light muslin, and then sarongs, scarves and bags with oriental-inspired prints are produced in India by local artisans according to ancient techniques.
Gioia Bini
She spent her childhood among the Tuareg in sub-Saharan Africa, she grew up between Florence, where she now has her atelier, London and New York. The ethnic suggestions and contemporary accents of Gioia Bini’s clothes spring from this experience: handmade, with Italian linen and cotton, silks from Bangkok and Istanbul, fabrics with Dutch Wax prints, and an attention to sustainability in manufacturing and use of recycled materials.
Giuliva Heritage
Margherita Cardelli and Gerardo Cavaliere, the founders of Giuliva Heritage, thought their garments to be handed down from generation to generation. For this reason, not only are they made in the Roman atelier with the best fabrics and the most sustainable processes, but, added value, they are enriched with a Lifetime Guarantee Policy: customers can contact the brand to better repair any damaged piece. An important step in promoting a lifestyle that respects nature.
Matteo Cefaloni
Griffins
In 1992 Grifoni was born as a small artisan shirt making workshop. Today the founder and still creative guide Mauro Grifoni for his clothing brand draws inspiration from art and design: the leitmotif are always the tailoring tradition, the research of fabrics, craftsmanship and attention to detail.
Laneus
The name in Latin means “made of wool”. Specialized in knitwear, for which he uses different blends of wool and cashmere, Laenus was founded in 2009 by the creatives Alessandro Spina and Antonella Bartoletti. The symbolic garment, the jacquard cashmere cardigan, a classic that is “reinvented” season after season in different colors and patterns.
Canvas
Supported by meticulous research, the style of Tela – a brand founded in Verona by Andrea and Massimiliano Legrenzi with the creative direction of Federica Mora – is feminine and minimal. The name imprinted on the different garments of the collections refers to the basic weave of the shuttle fabrics, indicating simplicity but also construction and versatility: the canvas from a neutral element can become dyed, washed, printed, torn.
Massimo Alba
«The dress must belong to you. I am for a personalization of fashion, not for an uncritical acceptance of what it offers you ». It is with these words that the founder Massimo Alba summarizes the philosophy of the homonymous brand, born in 2006 in Milan and soon established itself in international markets. Thanks to the “emotional comfort” of his timeless garments, which seem painted with watercolor. And a leitmotif: handkerchiefs. Decorated with thoughts, messages, memories.
Echelon
Renato Scaglione and his wife Celsa founded their knitwear factory in Bergamo in 1966, a family-run artisan reality. At the end of the nineties, the sons Anna and Giovanni transformed it into a contemporary knitwear brand: combining functionality and aesthetics, urban style and leisuretime, intense, bright colors, stripes, virgin wool in thin or raw Shetland yarns, sustainable cashmere that mixes virgin and recycled fibers.
Jejia
One word – Jejia – that embodies a way of being: that soft, relaxed approach to everyday life. And so is the luxury lifestyle collection of the brand created in Como in 2012 by Anna Maria Marino, intended for a slightly tomboy woman, who seeks a sober and moderate luxury, made of combinations of vibrant colors, refined details and products suitable for everyday.
Scilé
Inspirations that range from different cultures and artistic movements, and a mix of fabrics and prints with strong contrasts: this is how Scilé reinterpreted a classic of men’s clothing, the gilet, for women. Founded in 2018 in Milan by Silvia Cataudella and Carlotta Chirico, and developed with Marta Molesini, today the brand also offers clothes and accessories and periodically creates limited edition collections with recycled vintage fabrics.