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  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: A reproduction of Leonardo Da Vinci's original design sketch of the machine that creates warp threads and that is still used here at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
 Da Vinci’s design allowed the artisans to stand while they oversaw the creation of the warp threads, instead of hunching over as with previous methods. For hundreds of years, this invention by Da Vinci has been hard at work helping generations of Florence’s weavers create the sumptuous fabrics for which they are renown.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
<br />
Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most nob
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_3764.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: A reproduction of Leonardo Da Vinci's original design sketch of the machine that creates warp threads and that is still used here at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
 Da Vinci’s design allowed the artisans to stand while they oversaw the creation of the warp threads, instead of hunching over as with previous methods. For hundreds of years, this invention by Da Vinci has been hard at work helping generations of Florence’s weavers create the sumptuous fabrics for which they are renown.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
<br />
Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most nob
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_3682.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: The machine made from a design by Leonardo Da Vinci, that creates warp threads, is seen here at work at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
 Da Vinci’s design allowed the artisans to stand while they oversaw the creation of the warp threads, instead of hunching over as with previous methods. For hundreds of years, this invention by Da Vinci has been hard at work helping generations of Florence’s weavers create the sumptuous fabrics for which they are renown.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
<br />
Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most noble families had their own loo
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_3716.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Beatrice Fazzini, a weaver, is seen here at work on the machine, created from a design by Leonardo Da Vinci that creates warp threads, here at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
 Da Vinci’s design allowed the artisans to stand while they oversaw the creation of the warp threads, instead of hunching over as with previous methods. For hundreds of years, this invention by Da Vinci has been hard at work helping generations of Florence’s weavers create the sumptuous fabrics for which they are renown.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
<br />
Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_3558.jpg
  • PALERMO, 7 OCTOBER 2020: A portait of Roberto Lombino, an architect of Studio DiDeA in Palermo, Italy, on October 7th 2020.<br />
<br />
Studio DiDeA is an associated studio based in Palermo, which deals with architectural design and interior design, in the residential and commercial sectors.
    CIPG_20201007_STUDIO-DIDEA_Ritratti_...jpg
  • PALERMO, 7 OCTOBER 2020: A portait of Agnese Abbaleo, an architect of Studio DiDeA in Palermo, Italy, on October 7th 2020.<br />
<br />
Studio DiDeA is an associated studio based in Palermo, which deals with architectural design and interior design, in the residential and commercial sectors.
    CIPG_20201007_STUDIO-DIDEA_Ritratti_...psd
  • PALERMO, 7 OCTOBER 2020: A portait of Maristella Galia, an associated architect of Studio DiDeA in Palermo, Italy, on October 7th 2020.<br />
<br />
Studio DiDeA is an associated studio based in Palermo, which deals with architectural design and interior design, in the residential and commercial sectors.
    CIPG_20201007_STUDIO-DIDEA_Ritratti_...jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Beatrice Fazzini, a weaver, is seen here at work on the machine, created from a design by Leonardo Da Vinci that creates warp threads, here at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
 Da Vinci’s design allowed the artisans to stand while they oversaw the creation of the warp threads, instead of hunching over as with previous methods. For hundreds of years, this invention by Da Vinci has been hard at work helping generations of Florence’s weavers create the sumptuous fabrics for which they are renown.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
<br />
Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance
    SMAS_20181026_NYT_Silk_DSCF5916.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: The machine made from a design by Leonardo Da Vinci, that creates warp threads, is seen here at work at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
 Da Vinci’s design allowed the artisans to stand while they oversaw the creation of the warp threads, instead of hunching over as with previous methods. For hundreds of years, this invention by Da Vinci has been hard at work helping generations of Florence’s weavers create the sumptuous fabrics for which they are renown.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
<br />
Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance, most noble families had their own loo
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_3711.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Beatrice Fazzini, a weaver, is seen here at work on the machine, created from a design by Leonardo Da Vinci that creates warp threads, here at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
 Da Vinci’s design allowed the artisans to stand while they oversaw the creation of the warp threads, instead of hunching over as with previous methods. For hundreds of years, this invention by Da Vinci has been hard at work helping generations of Florence’s weavers create the sumptuous fabrics for which they are renown.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
<br />
Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_3689.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Beatrice Fazzini, a weaver, is seen here at work on the machine, created from a design by Leonardo Da Vinci that creates warp threads, here at the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
 Da Vinci’s design allowed the artisans to stand while they oversaw the creation of the warp threads, instead of hunching over as with previous methods. For hundreds of years, this invention by Da Vinci has been hard at work helping generations of Florence’s weavers create the sumptuous fabrics for which they are renown.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s golden crest.<br />
<br />
Back hundreds of years ago, in the Renaissance
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_3673.jpg
  • PALERMO, 7 OCTOBER 2020: A portait of Agnese Abbaleo, an architect of Studio DiDeA in Palermo, Italy, on October 7th 2020.<br />
<br />
Studio DiDeA is an associated studio based in Palermo, which deals with architectural design and interior design, in the residential and commercial sectors.
    CIPG_20201007_STUDIO-DIDEA_Ritratti_...jpg
  • PALERMO, 7 OCTOBER 2020: A portait of Roberto Lombino, an architect of Studio DiDeA in Palermo, Italy, on October 7th 2020.<br />
<br />
Studio DiDeA is an associated studio based in Palermo, which deals with architectural design and interior design, in the residential and commercial sectors.
    CIPG_20201007_STUDIO-DIDEA_Ritratti_...jpg
  • PALERMO, 7 OCTOBER 2020: A portait of Roberto Lombino, an architect of Studio DiDeA in Palermo, Italy, on October 7th 2020.<br />
<br />
Studio DiDeA is an associated studio based in Palermo, which deals with architectural design and interior design, in the residential and commercial sectors.
    CIPG_20201007_STUDIO-DIDEA_Ritratti_...jpg
  • PALERMO, 7 OCTOBER 2020: A portait of XXX, an architect of Studio DiDeA in Palermo, Italy, on October 7th 2020.<br />
<br />
Studio DiDeA is an associated studio based in Palermo, which deals with architectural design and interior design, in the residential and commercial sectors.
    CIPG_20201007_STUDIO-DIDEA_Ritratti_...jpg
  • PALERMO, 7 OCTOBER 2020: A portait of XXX, an architect of Studio DiDeA in Palermo, Italy, on October 7th 2020.<br />
<br />
Studio DiDeA is an associated studio based in Palermo, which deals with architectural design and interior design, in the residential and commercial sectors.
    CIPG_20201007_STUDIO-DIDEA_Ritratti_...jpg
  • PALERMO, 7 OCTOBER 2020: A portait of XXX, an architect of Studio DiDeA in Palermo, Italy, on October 7th 2020.<br />
<br />
Studio DiDeA is an associated studio based in Palermo, which deals with architectural design and interior design, in the residential and commercial sectors.
    CIPG_20201007_STUDIO-DIDEA_Ritratti_...jpg
  • PALERMO, 7 OCTOBER 2020: A portait of XXX, an architect of Studio DiDeA in Palermo, Italy, on October 7th 2020.<br />
<br />
Studio DiDeA is an associated studio based in Palermo, which deals with architectural design and interior design, in the residential and commercial sectors.
    CIPG_20201007_STUDIO-DIDEA_Ritratti_...jpg
  • PALERMO, 7 OCTOBER 2020: A portait of XXX, an architect of Studio DiDeA in Palermo, Italy, on October 7th 2020.<br />
<br />
Studio DiDeA is an associated studio based in Palermo, which deals with architectural design and interior design, in the residential and commercial sectors.
    CIPG_20201007_STUDIO-DIDEA_Ritratti_...jpg
  • PALERMO, 7 OCTOBER 2020: A portait of XXX, an architect of Studio DiDeA in Palermo, Italy, on October 7th 2020.<br />
<br />
Studio DiDeA is an associated studio based in Palermo, which deals with architectural design and interior design, in the residential and commercial sectors.
    CIPG_20201007_STUDIO-DIDEA_Ritratti_...jpg
  • PALERMO, 7 OCTOBER 2020: A portait of Maristella Galia, an associated architect of Studio DiDeA in Palermo, Italy, on October 7th 2020.<br />
<br />
Studio DiDeA is an associated studio based in Palermo, which deals with architectural design and interior design, in the residential and commercial sectors.
    CIPG_20201007_STUDIO-DIDEA_Ritratti_...jpg
  • PALERMO, 7 OCTOBER 2020: A portait of Alfonso Riccio, co-founder and architect of Studio DiDeA in Palermo, Italy, on October 7th 2020.<br />
<br />
Studio DiDeA is an associated studio based in Palermo, which deals with architectural design and interior design, in the residential and commercial sectors.
    CIPG_20201007_STUDIO-DIDEA_Ritratti_...jpg
  • PALERMO, 7 OCTOBER 2020: A portait of Alfonso Riccio, co-founder and architect of Studio DiDeA in Palermo, Italy, on October 7th 2020.<br />
<br />
Studio DiDeA is an associated studio based in Palermo, which deals with architectural design and interior design, in the residential and commercial sectors.
    CIPG_20201007_STUDIO-DIDEA_Ritratti_...jpg
  • PALERMO, 7 OCTOBER 2020: A portait of Emanuela Di Gaetano, co-founder and architect of Studio DiDeA in Palermo, Italy, on October 7th 2020.<br />
<br />
Studio DiDeA is an associated studio based in Palermo, which deals with architectural design and interior design, in the residential and commercial sectors.
    CIPG_20201007_STUDIO-DIDEA_Ritratti_...jpg
  • PALERMO, 7 OCTOBER 2020: A portait of Emanuela Di Gaetano, co-founder and architect of Studio DiDeA in Palermo, Italy, on October 7th 2020.<br />
<br />
Studio DiDeA is an associated studio based in Palermo, which deals with architectural design and interior design, in the residential and commercial sectors.
    CIPG_20201007_STUDIO-DIDEA_Ritratti_...jpg
  • PALERMO, 7 OCTOBER 2020: A portait of Emanuela Di Gaetano, co-founder and architect of Studio DiDeA in Palermo, Italy, on October 7th 2020.<br />
<br />
Studio DiDeA is an associated studio based in Palermo, which deals with architectural design and interior design, in the residential and commercial sectors.
    CIPG_20201007_STUDIO-DIDEA_Ritratti_...jpg
  • PALERMO, 7 OCTOBER 2020: A portait of Nicola Andò, co-founder and architect of Studio DiDeA in Palermo, Italy, on October 7th 2020.<br />
<br />
Studio DiDeA is an associated studio based in Palermo, which deals with architectural design and interior design, in the residential and commercial sectors.
    CIPG_20201007_STUDIO-DIDEA_Ritratti_...jpg
  • PALERMO, 7 OCTOBER 2020: A portait of Giuseppe Delisi, aco-founder and architect of Studio DiDeA in Palermo, Italy, on October 7th 2020. <br />
<br />
Studio DiDeA is an associated studio based in Palermo, which deals with architectural design and interior design, in the residential and commercial sectors.
    CIPG_20201007_STUDIO-DIDEA_Ritratti_...jpg
  • PALERMO, 7 OCTOBER 2020: (L-R) Archiitects of Studio DiDeA, Emanuea Di Gaetano (co-founder), Giuseppe Delisi (co-founder), Maristella Galia Emanuela (associated architect), Nicola Andò (co-founder) and Alfonso Riccio (co-founder) pose for a portrait at Studio DiDeA in Palermo, Italy, on October 7th 2020. <br />
<br />
Studio DiDeA is an associated studio based in Palermo, which deals with architectural design and interior design, in the residential and commercial sectors.
    CIPG_20201007_STUDIO-DIDEA_Ritratti_...jpg
  • PALERMO, 7 OCTOBER 2020: (L-R) Architects of Stidop DiDeA, Agnese Abbaleo, Emanuela Di Gaetano (co-founder), Giuseppe Delisi (co-founder), Roberto Lombino, Maristella Galia (associated architect), Nicola Andò (co-founder) and Alfonso Riccio (co-founder) pose for a portrait at Studio DiDeA in Palermo, Italy, on October 7th 2020. <br />
<br />
Studio DiDeA is an associated studio based in Palermo, which deals with architectural design and interior design, in the residential and commercial sectors.
    CIPG_20201007_STUDIO-DIDEA_Ritratti_...jpg
  • PALERMO, 7 OCTOBER 2020: (L-R) Founders of Studio DiDeA, architects Nicola Andò, Maristella Galia, Giuseppe Delisi, Emanuela Di Gaeetano and Alfonso Riccio pose for a portrait at Studio DiDeA in Palermo, Italy, on October 7th 2020. <br />
<br />
Studio DiDeA is an associated studio based in Palermo, which deals with architectural design and interior design, in the residential and commercial sectors.
    CIPG_20201007_STUDIO-DIDEA_Ritratti_...jpg
  • PALERMO, 7 OCTOBER 2020: (L-R) Founders of Studio DiDeA, architects Nicola Andò, Maristella Galia, Giuseppe Delisi, Emanuela Di Gaeetano and Alfonso Riccio pose for a portrait at Studio DiDeA in Palermo, Italy, on October 7th 2020. <br />
<br />
Studio DiDeA is an associated studio based in Palermo, which deals with architectural design and interior design, in the residential and commercial sectors.
    CIPG_20201007_STUDIO-DIDEA_Ritratti_...jpg
  • PALERMO, 7 OCTOBER 2020: (L-R) Founders of Studio DiDeA, architects Nicola Andò, Maristella Galia, Giuseppe Delisi, Emanuela Di Gaeetano and Alfonso Riccio pose for a portrait at Studio DiDeA in Palermo, Italy, on October 7th 2020. <br />
<br />
Studio DiDeA is an associated studio based in Palermo, which deals with architectural design and interior design, in the residential and commercial sectors.
    CIPG_20201007_STUDIO-DIDEA_Ritratti_...jpg
  • PALERMO, 7 OCTOBER 2020: A portait of XXX, an architect of Studio DiDeA in Palermo, Italy, on October 7th 2020.<br />
<br />
Studio DiDeA is an associated studio based in Palermo, which deals with architectural design and interior design, in the residential and commercial sectors.
    CIPG_20201007_STUDIO-DIDEA_Ritratti_...jpg
  • PALERMO, 7 OCTOBER 2020: A portait of Agnese Abbaleo, an architect of Studio DiDeA in Palermo, Italy, on October 7th 2020.<br />
<br />
Studio DiDeA is an associated studio based in Palermo, which deals with architectural design and interior design, in the residential and commercial sectors.
    CIPG_20201007_STUDIO-DIDEA_Ritratti_...jpg
  • PALERMO, 7 OCTOBER 2020: A portait of Nicola Andò, co-founder and architect of Studio DiDeA in Palermo, Italy, on October 7th 2020.<br />
<br />
Studio DiDeA is an associated studio based in Palermo, which deals with architectural design and interior design, in the residential and commercial sectors.
    CIPG_20201007_STUDIO-DIDEA_Ritratti_...jpg
  • PALERMO, 7 OCTOBER 2020: A portait of Giuseppe Delisi, aco-founder and architect of Studio DiDeA in Palermo, Italy, on October 7th 2020. <br />
<br />
Studio DiDeA is an associated studio based in Palermo, which deals with architectural design and interior design, in the residential and commercial sectors.
    CIPG_20201007_STUDIO-DIDEA_Ritratti_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, is seen here at the entrance of her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. <br />
<br />
Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: A three floating diamond ring worn by Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, is seen here in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. <br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: A wedding bracelet (double bangle of gold and diamonds) and a DOTS diamonds and emerald yellow gold ring are worn by Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, are seen here in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. <br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, poses for a portrait in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. In this photo she is wearing  TWO IN ONE earrings.<br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, poses for a portrait in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. In this photo she is wearing  TWO IN ONE earrings.<br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, poses for a portrait in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. In this photo she is wearing a DOTS diamonds and emerald yellow gold ring (right hand), a DOTS diamonds yellow hold ring (left hand) and TWO IN ONE earrings.<br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, poses for a portrait in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. In this photo she is wearing a DOTS diamonds and emerald yellow gold ring (right hand), a DOTS diamonds yellow hold ring (left hand) and TWO IN ONE earrings.<br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, poses for a portrait in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. In this photo she is wearing a a DOTS diamonds yellow hold ring (left hand) and TWO IN ONE earrings.<br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, poses for a portrait in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. In this photo she is wearing a DOTS diamonds and emerald yellow gold ring (right hand) and TWO IN ONE earrings.<br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, poses for a portrait in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. In this photo she is wearing a DOTS diamonds and emerald yellow gold ring (right hand), a DOTS diamonds yellow hold ring (left hand) and TWO IN ONE earrings.<br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: An interior view of the boutique of Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, is seen here in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. <br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: An interior view of the boutique of Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, is seen here in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. <br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: A piercing earromg wotj pearl and white diamond (white gold) earring is worn by Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, is seen here in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. <br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: A piercing earromg wotj pearl and white diamond (white gold) earring is worn by Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, is seen here in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. <br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: A wedding bracelet (double bangle of gold and diamonds) is worn by Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, is seen here in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. <br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: A wedding bracelet (double bangle of gold and diamonds) is worn by Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, is seen here in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. <br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, poses for a portrait in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. In this photo she is wearing  TWO IN ONE earrings.<br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, poses for a portrait in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. In this photo she is wearing a DOTS diamonds and emerald yellow gold ring (right hand), a DOTS diamonds yellow hold ring (left hand) and TWO IN ONE earrings.<br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, poses for a portrait in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. In this photo she is wearing a DOTS diamonds and emerald yellow gold ring (right hand), a DOTS diamonds yellow hold ring (left hand) and TWO IN ONE earrings.<br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, poses for a portrait in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. In this photo she is wearing  TWO IN ONE earrings.<br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, poses for a portrait in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. In this photo she is wearing  TWO IN ONE earrings.<br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, poses for a portrait in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. In this photo she is wearing  TWO IN ONE earrings.<br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, poses for a portrait in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. In this photo she is wearing a DOTS diamonds and emerald yellow gold ring (right hand), a DOTS diamonds yellow hold ring (left hand) and TWO IN ONE earrings.<br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, poses for a portrait in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. In this photo she is wearing  TWO IN ONE earrings.<br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, poses for a portrait in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. In this photo she is wearing  TWO IN ONE earrings.<br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, poses for a portrait in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. In this photo she is wearing  TWO IN ONE earrings.<br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, poses for a portrait in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. In this photo she is wearing a DOTS diamonds and emerald yellow gold ring (right hand), a DOTS diamonds yellow hold ring (left hand) and TWO IN ONE earrings.<br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, poses for a portrait in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. In this photo she is wearing a DOTS diamonds and emerald yellow gold ring (right hand), a DOTS diamonds yellow hold ring (left hand) and TWO IN ONE earrings.<br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, poses for a portrait in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. In this photo she is wearing a DOTS diamonds and emerald yellow gold ring (right hand), a DOTS diamonds yellow hold ring (left hand) and TWO IN ONE earrings.<br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, poses for a portrait in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. In this photo she is wearing a DOTS diamonds and emerald yellow gold ring (right hand), a DOTS diamonds yellow hold ring (left hand) and TWO IN ONE earrings.<br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, poses for a portrait in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. In this photo she is wearing a DOTS diamonds and emerald yellow gold ring (right hand), a DOTS diamonds yellow hold ring (left hand) and TWO IN ONE earrings.<br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, poses for a portrait in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. In this photo she is wearing a a DOTS diamonds yellow hold ring (left hand) and TWO IN ONE earrings.<br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, poses for a portrait in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. In this photo she is wearing a a DOTS diamonds yellow hold ring (left hand) and TWO IN ONE earrings.<br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, poses for a portrait in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. In this photo she is wearing a DOTS diamonds and emerald yellow gold ring (right hand) and TWO IN ONE earrings.<br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, poses for a portrait in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. In this photo she is wearing a DOTS diamonds and emerald yellow gold ring (right hand) and TWO IN ONE earrings.<br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, poses for a portrait in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. In this photo she is wearing a DOTS diamonds and emerald yellow gold ring (right hand), a DOTS diamonds yellow hold ring (left hand) and TWO IN ONE earrings.<br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 20 NOVEMBER 2019: Delfina Delettrez, a Rome-based jewelry designer and fourth generation member of the Fendi family, poses for a portrait in her boutique in Rome, Italy, on November 20th 2019. In this photo she is wearing a DOTS diamonds and emerald yellow gold ring (right hand), a DOTS diamonds yellow hold ring (left hand) and TWO IN ONE earrings.<br />
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Delfina Delettrez presented her first collection of jewels to the international press in October 2007 at Colette, Paris. Delettrez is celebrated as the youngest designer with a permanent collection at the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs since 2010, as well as being featured in famous fine-jewelry galleries around the world. Her latest works explore a conceptual sense of surreal, with precious stones in ‘phantom settings’ that seem to float on the body. The designer takes postmodern inspirations and fuses them with the traditional Italian craftsmanship to create hyper-modern, handmade pieces.
    CIPG_20191120_NYT-Delfina-Delettrez_...jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Rolls of Damask silk fabrics are displayed here in the showroom of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
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The Damaschi collection is composed of single-colour damask fabrics with stylised or floral designs created in a shiny and low-lustre finish. It was first made in Florence on mechanical looms from the Nineteenth century predating the Jacquard loom. It has just one warp and one weft. The background is made with an eight-harness satin weave and the decorative motifs in reverse eight-harness satin.The Damaschi collection is composed of single-colour damask fabrics with stylised or floral designs created in a shiny and low-lustre finish.<br />
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The showroom of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino displays  many of the 100 different kinds of fabric the mill can produce, with vignettes of them turned into pillows, sofas and curtains.<br />
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Fabrics are priced accordingly, starting at about 200 euros a meter and going as high as 2000 euros a meter for lampasso, a special kind of damask so labor intensive to produce only 20 centimeters can be made a day. There are brocades, jacquards, damasks, shantung, satin, moire, rustic filaticcio and stiff, shimmering ermisino. The palette extends from pure “panna”, or cream, to delicate pastels and rich jewel tones, often shot with threads of gold or silver.<br />
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The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
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Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
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Silk was made in the city as f
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  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Rolls of Broccatello silk fabrics are displayed here in the showroom of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
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Composed of linen and golden chenille, the Broccatello fabric is still made today with handlooms dating back to the Eighteenth century. Geometric designs are revealed in the Broccatelli collection, brocades which evoke three-dimensional shapes.<br />
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The showroom of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino displays  many of the 100 different kinds of fabric the mill can produce, with vignettes of them turned into pillows, sofas and curtains.<br />
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Fabrics are priced accordingly, starting at about 200 euros a meter and going as high as 2000 euros a meter for lampasso, a special kind of damask so labor intensive to produce only 20 centimeters can be made a day. There are brocades, jacquards, damasks, shantung, satin, moire, rustic filaticcio and stiff, shimmering ermisino. The palette extends from pure “panna”, or cream, to delicate pastels and rich jewel tones, often shot with threads of gold or silver.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s si
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_3868.jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 9 OCTOBER 2020: Casa A287, designed by Studio DiDeA, in Palermo, Italy, on October 9th 2020.
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  • PALERMO, ITALY - 9 OCTOBER 2020: Casa A287, designed by Studio DiDeA, in Palermo, Italy, on October 9th 2020.
    CIPG_20201009_DIDEA-Casa-A287_7M3028...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 9 OCTOBER 2020: Casa A287, designed by Studio DiDeA, in Palermo, Italy, on October 9th 2020.
    CIPG_20201009_DIDEA-Casa-A287_7M3026...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 9 OCTOBER 2020: Casa A287, designed by Studio DiDeA, in Palermo, Italy, on October 9th 2020.
    CIPG_20201009_DIDEA-Casa-A287_7M3023...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 9 OCTOBER 2020: Casa A287, designed by Studio DiDeA, in Palermo, Italy, on October 9th 2020.
    CIPG_20201009_DIDEA-Casa-A287_7M3022...jpg
  • 25 October, 2008. New York, NY. Obama volunteers get ready for the show "Fashion for Change" in the East Village, a fashion show fundraiser for Obama organized by fashion designer Kated Goldwater. Kate Goldwater, owner of the East Village store AuH2O, sells recycled t-shirts, skirts and dresses with Obama's face printed on it. The Obama volunteers in New York have been helping the campaign for weeks organizing phone banking, fund raisings, canvas, concerts, fashion shows, etc.<br />
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©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
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  • 25 October, 2008. New York, NY. Obama volunteers get ready for the show "Fashion for Change" in the East Village, a fashion show fundraiser for Obama organized by fashion designer Kated Goldwater. Kate Goldwater, owner of the East Village store AuH2O, sells recycled t-shirts, skirts and dresses with Obama's face printed on it. The Obama volunteers in New York have been helping the campaign for weeks organizing phone banking, fund raisings, canvas, concerts, fashion shows, etc.<br />
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©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    GCipriano_20081024_OBAMA-fashion_MG_...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 9 OCTOBER 2020: Casa A287, designed by Studio DiDeA, in Palermo, Italy, on October 9th 2020.
    CIPG_20201009_DIDEA-Casa-A287_7M3028...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 9 OCTOBER 2020: Casa A287, designed by Studio DiDeA, in Palermo, Italy, on October 9th 2020.
    CIPG_20201009_DIDEA-Casa-A287_7M3028...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 9 OCTOBER 2020: Casa A287, designed by Studio DiDeA, in Palermo, Italy, on October 9th 2020.
    CIPG_20201009_DIDEA-Casa-A287_7M3028...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 9 OCTOBER 2020: Casa A287, designed by Studio DiDeA, in Palermo, Italy, on October 9th 2020.
    CIPG_20201009_DIDEA-Casa-A287_7M3028...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 9 OCTOBER 2020: Casa A287, designed by Studio DiDeA, in Palermo, Italy, on October 9th 2020.
    CIPG_20201009_DIDEA-Casa-A287_7M3028...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 9 OCTOBER 2020: Casa A287, designed by Studio DiDeA, in Palermo, Italy, on October 9th 2020.
    CIPG_20201009_DIDEA-Casa-A287_7M3026...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 9 OCTOBER 2020: Casa A287, designed by Studio DiDeA, in Palermo, Italy, on October 9th 2020.
    CIPG_20201009_DIDEA-Casa-A287_7M3025...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 9 OCTOBER 2020: Casa A287, designed by Studio DiDeA, in Palermo, Italy, on October 9th 2020.
    CIPG_20201009_DIDEA-Casa-A287_7M3025...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 9 OCTOBER 2020: Casa A287, designed by Studio DiDeA, in Palermo, Italy, on October 9th 2020.
    CIPG_20201009_DIDEA-Casa-A287_7M3024...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 9 OCTOBER 2020: Casa A287, designed by Studio DiDeA, in Palermo, Italy, on October 9th 2020.
    CIPG_20201009_DIDEA-Casa-A287_7M3024...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 9 OCTOBER 2020: Casa A287, designed by Studio DiDeA, in Palermo, Italy, on October 9th 2020.
    CIPG_20201009_DIDEA-Casa-A287_7M3023...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 9 OCTOBER 2020: Casa A287, designed by Studio DiDeA, in Palermo, Italy, on October 9th 2020.
    CIPG_20201009_DIDEA-Casa-A287_7M3023...jpg
  • PALERMO, ITALY - 9 OCTOBER 2020: Casa A287, designed by Studio DiDeA, in Palermo, Italy, on October 9th 2020.
    CIPG_20201009_DIDEA-Casa-A287_7M3021...jpg
  • 25 October, 2008. New York, NY. Obama volunteers get ready for the show "Fashion for Change" in the East Village, a fashion show fundraiser for Obama organized by fashion designer Kated Goldwater. Kate Goldwater, owner of the East Village store AuH2O, sells recycled t-shirts, skirts and dresses with Obama's face printed on it. The Obama volunteers in New York have been helping the campaign for weeks organizing phone banking, fund raisings, canvas, concerts, fashion shows, etc.<br />
<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    GCipriano_20081025_OBAMA-fashion_MG_...jpg
  • 25 October, 2008. New York, NY. An Obama volunteer get ready for the show "Fashion for Change" in the East Village, a fashion show fundraiser for Obama organized by fashion designer Kated Goldwater. Kate Goldwater, owner of the East Village store AuH2O, sells recycled t-shirts, skirts and dresses with Obama's face printed on it. The Obama volunteers in New York have been helping the campaign for weeks organizing phone banking, fund raisings, canvas, concerts, fashion shows, etc.<br />
<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    GCipriano_20081024_OBAMA-fashion_MG_...jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Filippo Ricci,  creative director of the eponymous luxury company started by his father, Stefano Ricci, poses for a portrait by the Ermisino fabrics in the showroom of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill he owns in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
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The Ermisino is an icon fabric of the ancient silk factory, a special type of Renaissance shot taffeta made with threads of different colours, so as to have tones that are shimmering and fluid like a cascade of light. Woven in three classic weights (leggero, scempio and doppio), for centuries it was the distinctive mark of the most illustrious nobility.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_2473.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 26 OCTOBER 2018: Filippo Ricci,  creative director of the eponymous luxury company started by his father, Stefano Ricci, poses for a portrait by the Ermisino fabrics in the showroom of the Antico Setificio Fiorentino, an ancient silk mill he owns in central Florence, Italy, on October 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
The Ermisino is an icon fabric of the ancient silk factory, a special type of Renaissance shot taffeta made with threads of different colours, so as to have tones that are shimmering and fluid like a cascade of light. Woven in three classic weights (leggero, scempio and doppio), for centuries it was the distinctive mark of the most illustrious nobility.<br />
<br />
The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is a silk mill, located in central Florence within view of the old city walls in the San Frediano neighborhood, that produces the kind of fabrics destined for city palaces and country estates. The mill was bought in 2010 by Stefano Ricci from the Pucci, with an eye to using it to produce fabrics for the launch of a new home collection<br />
<br />
Lined up in rows are the dozen looms that take the slender threads, by now dyed emerald and ruby and sapphire, and weave them into the textiles that form a part of the fabric of Florentine life.<br />
<br />
Silk was made in the city as far back as the 1300s, a commodity to trade for precious materials. In more recent times, the fabric in the gowns in “Il Gattopardo” and “Death in Venice” came from the mill, as did much of Maris Callas’ wardrobe, robes for Popes, suits for Andre Bocelli, and Nelson Mandela’s silk shirts (when he wore one for his audience with Queen Elizabeth II she reportedly remarked, “that’s a beautiful shirt.”) The carmine red curtains at the Villa Medici and the Tribune of the Uffizi were made here. The Presidential Suite at the city’s Four Seasons Hotel is decked out in the mill’s output, as are the walls of the room of the Czars at the Kremlin, and more than 100 red velvet chairs emblazoned with the Kremlin’s
    CIPG_20181026_NYT_Silk_M3_2453.jpg
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