Hugh MacLeod
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March 9, 2005
Collezioni, an Italian fashion magazine, wants to interview Thomas.
They look like a good magazine, but knowing very little of the Italian fashion world, I don’t know much about them.
Anybody know anything? Is it a big magazine? Are they good?
I'm a cartoonist.
I sell limited-edition prints.
I wrote a book.
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I also draw private commissions.
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It’s available on almost every newsstand, and it’s pretty popular within the fashion biz. I am not sure it’s really considered a “consumer” title though.
P.S. Thanks to Thomas’s blog, I have been maniacally scheming and saving to save enough for an appointment. Thanks.
as witz already said, it’s not a mainstream fashion mag, but i’ve spotted it on newsstands while i was buying my copy of casabella…
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Premessa: stando a GQ, “bespoke” significa “confezionato a richiesta”, mentre, secondo il dizionario Oxford-Paravia, se riferito a una giacca o altro indumento, vuol dire “fatto su misura”, se riferito a un sarto, vuol dire “che lavora su ordinazione…
Well then, if it’s not mainstream, is it influential?
Influence is good. Also, we have our eye on the possible Italian market.
In Italy, everybody wears Italian suits, so English suits are quite well received by people looking for something different.
One tailor I know got some business in Italy. After a year he had to quit because business was so good, he had a nervous breakdown.
[NOTE TO SELF: Flog Thomas harder.]
From what I understand (I worked at a popular men’s magazine here in the USA until recently), Collezioni is not infulential like GQ or Arena, but more of reports on whats new in collections and the like.
Still saving for a Mahon suit…
witz:
isn’t that what IC is supposed to be for?
now excuse me, i’ve got some razor scooter catalogs to look at…[/kidding]
> In Italy, everybody wears Italian suits
Excuse me, but that’s not accurate, and I can tell you, since I do live in Italy.
In Italy people don’t wear only Italian clothes. I often read of people who mix up pieces of italian fashion with. Plus, quite often they tend to go for English fabric and Italian cut. Some people go to UK and have their suits made at Savile Row, instead, so that when they come back thay can blabber about on how they’re more worthy than other people just because they flew to London to have a suit made (now, honest, that’s not the main reason why one should get a suit from a Savile Row tailor for, isn’t it?)
The sad thing, maybe, is that the youngest adult generation (I mean people under 40) simply don’t go to bespoke tailors, they prefer buying hopelessly ugly Dolce & Gabbana suits, or buy an Armani suit, so that they can proudly go round saying they’re “wearing Armani”, unless they’re from the Agnelli family — and I’m not quite sure they still do that, either, I saw a picture of Lapo Elkann the other day and he was wearing the most dreadful jacket I’ve ever seen.
It’s more a matter of having a well-known, world-wide-known label attached to their clothes, rather than asking themselves if those clothes are any good. Which is a shame.
More worthy than other people! Yay!
Poin taken, Gogia. My point is, English suits have a certain niche cachet in Italy, which a good English tailor who is willing to travel can take advantage of.
Yeah, that’s the funny thing about “brands”. By the time you get old enough to afford them they start losing their interest.
> More worthy than other people! Yay!
well, yep, I find that ridiculous, too. a nice suit looks, well, nice (doh!), but that not necessarily means the person who’s wearing it is any better than someone who can’t afford it, or simply isn’t interested in wearing a suit. Italian parliament is full of people wearing nice suits, but to whom I wouldn’t lend a pencil…
> By the time you get old enough to afford them they start losing their interest.
that’s exactly what I was thinking yesterday while I was crocheting a baby blanket for my not-yet-born niece/nephew while watching ‘Sex and the city’ dvds — an episode where Carrie makes such a fussy because Aidan wants her to get rid of a Roberto Cavalli top — which, incidentally, was awful, by the way. She didn’t say ‘no way, I like this top’, she just protested ‘hey, it’s Roberto Cavalli!’…and I just couldn’t understand why anybody would’ve bought that piece of whatever it was in the first place.
Ok, it’s official, I’m old.
Sad but true, our politicians are far more appreciable for their taste in clothes (which by the way is not necessarily their own taste, I guess you know most of them have their own fashion consultant)than they are for their wisdom and/or ethical attitude and/or farsightedness…
Also true, the average italian (from early childhood) has a remarkable fashion sense.
And you do not need to be rich and wear Armani to show that.
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