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Elsa Luisa Maria Schiaparelli was born at the Palazzo Corsini, Rome. [8] Her mother, Giuseppa Maria de Dominicis, [9] was a Neapolitan aristocrat. [10] Her father, Celestino Schiaparelli, a Piedmontese, was an accomplished scholar with multiple areas of interest. [11]
Images from a 14th-century manuscript of Tacuinum Sanitatis, a treatise on healthful living, show the clothing of working people: men wear short or knee-length tunics and thick shoes, and women wear knotted kerchiefs and gowns with aprons. For hot summer work, men wear shirts and braies and women wear chemises. Women tuck their gowns up when ...
The Italian Catherine de' Medici, as Queen of France. Her fashions were the main trendsetters of courts at the time. Fashion in Italy started to become the most fashionable in Europe since the 11th century, and powerful cities of the time, such as Venice, Milan, Florence, Naples, Vicenza and Rome began to produce robes, jewelry, textiles, shoes, fabrics, ornaments and elaborate dresses. [8]
Brioni is an Italian menswear luxury fashion house based in Rome and specialized in sartorial ready-to-wear, leather goods, shoes, eyewear and fragrance, and provides a tailor-made service (Bespoke). Brioni was founded in Rome in 1945. In 1952, the brand organised the first menswear runway show in the modern history of fashion.
To celebrate its 21st anniversary in 2007, the company presented the book 21 (a photographic journal of Capasa's career), a version of the Absolut Vodka bottle dressed in black vinyl with images of two women, the Alfa 147 C’N’C 21 (a limited-edition car costume), a unisex fragrance called ‘Costume National 21’, and a line of luxury ...
1840s Fashion Plates of men, women, and children's fashion from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries; The Romantic Era: Fashions 1825–1845; 1840s Men's Fashions — c. 1840 Men's Fashion Photos (Daguerreotypes) with Annotations; Men's fashion plates of the 1840s at Victoriana.com
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Men and women wore outer clothes with detachable and often slashed sleeves of varied designs. Wealthy people owned many different pairs of sleeves to match their overcoats and dresses. [6] [7] The Renaissance changed societal attitudes toward clothing and appearance. Men in particular wanted to wear more fitted clothes to emphasize their body ...