That Italian fashion does not inspire clemency and notoriety, as much as the authority of the magazine she represents and has directed for decades. The early abandonment (a bit snobbish, let’s face it) of the icy Anna Wintour has produced two important consequences on this Milan Fashion Week . The first involves the international image of the Italian industry in the world, much less glamorous after this almost strategically studied defection. The second, of great impact, concerns the relationship between the director of Vogue America and Re Giorgio , or Armani, who not only did not like it at all, but raised the issue of the unity and strength of the Chamber of Fashion close to a second, relevant news for the sector: the sale of Krizia to the Chinese.
“On this last day of fashion shows I was left alone among the greats to close the Calendar and already a very important journalist took her airplane and flew to Paris ! And that’s not good, in Milan you have to see the shows! I have just entered the Chamber of Fashion, but I’m also ready to go out immediately if these things are not put in place, if the calendars are not sealed with important presences until the end, as happens in Paris and New York “, said the designer, without ever explicitly saying the name of Anna Wintour, the powerful director.
“I’m only controversial when something doesn’t work – continues the designer who also hosted the mayor of Milan Giuliano Pisapia at the fashion showwith his wife – relationships must always be professional. The lady who has already gone to Paris is one who has weight and power and if she does not come to me, I am hurt. But maybe I have weight too… In short, it was enough to distribute the Milano Moda Donna calendar in another way, we take turns for the last day since I have been closing for 20 years. The French are better at this than us, just don’t let us eat the baby food on our heads. ”
Leaving the parade in via Bergognone, here is Jane Reevenew ceo of Camera Moda, the elegant English lady who has important new responsibilities, who declares to journalists: “If this is the case, Mr. Armani is right, we must meet to talk together and develop strategies. Yet – concluded Reeve – the other day during a lunch I had with her, Wintour assured me that this morning she would be there! “. If the Armani-Wintour
controversy fills the headlines with personal tones, on the other hand the industrial question is equally present. The Krizia sale agreement, founded by Mariuccia Mandelli , in Shenzen Marisfrolg Fashion, shakes the environment and beyond.
The two companies, a statement read, at this stage “do not wish to release details on the transaction”. The Chinese group was founded in 1993 by Zhu ChongYun , who now holds the role of chairman of the board and creative director of the Milanese fashion house. The debut of his first collection is expected at Milano Moda Donnain February 2015. Over the next five years, the company also plans to open new Krizia stores in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzen and Chengdu and to gradually reopen stores in the most important cities in Europe, Japan and the USA. Mariuccia Mandelli explained that she was “happy to have met Mrs Zhu, with whom I immediately found myself in deep harmony. I think she has the strength and talent to continue our work in the best possible way and bring Krizia to new successes in the world”.
