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    • HUL LE KES: A Garment’s Second Life
      HUL LE KES: A Garment’s Second Life
    • James Kearns: London’s Self-Made Shoemaker
      James Kearns: London’s Self-Made Shoemaker
    • DALLA LIDIA: Preserving The Art of Lace
      DALLA LIDIA: Preserving The Art of Lace
  • Sustainable
    • HUL LE KES: A Garment’s Second Life
      HUL LE KES: A Garment’s Second Life
    • CRAFTED FOR SUMMER EASE
      CRAFTED FOR SUMMER EASE
    • Aboriginal Artisans Shine At Salone
      Aboriginal Artisans Shine At Salone
  • Talents
    • HUL LE KES: A Garment’s Second Life
      HUL LE KES: A Garment’s Second Life
    • ARTISANAL CURIOSITIES ABOUND AT PITTI UOMO 95
      ARTISANAL CURIOSITIES ABOUND AT PITTI UOMO 95
    • James Kearns: London’s Self-Made Shoemaker
      James Kearns: London’s Self-Made Shoemaker
  • Travel
    • HUL LE KES: A Garment’s Second Life
      HUL LE KES: A Garment’s Second Life
    • CARTAGENA: A Colonial City Looks To The Future
      CARTAGENA: A Colonial City Looks To The Future
    • Thriving in a Modern World: Pre-Colombino Gold
      Thriving in a Modern World: Pre-Colombino Gold
  • BACO Style
    • HUL LE KES: A Garment’s Second Life
      HUL LE KES: A Garment’s Second Life
    • SUMMER INSPIRATION AT PITTI UOMO
      SUMMER INSPIRATION AT PITTI UOMO
    • Connection Knitwear: Retro Slow Fashion
      Connection Knitwear: Retro Slow Fashion

Sofia Celeste

Sofia Celeste is a fashion journalist, who has covered the evolution of Italy’s small and medium sized companies since before the financial crisis. While working as a staff reporter for Dow Jones Newswires and as a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, she wrote extensively about the economic hurdles faced by the Italian fashion, retail and textile industry. Over the past decade, Sofia’s articles on Italian politics, the Vatican and culture, have been published in the Boston Globe, the Christian Science Monitor and La Repubblica’s D Donna. In addition to dedicating her time to BACO, Sofia freelances for Women’s Wear Daily and is currently the Milan Correspondent for Paris-based online magazine NOWFASHION.COM.

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BACO Style, Milano Fashion WeekFebruary 25, 2015

BACO STYLE: Stella Jean, A Champion for Artisans

By Sofia Celeste

MILAN–Stella Jean, the Roman-Haitian designer, who in 2013, was cherry-picked by Giorgio Armani to show at his theater, has since made an impact on the world…

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Milano Fashion WeekFebruary 25, 2015

Milan Fashion Week Starts with Next Gen Contest

By Sofia Celeste

MILAN–The finest in Italian craftsmanship was on show when fashion week here got started Tuesday, with the “Next Generation” fashion contest, which is sponsored…

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Opinion, PAST ISSUESFebruary 19, 2015

Issue No. 9: Pret-a-Couture

By Sofia Celeste

With womens fashion week in full swing, the lines between couture and pret-a-porter are obfuscated more than ever before. From the taffeta-festooned runways of the…

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Daria Shapovalova
NewsFebruary 19, 2015

Daria Shapovalova’s Tips for Fashion Week

By Sofia Celeste

Preparing your wardrobe for fashion week can be daunting, due to an unrelenting schedule of events and travel agenda. Kiev’s top fashion maven and Mercedes-Benz Kiev Fashion…

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Artisans hand crafting the G2G collection. Courtesy Photo
ArtisanalFebruary 19, 2015

G2G: Giovanni Grillotti’s “Pret-a-Couture”

By Sofia Celeste

MILAN–Giovanni Grillotti, G2G’s creative director, spent six months in his early twenties working at the daycare of Rome’s Rebibbia’s prison, while moonlighting as a tailor…

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Daria Shapovalova
BACO StyleFebruary 19, 2015

BACO STYLE: Daria Shapovalova

By Sofia Celeste

Florence, Italy–A true champion for Ukraine’s fashion talent, Daria Shapovalova, the creative director of Kiev Fashion Days, continues to impress the world with her perseverance, grace…

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TalentsFebruary 19, 2015

Alessandra Giannetti: Pret-a-Porter for a Roman Holiday

By Sofia Celeste

ROME–With movement and bon vivant spirit, Rome-based designer Alessandra Giannetti’s designs are a perfect fit for a modern Audrey Hepburn – a woman with…

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Peony accented fabrics for the spring season at Atelier Bergnach
TailoringFebruary 19, 2015

Atelier Bergnach: Made-to-Order Skirts

By Sofia Celeste

MILAN–The idea of made-to-order is commonplace in Italy, where many times it costs less to have things like shirts or skirts made bespoke or…

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Opinion, PAST ISSUESFebruary 12, 2015

ISSUE No. 8: The Uninhibited Art of Fashion

By Sofia Celeste

This week we asked all the designers featured to send us mood boards, in order to convey how art and artistic elements play a…

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BACO StyleFebruary 12, 2015

BACO STYLE: Helen Nonini, A Milanese Muse

By Sofia Celeste

MILAN–Entrepreneur Helen Nonini possesses the audacious fashion sense of Jazz Age muses like singer Josephine Baker and flapper Zelda Fitzgerald. With a potent ethnic mix of Italian,…

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