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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
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    • 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.

Mauro Seresini. Photo Credit Salvo Sportato
BACO StyleDecember 4, 2015

MAURO SERESINI: Luxury’s Paper Artist

By Sofia Celeste

MILAN–When we parked in the unsuspecting residential neighborhood about 15 minutes south of Milan’s city center, we were stunned by the enchanting setting that awaited…

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ArtisanalDecember 4, 2015

RUBELLI: Venetian Wallpaper

By Sofia Celeste

Legendary Venetian fabric-maker Rubelli is widely known for the soprarizzo velvet that it made for the Savoy family’s train carriages. But since venturing into the contemporary home furnishings…

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Lisa Corti Textiles.  Photo by Salvo Sportato
PAST ISSUESDecember 2, 2015

THE TEXTILES ISSUE

By Sofia Celeste

Not many people realize this, but for most designers, their starting point is textiles. Whether they take a trip to a trade show like…

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TalentsDecember 2, 2015

NEW ICONS ARE BORN AT MILAN EXHIBIT

By Sofia Celeste

MILAN–The “Audrey Dress” crafted with gold laminated and laser-cut lycra with macrame’ effect and MSGM’s shift dress crafted with lace in the image of…

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ArtisanalNovember 27, 2015

LISA CORTI: Milan’s Famed Textile Designer Opens Up

By Sofia Celeste

MILAN–In this city full of signoras who daylight as purveyors of elegance, fabric designer Lisa Corti is known as a master of laid-back chic.  In…

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Liberty and Co. Art Nouveau Fashion. Courtesy Photo.
ArtisanalNovember 25, 2015

LIBERTY AND CO: A Story of British Textiles

By Sofia Celeste

Liberty and Co’s fabrics have enticed everyone from  Mary Quant to Paul Poiret and Yves Saint Laurent.  To celebrate the  department store’s 140th anniversary, they…

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ArtisanalNovember 24, 2015

BEVILACQUA VELVET: A Bastion of Venetian Tradition

By Sofia Celeste

Venice, Italy–A chip-chopping sound of silk being woven and trimmed, permeates through the dusty hall that is the Tessitura Luigi Bevilacqua mill, situated in Venice’s Santa…

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Venice on a foggy day. Photo by Salvo Sportato
PAST ISSUESNovember 24, 2015

THE VENICE ISSUE

By Sofia Celeste

What sets Venetian craft apart from the rest of Italy? For starters, Venice since as early as the 9th century has been the channel through which…

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PAST ISSUESNovember 5, 2015

THE HALLOWEEN ISSUE: DARK BEAUTY

By Sofia Celeste

This past fashion season unfolded with a clash between the tech, feminine and the underworld. From the austere, glossy suits of Salvatore Ferragamo, to…

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ArtisanalNovember 5, 2015

MAHA JUMAIE TAITANO: Crafting Ethnic Goth in Santa Cruz

By Sofia Celeste

Santa Cruz, CA– Maha Jumaie Taitano, the California-based artist behind the eponymous jewelry label, was born in Baghdad, just before the rise of the…

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