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  • Artisanal
    • 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.

Freccia Bastetti
ArtisanalApril 29, 2015

Freccia Bestetti: Too International for Just Italy

By Sofia Celeste

Vigevano, Italy–Past the damp, hay colored rice paddies and the abandoned factories and mills of Pavia, a cobbler is working alone in an auto garage-turned-shoe…

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TailoringApril 29, 2015

Passaggio Cravatte: A Treasure Chest of Ties

By Sofia Celeste

Gianni Cerutti, the 27-year-old journalist-turned-cravat extraordinaire will go to the ends of the earth to find textiles – some that haven’t been dusted since Italy’s Unification.

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Niedermair
ArtisanalApril 24, 2015

Brigitte Niedermair on Man’s Fashion, Food Fixation

By Sofia Celeste

MILAN–Over aperitivo in Milan, Brigitte Niedermair, the provocative photographer known for juxtaposing decapitated heads of farm animals with models’ bodies, tells me that her…

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EXPO, Opinion, PAST ISSUESApril 23, 2015

THE EXPO ISSUE: Where Fashion and Food Mingle

By Sofia Celeste

MILAN–More and more what you put into your mouth has become just as fashionable as what you wear. And that has never rung more…

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EXPO, Milano Fashion WeekApril 23, 2015

The Expo Guide By Milano State of Mind

By Sofia Celeste

MILAN–Alessia Zampano, co-founder of Instamag Milano State of Mind, maps out the fashion capital’s must see spots during the Expo 2015 fair, which will run…

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ArtisanalApril 23, 2015

ERA Olive Oil: Liquid Gold

By Sofia Celeste

MILAN–Olive oil label ERA, whose confection looks more like a perfume than it does a condiment, is about starting a new life on 15 hectares…

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gnambox
BACO StyleApril 23, 2015

Gnam Box: The Hipster’s Dinner Party

By Sofia Celeste

MILAN–When you first meet Gnam Box’s Stefano Paleari and Riccardo Casiraghi, the couple behind the online platform that promotes home cooking and hipster dinner parties, you…

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EXPOApril 23, 2015

An Italian Theory: Alessandro Enriquez

By Sofia Celeste

MILAN–Alessandro Enriquez’s homage to Italian cuisine in the form of a women’s wear collection and capsule home collection came just in time for the upcoming…

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EXPOApril 22, 2015

Russian Oligarch Yelena Baturina On Handmade

By Sofia Celeste

BACO’s Editor-in-Chief Sofia Celeste chats with Russia’s richest woman, Yelena Baturina about her BE OPEN philanthropy, a think tank that cultivates and connects the greatest…

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Giorgio Armani among designs of his Armani Casa collection
Opinion, PAST ISSUESApril 15, 2015

Design Week: World’s Chicest Block Party

By Sofia Celeste

Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Milan’s international furniture fair, is in full swing this week. Over the last decade it has enhanced the Italian fashion…

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