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Fashion and Design features the best of Italian fashion, style, and designers. Find information about famous designers, clothes, accessories, textile and clothes manufacturers, fashion photographers, publications, and other subjects. Pages are constantly updated and new sections added when relevant. We welcome your suggestions. For your questions PLEASE try our Search Engine before writing. Most Italian companies do not yet have "public" Internet addresses. You'll probably have to contact them by fax or "snail" mail.
This year (2005) we celebrate an important anniversary: Fashion and Design was presented March 1, 2004, at the Milano Collezioni to the fashion public. At the time we did an extensive search of the web for fashion sites and although others have claimed to be the first web on Internet dedicated to fashion as of that date we could not find a single web dedicated to fashion of any kind.
Maintaining a web of this size without resources is extremely difficult. With the assistance of the fashion houses we hope to update all the pages dedicated to them in time for our tenth anniversay online. We welcome suggestions from our viewers of other names that deserve a place on the list.
After presenting the Fashion and Design section of Made In Italy On Line we went on to add other sections including Shopping, Wine and Food, and Travel and Fun.
In this Fashion section the most important fashion names in Italy are listed in the section "Fashion Houses." A page is dedicated to each name and includes contact information, a brief history of the house, a photograph of the designer when it's a "name" house, and three photographs showing the style of the house. The Manufacturers, Accessories, and Beachwear and Lingerie sections list the names and contacts for the most important companies in those categories.
We receive many letters from aspiring fashion designers and/or young men and women who would like to become either designers or find work in the fashion industry. To help and encourage them we've added a new page called So You Want To Become A Fashion Designer? and hope you find it useful. Many young women who would like to become fashion models may find inspiration in So You Want To Become A Model? Advice From A Mom along with useful advice.
Other pages are devoted to Art Exhibits (anyone interested in fashion should see as many museums and exhibits as possible), Fashion Publications, Organizations, Schools, Fashion Photographers, Schools, and Textiles.
We're always happy to add new sections depending on your suggestions. And if you want to support this web please consider visiting our advertisers. We've had many requests to include banner ads but until now have refused them as we find that many of them tend to be distracting and irritating to our viewers. (Even though it's against our best interests!) We appreciate the support that you have shown Fashion and Design as well as Made in Italy on Line and are very grateful.
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Fashion and Design from Italy has been on the web since February 1995. It was the first ever web about fashion. We're working on a new section about Italian Design - industrial design that includes furniture, ceramics, bathrooms, home and office accessories, automobiles and other articles that have won prizes throughout the world and are exhibited in museums such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
