DIANE VON FURSTENBERG WILL BE THE STAR OF THE PITTI W SPECIAL EVENT

Diane von Furstenberg  will be the special guest at the second edition of Pitti W _ Woman Precollection, the Pitti Immagine project dedicated to women’s pre-collections. On the evening of Wednesday, 18 June the extraordinary Giardino Torrigiani in the heart of Florence will be the stunning en plein air backdrop for an elegant, glamour-filled event featuring the world première of Diane von Furstenberg’s Cruise / Pre-Spring Collection 2008 - 2009

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PITTI UOMO 74

Pitti Uomo, the international platform that has succeeded in bringing together attention for established names – the most product and marketing-oriented firms – with the finest selection of niche labels and young research projects. Detail

WALTER VAN BEIRENDONCK

The special guest at this edition of Pitti Uomo is the Belgian designer Walter Van Beirendonck
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FREE CYCLE – FREE MOBILITY IS THE NEW THEME-LAYOUT FOR PITTI-UOMO 74

Pitti Uomo drew its inspiration for this edition’s layout from a very current topic: environmentally sustainability mobility.
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“THE CLOUD”: PITTI IMMAGINE AND MIT PRESENT THE INTERACTIVE CLOUD

Inside the Fortezza da Basso reception area visitors to Pitti Uomo will see “The Cloud”. It is a curved sculpture and an icon of the modern approach to organizing fashion fairs that Pitti Immagine is developing in conjunction with MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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 All the info about Pitti Uomo 74 and Pitti W are coming soon…

From tomorrow the PITTI IMMAGINE shows dedicated to the women’s autumn/winter 2008-2009 collections, Touch! neoZone and cloudnine, will run from 21 to 24 February 2008 in the ex-Ansaldo spaces in Via Tortona, Milan.

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Enjoy our pictures on flickr.com/pitti-immagine.

We created a collection of photo albums named Pitti Uomo 2008 that includes several photo albums (sets), including those from the Adam Kimmel photo shooting and dining event  and a live concert from the NY-based experimental indie rock band Gang Gang Band. If You want to hear their sound, we also have a video of Gang Gang Band live on our space on YouTube (youtube.com/pittimmagine).

More photo sets on Flickr, as the one dedicated to the 6267 precollection presentation, an overlook to the exhibitors’ stands an the installations that interacted with the indoor and outdoor spaces at Fortezza da Basso, a photo album of the Donna Simonetta exhibition, and more pictures that we keep uploading and adding to the Pitti 2008/73 Photo collection.

You can download images from Flickr.com in several available sizes - see next image for hints on where to click. If you intend republish one or some of the images, just remind to attribute copyright info to Pitti Immagine and to the individual photographer quoted in each photo set.

If you need extra or special formats for publishing needs, get in touch with Francesca Di Stefano at the Pitti Immagine Press office, sending an email to distefano@pittimmagine.com.

Among the most important events today at Pitti Uomo 2008, certainly is the opening of the Palazzo Pitti exhibition organized by the Pitti Discovery Foundation at Palazzo Pitti, and dedicated to Donna Simonetta Colonna di Cesarò, charismatic designer of the Italian fashion of the 40’s-50’s, Italian international icon of fashion and style. Curated by Vittoria C. Caratozzolo, Judith Clark and Maria Luisa Frisa, the exhibition shows an exclusive collection of 60 models from the Italian designer, selected from several Internation museums, and from Donna Simonetta’s personal wardrobe.

The always modern, original and actual sartoriality, is source of inspiration to new fashion designers, as highlighted by the stylist, and remarked by exhibition curator Maria Luisa Frisa. Pictures of the exhibition are available at flickr.com/pitti-immagine.

6267, alias Tommaso Aquilano and Roberto Rimondi, “The great hope for Italian fashion future” as written by Sarah Mower of Style.com.

Aquilano and Rimondi, creative mind of the fashion brand Malo, say they aim to “interpretate people’s desires”, with an eye for inspiration to Walter Albini, the first Italian fashion designer who envisioned the Italian prèt-à-porter as the expression of design applied to fashion in an innovative way, and to go beyond the concepts of “Made-in-Italy” and “Moda Italiana“, towards a concept of “Modo Italiano” (Italian Way of Being). with a glamorous show, 6267 presented today at Palazzo Pitti their Fall/winter 2008-2009 Woman Precollection. See the pictures at flickr.com/pitti-immagine.