NEOZONE TRENDS
Year after year neoZone reconfirms its reputation as the quintessence of faultless fusion
between progressive classic and luxury sportswear with the continuing supreme quality
of their collections.
Echoes of ancient beauty for the collection by CHIARA BERTANI, where the body is enveloped
with subtle femininity without restriction. Retro is daringly combined with destructured form
using materials like hand-knitted wools, steel fibre and angora blends, camel hair and mohair
transformed into extravagant lace effects. Silk ribbon, mother of pearl, hand-crochet lace edgings
and braiding give a sumptuous finish to the collection in shades of vanilla, almond, glacé, plum,
amethyst, mint and grey.
New Romantic meets British rigour. BAGUTTA presents a collection where the flowing lines of
romantic style meet the formal shirt with severe line and turn-back cuffs with cuff links.
Models with soft cut-out necklines, wash and dye effect fabrics alongside more glamorous styles
with body-hugging stretch fabric. Black and white dominate the collection, with touches of blue to
indigo and pink to aubergine. Accessories define the Bagutta style as unmistakeable: metal or
military buttons, mother of pearl studs, hand-crafted printed transfers and metal braiding woven
into the fabric.
Femininity with the exclusive touch by ROBERT FRIEDMAN. The severe elegance and research into
unusual detail and superb tailoring to create the unique, make Friedman models stand out
among the uniformity of other collections. Shape and form enhance femininity without
compromising absolute refinement. Cottons and silks, plain or printed – in tones of grey, blue and
cold but brilliant shades. The collection also includes several haute couture models.
Luxury based on the Swinging Sixties updated for the CAMERON TAYLOR collection, in a
harmonious combination of innovative design and traditional Scottish cashmere: the term
“classic” takes on a new meaning. Cashmere is the essence of the entire collection in earthy
tones, blended with blues and greens, and hints of pastel. Unusual accessories trim these models oversized wooden and mother of pearl buttons and horn chains.
Sports shoes, but cosmopolitan and urban chic: MUNICH “SPECIAL EDITION” combines cutting
edge style with the practicality of the sneaker. An upgrade of the first technical shoes created
for five-a-side football in the seventies, techno-fabrics lined and edged with suede, glimmering
silk with designer logos, antiqued leather, gold-finish fabric and the latest glitter leathers.
Press Office – Diomedea – Tel. 39 0289546251 – Fax 39 028466743 – E-mail: area.communicazione@diomedea.it
BP STUDIO presents its knitwear in fluid super-chic oversize models worn with skirts and
trousers in steel fibre blend fabrics. Collar-scarves with an Elizabethan flavour flatter the neck, and
the oversize theme is repeated in the strongly decorated macro-buttons for extra impact.
Vintage again with a romantic atmosphere in the MARZI collection. The beauty of the past with a
modern revamp and a touch of eccentricity that seduced the English pop star Jamiroquai. Brightly
printed hats in velvet, angora and astrakhan, or unheard-of combinations like patent or
stretched leather lined with felt. Every model is trimmed with velvet bows and flowers in
contrasting colours, silk linings, and satin ribbons.
ANNO ZHERO revives the bohemian artist style with coats and jackets with an elegant silhouette
and body-hugging feminine style for fashion that is feisty but chic. Nylon, denim, silk and fox fur in
a sequence of tones from violet, ruby, black to beige and brown, trimmed with golden buttons and
zips, strass embroidery and fur.
Colour is always front-stage for GALLO, who presents a collection of hosiery, knitwear, accessories
and underwear starring multicolour and two colour stripe effects, geometrical and floral
prints, with a lurex glimmer. Mainly cotton, wool and cashmere for socks and knitwear, while
underwear is based on cotton, microfibre, satin and organza.
Expert hand-crafting is the outstanding aspect of TRAMONTANO handbags, in soft materials like
tree-tap leather, calfskin, suede and felted wool, in all the shades of brown, bottle green, blue and
black, adding a flirtatious touch with coloured stones set in the leather. Tramonto also presents a
new line of glasses with hand-crafted leather inserts designed by Lou Reed.
The mists of the Scottish highlands updated with eccentric linear patterns by BARRIE, in a
collection where traditional hand-crafting is presented with a contemporary look. Highest quality
cashmere and the finest wool in classical and glowing colours to create a product that provides all
the standards of excellence in quality and design.
Nothing conventional in the OCOMEOFFICINA collection (at Inside neoZone), designed for the
creative, non-conformist woman who chooses her clothes with an eye to concept and
transformation: multipurpose models where gathering, hooks and drawstrings create a new look
conjuring up new forms and inventing asymmetrical hemlines. Cult-wear, totally reversible men’s
trousers.
Glamorous luxury is the heart of the creations by MAJESTIC, where models in cashmere,
cotton and viscose flow to enhance ultra-feminine styles and a new romantic allure intensified even
further with the use of glowing pastel colours on dark backgrounds.
The third collection by CLOSED LIMITED EDITION is inspired by the figure of Rudolph
Nurejev and rehearsal clothes worn before the show: large t-shirts, close-fitting trousers and
materials that are delicate on the skin like elasticised cotton, satin, silk and cashmere, are inserted
with soft laces. Pigment dyes provide a particular “worn” effect to colours like white, light grey and
mauve.
For this season, CLOSED PREMIUM DENIM creates a sophisticated urban look. As always, models
are made in exclusive materials: white Japanese denim, plain beige chino and grey silkcashmere. The designer team has zeroes in strongly on construction quality, attention to especially
refined details, ball-shaped buttons and floral prints – and the new trendy sizes.
For the first time, the collection has been extended to include a vast range of accessories: soft
leather town hand-bags, colonial style boots, laser-cut to create metallic effects and light reflections,
and tough canvas and leather belts.
The tailoring excellence of the 50’s and 60’s, revised and corrected with the focus on a
contemporary approach by KITON. Suggestions of minimal chic interact with contrasting
elements in a male/female style mix that combines men’s’ shirts with romantic oversize. Very
refined fabrics in grey and neutral colours emphasise the quality of these models where handcrafted finishing plays an essential role.
Like a modern fairy tale, NEO ECO creates a play between past and present in a collection that
focuses on femininity experienced with day to day irony, blending flirtatious tendencies
with the dominating touch. Classic models return in contemporary versions, mixing jersey, brass,
eco-fur, and cashmere in a clever original blend. Buttons can be interchanged, and the cut of certain
garments rearranged to create styles that can be worn in different ways.
A strong focus on retro for the new GUGLIELMINOTTI collection, where the vintage theme is
inspired by 17th century dandies, Russian Zarinas from Siberia, to the glamour of the
70’s. Materials include favourites like stretch fabric to innovations like yarn-dyed cotton gauze,
fabrics with weave in stainless steel fibre and warp in destructured wool gauze in a palette of colours
dominated by dusty autumn tones and brilliant dark shades. White appears in a hundred ways:
dandy style shirts with full sleeves, to collars with Brummel neck-cloths, to the frilled bib fronts that
recall the tuxedos of the 70’s.
Warm autumn colours and the atmosphere of winter mountains inspire the FEDELI
collection, composed of knitwear in cashmere, leather and technical fabric jackets with a range of
coordinated accessories. Forms and styles are diversified according to wearability, and the line has
been enhanced with brushed metal zips, hand carved inserts, hand embroidered and woven edgings.
The theme of DAVID FIELDEN’s collection is inspired by two cities a world apart: Vienna and
Los Angeles for modern luxury creations in fabrics like organza in every shades of grey.
Inspired by long voyages and a dream world, this season’s shoes by DUCCIO DEL DUCA recall the
endless fascination of Argentina. The first part of the collection is reminiscent of Evita: the
attention to refined detail suggests subdued luxury, never excessive, rich in nuance revealing
unexpected combinations and striking contrasts. The second part is dedicated to the Beatles - a
flash-back to Swinging London of the Sixties with squared-off tips, patent leather, and highly
polished sheep and calfskin.
New York and Nepal in a fusion of urban chic with echoes of travels to exotic places in the
COOL HUNTING PEOPLE collection, where destructured jackets, military style, trench coats and
utility trousers in cotton, wool linen and denim take on all the shades of bitter chocolate, black, dark
green khaki and military green. Great attention is reserved for details: removable linings, refined
trims, hand-stitched finishing and washed wools.
Understatement has always been a main feature of the SCHNEIDERS style, and once more they
present a collection designed to ensure comfort, elegance and practicality, without formality. The
open-air life and refined elegance of the country lady have inspired slender tapered jackets, plusfour trousers, jodhpurs, and soft knitted woollens with a country flavour, fur collars, horn froggings,
tailored finishing and hand-stitching. Completely new this season is the postcard-Loden, the first
Loden with an embroidered identity: the inside lining is hand embroidered with a
reproduction of the Castle of Salzburg.
ET VOUS is a collection designed for modern Parisian jeune fille with a feminine silhouette full of
relaxed glamour, in a trendy contrast with details reminiscent of men’s fashion. Flowing silks, jersey
and denim with silver printed patterns take on fluid grace in black, brown and every shade of green.
A thousand new ideas from VERGER: an ethnic-organic look for these furnishing fabrics with rural
overtones using raw wool and brocades made from felted wool with hand-aerographed patterns. The
smouldering temperament of South American women inspires the Ayam mood recognisable in the
buttons covered with handmade beading in a myriad of colours and the crochet lace edgings
sprayed in the acid colours of Frida Kahlo. Last of all- the invention of optical style, born from
jacquards based on aboriginal symbols and natural colours to create skeleton pattern coats and
jackets, lined with shantung silk for evenings, and other fabrics with a pixel effect.
DENIM BIRDS proposes a line created for the woman who lives in harmony with her own body, and
believes in femininity born from independence and individuality. A Total look with a passion for
jeans, this line is becoming unisex and is on show for the first time in Italy.
A style that seems to intimate a sense of decadence and an inclination to collection has
influenced the collection by TSESAY: eccentric mini cardigans with heavy oversize buttons, and
softened with hand-stitched finishing. Cashmere, wool and silk harmonise in warm and neutral tones
of brown and grey.
With its look of sexy sophistication, MIMO has proposed outfits of total glamour even for winter,
enriching its collection in purest cashmere with details in silver and rustic but elegant
wooden buttons.
Models from the Seventies and Eighties are revitalised in the PUFFA collection, inspired by the Royal
British Ski Team. This year they present their Two Tone jackets, dual-colour, and padded with
real goose down in an updated version of the model also worn by Lady Diana.
Inspired by the sports world in a perfect blend of fashion and practicality, LOTTO LEGGENDA, does
not forget its “made in Italy” reputation, creating a glamour-sport collection where the historical
trademark assumes a touch of elegance and adopts a new look with materials and technology
representing the state of the art. Clothing concentrates on blue and white while footwear goes
metallic. All creations are trimmed with unusual detailing. The big news in this year’s collection is
Gravity, a fashion evolution with the first football shoe ever created without lacing.
Testimonial for this revolutionary model is the Italian champion Luca Toni: sportswear has taken
over the everyday wardrobe and Gravity has been transformed to become an urban sneaker,
stealing the show in both fashion and design.
HISTORIC RESEARCH creates jackets, fleece sweatshirts and trousers for the dynamic determined
and all female woman who goes for the Heritage look. The new collection is inspired by historical
events that stood out during the last century, above all the heroic Nautilus enterprise,
where an American submarine crossed the North Pole under water in 1958. Nautilus
inspires a line of waisted jackets, flared over the hips, and another line recalls the flight jackets of
the famous pilots of the thirties. A wide colour range covers white to black, blue and green, beige to
brown, and all models are accessorised with details like front pockets, zip-up front and removable
fur collars.
The unusual colouring effects and hand craftsmanship make every single Y2K creation
unique. Natural elements and asymmetrical shapes form an urban style that enfolds the body with
warm sensuality. The unique details on each model are underlined by the use of natural tones and
exquisite hand crafted decoration.
Sicilian folk art is the theme of the LEAMUSUMECI collection (at Inside neoZone), inspired by
the “pupari” puppet shows, creating sinuous enveloping models. Cashmere and other quality
yarns are woven using ancient traditional Sicilian techniques. Models are finished with true mother
of pearl buttons printed with the battles of Orlando and Rinaldo, taken from the original 200 year old
designs made by the puppeteer artists. The weaving looms are the original antique models made
especially by the old craftsmen of days gone by. Leather handbags are hand-painted, and there is a
limited range of bespoke bags hand-embroidered in silk thread. The young brand also presents a
line of hand-painted jeans by a 90 year old master artist who is the last representative of the
ancient art of hand-decorated Sicilian carts.
Milan, 23rd February 2006