Essay I8 min
Why a hat-trunk became a handbag
Bertoni founded the Valigeria in Milan in 1949, at the moment Italian leather rose. The Bertoncina is the chapeau box, made portable.
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Essay II12 min
On a virgin wool coat from a vanished atelier
Yohji Yamamoto's autumn of 1996 was a treatise on the cut. We trace the seams that remain extraordinary thirty years on.
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Essay III6 min
What the patina knows
Boldrini taught us that aging is not damage — it is the record of a life lived. A note on the leather you are about to inherit.
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