Dolce & Gabbana Fall/Winter 2012 campaign, photographed by Mariano Vivanco. Made in Italy is what happens when that standard becomes an industrial system. Six hundred years of accumulated knowing — silk from Como, leather from Florence, tailoring from Naples — built so deeply into daily life...
Salvatore Ferragamo kneeling among the customized wooden shoe lasts of his famous Hollywood clientele © Giuseppe Palmas. The new brand logo by Peter Saville, the surname now stands alone. In Florence, on Via Tornabuoni, there is a studio that has been making shoes since 1927. Not...
The original Youthquake wasn't just a generation—it was a cast of characters. Mick Jagger embodied its restless energy, while Diana Vreeland, Gatekeeper and Editor-in-Chief at Vogue gave it its visual vocabulary. Left: Mick Jagger for Observer Magazine 1967 © Colin JonesRight: Diana Vreeland © Evelyn...
AI generated © Carolina Marchiori The ape, to be precise, is a JPEG: a unique, machine-generated cartoon image — one of ten thousand — whose ownership is recorded on a blockchain. The NFT, or non-fungible token, is not the image itself but the cryptographic certificate of...
© Gucci / AI Generated In February 2026, Gucci posted a series of images to social media ahead of Demna Gvasalia's debut show for the house. They were labelled, plainly, "Created with AI." What followed was immediate: accusations of cheapness, of creative abdication, of a...
The decision is always made in a room. Not in the final image, not at the printing press, not in the distribution deal that places the issue on a particular shelf in a particular city. In a room where several people are looking at photographs...
Left and Center: Penguin Books Publisher I Right: Corgi Books The covers don't agree on a decade, a style, or a designer. One is painterly, its palette warm and soft, the girl's eyes downcast over a bright red apple. One is photographic, its face filtered through...