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JUNE 2016
SERGIO ROSSI’S DESIGN DIRECTOR LEAVES Luxury Italian footwear brand Sergio Rossi has announced the departure of Angelo Ruggeri, who served as its design director since 2013. Ruggeri developed the brand’s shoe collections and also helmed Sergio Rossi’s men’s division. His latest shoe collection in February took inspiration from the 20s, with ankle-strap d’Orsay pumps and soft velvet platform sandals with sequins, notes WWD. The brand has 80 stores in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, the US, Southeast Asia and Japan. Goods are produced in San Mauro Pascoli, Italy, known as one of the country’s leather goods hubs.
CHANEL AND WOMEN WHO READ Chanel will be going to Venice this autumn with a new Culture Chanel exhibition titled 'The Woman Who Reads'. The exhibition will explore Gabrielle Chanel’s creative world from the perspective of her relationship to books and reading. It will offer a glimpse of life at her Parisian apartment at 31 Rue Cambon, where the bookshelves hosted everything from Greek authors to modern poets, and literature that inspired the construction of her own fashion designs. It will look at the role books played in the pioneering designer’s life, from the years of solitude in the orphanage of Aubazine until her final years, underlined in
particular by the works of classicists and iconic authors like Homer, Plato, Virgil, Sophocles, Lucretius, Dante, Montaigne and Cervantes, among others. The event will also shine a light on the writers she knew and admired, such as Pierre Reverdy, Max Jacob and Jean Cocteau, whose diversity, according to the house, “allowed her to find in her own vocabulary -- that of fashion, a modernity that defied its own temporality.” Launched in 2007, the Culture Chanel project approaches the story of the fashion house and its founder through themed exhibitions. The previous six installations have taken place in Moscow, Shanghai, Beijing, Canton, Paris and Seoul.