Hasta La Ideas

Last spring, we told you that Roberto Cavalli, the only fashion designer who makes Christian Lacroix and Emilio Pucci look like a couple of minimalists, was out to sell a minority stake in his company to fund international expansion (or at least cover the costs of a new pet cheetah and a dozen Moscow flagship stores). Word on the street was that the likes of Carlyle and Blackstone were eyeing the beaded, fringed, leopard-printed, bedazzled, lace-edged Cavalli empire, which includes everything from the designer’s runway collection (at right, a look for spring 2009) and Just Cavalli diffusion line to a new snakeskin-printed credit card and Roberto Cavalli Vodka (“It’s limpid, pure, and brilliant as my perfect woman,” said Cavalli in a press release). Now it appears as if he’s found a buyer close to home in Clessidra Capital Partners, a Milan-based private equity fund. Cavalli told the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore that he is close to selling between 15 and 20 percent of the company, which he had previously valued at 1.4 billion euros ($1.84 billion), to Clessidra. “(The idea is to) list ourselves on the market between three and four years,” said Cavalli. “I had to think a lot in these last few weeks, and I believe that it is the best way to ride the recovery after this moment of economic crisis.”

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South African photographer Henrik Purienne produces gritty, sexy and nostalgic fashion photography. He has successfully blurred the lines between fashion and erotica in a way that seems somehow less pornographic than most mainstream fashion shots. (NSFW)

Another cultural/counter-cultural zeitgeist collaboration: the Italian bicycle manufacturer Bianchi and the Swedish high-end fashion house Acne teamed up to produce some track bikes in great colorways with some typography from deep in the archives.

Possibile che nessuno ci avesse già pensato prima? Sembra di no, eppure l’idea di creare un paio di occhiali asimmetrici è forte, e pronostico un buon successo per Sugar Kane, gli originali occhiali progettati dal designer italiano Leandro Manuel Emede.
Gli occhiali sono realizzati a mano, e disponibili con lenti fotocromatiche (costruirli con lenti da vista mi sembra ancora più difficile). Imperdibili per chi cerca un accessorio fashion dal gusto vagamente anni ’80.
(Via: Wait fashion blog)
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