FAI Days: Casa Zegna open day
Italian textile manufacturing’s center of excellence opens its doors onSaturday 23 and Sunday 24 March,on the occasion of the FAI Spring Days, to reveal the secrets behind the making the men’s accessory par excellence: the tie. “Le stanzedeicreativi” is the title of an exhibition designed exclusively for the FAIDays by Casa Zegna, where visitors will […]
From Ermenegildo Zegna’s Notebooks, the new capsule collection for New York
Letters and numbers evoking the notebooks kept in the Archives: this is how outwear and accessories, exclusively for the new store in Manhattan, pay tribute to Ermenegildo Zegna and the art of handcraft and handwriting. The notebooks record business at the Wool Mill from the end of the Twenties to the end of the Fifties. Ideas, […]
Gifts that do good: Zegna fabric accessories made by San Patrignano girls
Il laboratorio di tessitura, nato 40 anni fa all’interno della Comunità di San Patrignano, grazie al sostegno della Fondazione Zegna ha sviluppato un progetto per nobilitare gli scampoli di tessuto con la creazione di una linea di accessori: piccoli oggetti unici confezionati a mano da ragazze impegnate in un percorso di recupero dalla dipendenza, simboli […]
The Panoramica Zegna 80 years on
This year is the 80th anniversary of the Panoramica Zegna, a road that’s worth the trip in its own right, not only for its breath-taking views across the Po valley plains and the upper Valsessera or the natural beauty of Oasi Zegna but also for its history. It was between the two wars that Ermenegildo […]
“UOMINI ALL’ITALIANA 1968”: an archive exhibition at Casa Zegna
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of its entry to the ready-to-wear business, Ermenegildo Zegna Group is putting on an archive exhibition, “UOMINI ALL’ITALIANA 1968. Zegna Ready-to-Wear: from the tailor to industry”, from 6 May to 28 October. It focuses on the origins of Zegna ready-to-wear in the decade from 1968 to the late 1970s. Photographs, […]
FAI SPRING DAYS WITH: “THE ART OF WOOL: ENTERPRISE AND CULTURE IN THE WORKS OF ERMENEGILDO ZEGNA AND ETTORE OLIVERO PISTOLETTO”.
On the 26th edition of the FAI Spring Days, when over 1,000 extraordinary places throughout Italy will be specially opened up to the public for the occasion, Fondazione Zegna is organizing a new exhibition in Casa Zegna focusing on local history and culture. It will explore the wool trade, from the Middle Ages to the […]
“Arbiter”: a history of elegance
Having moved from Venice to London to study the history of Italian men’s fashion in the years straddling the 2nd world war, Marta Franceschini, a graduate from Università IUAV in Venice, recently took a Master’s in History of Design at the Royal College of Art in London. Research for her thesis, entitled “Arbiter. Writing Fashion, […]
Textile samples data sheet, Zegna’s “compass” for unexplored territory
Unexplored territory, provided it stays that way, hides it secrets and resources and, above all, doesn’t allow its potential to be developed. Textile samples constitute territory that’s largely unexplored. The Biella area, world capital of top quality woolen production, has an inestimably valuable heritage consisting of thousands and thousands of textile samples, most of which […]
HERITAGE DAY: 120,000 METERS OF HISTORY IN A WOOLEN THREAD
On Sunday 12 November, the Zegna archives will be revealing their secrets: the precious samples put together by Ermenegildo Zegna, documenting over 100 years of innovation and style since 1910, will be shown to visitors. Ermenegildo Zegna’s story began over a century ago with the No. 1 Fabric and shaped the development of men’s fashion. […]
The “second born” at Centro Zegna in Trivero visits “Roots and Wings”
On 7 February 1940, the “Casa della Madre e del Fanciullo” maternity wing of the Zegna Welfare Center delivered its second baby: Mario Lampo. His parents named him in honor of Ermenegildo Zegna’s brother, a tribute to the family that gave their names to the first three babies born in the Centre’s maternity clinic: Ermenegildo, […]
