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...plain white silk. Cavalli checks that the screen is clicked in place on both sides of the table, pours out a thick glob of black paint, grabs a wooden bar and smears the paint to the other side with it. Afterward, he lifts up the screen to show the design. Ten minutes go by, and the process begins again, this time with white paint. "Each different color in a design needs a screen," he explains. "So 16 colors means 16 screens." Most of the plain white silk and sky blue wire printing templates come from Albisetti in Cuomo...
There is one step in the printing process about which Cavalli swears nobody else in the world knows. He walks over to where a young technician sitting in front of a computer has scanned a design that is being printed out on yards of white silk using a machine called the Monna Lisa. "After an hour, I can have material in my hand," Cavalli says, considerably impressed. "It's good because it allows me to try ideas out and see them immediately. It stops me from making mistakes...
...place to launch a line of Tod's sunglasses, open 25 Tod's stores in China over the next two years, launch Fay in Asia and the U.S. (the brand is currently sold only in Europe), open more Vivier and Hogan stores and sign up Lam to design his own line of handbags...
JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT you'd had enough of Lucite, architect Frank Gehry and Swiss furniture-design firm Vitra have teamed up to reissue Gehry's iconic 1972 Easy Edges collection of cardboard furniture. Included in the group are the Wiggle Side Chair and Low Table Set, above, both of which will be available in white, fluorescent green, orange lacquer and the original cardboard. Gehry has also added a new piece: Block, a solid cube of cardboard with colorfully painted sides. The collection will be available exclusively at Vitra's New York City and San Francisco stores. Prices range from...
Still, the basic procedure remains the same for everyone. First the client articulates what he or she is looking for. After about 10 days, several drawings are produced. Once a design is agreed upon, a mock-up in metal is created with rhinestones and colored glass. The final price and the delay period come with the mock-up. The latter often poses more of a problem than the price...