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Italian Tailor Gianni Campagna Dies Aged 74

MILAN — Italian tailor Gianni Campagna has died here at age 74. The cause of death was not revealed.
He is survived by his daughter Virginia Campagna.
Born and raised in the outskirts of Taormina, in Sicily, Campagna moved to Milan in 1962 where he worked at Sartoria Domenico Caraceni.
In 1999, he took over Caraceni’s atelier housed in the historic Palazzo Bernasconi on Milan’s Via Palestro with the financial support of former client and American Internet pioneer Rick Adams and established his namesake company Campagna & C. SpA. The company still operates its atelier in the same location.
Throughout his career, the tailor built a reputation for himself with Hollywood celebrities, ranging from Sharon Stone and George Clooney to Jack Nicholson, among others.
In the 1999 remake of “The Thomas Crown Affair” movie, protagonist Pierce Brosnan sported a large variety of the Milanese tailor’s suits, including a three-button midnight blue one for a night date at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with costar Rene Russo.
Others within Campagna’s notable roster of customers include former U.S. president Bill Clinton, Mattel’s Bill Rollnick, Revlon’s Ron Perelman, Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis.
Before launching his own firm, Campagna worked for textile companies such as Facis, Marzotto and

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France’s Minister of Culture Announces Fashion Fund

VIVE LA FRANCE: His wife, Brigitte Macron, has already given the industry a boost, and now Emmanuel Macron‘s government is keen to show its support of fashion as one the country’s most valuable industries.
Delivering a speech via video at the second edition of the Forum de la Mode, or Fashion Forum, in Paris on Friday, Françoise Nyssen, Minister of Culture, revealed the launch of a new fund to support young designers in their creation phase, with 300,000 euros to be invested in around 10 projects yearly. The call to candidatures will open by end of year, she said.
“This is a pivotal time for the industry as it undergoes a period of major transformation, with growing international competition and the digital revolution shaking up the system. France has lost none of its dynamism, but we need to be ever more present in accompanying it,” said Nyssen.
Adding his weight, France’s Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, who opened the forum in person, said that in view of his objectives regarding “the economic transformation of our country, the recovery of the nation’s finances, the return to healthy employment figures and, in the long-term, the recovery of our international trade deficit,” the fashion industry — “as

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The Underfashion Club Reveals Honorees for the 2018 Femmy Awards

The Underfashion Club, a nonprofit organization that’s dedicated to education within the intimate apparel industry, will hold its annual Femmy Awards on Feb. 6 at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York.
The awards will honor Target; Komar Intimates, Texco Hook & Eye Tape Ltd. and Diamond Jubilee. Donald R. Allen Jr., vice president of core intimates creative design at PVH Corp., will receive the lifetime achievement award. Each recipient is being highlighted for contributing to the intimate apparel industry.
Next year will also mark the 60th anniversary of the Underfashion Club, and the 2018 Femmy Awards will host the 15th Annual Student Design Contest that will feature designs from Fashion Institute of Technology students, who will create under the theme of 60 Years of Intimate Apparel Design. Contest winners will receive a cash award.
“Next year is a special year for the Underfashion Club, as we celebrate our 60th anniversary as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization established to provide intimate apparel industry leaders with a forum to exchange information and ideas, and support the intimate apparel market as a vital aspect of the fashion industry,” said Victor H. Vega, president of the Underfashion Club. “We are proud to say that this premiere industry event

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