Photographer Domenico Cennamo
Fashion editor Luca Stefanelli

Name: Simone.
Surname: Nobili.
Agency: Independent Men.
Age: 20.
Height: 188 cm.
Place of origin: Italy.
Star sign: Cancer.
How were you discovered? Scouted in a night club.
Favourite things: Studying and being with my family.
Favourite music: Soul.
Hobbies: Sports, acting.
Favourite piece of clothing: The Givenchy jumper with Rottweiler printed face.
Favourite artist: Johnny Depp.
Place you would love to visit: California.
Favourite book: Il riposo del guerriero.
Favourite film: Into the wild.
Favourite model, woman/man: Freja Erichsen/Tobias Sorencen.
Favourite food: Tagliata.
Other occupations (instead of modelling): Acting.
What is your goal in life? Moving to Milan.
Who is your favourite designer? Givenchy.
Are you single? Yes.
What is your favourite part of the body? Eyes.

Photographer Domenico Cennamo
Fashion editor Luca Stefanelli

Name: Milo.
Surname: Spijkers.
Agency: I love.
Age: 21.
Height: 186 cm.
Place of origin: The Netherlands.
Star sign: Sagittarius.
How were you discovered? At a party in my hometown.
Favourite things: My iPod.
Favourite music: The Roots, Notorius Big, Janis Joplin, the Doors, Tupac, and more…
Hobbies: Sleeping, music, movies.
Favourite piece of clothing: My leather jacket.
Favourite artist: Dali.
Place you would love to visit: Los Angeles, Tokyo, Hawaii, Las Vegas.
Currently you are obsessed with/about: The fact that I’m going to Tokyo soon…
Favourite book: Bright Lights Big City.
Favourite film: Fear and loathing in Las Vegas.
Favourite model, woman/man: Lara Stone/Taylor Cowan.
Favourite food: Spaghetti.
Other occupations (instead of modelling): I’m modelling full time so this is pretty much all I do.
What is your goal in life? Being happy.
Who is your favourite designer? Alber Elbaz.
Are you single? Yes.
What is your favourite part of the body? My genitals.

Photographer Domenico Cennamo
Fashion editor Luca Stefanelli

Name: Marlon.
Surname: Teixeira.
Agency: Fashion.
Age: 20. Height: 187 cm.
Place of origin: South Brazil, Balneario Camboriu.
Star sign: Virgo.
Favourite things: Surfing, beach and kissing.
Favourite music: MGMT, Empire of the Sun, Z-Ro.
Hobbies: Surfing.
Favourite piece of clothing: Jacket.
Favourite artist: Andy Irons.
Place you would love to visit: Indonesia.
Favourite book: Love letters from a prophet.
Favourite film: Warrior.
Favourite model: Darya.
Favourite food: Pasta.
Other occupations (instead of modelling): Cooking.
Who is your favourite designer? Osklen.
Are you single? With my mother ahahah, single!
What is your favourite part of the body? Hair.

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Davide Petraroli is an Italian artist and fashion designer who graduated in Milan at Marangoni Institute. He has worked with Armani and Jil Sanders being greatly influenced by them both in his approach to design and in his way to explore the shape of a woman. Moving from drawing to photography and then to poetry, he has always expressed his idea of beauty. For years painting was hidden in his soul, taking sustenance from his design experience. But today, Petraroli has returned to his true craft by making a series of paintings and drawings characterised by an immediate language of sexuality and where his hard lines express an ancient civilisation that interfaces with the emotional complexities of the contemporary frivolous society. An art quest that embodies the present, the dreamlike, the banality of everyday life that takes the form of portraits. To go deeper into his vision we chatted to him about his present and future relationships with fashion and art:
From fashion design to art: why did you get back to what you call your greatest
passion?
It’s just like an impulse to create not so far from a primordial energy. After many years of blackout, where I nourished my passion with experiences from fashion and drawing in a constant quest for new source. I’ll get back to it.
How has art influenced your design work? What inspires you the most?
Art is the foundation of my work in every field. Talented painters have been my inspiration for several years, but often what stimulates my brain is the banality of everyday life. Reality offers ideas and dreams and changes rules, even if change remains on a mental level. I’m very lucky because through fashion and art I can realise both. I am ambitious, my aspiration as an artist is to bring about change.
Have you planned to realise your own fashion project?
At the moment I’m working on a T-Shirt art project, where I combine painting and wearing in a sort of trasfiguration by diversifying volume and printing. This concept expresses the need for pushing the boundaries of the fashion system, conveying a different way to address the industry with a focus on Made in Italy.
What are your next projects? Any exhibitions coming up?
Right now I’m focused on an exhibition entitled Visioni Ritratte in Bruxells due on 19th January 2012, where I will show a collection of portraits characterised by very strong expressions. There will be several artists of music and reading; we’ll be wrapperd in a dada spirit.

Trust Your Crazy Ideas. It’s a creative challenge. Let’s imagine a re-interpretation, rejuvenation and expansion of a garment based on fundamental history within many populations, from North Africa to Asia: the caftan. The idea of this project took shape during Diana Tramontano’s professional career, fascinated by India she transformed her passion for embroidery by collaborating with an important Italian fashion house. Trust Your Crazy Ideas became a reality when she met Laura Rossi, cool-hunter, and Marco Contiello, a Napolitan designer of Atelier d’Alta Moda in Florence. Based on valuable materials, extraodinary details and the rejection of fashion as a means to homologate individuals, Trust your Crazy Ideas collection conveys a style that depicts relaxation and sophistication at the same time maintaining harmony between past and present. The shape is balanced by precious materials, important details and artisanal craftsmanship, an essential cloak, deconstructed long tunic, with ample shapes, precious fabrics enriched with intarsia and embroideries. We talked over this project with its founder Diana Tramontano:
Trust your Crazy Ideas: this name makes us think that you are a strong believer and very brave. Could you tell us how you developed this project?
Well, it’s true, to believe in your own ideas and contextualise it in our present was a real challenge. Our name says it all! Laura was working in my embroidery atelier and Marco asked for some artisanal supplies for his clothes line. I started to figure out this project, imagining a long precious but simple tunic, sensual and comfy for a woman with no strings attached within the fashion trends.
Have you only been inspired by the caftan tradition or by other brands too?
No brands inspire us. Just one important aspect: individuality.
It’s very interesting seeing your variation of sport caftan, with a hood and zipper. Is your goal to modulate the long cloak for the contemporary? Do you think that your collection could also be a solution for everyday life?
I would like to clarify one thing: the caftan represents only a starting point for this creative project; our desire is to realise clothes with a defined and strong identity that overcomes the brand concept, allowing us to sharply decline our cross section collection. We have created multifunction clothes that go beyond fashion trends, conveying versatility. The hoody variations in cashmere are a worthy representation that clearly demonstrate our interpretation of the traditional caftan, seen as the open city “coat”, comfortable, versatile and luxurious. We portrayed the contemporary woman’s needs. A woman who loves elegance and uniqueness and has reached maturity beyond fashion,
beyond the brand and the individual, and she is cultivating her own critical sense.
Any plans for a new collection? Are you going to focus again on caftan?
Definitely, probably a year to re-affirm our own uniqueness beyond traditional timing of prêt-à-porter.

Spirit of freedom, art, passion for travelling and love for the pleasures of life mixed with casual elegance. These are the key words to define the fashion designer Dominique Masullo. Born in Belgium, to an Italian father and Belgian mother he was raised in a historic, coastal village near Rome. The Italian capital is very important to him, a city that “satisfies all my needs – says Masullo – … I was fascinated by Borromini and Bernini’s Baroque architecture, contrasting with the architecture of the fascist period… I was inspired by the works of Caravaggio, Michelangelo and Raphael… All these images have influenced the way I approach art , the way I choose shapes, colours and especially my aesthetics”. The extreme rigor of the Roman Accademy can’t fit with his curious and polyhedric mind, Dominique decided to move to Antwerp where he applied to the Academy of Fashion. A Belgian city “…a multi-cultural environment that influences you in some ways, enriches your cultural awareness and makes you feel more free”. Freedom being the leitmotiv of his production combined with his appeal for orientalism and travel and in his opinion freedom features as the most important stimuli for the next generation. “I do not follow any trends – explains Dominique – I get my inspiration from different cultures, I’m extremely fascinated by India and North Africa. My aim is to offer some eastern clothing in a western framework, adapting them through classical western shapes.” In his constant stylistic research Masullo took an interest in the role of pyjamas, starting an outdoors collection based on this comfortable and sensual style of clothing, but nevertheless adding elements of sophistication and structure for an outwear fashion collection.”The idea of this collection – he tells us – came while I was travelling in the Pontine Isles. I wanted to create a collection perfect to wear during holydays. Something pure, made to relax or to go out dining with to a seaside restaurant”. The fusion between the exoticism of the Orient and the dramatic artistic heritage of Italy becomes evident through silk jacquard trousers with rich motifs, casually styled with subtly transparent stripey silk-mousseline shirts. The unpretentious elegance of this collection is revealed in the casual yet sophisticated silk-jacquard and lurex night jackets and light long silk coats. Sensuality is present in the see-through long tunics that are combined with either soft silk-shorts or shantung trousers – cutbroad to wrap the waist and narrow down the legs. Colours such as ruby and ultramarine-blue, shades of bronze and black are stylishly contrasted with plum and ivory, creating an appealing colour palette for this Autumn. “Through the choice of the finest fabrics combined with elegant cuts – explains Dominique – I have tried to create a collection suitable for any moment and without a defined sexual identity. A collection free from any boundaries for a refined public spoiled by life’s pleasures”. Dominique Masullo is currently and consistently researching references, materials and culture to acquire inspiration to produce a beautiful and wearable craft. He is also planning a brand new collection, but he won’t reveal anything about it, he wants it to be a surprise.

Photographer Domenico Cennamo
Fashion editor Luca Stefanelli