Fashion Designers at the Salone

Continuing with photos from the Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2014 …

Guess which fashion designers were milking more revenue from its famous brand name by selling furniture ?

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Here’s Versace. Well, he left the planet. So why not ?

designers-12Can’t miss the signature panthers.

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Fendi. They have separate entrances for architects (on the left), Club Prestige (!) members (in the middle) and (mere) visitors (see the signs below the Fendi sign). The doorman-velvet rope phenomenon lives on …

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Bentley managed to attract a crowd outside its door with a convertible, and they were doing the doorman thing too … look at him dancing …

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Ungaro was there with proper wall treatment up front  (… unlike Bentley’s white walls )

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Diesel has a large pavilion …

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… and a pop/age reference ?

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Missoni was there looking so Brazilian …

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… and so very casual

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These two rooms are by Blumarine. There was hardly any design in the furniture, except textile design.

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A Chinese gentleman was showing great interest in this set of communist red-big flower print sofa.

designers-18Last but not least, Pierre Cardin was evidently still around.

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No. I did not see Casa Armani in the Salone. Well, they have a whole building in downtown Milano. See the post on Manzoni 31 from our last trip.

Lots more photos to come …

 

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