They are family stories those of ten Neapolitan brands selected for this new installment of our series dedicated to Made in Italy.
It is a family story that of Paola Grande and Giulia Di Pace, mother and daughter, heirs of five generations of jewelers and, in 2012, founders of Paola Grande Jewels. It is that of the famous E. Marinella ties and the historic Tramontano leather goods, but also of the younger ones Alldaylong beachwearfounded by cousins Giusy and Patrizia, e LEDEFF of the sisters Barbara and Luigia de Felice, whose idea was born from a collection of antique trunks inherited from grandmother Rosaria, in turn descendant of a well-known Neapolitan tailor’s shop of the early twentieth century.
And they are stories of returns. Returns to Naples, in fact, after training experiences in other cities of Italy and abroad, and returns to its ancient tradition, in the processing of leather and hide – in the case of the young Marianna Mazza, first student in Rome e shoes product developer at luxury brands in Florence, then returned home to launch the eponymous brand – e in goldsmith techniquesfrom which Paola Grande’s jewels are born, whose vision is nourished and enriched by her daughter’s international education.
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The collections of Nomad tailoringborn in 2020 from the meeting between the designer Flora Sazio and the stylist Mirta Robiony: creations born from the desire to return to the slowness of the handmade and to give new impetus to those excellences of the territory otherwise destined to disappear.
So you travel, you create bonds, you broaden your horizons, but then you return, to breathe the brackish air, designing accessories in the showroom a few steps from the sea.
The sun, the sparkling sea of the city of a thousand colors, are not only metaphorically present in all these creations, they are in the bags of the historic Tramontano leather goods brand – where Vesuvius overlooking the Gulf of Naples is woven on the linings – they are in the costumes of Alldaylongwhich has made its own distinctive mark of the metallic fabric (which reverberates like light on water).
Now you just have to discover them all, the ten independent Neapolitan brands that we tell you in the gallery below. To regain possession – at least in part – of that slowness that is found only in objects created with care, patience, and love … as it once was.
Source: Vanity Fair