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Brands “play” with fashion
In a 2020 made of digital catwalks, live shows on social networks and new e-commerce mechanisms, such as shopping in live streaming, a phenomenon that has significantly picked up speed in the luxury industry is Fashion Gamification

The winter 2021 stylists’ corner
Four of the most important footwear designers reveal how they see footwear for the coming winter in terms of mood, shape, volume, materials, and colour palette.

The "new-normal" consumer
As the world begins its slow pivot from managing the COVID-19 crisis to vaccines breakthrough towards a slow recovery, it’s clear that the lockdown has had a profound impact on how people live

Retail and the concept of OnLife
From an increased awareness of social and environmental issues to the arrival of glocal, from the increasing popularity of digital technology to the physical space as an experiential place at the service of customers. This is how the purchasing experience has changed in the post-Covid era.

“I imagine a smart, sustainable, Riva that is also a protagonist”
The newly elected mayor of Riva del Garda, Cristina Santi, recounts her vision for the immediate future of a smart and sustainable city that is open not only to an international, but also local, quality tourism, and which is protagonist of a trade fair-congressional calendar made possible also thanks to the renewal of the trade fair district.

How doing business is changing
The figures in the recent Cerved report do not leave much room for optimism. Change will be a must for fashion entrepreneurs: Capasa, Della Valle and Rosso reiterate this.

Digitisation continues to change retail
Data do nothing but confirm the rise of digital commerce, as also Federico Marchetti, owner of Yoox-Net à porter points out.

Advantages and disadvantages of family businesses in the fashion industry (in the Covid-19 and post Covid-19 eras)
Salvo Testa, Professor of Business Strategy and Fashion Management at the Bocconi University of Milan, Management Consultant, Board Member, and expert in the Fashion, Luxury and Design sectors, gives us his perspective.

Big is not always beautiful
The pandemic has brought to light a paradox: for years, small and medium-sized Italian companies have been told that, in order to survive, they had to grow and take on more weight in the market. Production flexibility and the low costs of family businesses now seem to allow the manufacturing fabric to survive, albeit with difficulty.

Rethinking the business model in a digital way
Minister Luigi Di Maio talks about the new generation agreement entered into with Alibaba and which will favour B2B exports on the powerful e-commerce platform.

MAG: from the Copper Age to Giuseppe Segantini
Culture, history, art and modernity come together in the MAG: Museo dell'Alto Garda Museum and the two venues of the Rocca: the medieval castle of Riva del Garda, and the Galleria Civica G. Segantini in Arco

Fashion must return to authenticity, with a pinch of TikTok
New challenges in the world of fashion according to the vision of some of its leading protagonists, from Frida Giannini to Dries Van Noten and Mugler’s Casey Cadwallade, from the ‘enfant terrible’ at Maison Balmain, Olivier Rousteing, to the Managing Director of TikTok, Adriano Accardo, without forgetting about the founders of Italy’s two leading showrooms, Riccardo Grassi and Massimo Bonini.

Couromoda changes date
It will be held from 1 to 3 March 2021 in São Paulo

Riviera del Brenta, coming together as a team for footwear
Gilberto Ballin, President of Acrib proposes the States-General of Riviera del Brenta Footwear to create common goals among businesses, institutions, and trade unions