Reading velvets

A possible reading to understand the story that the flowers on Sant’Alvise’s soprarizzo velvet have got to tell

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Annapaola Cibin’s installation on the roof of Luigi Bevilacqua’s weaving mill is made up of fishes in painted luxury velvets

Treasures to be found: San Zulian

A few steps away from St Mark’s Square lies one of Venice’s hidden treasures: the church of San Zulian, which holds, among other treasures, Bevilacqua’s Italian upholstery velvet

The velvet armour: Yiqing Yin

A garment which can protect and give strength to whom wears it, being both as natural as a second skin and as shielding as an armour: this is the mission which the young – she was born in 1985 – stylist Yiqing Yin has chosen to draw inspiration from for...