Krizia Men's Vintage Luxury Pure Wool Masterpiece!

Krizia Men's Vintage Luxury Pure Wool Masterpiece! Born in 1925, Mandelli developed a passion for fabrics and clothes as a child when dressing her dolls was her favorite pastime. When she grew up, Mandelli gave up teaching to switch careers and follow her dreams, becoming a proper fashion designer and entrepreneur. In 1954 she launched her brand with her friend Flora Dolci borrowing the name from a character in an unfinished dialogue by Plato that focused on women's vanity (in the dialogue Crizia squanders all his riches on jewelry and clothing for beautiful and compliant women...), spelling it with a "K" to make it sounded more exotic. The business started in a two-room flat in Milan and skirts were the first garments produced, shortly followed by dresses and skirt suits. The brand received many awards in the '60s: by then Mandelli had already been dubbed by the foreign press "Crazy Krizia" for her eclectic prints and motifs, her unusual fabrics and materials such as eel skin, cork or gum, and innovative shapes. In 1964 her black and white collection shown at the Pitti Palace in Florence won her the "Critica Della Moda" prize. The fashion house reached its apex between the '70s and the '80s when the designer developed her first kid's line, Kriziababy, and her knitwear line, Kriziamaglia, while Krizia Uomo (menswear) was launched in 1988. At its height, in the 1990s, the fashion house was doing half a billion dollars of annual business