Best events in Florence this January, 2021
Our top picks for the month of January, 2021
Jane Farrell
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Over 30 Florentine cultural instituations come together to celebrate Dante Alighieri s 700th anniversary in 2021. Inaugurated with an exhibition by Massimo Sestini at the Santa Maria Novella complex in October, the full calendar of events takes off this January with an enthralling range of events dedicated to the Supreme Poet. Over 50 events have been scheduled over the upcoming year, digital and otherwise, as well as an updated Facebook page with plenty to delight literary lovers. Highlights of this month s Dante calendar include 88 rarely seen drawings of Dante s
One of Herno’s technically accomplished jackets being crafted in the HQ
Claudio Marenzi, the leonine CEO of Lake Maggiore-based Herno, is inviting me to drink in the luscious views of the verdant forest that lies just beyond his office in the brand s HQ. I ll have to imagine the scent of pine, however, because - as with most things in 2020 - the experience is via Zoom. That s the Erno river, where we take our name from, he says, gesturing. We re never far from our origins here, as you see.
It was in the Erno valley, in Piedmont, that a young Guiseppe Marenzi set up an outerwear label in 1948, having worked in raincoat manufacturing. The brand s name was inspired by the location and the product - created to protect against the humid and windy microclimate of the region.
The Year of Telfar
A queer Liberian-American designer became the success story of the pandemic. Now he wants to smash the old fashion system to bits.
Telfar Clemens at his studio in Brooklyn.Credit.Simbarashe Cha for The New York Times
Published Dec. 21, 2020Updated Dec. 22, 2020
In January 2020, around the time word first began to leak of Covid-19 in China, Telfar Clemens, the queer Liberian-American designer who has been preaching the gospel of inclusivity for 15 years, had a wine-drenched banquet and sleepover for more than 40 of his closest creative collaborators and friends in the Pitti Palace, a former home of the Medicis in Florence.
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If not quite a schism, 2020 has sparked a fundamental difference in approach within the Milan fashion system that is set to continue into the new year. Just as at Septemberâs spring 2021 womenswear week, next monthâs fall 2021 menswear weekâfive days, reallyâwill contain a few physical, actually-see-the-clothes runway shows; a fair amount of digital presentations; and some attempts to hybridize the two. Whatâs entirely new is that the week will be officially conjoined with this yearâs edition of Fashion Film Festival Milano, a kind of Cannes Film Festival for short fashion films that was launched by Costanza Etro (the wife of Kean and sister-in-law of Veronica) six years ago.