BlueTailoring

BlueTailoring is the story of an ideal collection, the creative workshop of international fashion designer Stefano Chiassai.
With his project, Chiassai searches the landscape of menswear for new potentials for the iconic blue fabric, denim, taking it into the realm of tailoring. Denim thus becomes the “object of cross-pollination”, mixed with other materials and elevated with unusual techniques, straddling both craftsmanship and new technologies.
With the collaboration of more than thirty Italian companies – a snapshot of the most vibrant and creative Made in Italy businesses – Chiassai expresses his personal interpretation of the most common fabric on the planet.

Stefano Chiassai started his training in the family business at a very young age, thus creating his own brand in 1980 – a line offering all the accoutrements of fashion and distributed worldwide. In 1985, together with his wife Alessandra, he founded the style consultancy office, SCS Studio Chiassai.
In 1987 he showed his brand on the runway, which saw him center-stage at Pitti Trend, Pitti Uomo, and during the Milan fashion weeks. Since 1994, after retiring the brand, the Studio's work has focused on style consultancies and researching trends for numerous brands.
Chiassai's research is grounded in the luxury sector with projects having a strong urban imprint. Since the early 2000s he has been designing lines of menswear for international brands and, through his aesthetic, seeking to reconcile the world of traditional workmanship with that of new technologies.

Contents

Interview
Conversing with Stefano Chiassai
Claudio Marenco Mores

BlueTailoring
Stefano Chiassai

Stitching
InsideOut
Gingham
Collage
StripesAndFlowers
Lettering
DenimArt
LittleEgoMan
Drapperia
Evening

ESSAYS

Dressing for Love
Antonio Mancinelli

Denim Rebels
Bruno Casini

Chiassai’s ABC
Paola Maddaluno

Blue Paradigm
Claudio Marenco Mores

Bibliography

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