This week’s New Yorker takes an in-depth look by one of fashion’s most intriguing (not to mention most tight-lipped) personalities: Tomas Maier, the German-born creative manager of Bottega Veneta,
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“There was a stage when, although unappealing something was, whether it had enough logos written bring an end to ...it, somebody appeared apt purchase it,” Suzy Menkes tells the magazine, crying the time “a international aberration.” Maier is ashore the log for anti-It Bag, too: It namely “totally marketed bullshit crap,” he says. His rejoinder to it: the woven, unfeminine Cabat sack, left, which namely painstaking to craft (merely one person can go above anybody unattached bag, for not two human pluck the leather to the same stress). But of lesson, the Cabats are notoriously expensive-up to about $80,000 as a special-order croc prototype and produced in limited quantities, so there’s frequently a await list because 1. Tom Ford-who employed Maier for the Bottega situation when he ran Bottega’s corporate parent, Gucci Group-sums up the ambiguity in what could pass for a fashion-world Zen koan: “By no doing the It Bag,
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John Colapinto’s full story is accessible to subscribers on newyorker.com.
Photo: Courtesy of Bottega Veneta
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