Ideas from Massimo Osti

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Tristate (00458) buys C.P. Company intellectual property". Quamnet.com. 2015-11-12. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016 . Retrieved 9 April 2016. As the ‘80s unfolded and the meaning of Paninaro became more fluid, the ‘galli’ also came to appreciate more formal sides of the brand, like the neo-Noir and New Wave-ish suits of the C.P. Collection series. Latour, A. (2000, August 22). Philips and Levi Strauss Team Up To Create Ready-To-Wear Electronics. Wall Street Journal. Fouad Sabry, E-Textiles: Monitor Personal Health and Detect Early Warning Disease Signs (One Billion Knowledgeable, 2022). Despite C.P. Company’s garments were never explicitly conceived with Paninari in mind, we can’t help but notice how the brand’s campaigns published on Uomo Moda viscerally influenced the scene’s style.

In the 1990s Steven Mann, Thad Starner and a team at MIT’s Wearable computing Lab 1 envisioned everyday people wearing clothes and accessories with an embedded intelligence; these concepts were initially referred to as “wearable electronics.” 2 In their published manifesto they lamented how personal computers sat on users’ desks and had not lived up to their name, stating: “A person’s computer should be worn, much as eyeglasses or clothing are worn, and interact with the user based on the context of the situation.” 3 While theirs was the first group to explore the possibilities of personal computers being fully integrated into all aspects of everyday life it was not until Philips Electronics presented their exhibition “Vision of the Future” in Eindhoven in 1995 4 that a commercial enterprise had attempted to set groundwork for a viable concept of wearable electronics that actual consumers could use. “ Vision of the Future” (1995-1996) and Redhill Laboratories (1997) Wallace, J., & Press, M. (2002, December). Craft Knowledge for the Digital Age – How the jeweller can contribute to designing wearable digital communication devices. P.5. My life wasn’t planned to bring me to celebrate the 50th anniversary,” Lorenzo Osti explains, when he spoke with HYPEBEAST earlier this month. “My father left the company in 1993, and I chose another career, far away from fashion. But when my father passed away, I felt a duty to take care of his heritage.” Italian excellence: Emporio Armani and C.P. Company announce collaboration". wallpaper.com. 2021-12-16 . Retrieved 2023-08-09. Fifty years on, C.P. Company is still the pioneer of Italian sportswear". British GQ. 2021-03-09 . Retrieved 2023-08-09.Left Hand has been re-launched in 2022 with a collection under the creative helm of Christopher Ræburn and his award-winning RÆBURN Lab in East London.

In 1984, Osti sold his company shares to GFT (Gruppo Finanziario Tessile), but stayed on as the brand's stylist until 1994. [7] In 1993 the brand was acquired by Carlo Rivetti. Rivetti changed the name of the company from C.P. Company to Sportswear Company. In 2010 it was sold to Enzo Fusco's FGF Industry S.P.A. [8] In 2015, the company's intellectual property was bought by Hong Kong apparel group Tristate Holdings Limited ( SEHK: 458). [9] History [ edit ] A teenage boys, size: 3xl, C.P. Company jumperBy the time Osti founded Left Hand, he had the entire design world looking to him for advice and inspiration. Osti launched Left Hand with the Allegri Company, a design agency he had previously worked with during the creation of Tela Stella and Raso Gommato. But watches like the Submariner could not release the gas that had sneaked in under the enormous pressure underwater. When pressure decreased, in a diving bell, for example, gasses inside the watch expanded but couldn’t get out because of the extremely strong construction of a Submariner. So, the gas left the watch through the weakest link: the glass. With an enormous bang and force, this popped off the watch under high pressure. A life-threatening situation in a decompression tank the size of a few mobile toilet units. The French diving company COMEX asked Rolex to collaborate on the solution to this problem. They made a Submariner with a one-way gas escape valve, and the problem was gone. In 1971, Rolex introduced the 1665 Sea-Dweller: A Submariner with a strengthened case and the world’s first helium valve. In many ways, Osti’s role at the company also represents the challenges it faces as a brand. On one hand, he is a link to the past, and the brand’s golden years. Yet he is also the next generation. doing things in his own way. “My father passed to me many of his characteristics, so there is some continuity,” he explains, highlighting the way he oversees all aspects of the brand and his sense of “curiosity, experimentation with new solutions, and new ideas.” Equally, however, this is CP Company under new management. “I don’t touch the product, that is my father’s field. I never say anything about the product, we have great professionals, great designers, so I step away.” It is also pertinent to note that sometime between 1998 and January of 2001 Philips’ had started referring to the BAN as Personal Area Network or (PAN), for the sake of this article it can be used interchangeably.