Title

Faces and Places in Fashion: Patrick Adent and Elka Dilworth

Contributor Names

Papazian, Alice

Adent, Patrick

Dilworth, Elka

Date

2009-11-30

Date Digitized

2020

Description

Part presentation, part Q&A, FIT's "Faces & Places in Fashion" lecture series is an opportunity to connect students and the public alike to the pulse of the fashion industry in an open and conversational setting.

Patrick Adent, Loro Piana's Sr. VP for Wholesale Sales and Elka Dilworth, senior creative designer show a 15-minute video that describes the history of the company, emphasizing its efforts to use only top quality lightweight, soft and pliant cashmere fibers, and illustrates all the steps in producing a luxury product in a vertically integrated enterprise. Before taking questions from the audience they also show examples of their cashmere products.

Type

Moving Image

Lectures

Subject

Adent, Patrick

Dilworth, Elka

Loro Piana (Firm)

Cashmere

Textile industry

Textile fabrics

Italy

Rights

In Copyright

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Identifier

FIT Repository ID: aod_000371