Blazé Milano Celebrates 10 Years Of Tailoring

It is a big year for Blazé Milano and its three founders, Corrada Rodriguez D’Acri, Delfina Pinardi, and Sole Torlonia, as they reach the ten-year milestone of their Italian ready-t0-wear label.

Born from the love of, yes, you’ve guessed it, the humble blazer, the brand has seen an expansion over the years as it has entered other categories, from knitwear to its best-selling Italian denim. Then there’s the beauty collaboration with Koh-I-Noor, and the recent partnership with L.G.R on a sunglasses range designed to be coordinated with their wears. A nonstop decade, it seems that there’s no stopping these women who fly the flag for Italian-designed and made womenswear.

With an aesthetic that merges the classic with the contemporary, with a dash of dolce vita glamour, as Corrada says, “Blazé exudes the imagery of a practical woman in everything she does, for whichever occasion she dresses up to. Never out of place, but feminine, charming, and chic at the same time. This is why the collections can always be imagined as classic and easily mixed; wherever they have a more relaxed or sparkling declination, they are always designed to look and feel good.”

Entirely and proudly designed and made in Italy (the founders are based between Rome, Milano, and Florence), Blazé collections are conceived in Milan, where Corrada leads the creative office. The pieces are then produced between Marche, Veneto and Lombardia, using signature fabrics such as virgin wool, wool crepe, textured silk, velvet, linen, and cotton blends sourced from Europe.

This ethos, combined with fine tailoring and fabrics, has seen the brand establish a far-reaching customer base too, with prêt-à-porter collections being stocked in top-tier multibrand stores globally, including Matches Fashion, Net-a-Porter, LuisaViaRoma, FRWD, and via their e-commerce site. Sitting alongside this is their made-to-order service, Blazé Atelier, “our custom-made program allows our customers to create their own bespoke Blazé Milano, customizing each step with a member of our team—this has proved popular for our Chinese market as well as in America and Europe.”

On their customer and the universality of their label, Sole explains that “Blazé is made for the modern woman with a taste for sustainability and functionality. Well-made garments are meant to be passed on to future generations and last for decades to come. Blazé women value tradition and quality. We strive to enhance their assertive and confident nature through our selection of effortless and chic pieces, allowing them to feel their best in every scenario.”

They’re marking the milestone with a brand revamp for a fresh new look while nodding to the foundations of the label, “We are celebrating the foundational ten years of Blazé with a new logo created in collaboration with Maison Nue, a Parisian creative agency that has worked with the brand for a couple of years. It features a font that mixes graphic linearity with more delicate roundness, epitomizing the dualities that have always characterized the brand, such as the contrast between masculine and feminine. We enriched it with a new symbol, the seahorse, combining the equestrian world and the sea, pillars of our childhood and family heritages and key inspirations behind our authentic aesthetic,” says Delfina

Over the years, the brand has partnered with the likes of Aerin Lauder, Georgina Brandolini d’Adda, Arizona Muse, and Margherita Missoni on capsule collections, which the Blazé founders cite as a career highlight; it’s no surprise then that they’ve welcomed further partnerships to mark a decade in the industry, “We recently launched the first special project celebrating self-love in collaboration with KOH-I-NOOR, the historic Italian company and a leader in body and hair care. This brand has always been present in our beauty routine since we were kids. We can all vividly remember our grandmothers brushing their hair (and ours) with their turtle-printed hyperchic combs and clips. It brings us back to that time,” reminisces Delfina.

The biggest lesson they’ve learned in the ten years of running the company? As Corrada puts it, “Dreams come true if you have a precise and strong aesthetic and lifestyle in mind; give love and soul to every aspect of your work. As Pablo Picasso said, ‘Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.’”

Right in time for the impending soirée season, the Fall/Winter ‘23 collection, entitled “Full Moon in Paris,” has now dropped on their site. Expect plenty of 80s-inspired, high-octane glamor thanks to the rich velvet, jumpsuits, and sequins to get the party started.