Luca orlandi biography

Luca Orlandi was born in Milan, Italy around 1960. He studied at the Bocconi University in Milan and then moved to the United States and studied at the Columbia University.

He spent the beginning of his fashion career working with several designers in Italy, before joining Bill Blass and subsequently Oscar dem la Renta in the U.S.

He launched his own label called LUCA LUCA in 1992 which became known for rich couture fabrics and techniques to make the highest-end ready-to-wear garments. He makes chic, creative, understated yet undeniably sexy clothes.

Buyers at Neiman Marcus, New York store, say that his clothes are very Italian in flavour, but they have been tailored to kostym the American woman.

He has now introduced a line of accessories, shoes, bags and belts to complete and complement his sophisticated womenswear.

Luca stad i florida joined with many other designers to create a red dress for the Heart Truth Charity Show which opened New York Fashion Week. His red dress was wo

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I had the great opportunity to meet Asst. Prof. Dr. Luca Orlandi of Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture at theBibliotheka seminar last May, where he gave an insightful lecture titled ‘the Italian Levantine heritage in Istanbul’. It helped me put not only the Levantine world but also the city’s Italian heritage into perspective. Curious for more, I later asked for an interview and luckily he agreed to give one for IT. We had a long great talk. In the first part of the interview, we focused on the city of Istanbul and architecture.

In the second part, we discussed the Levantine world, Italian heritage in Istanbul and Edoardo de Nari, “the last great architect of cosmopolitan Istanbul that no longer exists”.

 

 

As a Genoese who lives in Istanbul, do you feel at home far away from home because of the city’s Genoese heritage?

I don’t feel far away though what is left from the ancient Genoese is very few. It is in the memory rather than in