Interior Design - April, 2004

Features

A clear improvement
Ennio Capasa is a man of the south, born in the town of Lecce on the heel of Italy's boot. "There's lots of light there," he says. "It's very magical." The same cannot be said of Milan, where he set up Costume National in 1986. In 1996, the fashion label moved to its present headquarters, a postwar red-brick warehouse in the city's southwestern Naviglio district.

A Pearl of a Project
Tailor-Made for Paul Smith
Planet Paris
Retro redux
The gold standard
Cities of Light *