![]() Not long after that, two things happened: he moved to New York with SuitSupply, where he met Pia and he took a job with Italian tailoring titan (and aspirational lifestyle king) Brunello Cucinelli. If he wasn’t fluent in English, at least he seemed to have the universal gift of sales. He spent six months on the Italian version of Big Brother (called, amusingly, Grande Fratello), but opted out of the reality star-to-nightclub apparance pipeline and took a job with Dutch retailer SuitSupply, using his “very broken” English to sell suits in the Netherlands. Instead regular jobs followed: he sold phone contracts door to door, worked as a lighting engineer, installed air conditioners. (He shares with amusement that Catania has nearly twice as many citizens as Pasadena.) Growing up he thought he’d play professional soccer. He comes from a village near Catania, the Sicilian city at the foot of Mount Etna. He is given to winding tangents about concepts like empathy, masculinity, and authenticity. (The daily driver is a real mamma mia-grade Land Rover Defender.) He speaks with his hands. Baroncini, 35, is effusive, quick to offer a hug, perhaps even faster to shed a tear, dedicated to his wife and daughter and dogs and garageful of impractical cars. Still, this particular Italian dude has an appeal that’s not hard to notice. Because I always, if you're not into Italian dudes, I'm fucked. “That's why I didn't call it David Baroncini Cashmere. “My biggest concern when I started the brand was to link the brand too much to myself,” he says. This was not merely a financial consideration. I don't have that.” Instead, from more or less the beginning, he’s had the humble mannequin. In most stores, Baroncini notes, “You have racks and you have folding tables, and you have these thousand employees that walk around dressed up. It’s like if you turned a moodboard into a clubhouse, and started pulling shots of espresso. ![]() Indeed, the fun thing about the Ghiaia shop is the way it satisfyingly brings the two-dimensional pleasures of social media to life. But he also participates in the rich (albeit too rare) fashion-world tradition of world-building. It’s also carefully art-directed, jammed to the gills with hard-wearing, history-rich knickknacks and artifacts and images: coils of nautical rope, ceramic ashtrays, photos of cars and sailboats.īeing good at Instagram is more or less compulsory for fashion brands in 2023, and Baroncini cannily populates the Ghiaia account with tons of aspirational images (motorcycle racers, frogmen, Aristotle Onassis in sunglasses) alongside scenes from his own aspirational life. The space, all 340 square feet of it, is packed to the ceiling with Baroncini’s clothing-primarily sweaters, plus shirts and pants and one extremely handsome pair of fisherman’s sandals. It’s a warm spring afternoon in relatively sleepy Pasadena, clear on the other side of town from LA’s best-known menswear shops, and we’re at what is, for now, the storefront for his brand, Ghiaia Cashmere: a shoebox in an old-fashioned shopping arcade. While water, bleach and jewelry cleaners are to be avoided, most jewelry can be brought back to life with a polishing cloth.I’ve only known Davide Baroncini for a few minutes, but already he’s poured me an espresso, lit for me a stubby Toscano Italian cigar, and draped lovingly over my shoulders a chunky navy cardigan of his own design. Store earrings in ice cube trays, hanging storage or jewelry boxes with individual compartments to keep them from getting scratched. This keeps your necklaces separate and keeps them from getting kinked. Storing a piece of chalk in your jewelry box helps to absorb moisture.Ī great tip for storage is to buy curtain rings and hang your long necklaces on a tension rod in a nice, dry place (closet). Store your jewelry away from steamy bathrooms or laundry rooms to ensure they stay dry. Be sure to remove your jewelry before showering, doing dishes, swimming or washing the dog. This is a good rule of thumb for any jewelry, even fine jewelry. ![]() We toss, turn and sweat and it gets our earrings and necklaces kinked up when we sleep. Protect your jewelry from abuse and scratches by removing it before you do housework, yard work working out or participating in sports. Put your jewelry on after applying makeup, soap, lotion, perfume and hair spray which can potentially damage your jewelry’s finish. One and Done! Paparazzi Jewelry Collection
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