LUXURY VINTAGE WORKSHOP® Bologna for Lineapelle fair at the Savhotel on April 3-4

The exclusive event “Luxury Vintage Workshop^® Bologna”, organized by the Italian Association of the Vintage Hunters is back!!

The show will be held again in Bologna to exhibit for sale (and rent) a wide range of period accessories, shoes, purses, travel bags, belts, buckles and metal ware (studs, fastenings, hooks…).  As usual, this special is especially dedicated to inspire and help focusing creativity for the top Haute Couture collections, for the limited editions of luxury fashion and for the extreme researches aimed at the Ready-to-Wear catwalks.

Luxury Vintage Workshop^® Bologna will take place in a brand new venue location, the Savhotel, at few hundreds meters from the LINEAPELLE Fair entrance “Costituzione”, offering to an international audience a great chance to see several extraordinary period exemplars impossible to see elsewhere, lending a variety of creativity hints, ideas, clues, atmospheres, moods focused on the future collections Spring/Summer 2014.

This collective exhibition is able to always display a wide selection of one of the European largest and most comprehensive Vintage purses and shoes collections, a choice which is steadily in progress and enhanced with new assortments by its founders.
Visitors will also have the chance to review a new range of recently discovered Vintage artworks, one-of-a-kind pieces, as well as the newly acquired rarest or most unique exemplars from the Vintage Workshop^® Accessories Archives that will immediately be available for rent with ready pick-up on the spot.

The exhibited accessories are in different materials and come from world over with a special attention to “made in Italy” and European period pieces.

A special area will be dedicated to shoes and bags of the “austerity” time range among the two WWs, from the ’20’s to the late ‘40’s.

In the morning, Vintage Workshop® will be turned into private (closed-doors) and accessible for professionals upon pre-arranged individual appointment from 9am to 1pm while it will open to both public and fashion operators from 2 through to 9 pm on April 3 as well as on April 4 with no need to fix an appointment.   

This way, the show will offer a view opportunity not to be missed to connoisseurs, Vintage addicts, collectors, shoppers and in general to very discerning visitors extremely keen on quality original Vintage.

A highly skilled multilingual staff, well experienced in Vintage research, will be at disposal of all visitors for any pieces of information and knowledgeable explanation concerning the goods on display, for short-term enquiries of style consultancy as well as for any requests to organize presentations, workshops or exhibitions on demand about different topics of period fashion.   

Courtesy service by Vintage Workshop®: during the pre-registration, the applicant will have the opportunity to indicate his wish list of types of models, brands, details, materials, moods and particular periods of the accessories he would like to see. This way, a “magic box” will be especially reserved for his individual view. 

AN EVEN GREATER CARE FOR VISITORS: free Wireless + Internet Point available in the next-door Lounge of the hotel. The event organizers will supplementary honor guests with two extra services: free luggage deposit and complimentary guarded parking can be requested directly at the Vintage Workshop hospitality desk on the spot.

ADMISSION POLICY, TIMES, NEWS AND DISCOUNTS: 

- Usual ongoing customers: free entrance on both days during the plenary public admission times from 2 to 9 pm or possibility to book in advance an appointment during the private closed-doors admission form 9 am to 1pm on April 3rd or April the 4th (sending an e-mail request at the address espositori (at) vintageworkshop (dot)it indicating the preferred time and date (access limited to 2 persons per each Company) specifying name in full, name of Company/Studio, job position.

Attention: meetings at set times last 1 hour and are limited, so, be sure to book at your earliest convenience and anyway no later than March the 30^th. The appointments will be granted in chronological order of arrival of the requests on a first-come-first-served basis. 

- professional and private visitors, specialty stores owners (non-clients): admission fee €20/each payable cash on the spot with entrance in the time range from 1 to 9 pm of both days. To ask for a pre-arranged meeting, follow the steps above for usual customers.

Possibility of entrance fee full refund by the 1st purchase of a minimum of €70.

The entrance fee at regular price will enable to receive a free gadget that will be handed over directly at the hospitality desk (subject to availability).

More info, maps on how to reach the venue, times and registration policy can be found directly on the official web site of the organizing Association of the Vintage Fashion Hunters (Ricercatori Moda Epoca): www.vintage-workshop.com

map of the Vintage Workshop Bologna venue, in the proximities of the Fair Center

Of course not to miss for those luckily people who will be in Bologna in that period, and definitely worth while a trip: a great chance for both fashion pros, students and recent graduates of the fashion Universities to take part in a unique workshop at a minimum token price with the privilege to view and eventualy buy or rent highly creative period accessories that are unlikely to be seen anywhere else!