Founded in 2016 in Stockholm , Stefania Esse is a brand with a strong personal connotation characterised by unique embroideries , in whose details we find the creative idea of the fashion designer Stefania Stroppiana , the reflections of her complex life path that has taken her from Italy to... brought to Sweden, to the inspirations he draws from Nature in its most vivid and wild expression.
«I wanted to create a brand that reflected a slower and more sophisticated art of living, a brand that transcended trends in favor of traditions.
Each piece has its own soul, the result of the search for absolute quality and the use of noble materials. These elements together tell the story of the places I love and that have managed to imprint a vivid image in my heart.
It would be the greatest satisfaction for me to discover that I have created clothes capable of transmitting the memories of the woman who wears them."
HIGH-END GARMENTS WITH UNIQUE EMBROIDERIES
Stefania Esse bases her stylistic choice on uniqueness , highlighting the extreme contemporaneity of the ancient and refined thread arts typical of Italian culture , accompanied by absolute attention to materials, preferring cashmere, silk and other fine yarns.
The result is exclusive garments with particular ornamental motifs , which can also exist in the undecorated and customizable version upon request, which are given “an extra spark” thanks to hand-made embroidery or the combination of materials.
In its production, therefore, Stefania Esse rediscovers and protects the arts of thread, keeping ancient techniques alive. At the same time, because what is alive by its nature evolves, the brand carries out constant research in the name of conscious innovation that respects the legacies of the past: as in the case of crochet embroidery made using metal threads, rather than cotton.
MADE IN ITALY,
DESIGNED IN SWEDEN
Identifying herself with a slow fashion, Stefania Esse has developed her own ideal of luxury with soul . The entire production is concentrated in small laboratories in Italy with respect for both the artisans and the workmanship, carried out “in the time it takes”, and for the customer through garments destined for a long existence , for workmanship and aesthetics.
The brand's mission is to support, as much as possible, the development of luxury garments capable of enhancing the wearer , made in a sustainable and artisanal way .
Having moved to Sweden several years ago, Stefania Stroppiana creates her sketches in the showroom studio at Nybrogatan 12 in Stockholm , in a constant contamination between Scandinavian influences , Italian style and suggestions deriving from her travels.
RESOUNDING ME
In a journey that sees the recurrence of embroidery as the common thread capable of ideally uniting the very first garment born from her creativity to the next one she will design, Stefania Stroppiana reached a turning point in 2020 by abandoning the traditional seasonal division in favor of Resounding Me , a permanent ongoing collection punctuated by small capsules, also the result of collaborations.
The brand's extremely personal character stands out clearly from the debut AW 17|18 collection, whose point of origin is the My Tree cape reinterpreted in all the following seasons with its hand-made embroidery, depicting an imaginary Tree of Life, which requires over 15 hours of work to complete.
The capsules follow one another almost as if to retrace, together with Stefania Stroppiana, the places and fascinations she received during her long journey: Puglia , the evocative nature of Japan , sun-scorched deserts , extreme lands made magical by the Aurora Borealis up to the maximum, free self-expression conveyed by the transition to the ongoing collection Resounding Me .
