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This week, we travel from Mary Street to Milan and from high street fashion to luxury brands as the Penneys' buying team is on a mission to find inspiration in Italy.
In 1831, the brilliant young Felix Mendelssohn spent several months travelling through Italy, as part of a Grand Tour taking him right across Europe. Musical standards there might have left him cold – he described the opera singers he heard in Naples as ‘the worst Italian ones I ever heard anywhere’ – but the landscapes […]
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