You can tell a brand is doing exceptionally well when celebrities from Amal Clooney to Lady Gaga sport its sequinned dresses on red carpets; closer to home, fashionistas have been spotted wearing its creations at parties across Asia. In just five short years, 16Arlington has become the go-to brand for occasion dressing.
Partners both in life and work, Marco Capaldo, a London-born and bred Italian, and Federica “Kikka” Cavenati, an Italian student, founded the brand after they graduated from the London outpost of fashion college Istituto Marangoni in 2017. “It was a real passion project between the over video call. “What came with that was a brand that really empowered women, and was all about feeling. It was something that we were creating to make the wearer feel like the best version of herself.” The label name came from the address of the flat they shared at the time, where friends would come to hang out but also try on the duo’s co-designed pieces.
