Andrea Ferolla and Daria Reina, of Chez Dede, are behind a new collection, which imagines Maria Callas, Josephine Baker, Christian Dior, and Jean Cocteau as children.

When Not in Rome

Italy-based Chez Dede and AIR SUPPLY team up on a new collection of illustrated silk scarves

By Jessica Iredale

For years, Daria Reina and Andrea Ferolla earned their livings as creative directors who brought to life the visions of their clients, such as Bulgari. Chez Dede was born in 2011 when the Rome-based couple—she’s French-Italian, he’s Italian—decided to dream up a world of their own, a fictional place based on a nickname coined from a fusion of “Daria” and “Andrea.”

“It was just a silly idea,” says Reina. “It was evocative of something without having anything.”