event
Friday 27 March 2015 6.30 PM

The fashionable libraryThe emerging fashion designer

MAXXI B.A.S.E. – admittance free while places available

Three books on fashion, three research and study trips associated with fashion

On the occasion of the exhibition Bellissima. L’Italia dell’Alta Moda da 1945-1968, the Library of the Academy of Costume and Fashion of Rome, the Biblioteca Universitaria Alessandrina of Rome, the Library of Industrial Design and Fashion of the IUAV University of Venice and the Library of the Fabric and Costume History Study Centre, Palazzo Mocenigo, Venice, have lent precious books including Una nuova moda italiana by Maria Luisa Frisa, Il bello e il buono. Le ragioni della moda sostenibile edited by Marco Ricchetti and Maria Luisa Frisa, and The art of fashion: installing allusions, catalogue of the exhibition at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam 2009.

These books represent an opportunity to discuss issues of particular currency in the world of fashion.

On the basis of the subjects dealt with in the book Una nuova moda italiana by Maria Luisa Frisa, this seminar will be an opportunity to talk about the new generation of Italian fashion designers, a generation that loves contemporary art and architecture, which questions fashion, aware of the need for radical rethinking that overcomes the Made in Italy label to redefine its identity. In the text, Maria Luisa Frisa selects a group of fashion designers, with a critical approach that thinks out of the box to define the unmistakeable characteristics that still today give form and continuity to that highly specific and sophisticated Italian identity.

With Maria Luisa Frisa, Andrea Lupo Lanzara, Gianni Serra e Sergio Zambon.

An event in collaboration with the Library of the Academy of Costume and Fashion of Rome, the Biblioteca Universitaria Alessandrina of Rome, the Library of Industrial Design and Fashion of the IUAV University of Venice and the Library of the Fabric and Costume History Study Centre, Palazzo Mocenigo, Venice.