event
Friday 10 April 2015 6.30 PM - 8.00 PM

The fashionable librarySustainability and recycling in fashion

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

Three books, 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.

Speakers
Maria Luisa Frisa, Simonetta Gianfelici, Mariavittoria Sargentini
Moderator
Paola Severini Melograni

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.