ITALIANA. Italy Through the Lens of Fashion 1971-2001

Italiana. Italy through the lens of fashion 1971-2001: an exhibition promoted and produced by the Comune di Milano-Cultura, Palazzo Reale and Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana with the support of the Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico and ICE Agenzia, thanks to the main partner Yoox-Net-A-Porter, and to the collaboration with Pomellato and La Rosa mannequins. Italiana. Italy through the lens of fashion 1971-2001 is a project in the form of an exhibition and a book, conceived and curated by Maria Luisa Frisa and Stefano Tonchi.

Italiana: Italy through the Lens of Fashion, 1971-2001 takes the form of a journey through Italian fashion and reveals its nature as a polycentric phenomenon, able to draw on a whole range of expertise and intelligence. The exhibition explores a multiplicity of objects and visions and tells a fascinating story of fashion over the three crucial decades that saw it define itself in symbiotic relationship with the social, political and cultural history of our country. Rather than following a chronological order, this journey explores a galaxy of themes in an attempt to present the most significant expressions and defining qualities of Italian fashion, delving into the realms of design, art, photography and publishing. A landscape of creativity springing from an open-ended research that responds to the stimuli of the time, always at work in fashion.

[ph.: Oliviero Toscani for Unilook, L’Uomo Vogue, december 1971-january 1972. Courtesy Archivio Condé Nast Italia]