lifestyle
example, the concept of gender identity is explored in the Identità room, where Tonchi cites the importance of Italian designers like Giorgio Armani in the creation of a working uniform for women. Amongst the 130 exhibition pieces from Prada, Fendi and Valentino are woven together the work of artists like Michelangelo, Pistoletto and Alighiero Boetti. To draw together the creativity of the art world and its link with fashion, Fendi logo suitcases are displayed alongside Maurizio Cattelan’s ‘La Nona Ora’, a wax effigy of Pope Jean Paul II struck down by a meteorite. “We want to reflect the reality of Italian society and create a conversation between artists and fashion,” says Tonchi, “there was so much influence and collaboration in that period, we needed to display them all together.”
The exhibition was commissioned to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Camera Nazionale della Moda. Carlo Capasa, the president of the Chamber sums up the relevance of narrating this particular period, “Italian creativity and its industrialization, with the complete manufacturing pipeline, the shift from family businesses to a new system of international finance, mirrors the Italian lifestyle”.
‘Italiana – L’Italia vista dalla moda 1971-2001’ is open
at the Palazzo Reale until 6 May 2018.
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L’Italia vista dalla moda 1971-2001’ considers Italian society in a period of social development and change as reflected in the fashion of the time