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Eugenia Paulicelli
Fashionology
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When Fashion Meets Language and Culture
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Manus X Machina: Fashion beyond the Hand-made
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Tastes to Wear, Style to Taste: The Elegance of Food
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Stitch by Stitch: Nina Piscopo’s “Art of Lounging” and the Shirt Dress. An Italian American Story
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History of women’s lives and their stuff in Alice Austen’s pictures
You cannot rewrite the past, but you can reinterpret it, and through the images of the past we can stop and create new trajectories in the present. In the history of women photographers the material culture, brings to the fore new presences. I would like to talk about one of these, Alice Elizabeth Austen whose house on Staten Island is now a museum (Leggi in italiano)
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Italian Divas and Cinematography as the Art of Human Body in its Plasticity
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Orange (Fiber) is the new Green
The brainchild of two students who were roommates in Milan, called Orange Fiber, is licensed to make eco-friendly fabrics from scraps of Sicilian oranges. Innovation, respect for the environment and ties to the land are keys to a project that brings ethics to fashion and Italian creativity in the world (Leggi in italiano)
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Made In Italy: Brand, Metabrand and its Stories
What remains of Made in Italy today when so many complain of foreign acquisitions? Some think (like Prada) that we should embrace the world in order to live in the present, and some, like all the major brands, continue to perserve the local traditions. We try to find our answers, looking at innovation in a global context. (Leggi in Italiano)
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Textile Vivant. At the Milan Triennale all Fabrics Made in Italy
An exhibition about the past, present and future of the textile industry made in Italy. Technological innovation is combined with a long tradition in dialogue with creativity, science, art, industry. The result is a territorial map of Italy of fabrics, from knitting to three-dimensional materials, to suits for astronauts (In italiano)
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Fashion for Intellectuals and the Masses
A new column to talk about fashion as a key to a broader understanding of social transformations. Fashionology lies at the crossing point of space and time. It looks at fashion, history, culture and the arts with a critical gaze. With an eye on the contamination of the present and one on Gramsci (Leggi in Italiano)
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Cut and sew … and made in Italy. The Italian tailoring in a movie
In the documentary Men of the Cloth by Vicki Vasilopoulos, the ancient art of master tailors, pride of Italian style in the world. The film was presented at the Casa Italiana NYU in the presence of two of the protagonists, Nino Corvato and Joseph Genuardi. The history of these craftsmen helps us to rethink the neo-liberal economic models (leggi in Italiano)
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The Great Beauty, A beautiful and ferocious movie that deserves the Oscar
An almost cruel representation of a series of characters one more egotistical, spoiled, arrogant, and vulgar than the other. The film is an intense sensorial experience that involves touch, sight and hearing. The view of two American professors on Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty which just won the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film (Versione italiana qui)