A New History of "Made in Italy"

Name: A New History of "Made in Italy"
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

A New History of \""Made in Italy\""Fashion and Textiles in Post-War Italy\nAuthor(s): Lucia Savi\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts\nISBN-13: 9781350247796, 978-1350247796\nSynopsis\nShortlisted for the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2024\n\nIn the first book to examine the role played by textile manufacturing in the development of fashion in Italy, A New History of Made in Italy investigates Italys transition from a country of dressmakers, tailors and small-scale couturiers in the early post-Second World War period to a major producer of ready-to-wear fashion in the 1980s. It takes the reader from Italys first internationally attended fashion show in 1951 to Time magazines Giorgio Armani April 1982 cover story, which signalled the fashion designers international arrival, and Milans presence as the capital of ready-to-wear.\n\nChapters focus on the material substance of Italian fashion tex.