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Judith Clark, Vittoria Caterina Caratozzolo, Maria Luisa Frisa, Vittoria Caratozzolo
After the end of the Second World War new and creative figures emerged on the scene of Roman couture: it was the dawn of a process of growing awareness, popularization and transformation of the Italian way of dressing that was to culminate in the success that the “made in Italy” brand has enjoyed throughout the world, from the sixties to the present day. This volume is devoted to Simonetta Colonna di Cesarò, aristocratic protagonist of this renewal.
The critical essays bring the figure, the style and the cultural world of the couturière into synergistic focus, revealing her many different facets. While Maria Luisa Frisa presents Simonetta in the guise of the inspiring muse of contemporary fashion design, Judith Clark analyzes her makeup in the theatricalized language of the exhibition space. Vittoria C. Caratozzolo stresses the way in which Simonetta’s “fashion-creation” bears witness, against the backdrop of an increasingly ineluctable process of standardization of appearance, to the persistence of the aspiration to individuality that had once been the exclusive prerogative of the dandy.
Vittoria Caterina Caratozzolo teaches at La Sapienza University in Rome and in the graduate course in fashion design at the IUAV in Venice. She is the author, together with Paola Colaiacomo, of La Londra dei Beatles (1996) and Cartamodello. Antologia di scrittori e scritture sulla moda (2000) and coeditor of Mercanti di stile. Le culture della moda dagli anni ’20 a oggi (2002). For the Mode series, she
has published Irene Brin. Lo stile italiano nella moda (2006).
Judith Clark is a senior research fellow and co-director of MA Fashion Curation at the London College of Fashion. From 1997 to 2002 she ran the Judith Clark Costume Gallery. The exhibitions she has organized include Malign Muses: When Fashion Turns Back (ModeMuseum, Antwerp), accompanied by the catalogue Spectres (V&A Publishing, 2004), and Anna Piaggi: Fashion-ology (Victoria and Albert Museum). She is currently writing a book (with Amy de la Haye) on the history of curating fashion for Yale University Press.
Maria Luisa Frisa is interested in the complexity of the contemporary imagination and in the continual crossings of the boundaries between art, fashion, design and communication, a phenomenon that she has also explored through the organization of exhibitions like Uniform.
Order and Disorder (2001), Excess. Fashion and the Underground in the 80s (2004) and Human Game. Winners and Losers (2006). She is director of the graduate course in fashion design at the IUAV in Venice.
She is fashion curator of the Fondazione Pitti Discovery. She is the editor of the Mode series.
Simonetta. The first lady of Italian fashion
After the end of the Second World War new and creative figures emerged on the scene of Roman couture: it was the dawn of a process of growing awareness, popularization and transformation of the Italian way of dressing that was to culminate in the success that the “made in Italy” brand has enjoyed throughout the world, from the sixties to the present day. This volume is devoted to Simonetta Colonna di Cesarò, aristocratic protagonist of this renewal. The critical essays bring the figure, the style and the cultural world of the couturière into synergistic focus, revealing her many different facets. While Maria Luisa Frisa presents Simonetta in the guise of the inspiring muse of contemporary fashion design, Judith Clark analyzes her makeup in the theatricalized language of the exhibition space. Vittoria C. Caratozzolo stresses the way in which Simonetta’s “fashion-creation” bears witness, against the backdrop of an increasingly ineluctable process of standardization of appearance, to the persistence of the aspiration to individuality that had once been the exclusive prerogative of the dandy.
Vittoria Caterina Caratozzolo teaches at La Sapienza University in Rome and in the graduate course in fashion design at the IUAV in Venice. She is the author, together with Paola Colaiacomo, of La Londra dei Beatles (1996) and Cartamodello. Antologia di scrittori e scritture sulla moda (2000) and coeditor of Mercanti di stile. Le culture della moda dagli anni ’20 a oggi (2002). For the Mode series, she
has published Irene Brin. Lo stile italiano nella moda (2006).
Judith Clark is a senior research fellow and co-director of MA Fashion Curation at the London College of Fashion. From 1997 to 2002 she ran the Judith Clark Costume Gallery. The exhibitions she has organized include Malign Muses: When Fashion Turns Back (ModeMuseum, Antwerp), accompanied by the catalogue Spectres (V&A Publishing, 2004), and Anna Piaggi: Fashion-ology (Victoria and Albert Museum). She is currently writing a book (with Amy de la Haye) on the history of curating fashion for Yale University Press.
Maria Luisa Frisa is interested in the complexity of the contemporary imagination and in the continual crossings of the boundaries between art, fashion, design and communication, a phenomenon that she has also explored through the organization of exhibitions like Uniform.
Order and Disorder (2001), Excess. Fashion and the Underground in the 80s (2004) and Human Game. Winners and Losers (2006). She is director of the graduate course in fashion design at the IUAV in Venice.
She is fashion curator of the Fondazione Pitti Discovery. She is the editor of the Mode series.
