This volume, published on the occasion of the eponymous show at the Triennale Milano (November 6, 2024 – March 16, 2025), reviews the human, entrepreneurial, and cultural events in the life of Elio Fiorucci by way of critical essays, testimonies, interviews, and a rich iconography that presents—together with outfits and accessories— sketches, illustrations, graphic art, unpublished documents and installation projects by the numerous artists and creatives
English edition. Translation by Sylvia Notini and Roberta Rita Pertegato.
Elio Fiorucci (Milan, 1935-2015) was the origin a veritable magnet for a constellation of new, irreverent, and revolutionary ideas that, starting from the mid-1960s, influenced the fashion trends and languages of generations of young people around the world. His concept stores, besides offering the public an eclectic combination of clothing, records, books, magazines, and exotic objects, were the points of reference for happenings and performances: stages capable of appealing to intellectuals, performers, musicians, and artists. His was an articulated and complex vision of fashion seen as the manifestation of connected processes and social, political, and cultural upheavals. who collaborated with him.
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