Lunchtime Lecture: A New History of 'Made in Italy' - Fashion and Textiles in Post-War Italy

Join curator and fashion historian Dr Lucia Savi as she discusses her latest book 'A New History of Made in Italy', the first book to examine the role played by textile manufacturing in the development of fashion in Italy. By looking at how things are made, by whom, and where, this lecture seeks to unpack the 'Made in Italy' label through a focus on making Italian fashion and textiles.

Lucia Savi is a curator, historian and writer. She is currently a curator at the Design Museum, London, a scientific committee member of Mudec Museum in Milan and of Fashion Research Network, London (FRN). In 2021 she curated the V&A exhibition Bags: Inside Out and authored its accompanying publication. Dr Savi has a PhD from Kingston University, UK, on Italian fashion and textiles. She has contributed to fashion and design exhibitions and their catalogues including Shoes: Pleasure and Pain (2015),The Glamour of Italian Fashion 1945–2014 (2014), and Beyond Bloomsbury: Design of the Omega Workshops 1913-1919 (2009).Her latest academic monograph, A New History of Made in Italy, Fashion and Textiles in Post War Italy, was published by Bloomsbury in 2023.

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