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  In this process the introduction of new synthetic fabrics also played a fundamental role. The first,rayon, was invented in France as early as 1892, but it was not until the next century that artificial fibers appeared on a large scale on the market: at first nylon in 1939, then …

    THE PATCHWORK OF THE  SECOND HALF OF THE 1900S. After World War II, what had in previous decades been the first intuition of a few theoreticians and was then experimented on in avant-garde workshops became the commonly accepted and practiced norm. In following fashion, the world of color became an …

  She arrived in Vogue in 1968, the perfect year for her unrestrained and fierce imagination to explode from its pages. In the meantime she had married photographer Alfa Castaldi and, for many years, the two were one of the most distinguished couples in Milan which was fast becoming – …

  In 1986 Anna Piaggi wrote a book, «Anna-Cronique, a diary of fashion». The drawings, sketches of the author’s clothing area performances are the work of Karl Lagerfeld, a devoted and constant admirer. After a hand-to-mouth beginning (“I translated detective books – she told me – and I made do …

  At the beginning of the 1900s this tendency found a home with the artistic avant-garde (in Italy, Futurism), and between the two world wars it was incarnated specifically in Bauhaus, the school of applied arts directed by Walter Gropius first in Weimar and then in Dessau. The first workshop …