Remade in Italy, in Naples the heritage of style and culture of the Bel Paese goes on display: a very rich past capable of reliving in a contemporary key

The expression Made in Italy It has linguistic roots in the English verb to makewhich translates into “doing” or “realizing”. In the literal sense it indicates something that was created or produced in Italy. The relevant origin because the place where an artifact is conceived and built deeply affects its essence.

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So when we think of Italian products, we expect style, good taste and creativity: the one revealed, from the fashion point of view, in the show Remade in Italy, Visible for free until 22 June at the suggestive spaces of the Monumental Complex Donnaregina, a wonder of the Neapolitan Gothic in the heart of Partenope. So what can you admire inside? First of all, on the ground floor, here is revealed The story of the identity of Made in Italy reinterpreted through the contemporary gaze of 30 students of the IUAD Academy (Institute of Universal Art and Design).

In fact, beyond the leaders of the most important archives in Italian history (and not only), there are 30 models made by the young students of the second and third year of the three -year course in fashion design, Inspired by the big names that have made Italian fashion famous in the world. Like the visionary Gabriele D’Annunzio, who with his unmistakable style and his totalizing aesthetic has traced a first furrow in the idea of ​​a national fashion: the most important maisons of the time, from the Belloni of Milan to the De Nicola di Napoli up to the Lanutti in Rome and even international signatures such as Hermès did to compete to dress the Vate.

The dress of a student inspired by Raffaella Carrà.

And, again, among the inspirations, Rosa Genoni, Made in Italy pioneer, who promoted an Italian stylistic identity independent of the French tradition and inspired by the classic world and the Renaissance masterpieces. And still pop characters but deeply rooted in local heritage, such as Raffaella Carrà And Sophia Loren.

The magnificent couture dress by Capucci on display (the original sketch also exposed).

The exhibition continues on the upper floor of the complex with the story Focus on the decades that have consecrated Italy as a cradle of taste and elegance, from the innovation of Salvatore Ferragamo – brilliant interpreter of crafts in a modern key – up to the consecration of Italian fashion in the famous white room of Palazzo Pitti, thanks to the vision of Giovanni Battista Giorgini and the creativity of stylists such as Roberto Capuccithe silk sculptor, Emilio Federico Schuberth, the demiurge of an Italian glamor, and the Fontana sisters, The hands that built the myth of Hollywood on the Tiber. And again, Germana mariucelliintellectual tailor capable of intertwining fashion and philosophy, e Roberta Di Camerino Known for his dress of sumptuous velvets, bracket closures and liturgical colors for a mystical aesthetic, all Venetian.

“Remade in Italy is an act of wonder: a journey into the soul of a country that has made beauty a destiny, style of a thought, fashion a form of eternity” underlines Francesco Maffei, curator of the exhibition and teacher of the history of fashion and anthropology of theIUAD Academy who collaborated with the most important fashion archives SUl National territory to build a visual path of information and education to the Italian heritage between past and future.

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«Enter the archives It was like leafing through a living book, where every fabric, every sketch, every word tells who we are. Sharing its value with our students was a privilege: in those documents there is not only history, but identity, vision and passion. To really form the new generations, the ‘knowing how to do’ is essential to know. The archives are the living memory of Made in Italy, And Iuad is proud to contribute, through initiatives like this, to return the profound meaning in the culture of the project “, concludes Pasquale Esposito, artistic director of fashion events of Academy IUAD and curator of the exhibition.

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An exhibition, therefore, for fashion enthusiasts, but not only that, which stands like objective to investigate and enhance the profound meaningthrough different facets, of Italianness As a complex expression of a civilization that has always been able to combine beauty, thought and innovation. An Italian guardian of a great dynamic past in his being able to renew himself continuously. In a word, indeed three: Made in Italy or, too, Remade in Italy.