Posts by Fondazione ITS
ITS Arcademy, the blueprint. Sharing new details of the project
It’s time to get into details. Up until today we’ve shared with you a vision of ITS Arcademy. We’ve showed you bits and pieces, we’ve told you about what it will be but what you actually saw was mostly a space being torn down and rebuilt. That space is now ready, ready to welcome our…
Read MoreThe Winners of ITS 2021. This is the future of creativity.
An entirely new generation of talents that has learned to overcome barriers mastering new tools to communicate their creativity outside of the physical realm. They are fashion film savvy, gender carefree and developing culturally overarching visions of the world. Unafraid of diving deep into symbols of diaspora and misplacement or into explorations of the self…
Read MoreStefania Ricci Director of the Salvatore Ferragamo Museum. ITS Arcademy Advisory Board Interviews.
Stefania Ricci – Director of the Salvatore Ferragamo Museum and of the Ferragamo Foundation – joins the ITS Arcademy Advisory Board. She will be part of our thinkers, our ambassadors, our antennas in the world. In this interview she tells us about her beginnings in Art History, under celebrated Art Historian Mina Gregori, working at…
Read MoreValerie Steele FIT Museum Director talks fashion history. ITS Arcademy Advisory Board interviews.
Valerie Steele – Director & Chief Curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York – joins the ITS Arcademy Advisory Board. She will be part of our thinkers, our ambassadors, our antennas in the world. In this interview Valerie tells us about how she ended up studying fashion history –…
Read MoreCarlo Giordanetti (Swatch) talks Responsabile Creativity. ITS Arcademy Board Interviews.
Carlo Giordanetti – Management Swatch International & CEO Swatch Art Peace Hotel – joins the ITS Arcademy Advisory Board. He will be part of our thinkers, our ambassadors, our antennas in the world. In this interview he tells us about his career and about his view of what sustainability should be and how it should…
Read MoreThe Milliner of the Film Industry. Interview with Justin Smith about working for the movies.
Our Archive features one of the tallest cylinder hats you can immagine. It was conceived by a genius under the name of Justin Smith. This is possibly one of the least extravagant creations by Justin, of whom Stephen Jones famously said “It is very refreshing to see a different point of view in millinery at…
Read MoreFlora Miranda and the Venus Dress. From huge failure to huge success.
The latin prefix “ex” means “out of, away, forth”. Flora Miranda’s fashion is definitely “ex”, out of the ordinary, away from the beaten track, looking forth, to experiment and challenge aesthetic conceptions and material conventions with techniques that are detached from design tradition and history. A fashion finalist from 2016 – though we had been…
Read MoreResponsible Design: Orsola de Castro Interview. Fashion Revolution & ITS Arcademy Advisory Board.
Orsola de Castro, Founder and Global Creative Director of Fashion Revolution, is our first confirmed member for the ITS Arcademy Advisory Board. They will be our thinkers, our ambassadors, our antennas in the world. In this interview she tells us about her career and about young designers and their approach to sustainability. Orsola is an…
Read MoreBreath Breath Breath, Arcademy Creative lab for primary school children by Hazuki Katagai.
Building the Ark… It’s not just about constructing a space. It is a commitment to recirculating creativity. Which is why we looked straight at the source by involving the ITS Finalists. Collaborating with those who have passed through ITS is a fundamental part of ITS Arcademy. Arriving here in Trieste at the start of their…
Read MoreDigital Fashion. Virtually yours.
Non fungible tokens. NFTs. We might as well start from here to introduce an argument culturally and ethically so complex as digital fashion. The definition for NFTs is already cryptic, as “fungible” isn’t the ordinary word you’d use in your everyday conversation. But if a bitcoin is fungible (sharable, replaceable), an NFT – still guaranteed…
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