Posts by Fondazione ITS

Ready to apply? Because this call is for you, and over 15,000 young designers like you have answered it in the last 23 years of our history, applying their creativity to ITS Contest for an opportunity to see their work shown to some of the most important fashion insiders in the industry.  Last year, 900…

“The most obvious and everyday boundary that fashion never ceases to cross is that between ordinary and extraordinary clothes. We can wear special clothes for ordinary occasions and vice versa. Their diversity seems instead to resemble the distance that exists between waking and dreaming. We ask certain garments to become anchors for us, in order…

On the evening of 27 June, something quietly extraordinary took place in Trieste. ITS Arcademy, Italy’s first museum of contemporary fashion, dedicated one of its most vibrant spaces to Anita Pittoni—artist, writer, publisher, and cultural catalyst. The event was far more than a commemoration; it was a heartfelt act of cultural restitution to a woman…

If you don’t have chicken, you might never have heard about Welsum, a village in the Dutch countryside, home to the Welsum breed, a beautifully resilient animal producing very elegant and delicious brownish eggs. But if you’re reading here, you probably know Joline Jolink, a fashion designer from the very first generation of the ITS…

For more than two decades the ITS stage was, unapologetically, a competition. Prizes were handed out to winners who would step on stage to receive them. Others would go back home sometimes with the experience of a lifetime, yes, but without the opportunities granted to those holding an award in their hands. It is something…

On April 29, ITS Arcademy – Museum of Art in Fashion landed on the roof of the Italy Pavilion at EXPO 2025 in Osaka, Japan, to showcase the creations of ten Italian and Japanese designers of ITS Contest during the week dedicated to the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region.  To project a renewed image of Italy…