Posts by Fondazione ITS
Born to Create – Gisel
Gisel is thirteen. She likes to discover shapes in the sky and turn them into street art. This is the third video in a series of portraits featuring everyday creative heroes – including performers, visionaries, thinkers, artisans, and designers. In the run up to the ITS Contest finals we are celebrating the innate ability of…
Read MorePushing the boundaries of Conservation
Conservation is a fundamental responsibility for any museum. Collections must be preserved from the natural laws of decay, so that they can continue to be displayed, studied and enjoyed for generations to come. Long before we opened the doors of ITS Arcademy – Museum of Art in Fashion, our team began a thorough assessment of…
Read MoreBorn to Create – Živa
We were all born to create, and this manifests in infinite ways. Živa, a transdisciplinary researcher, blends science and art, with theories that question our perception of reality. This is the second video in a series of portraits featuring everyday creative heroes – including performers, visionaries, thinkers, artisans, and designers. In the run up to…
Read MoreFiring up everyone’s creativity
Creative thinking is not just for creative people. It is for everyone. We believe that every human being has the ability to create. ITS Arcademy is the closing of a circle: by showcasing the creative works we have been collecting for over 20 years we want to inspire visitors from primary school onwards to express…
Read MoreBorn to Create – Ivan
We were all born to create, and this manifests in infinite ways. Ivan, an actor by profession, crafts his own tools to create music and fantastical soundscapes for his evocative narrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy. This is the first video in a series of portraits featuring everyday creative heroes – including performers, visionaries, thinkers, artisans,…
Read MoreThe Winners of ITS Contest 2022.
A generation of talents developing touching narratives, dreaming of making the world a better place and celebrating the analog dimension of the printed book as a guardian of knowledge. One of their strongest trends was nostalgic memories of the family, above all of grandparents in this post-covid era, together with gender fluidity which no longer…
Read MoreExploring the Bounds of Limitation. An interview with former finalist Masha Lamzina about craft, freedom and developing one’s own artistic voice
“Masha Lamzina is an interdisciplinary artist working with textiles, installations and clothing, focusing on prints, stencilling and graphic patterns. Masha is also a fashion and textile designer, creating artisanal and unique garments that correspond to the themes of her art projects, often using fragments and elements of her artworks as prints on clothing. Masha uses…
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One Collection, infinite stories: Trauma.
The elaboration of painful experiences through the lens of the ITS Arcademy collection.
This is something we’ve often seen over the past two decades in fashion designers who have entered the ITS competition. They embark on creative projects to cope with or process negative experiences in their lives. The ITS Collection includes items from many of these therapeutic design journeys. Trauma is a subjective and individual experience to…
Read MoreITS Contest 2022 Finalists. The Ark of Creativity sails home, with a new generation of young talents.
Nostalgic memories of family, most of all grandparents in this post-covid era. It was one of the strongest trends seen in the applications for this year’s twentieth edition of ITS Contest, together with gender fluidity which has nothing to hide anymore. With a surprise: covered faces, a constant trend throughout the years, have disappeared. Young…
Read MoreTeaching creativity. Interview with Ike Rust, menswear tutor to former ITS winners.
In the twenty years of ITS Contest rarely have we seen such consistency in training young designers that would be then be selected as finalists by the ITS Jury, a first step of brilliant careers in the industry. The quality of Ike Rust’s students is undeniable and the students themselves recall his teaching as a…
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