Posts by Fondazione ITS

In the history of contemporary fashion, documented through the perspective of the ITS Arcademy Collection, there are designers who made history. Interestingly, it’s not always names that made it through to the finals. Perhaps because their talent was still too raw when they applied, or maybe because the jury was unable to understand their creativity…

Looking for either controversy, beauty, culture or symbolism, it is no mystery why fashion drives inspiration from religion. They are undeniably intertwined: religions and religious orders have dress codes and use fashion to communicate position, sanctity, pureness and the entire spectrum of religious emotions and meaning. And fashion has always been intrigued by how religion…

Stepping into a museum space can often feel like everything’s stuck in time, frozen. As if it were a place where not much happens, other than cleaning and occasional moving of pieces to set-up exhibitions. But the opposite is true: to preserve items as if they were stuck in time, frozen and never-changing, the tasks…

Assigned annually in London by the British Fashion Council, The Fashion Awards might seem like they’ve only existed since Craig Green won Designer of the Year in 2016. But the ceremony to recognise British and international talent has been running for a long time. John Galliano won his first (of three) recognition as British Designer…

“Aitor Throup is an Argentinian-born British artist, designer and creative director.” This is the only sentence that sounds vaguely complete about what Aitor is. All attempts to pin down every aspect of his creativity, of his design philosophy, of what he has done and of how much he has influenced menswear and design methodology throughout…

The Tokyo Midtown Award, established to support young artists and designers, is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year. The art competition accepted ideas for site-specific works for the iconic Tokyo Midtown complex, which is the essence of Tokyo. The 10-hectare block of lush greenery is adorned with buildings and artworks by architects, artists, and designers…

Levi Van Veluw was selected for ITS in 2007, freshly out of ARTEZ. He presented a powerful series of self-portraits for ITS PHOTO, our international photo contest at the time. His project used everyday objects like ballpoints, yogurt and cellar tape to frame unique performances with his own body as the installation. Since graduating in…

Luca Josi – a former professional journalists with a background in politics and a profound knowledge and passion for ancient history and art – 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 professional career, basically…

To say that we are living a golden age for menswear isn’t farfetched. The last decade has seen so many barriers challenged and erased, opening the door to creative explorations that have re-defined – or perhaps, undefined – what we believe to be the image of man. In terms of dedicated exhibitions one could safely…