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Italian Fashion since 1945

A Cultural History

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Authors:
  1. Emanuela Scarpellini

    1. University of Milan, Milan, Italy

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  • Offers an engaging history of the economic and cultural shifts since World War II that have transformed Italy into a global fashion capital
  • Written in a vivid, accessible narrative style, with a focus on the lives and practices of everyday Italians
  • Appeals to students and scholars of fashion history, material culture, Italian history, and modern European history

Part of the book series: Italian and Italian American Studies (IIAS)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. The Cultural Significance of How We Dress

    • Emanuela Scarpellini
    Pages 1-29

  3. The Fashion of the New Italy (1945–1965)

    • Emanuela Scarpellini
    Pages 31-58

  4. Flashback: Fashion and the Black Shirts (1920–1945)

    • Emanuela Scarpellini
    Pages 59-94

  5. Revolutionary Fashion (1965–1975)

    • Emanuela Scarpellini
    Pages 95-129

  6. The Democratization of Luxury (1975–1995)

    • Emanuela Scarpellini
    Pages 131-182

  7. The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century (1995–Today)

    • Emanuela Scarpellini
    Pages 183-222

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 223-265
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About this book

In the course of the twentieth century, Italy succeeded in establishing itself as one of the world's preeminent fashion capitals, despite the centuries-old predominance of Paris and London. This book traces the story of how this came to be, guiding readers through the major cultural and economic revolutions of twentieth-century Italy and how they shaped the consumption practices and material lives of everyday Italians. In order to understand the specific character of the “Italian model,” Emanuela Scarpellini considers not only aspects of craftsmanship, industrial production and the evolution of styles, but also the economic and cultural changes that have radically transformed Italy and the international scene within a few decades: the post-war economic miracle, the youth revolution, the consumerism of the 1980s, globalization, the environmentalism of the 2000s and the Italy of today. Written in a lively style, full of references to cinema, literature, art and the world of media, this work offers the first comprehensive overview of a phenomenon that has profoundly shaped recent Italian history.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    Emanuela Scarpellini

About the author

Emanuela Scarpellini is Professor of Modern History at the University of Milan, Italy. She is the author of several books, including Material Nation: A Consumer's History of Modern Italy (2011) and Food and Foodways in Italy from 1861 to the Present (Palgrave, 2016).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Italian Fashion since 1945

  • Book Subtitle: A Cultural History

  • Authors: Emanuela Scarpellini

  • Translated by: Noor Giovanni Mazhar

  • Series Title: Italian and Italian American Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17812-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17811-6Published: 16 August 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17814-7Published: 16 August 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-17812-3Published: 24 July 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2635-2931

  • Series E-ISSN: 2635-294X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 265

  • Topics: History of Italy, Cultural History, Culture and Gender, Economic History

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