The Dream Costume Designer and Other Encounters at Milan Fashion Week

Two meetings at the Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM (formerly the Istituto Universitario di Lingue Moderne) give a symbolic kick-off to Milan Fashion Week, which from February 25 to March 3 will present ready-to-wear for autumn winter. Fashion Week began with an event in the university Auditorium, open to the public and not only to students, with the famous Italian costume designer Massimo Cantini Parrini . Several times nominated for an Oscar (in 2021 for Pinocchio and in 2022 for Cyrano ), he boasts a large collection of statuettes, as well as clothes : 5 David di Donatello, 5 Nastri d'Argento, 5 Ciak d'oro, the Flaiano prize and a European Oscar (EFA) for Dogman by Matteo Garrone.

The costume designer of dreams between fashion collecting and cinema is the name of the event organized by IULM on February 24, which retraced Parrini's studies and career, from Polimoda in Florence to Hollywood . The last film he worked on was Maria by Pablo Larrain starring Angelina Jolie.

On February 25th, at 3 pm , it will be the turn of Judith Clark , curator of the exhibition on Elio Fiorucci at the Triennale Milano and of many projects in the world of museology. She is also a lecturer at the London College of Fashion. Her speech will be enlightening in exploring the connections between fashion, culture and curatorship .

The focus of the meeting with Judith Clark will be the Elio Fiorucci exhibition curated by her and open until March 16. Ideal for those nostalgic for the 1980s and 1990s, the exhibition reveals the life of Elio Fiorucci in stages and brings to light the current intuitions of the designer and entrepreneur: from stretch jeans to little angels and other pop, childish and ironic graphics printed on t-shirts. Through the example offered by Fiorucci, Judith Clark will explain at IULM how fashion can act as a trait d'union between art, music and design and be a powerful tool for cultural expression.