Institutions for Fashion: Public and Private Intervention in Italy and France (1945-1965). E-book. Formato PDF Gianluigi Di Giangirolamo   -  Bruno Mondadori, 2021  - 

The book analyses the development of fashion institutions from the Second World War to the mid-1960s. The author reconstructs the plan of public and private interventions for the coordination and promotion of the fashion system in Italy and France through historical research and the use of unpublished sources and documents from the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana Archives and the Centre des Archives Économique et Financiers of the French Ministry of Finance and Economy. This study provides a relevant contribution to the Italian fashion historiography debate on the definition of the fashion system in Europe.

The State Funding Programme for Haute Couture in Paris - Defending and Promoting a Tradition (1952-1960). E-book. Formato PDF Gianluigi Di Giangirolamo   -  Bruno Mondadori, 2019  - 

Equally Gianluigi Di Giangirolamo’s essay enquires, via an analysisof the archival sources kept at the French Ministry of Financeand the French Economy’s Centre des Archives Économique et Financiers, into action designed to support Parisian haute couture after World War Two. It is specifically the couture-création assistance plan launched by the government from 1952 to 1960 which is examined, a plan co-ordinated by Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne (Chambre Syndicale) during the period which might be considered French fashion’s first crisis. It was a system of public and private help designed and drawn up to safeguard Parisian’ couture’s creativity and safeguard its constituent and characteristic elements and, in the first place, the specialised workforce. The unique characteristics which enabled original models to be created every season, internationalfashion’s source of inspiration.

The Development of Fashion Institutions in Italy Involving Both Private and Public Sectors (1945-1962). E-book. Formato PDF Gianluigi Di Giangirolamo   -  Bruno Mondadori, 2018  - 

'The essay by Gianluigi Di Giangirolamo entitled The Developmentof Fashion Institutions in Italy Involving Both Private and PublicSectors (1945-1962) investigates the process of institutionalisingItalian fashion during the 20th century. Using as sources documentsstored in the Central state archive in Rome, the scholar traces the historical path that ultimately led to the birth of the National chamber for Italian fashion, an association that still today governs, coordinates and promotes the development of the sector in Italy. As well illustrated by Di Giangirolamo, research fellow in Contemporary History at the Department for Life Quality Studies of the University of Bologna, the process that led to the birth of the National chamber for Italian fashion represents the outcome of a complex economic, social, cultural and political journey that paralleled the development of the modern capitals of Italian fashion in the second post-war period.'