Fashion officially becomes part of cultural heritage. This has been decided by the Ministry. Here's how

Fashion becomes part of the cultural heritage: a decision by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, which Minister Alberto Bonisoli (who, as is well known, comes from the sector) had announced long ago. The study commission that Bonisoli had established last December 19 (and which was composed of Barbara Trebitsch, Rita Airaghi, Alberto Cavalli, Lapo Cianchi, Raffaele Curi, Paolo Ferrarini, Angelo Flaccavento,Antonio Mancinelli, Stefania Ricci, Margherita Rosina, Sara Sozzani Maino, and Daniela Tisi) concluded their work and drew up a sort of road map illustrating how the fashion sector will now be equated with paintings, sculptures, installations, and whatnot.

The committee first mapped the existing heritage in the country, with the collaboration of 20th century archives, with interviews with students and designers, with the study of what is happening abroad (and beyond). What emerged was the need to create exhibition spaces that also combine thematic workshops and moments of in-depth study and study. According to the committee, the priority is to establish a network “that includes conservative, exhibition and interactive institutions in order to flank and support the fashion places that already exist, namely the sites where fashion is produced, distributed, preserved, told: from large centers to districts, from industry to artisan workshops, from provincial museums to publishing archives, from business archives to libraries” (so reads the summary document of the committee’s work).

The network will be called LuMI - Luoghi della Moda Italiana (Places of Italian Fashion): name and acronym are intended to summarize “the concept of spaces, places connected within a diffuse and multifunctional reality.” Italian fashion, the commission notes, “is by its nature contemporary, polymorphous, alive and dynamic: the preservation of artifacts is fundamental but represents only the starting point of LuMI. Luoghi della Moda that are open and constantly evolving, with a vocation to protect the existing and, consequently, prepare the foundations for the construction of future archives; a complex and current vision, spaces where cultural events, presentations and specific training courses can be combined with opportunities for young people, scholars and the curious to explore this sector with an inclusive attitude.” LuMI will also become an entity that will manage and program exhibitions and installations, act as an interlocutor for donations and acquisitions, also act as a catalyst to create synergies among the various players in the fashion world, and become a repository and online reference point for research and information.

The ministry will then have to deal with the enhancement of fashion cities (first and foremost Milan, Florence, Rome and Naples), but also peripheral realities, since the Italian fashion system is very complex and based on delicate balances, as well as very widespread throughout the territory, with great richness and variety. Therefore, private, corporate and institutional realities, in constant dialogue with each other, will have to participate in the creation of the fashion museum system. For this reason, the Commission invited the ministry “to activate an inclusive policy and dialogue with private institutions and associations that are already working on this issue and brought to the Minister’s attention the issue of corporate archives. An issue that must be analyzed and resolved by protecting the assets present on the national territory in agreement with the companies that have built and continue to generate Made in Italy.”

Fashion officially becomes part of cultural heritage. This has been decided by the Ministry. Here's how

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