fashion history of florence
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During my education in Florence for the Visionary Leadership Certificate Program, I made researches about Fashion History of Florence for my final project. I have visited most important fashion and luxury brands to get more information for the project. At the end of the course, I made a presentation about establishment process of important fashion brands where in Florence, Italy.TRANSCRIPT
Fashion History of Florence
Middle Agesand
Renaissance
In the Renaissance period, from Florence where was the the heart of the fashion , influenced by Michelangelo, Leanardo da Vinci, Raphael and Botticelli
Thanks to the nearby town of Prato, the industrial centre of textile production, wool, silk and textiles, have been the main products of the local economy since the 14th century
In the early decades of the 20th century, Florence was the hometown of some of the biggest names involved in the business of fashion
Salvatore Ferragamo
He considered the pioneer of Made in Italy, choose Florence as the place to make his remarkeble shoes and settled his headquarters in Palazzo Spini Feroni
Gucci
Guccio Gucci founded the famous Gucci brand with his timeless double G motif
in Florence
Emilio Pucci
In the 1950s, Emilio Pucci, a member of a noble Florentina family of the twelfth century, created to look now known as ‘casual elegance’ that just decades later would become the world famous market
Italian ready-to-wear
In 1950s,Italian businessman Giovanni Battista organized first Italy’s fashion show
in the famous Sala Bianca of the Pitti Palace
After the show, Italian fashion had become an international reality
and Florence was its capital
In 1970s, Roberto Cavalli, famous designer from Florence,
showed his first collection in Florence in the historic White Room of Pitti Palace
In 1980s, founded a major fashion-design school “The Instituto PolitecnicoInternazionale della Moda”
symbolizes how important is the fashion for the city of Florence
Florence is hometown still the world’s biggest men’s fashion event, “Pitti Imagine Uomo”
many Italian and foreign designers come to Florence to participate this show, calling a very big attention on the city
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