{"id":33421,"date":"2023-01-31T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T07:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.polimi.it\/?p=33421"},"modified":"2024-09-26T11:07:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T09:07:46","slug":"il-genio-dellalumnus-gianfranco-ferre-in-mostra-a-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alumni.polimi.it\/en\/2023\/01\/31\/il-genio-dellalumnus-gianfranco-ferre-in-mostra-a-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"The genius of Gianfranco Ferr\u00e9 on displayin Los Angeles\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

From February 8 until May 15, a piece of Italianfashion history will be on display at the Italian Cultural Institute in LosAngeles in the exhibition \u2018Gianfranco Ferr\u00e9. Design Principles\u2019<\/strong>, curated by the Gianfranco Ferr\u00e9 Research Centre at the Politecnico di Milano<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The exhibition explores Gianfranco Ferr\u00e9's unique approach to fashion designthrough a selection of drawings and iconic garments, offering visitors animmersive experience enriched by a digital connection with the Ferr\u00e9 archivethrough images and videos that provide a closer look at thecreation\/development of the exhibition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The DRAWINGS WALL<\/strong>is a journey into Ferr\u00e9's vision of fashion design,understood as a dynamic process, a continuous search for a synthesisbetween art and science, inspiration and compositional rigor, cultural contentand technical innovation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The garments<\/strong> on display take visitors on an experiential journey into Ferr\u00e9'sstylistic research, in which the principles of design materialize in the infinitevariations of the archetypal white shirt, a true icon of the designer's creativework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201c\u2018Design Principles\u2019 is the first exhibition since the Research Centre wasestablished at the Politecnico, which made it an opportunity for reflection on thedesign principles underlying the work of Gianfranco Ferr\u00e9, so representative of thepolytechnic culture and the continuous trend towards harmonizing the culture oftechnology and science with that of art. This exhibition also gives us the opportunity toshare some of the very first research experiments that will lead to thedevelopment of an ambitious \u2018augmented archive\u2019 project over the next threeyears.\" <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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says Paola Bertola<\/strong>, professor of Designat the Politecnico di Milano. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The drawings and shirts on display are part of the designer's archive \u2013recognized as a heritage \u2018of particular cultural interest\u2019 by the Italian Ministryof Cultural Heritage and Activities \u2013 Archive Supervisory Authority forLombardy - and today part of the Historical Archives at the Politecnico di Milano. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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