Capturing Italian Fashion: Preparing for the debut of her video series Italian Fashion From A to Z, filmmaker Grazia D’Annunzio reminds viewers that fashion is serious, not frivolous. We want you to remember.

Produced by New York University’s Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, the series features videos dedicated to famous Italian designers and brands. It also highlights the roots of the Made in Italy initiative and focuses on pioneering and emerging talent. Every Tuesday from Tuesday a new episode will be published on his YouTube and Casa his Italiana site.

D’Annunzio, professor of journalism at the National University of Milan, has come up with the idea of ​​a ‘simple dictionary for fashion’ aimed at students and people interested in fashion. started. Sometimes everything needs to be polished and updated. Hopefully everything will be fine until January. We’ll see if we need to change anything after the new year,” she said. D’Annunzio will discuss the series with Stefano Albertini, director of Casa Italiana, at a special event Monday night.

Alphabetizing Italian fashion was not easy given the difficulty of the letters ‘X’, ‘W’ and ‘Z’.Each letter is an adjective linked to a designer or group of designers. It is linked and aims to showcase the major Italian designers, the forgotten but important designers, and the founders of 20th and 21st century Italian fashion.Armani, Versace, Prada, Ferré. , Dolce & Gabbana, Max Mara and all the big names were selected.

“But we cannot forget the beginning of Italian fashion,” said the filmmaker. “It didn’t start with Armani, Missoni, or Walter Albini. It was Florence in the early 1950s. Giovanni Battista, an aristocrat and Italian entrepreneur considered the founder of Italian fashion. Giorgini brought together a group of Italian designers — Emilio Pucci, the lesser-known Germana Marceli and others — for a show in Florence.

Each episode of the A to Z series is 3 to 15 minutes long and offers a different glimpse into the beauty and talent of Italian design.

“Italy is famous for its excellent craftsmanship, attention to detail and high quality. rice field.

With the YouTube series ready, D’Annunzio is working on a book written in Italian about fashion and cinema, and continues to teach in Milan. She is also creating her Zoom conference on Italian fashion in the US with colleagues from the University of Bologna.

“Italian fashion is thriving with young designers who are very Generation Z.

D’Annunzio, who is based in New York City, said that some of the Italian designers have also worn Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Ralph Lauren, and other American designers. Calvin, Donna, Ralph, and Isaac Mizrahi were so hot when I got here in the ’90s that having a part of them made you look bigger than it looks. I felt part of the community,” she said. “But I love Italian fashion. Yes.”