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"""In this long-awaited study, [Savi] probes with surgical acuity the connections in economics and fashion history that led to the worldwide spread and ... democratization of Italian fashion ... [exploring] new territory in terms of both method and sources ... with crisp color illustrations, indispensable for the reproduction of fabric patterns and drawings."" --The Journal of Design History ""A beautifully researched, 'inside out' study demystifying the origins of Made in Italy fashion ... A long overdue resource."" --Sonnet Stanfill, V&A London, UK ""Highly original ... offering radically new insights into postwar Italian fashion and its links with production, industrial and technological advances, and the fashion system."" --Giuliana Pieri, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK ""Bringing together textile and fashion history and meticulously researched, Savi brings an innovative and important material and making-based dimension to understand the post-WWII rise of Italian fashion in new ways."" --Catharine Rossi, University for the Creative Arts, UK ""The first study to bring together two well-documented but hitherto unconnected fields - post-war Italian fashion and post-war Italian textiles. Savi has brilliantly understood the umbilical cords that link them."" --Penny Sparke, Kingston University, UK"

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Lucia Savi is a curator at the Design Museum, London. In 2021 she curated the V&A exhibition Bags: Inside Out and authored its accompanying publication. Dr Savi has a PhD from Kingston University, UK, on Italian fashion and textiles, and has contributed to fashion and design exhibitions and their catalogues including The Glamour of Italian Fashion 1945–2014 (V&A, 2014) and Beyond Bloomsbury: Design of the Omega Workshops 1913-1919 (Courtauld, 2009).

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