Divine e rovine. La moda a Roma negli anni '50. Stars and Ruins. Fifties fashion in Rome

The Lazio region is renowned for innovation in avant-garde sectors suche as the aerospace industry, but one of its special features is the research it carries out on the history of creativity and regional industrial production. Any study of the material culture that has turned Italy into the great country it is today involves reviewing past artefacts and considering the need to organize promotional exhibitions and thematic shows to highlight some of the remarkable extamples of its cultural Heritage. The essay offers an insight into the evolution of Italian fashion in the 1950s, linked to great designers who have contributed to define the identity of made in Italy.