UISTA

Unione Italiana Stampa Tessile e dell’Abbigliamento (Italian Textile and Clothing Press Association). From its base at the Circolo della Stampa (Press Club) in Milan, in the 1960s the association organized meetings, debates, awards, and visits to the major textile and clothing factories. The journalist Giuseppe Rasi was president, and Mila Contini, Elsa Robiola, and Mariapia Chiodini Beltrami were on its board. Its permanent members included Barbara Vitti, Silvana Bernasconi, Elisa Massai, Lucia Mari, Vera Rossi Lodomez, Rina Simonetta, Graziella Vigo, and Maria Vittoria Alfonsi. Its honorable members included Giovan Battista Giorgini, Ferruccio Lanfranchi, Franco Rivetti, Gian Sandro Bassetti, Aldo Zegna, Ferruccio Ducrey Giordano, Paolo Faina, Emanuele Nasi, and Tommaso Notarangeli. The association broke up after a few years following the premature death of its founder and soul, Giuseppe Rasi.