Volt

Pseudonym of Vincenzo Fani. Italian Futurist artist. “Brilliance, Daring Economy,” were the three points through which he developed his Manifesto of Futurist Women’s Fashion, signed Volt, in 1920. A member of the Second Futurism, Volt called for an artistic direction for the fashion houses: “Fashion is an art, just like architecture and music.” In his second point, he calls for extravagance and daring in clothing. In his third point, he conceptualized, in close linkage to the economic situation of the years immediately following the First World War, a fashion based on new materials, inexpensive and revolutionary, such as paper, cardboard, glass, aluminum, tin foil, fish skin, canvas, hemp, and oakum.