Olga Rozanova (1886-1919). Russian painter and poet. At the dawn of the Soviet revolution she was, with Rodchenko, a protagonist of productivist art and created avant-garde clothing, notable both in design and colors, with the utopian goal of changing the…

Rankin (1966). Scottish photographer. He is a very representative figure in the new British wave of photography: aggressive, transgressive, and exceedingly rich in creativity, a creativity that contaminates all fields of endeavor and is willing to engage in irony; Rankin…

Bob (1928). American photographer. He debuted as an illustrator fashion designer, taking interest only later on in photography, with spectacular results right from the beginning. In fact, his first layouts were published by Harper’s Bazaar. The most fertile period was…

It took the crisis of haute couture, which had triumphed for a full century on the rive droite of the Seine, to encourage a number of its creators to cross the river and launch into a new adventure on the…

In times in which people subscribed to a system of exaggerated consumption, as the phenomenon of fashion-victims seems to indicate, the Ravers, though the label is quite generic, represented an important point of trend reversal. Between the winter of 1987…

Laura (1967). American photographer. After studying fashion design in Boston and Paris, from 1987 till 1992 she worked in the world of fashion as a freelance illustrator for a number of American houses and, from 1991 to 1996, as a…

Lucia (1941-1999). Bolognese fashion model and journalist. In the 1960s she worked as a model for Grazia. After the birth of her first child, she began to work journalism. In September 1969 she was hired by the Condé Nast group…