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    Unisex

    A clothes style suitable both for women and men, based above all on the standard styles of pants (particularly jeans) that became a real fashion in the 1960s and 1970s — a kind of play on role reversals using shirts,…

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    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…

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    Ungaro

    Emanuel Ungaro (1933). French designer born in Aix-en-Provence, the son of a tailor from Puglia who fled from the Fascist regime. He learned the trade from his father Cosimo “an exceptional man, who taught me intellectual rigor and honesty.” In…

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    Urbini

    Alfonso Urbini (1910). Italian men’s tailor. From the region of Abruzzo, he started in the trade at the age of 12, working in the Bacchetta brothers’ workshop in Roseto. In 1924 he joined the Pescara tailor Pasquale Tritapepe as an…

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    Uco

    Leading Belgian textile group that produces, amongst other things, fabrics for clothing. The labels Pierre Balmain, Prélude, and Robert le Héros are some of the many that have found a profitable partnership with the group.

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    Umberto Severi

    Umberto Severi. Brand and name of the founder of the Tesam Group, a leading figure in the entrepreneurial history of knitwear in Carpi.