Fede

Alexandra (1963). Fashion designer. After studying in Oxford and London, she moved to Sidney and then to Singapore, where she had her first experiences in the world of fashion. But it was in Rome, in 1992, that her career really started, when she designed an entire collection of men’s ties and accessories for Fausto Sarli. In 1993, she began to do research on new technologies as applied to natural fibers, and in 1996, in collaboration with DuPont, she manufactured button-neck shirts and T-“shirts in anti-stain silk and cotton under the brand AX Alexandra Fede. Also in 1996, she moved her atelier to Piazza di Spagna. She devotes herself to high fashion, manufactured with anti-crease fabrics, that are shrink-free in the washing machine. In 1998, she launched Stressless, a yarn containing trilobate carbon, used for total protection from electromagnetic waves and to facilitate the dissipation of electromagnetic fields from the body through a complex process of ionization. Also in 1998, in July, at Alta Moda for the Autumn-Winter 1998-1999 season, she presented her Gold Dress. It was manufactured using Mitsubishi technology that came from the space program, and is in the Guinness Book of World Records. In January 1999, at Pitti Immagine Uomo, she presented her Anti-Violence Collection, made with bullet-proof fabric. In 2001, she received a degree in the Technology of Advanced Fibers in St. Louis, Missouri, and helped further the historic preservation of more than 6,000 costumes from La Scala. In 2002, DuPont asked her to create the BodySculptor collection, for which she used fibers such as Lycra and Tactel, cut in innovative ways. In November 2003, in Paris, she organized the Wear Hi-Tech Fashion Show, an event dedicated to “intelligent” clothing.