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Fashion magazine. The first number, issued in the Spring-Summer of 1965, was published by Aracne of Milan. It was a six-monthly periodical directed by Marzio Simonetto. With issue no.ú8 in the third year (Spring-Summer 1968), the magazine passed to the company Arnaldo Mondadori and was turned into a quarterly under the editorship of Anna Vanner. In Spring 1972, with Fabrizio Pasquero as editor, it became a bi-monthly and, a year later, a monthly magazine. During this period, reviews were the official form of periodical in Italian fashion. The difficulties suffered by women’s publications, created by the contemporary launching of other women’s magazines, even by Mondadori, brought the review to a close in 1985. However, through its photographic reviews, the magazine had helped document Italian fashion in a period of historical importance for the development of Italian design and its identity.