Mulassano

Adriana Mulassano(1939). Journalist. She started her career on the editorial team of Amica in 1961. In 1968 she moved to the Corriere della Sera newspaper, where she remained until 1986, when she took over the editorship of Linea Capital. Here she told the story of Italian fashion, helped new designers make their names, and promoted the Milan fashion shows, contrasting them with those in Paris. Her articles, written with a language free of the clichés so often used by those in the fashion industry, were imbued with a great mastery of the industry, and an ability to pick out the real “next big thing” as soon as it had appeared. Anyone wishing to find a complete account of the history of Italian fashion need only turn to her writing at the height of her career. In 1979 she published I Mass Moda / Storia e personaggi dell’italian look (published by Spinelli), which told the stories of the protagonists of Italian fashion, from Albini to Fiorucci, from Armani to Miguel Cruz, Quirino Conti and Ferragamo, all accompanied by photos by Alfa Castaldi. At the end of the 1980s, after returning to the Corriere della Sera, she gave up journalism to work in the Armani Press Office, eventually concentrating solely on the fashion house’s major events.