Terence Ward and Idanna Pucci — Emilio Pucci: the astonishing odyssey of a fashion icon
The drama of war and postwar Italy told through the life of celebrated fashion designer Emilio Pucci, with journalist Sara Gay Forden.
Why we picked this
Less a fashion book and more a story about how Italy reinvented itself after the war, told through one designer whose life touched resistance fighting, aristocratic decline, and the birth of an industry.
Terence Ward and Idanna Pucci present the extraordinary life of fashion designer Emilio Pucci, a story that doubles as a portrait of Italy’s transformation from wartime devastation to postwar creative renaissance. Pucci was a resistance fighter, an aristocrat watching his world dissolve, and eventually the creator of one of fashion’s most recognizable visual languages.
In conversation with Sara Gay Forden, the authors explore how Pucci’s biography illuminates broader themes of cultural reinvention, the relationship between political upheaval and artistic creativity, and the making of modern Italian identity.
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