Edited with text by Luca Lo Pinto. Text by Mariuccia Casadio, Elena Fava, Anna Franceschini, Maria Luisa Frisa, Davide Stucchi, Jeppe Ugelvig. Interviews with Corrado Levi, Valeria Magli, et al.
“Cinzia Ruggeri’s clothes refuse to be just clothes. They are better understood as genre-defying explorations of the human body.” –Financial Times
This is the first major survey of artist and fashion designer Cinzia Ruggeri (1942–2019), a unique figure of Italian postmodernism who moved freely across disciplines. From clothing and accessories to furniture and lighting—as well as sculptural installations often including these objects—Ruggeri created worlds that were continually imaginative, provocative, elegant and unpredictable. Ruggeri founded her own fashion line in 1977 and immediately became known for her use of architecture and geometry, such as the ziggurat and representations of the shape of Italy. During her lifetime she also worked and collaborated with Brian Eno, Occhiomagico, Alessandro Mendini, Casa Vogue, Maison Carven and Studio Alchimia. This catalog offers the most complete overview of Ruggeri’s career, thanks to research conducted by MACRO (Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome) in collaboration with the Archivio Cinzia Ruggeri in Milan.
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“We can see that a dress achieves its full essence when it is in communion with those who interpret and wear it,” Italian fashion designer and explosive postmodern design thinker Cinzia Ruggeri wrote in 1982, “while as such it does not exist as a representation of itself other than as a construct at the level of matter and its technological transformations. Clothing is a mutable and ephemeral entity, and will communicate different messages when the same model is worn by different individuals.” Pictured here is "Bagnante," 1982, produced in collaboration with Occhiomagico: it's one of six Domus magazine covers to which Ruggeri contributed in the early 1980s, reproduced from Cinzia Ruggeri: Cinzia Says..., the remarkable, not-to-be-missed new monograph from Mousse Publishing. Liquid crystal fabrics that change color as the temperature changes, kinetic decorations that are activated by "fantastic lights" and battery-operated LEDs sewn along the "stepped" profiles of jackets, skirts and pants are among the inventions that characterized her work at this time. continue to blog
“We can see that a dress achieves its full essence when it is in communion with those who interpret and wear it,” Italian fashion designer and explosive postmodern design thinker Cinzia Ruggeri wrote in 1982, “while as such it does not exist as a representation of itself other than as a construct at the level of matter and its technological transformations. Clothing is a mutable and ephemeral entity, and will communicate different messages when the same model is worn by different individuals.” Pictured here is "Bagnante," 1982, produced in collaboration with Occhiomagico: it's one of six Domus magazine covers to which Ruggeri contributed in the early 1980s, reproduced from Cinzia Ruggeri: Cinzia Says..., the remarkable, not-to-be-missed new monograph from Mousse Publishing. Liquid crystal fabrics that change color as the temperature changes, kinetic decorations that are activated by "fantastic lights" and battery-operated LEDs sewn along the "stepped" profiles of jackets, skirts and pants are among the inventions that characterized her work at this time. continue to blog
FORMAT: Pbk, 8.75 x 12.5 in. / 416 pgs / 470 color / 105 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $55.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $77 ISBN: 9788867496181 PUBLISHER: Mousse Publishing AVAILABLE: 4/4/2023 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: NA LA AU/NZ AFR ME
Published by Mousse Publishing. Edited with text by Luca Lo Pinto. Text by Mariuccia Casadio, Elena Fava, Anna Franceschini, Maria Luisa Frisa, Davide Stucchi, Jeppe Ugelvig. Interviews with Corrado Levi, Valeria Magli, et al.
“Cinzia Ruggeri’s clothes refuse to be just clothes. They are better understood as genre-defying explorations of the human body.” –Financial Times
This is the first major survey of artist and fashion designer Cinzia Ruggeri (1942–2019), a unique figure of Italian postmodernism who moved freely across disciplines. From clothing and accessories to furniture and lighting—as well as sculptural installations often including these objects—Ruggeri created worlds that were continually imaginative, provocative, elegant and unpredictable. Ruggeri founded her own fashion line in 1977 and immediately became known for her use of architecture and geometry, such as the ziggurat and representations of the shape of Italy. During her lifetime she also worked and collaborated with Brian Eno, Occhiomagico, Alessandro Mendini, Casa Vogue, Maison Carven and Studio Alchimia. This catalog offers the most complete overview of Ruggeri’s career, thanks to research conducted by MACRO (Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome) in collaboration with the Archivio Cinzia Ruggeri in Milan.
