Fashion Tuesdays

The University of Insubria, leader of Spoke 3, has organized in collaboration with the Silk Museum of Como a cycle of three conferences entitled: "Fashion Tuesdays".

The events, which will be held at the Silk Museum, Via Castelnuovo 9 - Como, will focus on three women active in the fashion world, bearers of messages of female emancipation. Rosa Genoni, Emilie Flöge and Coco Chanel were able to combine the creative role with that of interpreter of women's needs and their desire for emancipation.

Their figures will be analyzed during the seminars in the light of the different historical and legal contexts existing in Italy, Austria and France in order to provide a picture of their contribution to the movements for equality that were developing in the first part of the twentieth century.

The specific objective is to emphasize, from a historical point of view, the role that women have played in the textile supply chain in order to present three salient figures in the sector, who have combined the creativity of design with that of bearers of new ideals of economic independence and social emancipation at a time when the fight for rights was becoming more bitter. Three stylists were chosen: an Italian, Rosa Genoni, an Austro-Hungarian, Emilie Flöge, and a Frenchwoman, Coco Chanel, to show how the struggles that women workers led in Italy for a decent salary in the textile world were combined with new dictates for the emancipation of bourgeois women in contexts that were also different from ours.

The conferences will be held from October 15 to December 17, 2024 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. Below are the titles of the individual days.

October 15, 2024: Rosa Genoni, the inventor of Made in Italy who fought for women's rights

November 12, 2024: Emilie Flöge, Klimt's muse and the Reformkleid as a tool for emancipation

December 17, 2024: Coco Chanel, the working woman, the shoulder bag and comfortable fabrics

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