Böcker av Silvia Vacirca

Unlike in the United Kingdom and France, where fashion during the Second World War is extensively debated, in Italy it is an under researchedtopic, and the behind-the-scenes history of the fashion magazine"Bellezza" - the Italian "Vogue" - launched in 1941, has never beensubmitted to scholarly attention; even though its utopian function indefining a new culture of fashion and code of glamour contributed to the totalitarian project of building a 'new Italian woman'. The currentvolume aspires to fill this gap, using the case of "Bellezza" as akaleidoscope for looking through Italian history and culture, drawing on new primary sources and extraordinary iconography.