PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN
SCHOOL OF FASHION
PRESENTS
DEAN SIMON COLLINS & NICK SULLIVAN, FASHION DIRECTOR ESQUIRE
IN COVERSATION WITH THE AUTHOR
DANIELA FACCHINATO OSTI
ON THE LEGACY OF LEGENDARY FASHION DESIGNER
MASSIMO OSTI
CELEBRATING THE PUBLICATION OF
IDEAS FROM MASSIMO OSTI
PUBLISHED BY DAMIANI
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH
6PM
FREE EVENT
THE NEW SCHOOL, TISHMAN AUDITORIUM
66 WEST 12TH STREET, BETWEEN FIFTH & SIXTH AVENUE
IDEAS FROM MASSIMO OSTI
Published by Damiani.
Featuring texts by Sir Paul Smith, Franca Sozzani, Francois Girbaud, Ashley Heath, and Paolo Zegna amongst others.
Ideas from Massimo Osti is the first monograph dedicated to Massimo Osti, revolutionary Bolognese fashion designer, who from the beginning of the 70s onwards was universally recognised as the inventor of urban sportswear and, subsequently, defined as the most influential man in 90s men's fashion. Creator of brands such as Stone Island, C.P. Company, Boneville and Left Hand, Massimo, as Simon Collins, Dean of the School of Fashion at Parsons The New School for Design in New York, writes: "... He was one of the most important people in Twentieth Century fashion. He pioneered processes, materials and details that have now become standard in the lexicon of fashion design. From his first job as a graphic designer he took techniques and concepts from one media and applied them to another with blisteringly creative results. He gave men luxury masculine sportswear."
The book, published by Damiani, tells the story of the talent of a true maître à penser of fashion through an extraordinary iconographic display which presents more than 500 images including photographs of garments and accessories designed by Massimo Osti throughout his career, previously unseen sketches and notes, dyeing tests, fabric samples in addition to a series of interviews, reminisces and anecdotes by close collaborators and fashion icons such as Sir Paul Smith and Franca Sozzani, as well as artists and intellectuals.
Ideas from Massimo Osti offers a complete and timely vision of the results achieved by this engineer/designer and underlines the talents of a visionary artist and forward-looking communicator who worked on numerous different planes obtaining, definitively and without doubt, the title of true Italian pioneer.
Massimo Osti (1943-2005) lived in Bologna. Orphaned as an infant he began to work at a young age, while at the same time obtaining a diploma in graphic design. The success of his designs for a t-shirt line led him to abandon his graphic work in favour of fashion. Indefatigable researcher, he made profound innovations to the textile and fashion industries. Achievements recognised in 1987 when a retrospective exhibition was dedicated to his work in the Berlin Reichstag, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the textile industry. He also dedicated himself to political and social causes. After the global success of his most famous brands in the 80s and 90s, he continued, tireless and tenacious, to design and launch new lines right up to his premature passing. Garments designed by Massimo Osti are today considered collector's items.
Daniela Facchinato, wife of Massimo Osti, is a photographer and journalist who collaborated with Edizioni Condè Nast for ten years and shot, amongst others the international campaigns of C.P. Company, Boneville and Stone Island. She has published books, portraits, reportages and album covers. In 1999 she opened the photography gallery "Daniela Facchinato Image Gallery" which immediately became a reference point for contemporary Italian photography. From 2008 onwards she has dedicated herself to the Ideas from Massimo Osti project.
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