Italy
Fashion's Forgotten Fascists
About a decade ago, the editor of British GQ got sacked for including the Nazis in his list of the best-dressed people of the 20th century, but the Nazi influence on fashion is plain to see. Way less attention had been paid to Benito Mussolini's Italians, though, until Mario Lupano and Alessandra Vaccari put together Fashion at the Time of Fascism, the first visual history of Italian fashion. It's tremendous. Mario and Alessandro answered our questions about these well-dressed fascist pricks.
Rantinnravin
April 09, 2010 04:08pm
Why the fuck is the young Susan Boyle reading a magazine on a strange bit of that ship....she's lost the blledin' plot that one.
shar
April 13, 2010 04:23pm
i wrote my dissertation on this. well done x
stevie
April 15, 2010 01:32pm
Wasn't Coco Chanel supposed to be fucking some high ranking SS official, which is how her house survived and prospered under the Nazi/Vichy alliance?