Sofia Gnoli is Associate
Professor at IULM University in Milan, where she teaches History of Fashion,
Sociology of Events and Creative Industries Archives and where she is also member of the Ph.D in Visual and
Media Studies Committee.
She writes for Repubblica, La Stampa, Il
Venerdì and Vogue Italia.
Curator
and scientific consultant has collaborated with the Victoria and Albert Museum
for the exhibition The Glamour of Italian Fashion 1945-2014.
She is
consultant and author of the Enciclopedia Italiana Giovanni Treccani. Heritage
expert has curated the historical archives of Luisa Spagnoli and Federico
Forquet.
In
2024, she was the fashion consultant for the four-part Sky Original documentary
entitled Moda: una rivoluzione italiana.
For the
Parco Archeologico del Colosseo she curated the series of meetings Ephimera.
Dialoghi sulla moda (collected in a book published by Electa, 2020) and the
exhibition Rara Avis. Moda in volo alle Uccelliere Farnesiane (2024, book Marsilio Arte). Among her
publications: Moda. Dalla nascita della haute-couture a oggi (Carocci,
2020), L'alfabeto della moda (Carocci, 2019), Luisa
Spagnoli 90 years of style (Rizzoli, 2018), Eleganza fascista (Carocci,
2017), The Origins of Italian Fashion 1900-1945 (V&A
Publishing, 2014). She is on the Advisory Board of Zone Moda Journal (ZMJ).
MAIN AREAS OF SCIENTIFIC INTEREST
Fashion Studies, Fashion History,
Fashion and Communication, Sociology of Fashion, Heritage, Fashion Journalism.
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