The Origin of Signed Fashion
This conference addresses the birth and evolution of “signed fashion,” a fundamental concept that marked a milestone in the history of design and haute couture. Caprile will reveal how, during the 20th century, the most prestigious fashion houses elevated the designer’s signature and turned it into a unique authorship seal.
Biography of Lorenzo Caprile
Lorenzo Caprile is formed at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and at the International Polytechnic of Fashion in Florence; he is also a graduate in Language and Literature from the University of Florence. In 1986, he begins working for important fashion firms, both Italian and Spanish. But it won’t be until 1993 that he opens his workshop in the Madrid neighborhood of Salamanca. Master couturier, he has returned the figure of the fashion creator to the workshop, surrounded by ideas, sketches, and fabrics, thus giving it an artisanal and exclusive character.
Fashion with History
Fashion with History is an interdepartmental project of the Municipal Foundation of Culture, Education, and Popular University of the City Council of Gijón/Xixón, which values the Asturian textile heritage as a fundamental part of its identity. Through designs, garments, accessories, creators, and craftspeople, we weave a history where fashion is not just a trend adopted in a specific period, but a living testimony of a community that has grown at the pace of its factories, struggles, and demands.
The 1920s of the 20th Century
The 1920s of the 20th century marked the beginning of a profound transformation. After World War I, a new generation of women challenged the norms imposed by the 19th-century tradition. Fashion, with the decrease in the use of the corset, the shortening and straight lines of dresses, and short hair, became a political declaration to initiate an unstoppable revolution, the feminist one. This new edition of Fashion with History explores this decade in which dressing was also a fight, and where the mirror reflected something more than a trend: a new identity.