There Are Many Bodies

Going through the archive with a special lens permits a reexamination of things and of history that is incomplete but more concentrated and profound. Here the archive contains ten years of the activity and projects of the BA and MA degree courses in Fashion Design at Iuav University of Venice and the lens is a key word: “body”. If “designing and making clothing amounts to tack-ling the architectural theme closest to the body” (Lupano 2014, 13), the archive of a fashion school, it goes without saying, is crammed with pertinent materials. So the choice is to accompany the key word by an adjective that can restrict its scope and illuminate certain salient passages and actions.