Memos : On Fashion in This Millennium

«Memos. On Fashion in This Millennium» is a reflection on design, a reactivation of repetitions, a stratification of temporalities, a constellation of arguments and theses, an incomplete list, a series of notes, digressions and scribbles, a map of allusions and obstacles. An inventory of oversights. A work in progress. A notebook that takes the form of an exhibition, along with a book that is offered as a summary of attitudes and methods, of conversations, memories and researches that are still under way. The project stems from a recent reassessment of Italo Calvino stimulated by a general revival of interest in his work, and more precisely from an illuminating rereading of the "Six Memos for the Next Millennium", the series of lectures that the writer was supposed to give for the Charles Eliot Norton Poetry Lectures at Harvard University in the academic year 1985/86.