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FMC \/\/ June-July 2025. Our Upcoming Events<\/strong><\/strong><\/div><\/summary>
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07.06 \/ Dua Lipa at I-Days, Milano <\/a><\/strong>
At the SNAI La Maura Hippodrome for the concert of the Pop diva, loved by the greatest fashion designers and undisputed protagonist of the post-pandemic music scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11\u201314.06 \/ NOVA ROCK (Pannonia Fields, Nickelsdorf \u2013 AT)<\/a>
<\/strong>Four days surrounded by the myths of the music world \u2014 Slipknot, Korn, Linkin Park, and
Electric Callboy \u2014 at one of Europe\u2019s largest rock events. FMC joins the communities.

16.06 \/ FASHION HERITAGE ACADEMY Open Day<\/em> (Turin)
<\/strong> Starting at 5:30 PM at the Piero della Francesca Center, meet the coordinators and
instructors of the new Academy. FMC invites you to explore today\u2019s and tomorrow\u2019s fashion
professions.
Register to participate here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

17.06 \/ GLEAM \u2013 Workshop #2 at the National Cinema Museum (Turin)<\/a>
<\/strong>A co-design and testing day with blind and visually impaired users, in collaboration with the
National Cinema Museum, Tactile Vision, and UIC \u2014 exploring cinema through sound and
(video)games.
The <\/em>GLEAM<\/em><\/strong> project has indirectly received funding from the European Union\u2019s Horizon Europe research and innovation action programme, via the <\/em>XR4ED \u2013 Open Call<\/em><\/strong> issued and executed under the <\/em>XR4ED<\/em><\/strong> project (Grant Agreement no. 101093159).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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01-03.07 \/ <\/strong>Fashion Heritage Academy @ B2B Torino Fashion Match<\/strong><\/a>
With the talk \u201cThe Heritage of Tailoring: How to Preserve an Art\u201d<\/em>, during Turin Fashion Week, Fabrizio Modina, President of Fondazione M-Cube, will highlight the urgent need to safeguard the human and cultural heritage of Italian tailoring. In collaboration with Unioncamere Piemonte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10.07 \/ <\/strong>Kylie Minogue \u2013 The Tension Tour<\/strong><\/a>
Live from Lyon, France, we\u2019ll attend the concert of the Pop Princess \u2014 one of the most influential figures in music since the 1980s. The Australian star is a muse to fashion designers like Jean Paul Gaultier and Dolce & Gabbana, and her shows are a dazzling mix of technology and theatricality.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/details>\n\n\n\n

FASHION, a matter of bodies\u2026 and relationships<\/strong><\/div><\/summary>
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In May, our fashion conversations often landed on the MET Gala<\/strong><\/a> in New York, on Anna Wintour<\/strong> and Vogue<\/strong><\/em>. We talked about Sabrina Carpenter in her Louis Vuitton look, and Rihanna, who announced her pregnancy on the carpet in a Marc Jacobs gown. We dreamed of Bella Hadid, Kaia Gerber, Lucky Blue Smith<\/strong>, and Alton Mason<\/strong>.
We shared catwalks, covers, and… again and again… the longing many of us feel for a size 38\u201340 (IT) and a sculpted body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Other conversations focused on the experiences lived at the MART in Rovereto<\/strong><\/a> with Oriente Occidente and at Sight City in Frankfurt<\/strong><\/a>, together with blind and visually impaired communities<\/strong>: we talked about Ray Charles <\/strong>and Stevie Wonder<\/strong>, about Al Pacino<\/strong> in Scent of a Woman<\/strong><\/em> (1992) and Bj\u00f6rk<\/strong> in Dancer in the Dark<\/strong><\/em> <\/strong>(2000), but also about Lucy Edwards, a blind British model and activist<\/strong>, the first to walk the runway at Copenhagen Fashion Week.
We asked those who are blind: How do you shop for clothes? How do you choose what to wear?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we talk about fashion, our perspective is often one-directional in terms of space and time – but the world we live in is not.
Our era is made up of many different bodies, all seeking beauty – or rather, the ability to attract relationships, of any kind, with other living beings.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The MET Gala itself opens this space-time window, with the theme \u201cSuperfine: Tailoring Black Style\u201d<\/strong>\u2014inspired by the concept of Black dandyism\u2014exploring how style and clothing have contributed to shaping Black identity throughout the Atlantic diaspora, from the 18th century to today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bodies across different ethnicities vary enormously, just as the concept of beauty does<\/strong>: soft and abundant shapes, lean and towering figures, petite and delicate frames like porcelain dolls, natural or sculpted musculature on display, long necks and slender hands, hips and backsides seemingly born to dance, skins that cover the full spectrum of the rainbow, with gradients from milky white to a black that blends with the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While models like Adut Akech<\/strong> (South Sudan\/Australia), Halima Aden<\/strong> (Somalia\/USA), and Paloma Elsesser<\/strong> (USA) are bringing more diversity to the runways, and some ad campaigns now include people of all ages, shapes, and ethnic backgrounds (e.g., Rihanna\u2019s Fenty Beauty), and more brands are expanding their size ranges to include plus, petite, and tall options, it remains a challenge to truly imagine all possible body shapes and the complexity of designing garments that can honor our diverse identities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This challenge also applies to bodies that fall outside of standard sizing for other reasons: diet, illness, lifestyle rhythms, or personal fears all influence our bodies and our appearance. In a global society swinging between high rates of both anorexia and obesity<\/strong>, between bodies that have undergone surgery and transformation, the question remains: how can fashion help create a positive offering and message\u2014one that could truly be a game changer?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And beyond sizes, in our everyday lives we encounter scars, tattoos, vitiligo<\/strong>\u2014bodies that carry incredible stories<\/strong>. In Corpi dipinti<\/em>,<\/a>, Matt Lodder introduces us to humanity through 21 tattoos. \u201cBy observing the marks that humans have etched onto their skin,\u201d he explains, \u201cwe can understand people, places, and historical moments. The body is a blank canvas we’ve learned to paint on, carve into, color\u2014making it a bearer of messages and a witness to our earthly existence.
The urgency to communicate through signs is a fundamental human trait, and few art forms have the immediacy and intimacy of a tattoo.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Necklines, cut-outs, sheer fabrics: it is through the bodies of Damiano David, Blanco, Mahmood, Lil Nas X, Harry Styles<\/strong>\u2014but also through all of us<\/strong>, who carry indelible marks traced out of love, loyalty, rebellion, or simple fun\u2014that today\u2019s fashion designers must engage when creating a garment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The challenge becomes even greater when the body doesn\u2019t appear as we might expect. Bodies with disabilities<\/strong> have long elicited fear and horror, fueling phobias and prejudices, and still today evoke conflicting emotions, sometimes leaving us awkward in how we relate and connect with those perceived as \u201coutside the norm\u201d or \u201cmissing something.\u201d In 2019, to celebrate Barbie\u2019s 60th anniversary, Mattel dedicated a doll (in sporty, elegant, and casual versions) to Bebe Vio<\/strong><\/a>, Paralympic fencing champion, as part of the “Shero” project\u2014a move to break barriers and stereotypes and to inspire future generations. Far from hiding her prosthetics, Bebe appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair<\/em> alongside Federica Pellegrini, in a visionary shot by artist Maurizio Cattelan. She walked the runway at Milan Fashion Week wearing knee-high pink boots decorated with the face of Jigglypuff, a Pok\u00e9mon character, and graced the Cannes Film Festival red carpet in dresses designed by Dior to highlight her prosthetics and celebrate authentic beauty and inclusivity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The blind and visually impaired young people we meet at the MART in Rovereto<\/strong><\/a> and at Sight City<\/strong><\/a> in Frankfurt\u2014through workshops organized by the M-Cube Foundation to develop inclusive products and services – are invited to explore a range of fabrics through touch and smell, and to listen to the stories behind them, like that of denim<\/strong>. They are also encouraged to design garments and define their features and details – elements that will help them recognize their own clothes in the wardrobe and fall in love with them, even if they cannot see them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, we find ourselves in conversation in Berlin with one of the most vibrant and fascinating Queer communities<\/strong>, which opens up another important topic. We attend events where international body positive and body neutrality movements <\/strong>promote the acceptance of all body types without rigid aesthetic standards. Their idea of the “body as home<\/strong>” helps us better understand how the body is not just a physical shell, but the primary site of experience, identity, and relationships with the world. These are transformed bodies, bodies in flux, sometimes simply dressed or narrated differently.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today\u2019s designers are called to engage with cultural and social constructs more than with fixed biological realities<\/strong>\u2014with a ritual that requires time and care, rather than just a routine. The way a queer person dresses, wears makeup, or styles their hair follows no fixed rules: it is a personal, political, and artistic expression manifested through a multitude of practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From this have emerged the logics and trends of drag culture<\/strong>\u2014as parody, celebration, or exaggeration of gender\u2014but also genderless\/agender fashion, camp and theatricality \u00e0 la Susan Sontag, and styles such as punk, rave, club kid, gothic, \u201890s, or Y2K<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And finally, we land in the Metaverses <\/strong>and video games<\/strong>, because the M-Cube Foundation is currently developing three of them. Here, fashion dresses immaterial, multiform bodies\u2014constantly evolving and undergoing metamorphosis. Bradley Quinn<\/strong>, in his book Fashion in the Metaverse<\/strong><\/em>, helps us better understand the present moment\u2014between augmented, virtual, and mixed reality, AI, and blockchain\u2014where technological innovations are inspiring designers, brands, and consumers to think beyond conventional clothing in the physical world and to create new relationships with digital garments within 3D virtual spaces. In this realm, where new professions are taking shape, the fashion artist<\/em> has a secured place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We still have much to learn, and the landscape ahead is certainly challenging, but these are the many expressions of fashion that, together with the M-Cube Foundation, we aim to explore and bring to life through the<\/strong> Fashion Heritage Academy<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/details>\n\n\n\n

The Fashion Heritage Academy and the New Professions<\/strong><\/div><\/summary>
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The M-Cube Foundation<\/strong><\/a> launches the Fashion Heritage Academy<\/strong><\/a> with three two-year professional training courses, each totaling 2,600 hours. Students will have the opportunity to become professionals in Haute Couture<\/strong><\/a>, costume designers for theatre, cinema, and the incredible and ever-growing cosplay<\/strong><\/a> market, as well as fashion artists<\/strong><\/a> specializing in creations for the Metaverse and video games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The <\/strong>Fashion Heritage Academy<\/strong><\/a> operates through key national and international networks. <\/strong>By joining us, you\u2019ll have the chance to experiment in innovation labs<\/strong> and take part in professional internships<\/strong>, thanks to our partnerships with companies that are actively seeking exactly the kind of new professional profiles we train at FHA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You\u2019ll have the chance to practice English in the fashion industry<\/strong>, gain a deeper understanding of what it means to design for real bodies<\/strong>, and explore new professional perspectives. You\u2019ll learn to bridge cultures<\/strong>\u2014between East and West, between generations, aesthetics, and what is often perceived as disability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019ll have the opportunity to practice English in the fashion industry<\/strong>, gain a deeper understanding of what it means to design for diverse bodies<\/strong>, and open up to new professional perspectives<\/strong>\u2014crossing cultures (East and West), generations, aesthetics, and even what is commonly perceived as disability. It\u2019s a journey through fashion that embraces inclusion, innovation, and cultural dialogue<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SAVE THE DATE<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Join Us on June 16th at 5:30 PM in Turin \u2013 Discover the World of the Fashion Heritage Academy!<\/strong>
\ud83d\udccd Corso Svizzera 185bis, Turin (Italy)<\/em>
You’re invited to our Open Day<\/strong> at the Fashion Heritage Academy
This will be a unique opportunity to dive into the world of Haute Couture<\/strong>, explore the art of cosplay<\/strong>, and discover the cutting-edge frontier of digital fashion<\/strong>.
Come and meet our instructors, learn more about the exciting courses we offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83c\udf9f\ufe0f Sign up now and get ready to step into the future of fashion!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/details>\n\n\n\n

Fashion Through the Big Screen:\u00a0<\/strong>Queer<\/strong><\/em> <\/strong><\/strong>– curated by Elena Maria Casella<\/em><\/div><\/summary>
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Our journey through the screens continues! In this second installment, we shine the spotlight on one of the most talked-about releases of the moment, a film that has garnered widespread acclaim, confirming one of the most interesting directors of our time. We\u2019re talking about Queer<\/strong><\/em> (2025) by Luca Guadagnino<\/strong>, which premiered in Italian theaters on April 17 and is based on the novel of the same name by William S. Burroughs<\/strong>. With this latest masterpiece, Guadagnino reaffirms the subversive power of his cinema, capable of challenging conventions and dismantling dominant narratives by using beauty as a battleground between repression and liberation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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