ARCHIVIO is an Italian magazine created with the objective of ‘expanding the frontiers of content creation from archival resources, building on the idea that the life cycle of archives does not end with their inventory, digitalisation, and reorganisation, but rather it is at that point that they can take on a new lease of life, becoming something vital, of endless potential’.
So a new definition what ‘archive' really means, perhaps. If it sounds highbrow it’s also a very attractive project for a magazine, and ARCHIVIO is an accessible, absorbing and thoughtful read, an 'ideas library' or museum you’ll come back to for intellectual nourishment, or as the publishers put it, ‘a favourites bar to refer to when in doubt or out of curiosity’. This high-spec magazine is an established favourite at Magalleria.
ARCHIVIO progresses in a series of four thematic issues, each one edited by a guest editor with a specialty in the field in cast an expert eye on the archives. After the decade series (1964, 1973, 1982 and 1990, still available but selling out), the third cycle of ARCHIVIO is dedicated to fashion, with fashion curator and journalist Stefano Tonchi as Guest Editor-in-Chief, joined by Marco Pecorari, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Program Director of the MA in Fashion Studies at Parsons Paris. Editorial direction is by Daniela Hamaui, with art direction by Alessandro Gori.
ARCHIVIO N°9 provides a mapping of the fashion archives international landscape at this moment in time and an overview of the many contemporary typologies and studies, divided in three sections: ‘Public & Institutional’, ‘Brands & Strategies’ and ‘Private & Personal’. It also includes a special poster: an (in)complete mapping of the countless fashion archives in Italy.
