Nilufar Gallery: Walter Albini book launch. “’Twenty- seven years old, sign of Pisces”: these are the first things Walter Albini tells you about himself, with a smile.” This is how Italian Vogue presented Walter Albini in October 1967. It was the beginning: the course of Albini’s life was soon to end in 1983, but in the designer’s personal and creative story we can find all the traits that have come to define the phenomenon of Made in Italy. The book Walter Albini and His Time, All Power to The Imagination by Stefano Tonchi and Maria Luisa Frisa, published by Marsilio Mode and Fondazione Pitti Discovery, looks back to a period that saw the definitive eclipse of the haute couture atelier and the progressive emergence of fashion as a fundamental element in the representation of society.
Note: The cover was designed by video artist, Francesco Vezzoli.
Seen at the Walter Albini book launch at Nilufar. The Authors, Stefano Tonchi and Maria Luisa Frisa welcome Rosita Missoni a friend of the late Walter Albini. Tonchi is the editor of T: The New York Times Style Magazine and Maria Luisa Frisa is a fashion curator and director of the graduate course in Fashion Design at the IAUV University in Venice.
Seen at the Walter Albini book launch at Nilufar. Nilufar’s Nina Yashar and photographer, Mario Testino.
Seen at the Walter Albini book launch at Nilufar. American Vogue’s Anna Wintour talks to Walter Albini’s partner in business and in life, Paolo Rinaldi.
Seen at the Walter Albini book launch at Nilufar. Art dealer, Pasquale Leccese.
Seen at the Walter Albini book launch at Nilufar. Marina Prada.
Seen at the Walter Albini book launch at Nilufar. Cobbler, Gianvito Rossi.
Seen at the Walter Albini book launch at Nilufar. Architect and interior designer Piero Pinto, designer, Rosita Missoni and Gaetano Marzotto, president of the Fondazione Pitti Discovery.
Seen at the Walter Albini book launch at Nilufar. Dealer, Claudio Loria and design consultant, Uberta Zambelletti.
A double page spread. A double page spread taken from the book, Walter Albini and His Time, All Power to The Imagination of Walter Albini and Contessanally at the Hunt Ball at Villa d’Este during Ideacomo in 1980.