Abstract

This research reconstructs the interventions of the Italian Futurist movement with regard to fashion. Giacomo Balla theorized the concern for the costume in 1914 and implemented his idea and that of Fortunato Depero in the area of futuristic reconstruction after the war. Women's prominence in the twenties would be reflected in Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Volt's theoretical assumptions about women's fashion, as well as the approach of Ernesto Thayath's unisex democratic garment, which combined his experience in a haute couture house with his futuristic militancy. The thirties were determined by the vindication of a men's fashion of national identity summarized in the interventions of Victor Aldo de Sanctis, Renato Di Bosso, Ignazio Scurto and Tullio Crali, among others, in which clothing products became a political allegory. The study concludes that a set of individual ideas decontextualized from the Italian industrial structure constituted futuristic fashion and that they were a result of the different phases of the avant-garde movement.