Subverting Fascism Elsa Schiaparelli (1890 – 1973) Italian fashion between the Wars is a case study of how ineffectual Fascism was when it came to controlling women. Although the women of Italy are considered today to be much less liberated than their European...
Controlling Women In Italy Designing Submission, Part One Any authoritarian regime, of any age, regardless of location on the globe will move immediately to control the uncontrollable: women. The first step is always to take away as many of the pre-given rights...
The Melancholy Afterlife of Italian Fascist Architecture Funerary Architecture, Part Two If there is any consolation in losing a war that the Austro-Hungarian Empire started, it is that a resounding defeat wiped out the Empire, thus absolving all those involved in the...
The Melancholy Afterlife of Italian Fascist Architecture Funerary Architecture, Part One If the population of a nation is alert to warning signs–and usually we are oblivious to portents–it would be well to take notice when that nation begins to build...
Design as Theater, Part Two Designing for Dictators To design for dictators in the twentieth century was to invent a new art form. The first challenge to designers was that the new modern dictator was not of the blood royal and prided himself on his common origins,...
