Does Fashion have Boundaries? Olivier Saillard and Emanuele Coccia on the Universal Land of Dress

Garments reveal profound universal truths about our humanity. Discover the ideas behind "Fashionlands - Clothes Beyond Borders", the exhibition currently on show at ITS Arcademy – Museum of Art in Fashion, as told by its two curators, fashion historian Olivier Saillard and philosopher Emanuele Coccia. In this exclusive interview, they explore the universal power of fashion — a language that transcends geographical, cultural, and social boundaries, continually reshaping the map of human life. Through their insights we explore the exhibition’s two-fold structure. One part is devoted to extraordinary designs that reflect stories of migration and cultural fusion - creations by emerging designers who took part in ITS Contest and donated their work to the ITS Arcademy Collection; the other features everyday garments captured as archeological artefacts by the lens of Gabriele Rosati — pairs of jeans, T-shirts, shoes. These pieces not only speak to who we are — bearing witness to both our ordinary and extraordinary lives — but also form part of a shared universal wardrobe, an alphabet through which we capture the spirit of our times.