The family of the great designer Gianfranco Ferre has chosen to donate to Polytechnic of Milan allheritage of the Milanese fashion expert, including the headquarters in via Tortona born from the project of Franco Raggi. It is no coincidence that the Poli as it is precisely in this Athenaeum that the great master was formed.
Circa 150mila works, including drawings, sketches, photos, accessories, clothes, books, magazines, films, objects, lessons, notes and much more, which now have a invaluable in the fashion sector and which will now animate the Gianfranco Ferré Research Center.
La . of all the artistic heritage took place on 3th December in the presence of Rector of the Polytechnic of Milan Ferruccio Resta, the president of the Gianfranco Ferré Alberto Ferré Foundation and the General Director of the Rita Airaghi Foundation.
The goal of the donation is to combine the immense skills, technical-scientific acquaintance and culture of the project Poli with the culture and fashion history of all the material preserved by the Gianfranco Ferré Foundation.
Gianfranco Ferrè Archive
Scheduled, new interdisciplinary experiments with the coordination of Fashion in Process Laboratory of the Department of Design which will involve various disciplinary areas present in the prestigious University, such as mechanical and mathematical engineering.
“The value of heritage is to resist, grow and look to the future. Preserving means continuing to ensure that thoughts and objects revive in new forms. This is the goal of the Gianfranco Ferré Research Center, which we inaugurate today, with the aim of promoting digital innovation of the creative and cultural industries - explained the Rector of the Milan Polytechnic - Gianfranco ferré, a great stylist and artist, was an ambassador of Italy and of our university in the world: one of those names that makes us proud. What is striking of his works is the rigor, perhaps due to the planning inherent in his training as an architect, and the emotion. A union between technique and art, between method and inventiveness, which we encourage in our classrooms and laboratories through experimentation, which today passes through the ever closer intersection between technology and creativity. "
