Camera Nazionale della Moda Brings Emerging Fashion Designers to New York

The younger face of Italian fashion will be on display with a special one-day exhibition on Friday at New York’s High Line landmark. Organized by the Italian fashion chamber’s Camera Club initiative aimed at promoting up-and-coming labels, the exhibit, called “Borders: A Flash of New Italian Fashion,” collects the signature pieces — to be showcased on biodegradable mannequins produced by Bonaveri — of four Italian emerging brands, including M1992, Magliano, United Standard and Vitelli Maglieria Italiana. The outfits will be immersed into an engaging environment of video projections, tubes, neon and LED lights. In particular, the exhibit will include a video shot in Apulia by emerging film director Francesco Petroni, as well as audio installations by United Standard’s Giorgio Di Salvo, Vitelli Maglieria Italiana’s Mauro Simionato and M1992’s Dorian Stefano Tarantini — all of them dividing their time between fashion and music. “When the Consulate General of Italy and the Italian Trade Commission proposed we organize something in New York, we immediately had the idea to do something disruptive, different from what people might have expected,” said Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana president Carlo Capasa. “We wanted to showcase a different face of Italy, young and fresh, which could give an idea of

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