Italy is rightly considered one of the global powerhouses of fashion and is home to internationally renowned designers and Maisons. The textile industry and artisan tradition are part of it as protagonists. Important districts for the production and processing of fabric have been created, such as in the Prato area, as a center of weaving excellence, and in the Como area, one of the production areas of the finest silk in Italy. In the Promessi Sposi novel, set in the 17th century, Alessandro Manzoni writes about spinning mills: the silk industry was already born.

In Sardinia and in the Taranto area, it is still produced today the byssus, a very precious fabric whose fiber is obtained from the “beard” of a large bivalve mollusk, the Pinna Nobilis, commonly known as Gnacchera. Not just fabrics: fashion is also made up of accessories, objects, materials. It arrives everywhere and everything can be influenced by fashion.