Jacopo Benassi

Name: Jacopo Benassi
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SKU: 9788857243825
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The Belt

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Jacopo Benassi explores the vibrant textile recycling industry in Prato, where discarded clothes from around the globe are transformed into fabrics for top-tier fashion labels. The book delves into the intertwined worlds of skilled artisans, industrial machinery, and workers, highlighting a cycle that merges craftsmanship with industrial processes. Through this, it reflects on themes of desire, identity, and the sacredness found in daily labour and cultural heritage.
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This book will appeal to readers interested in arts and culture, fashion industry processes, sustainable practices, and those curious about how tradition and modernity intertwine within the textile world.

The Belt is a photographic project by Jacopo Benassi dedicated to Prato, a city of art and a renowned hub of the textile industry.

Description

Enormous quantities of thrown-out clothes arrive in Prato from all around the world to be recycled and re-used as the raw material for new garments made by the most prestigious fashion brands.

The cyclical nature of the operation, the artisanal craftspeople, the wool, the industrial machinery, the workers, the museum masterpieces, the relics and the sense of the sacred in everyday life become the subjects of a desire and of a process of self-recognition.

Jacopo Benassi explores these intricate and dynamic processes with a keen eye for detail and an appreciation of the intricacies involved in this unique cycle of renewal and creativity.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9788857243825

Publisher: Skira

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 25 March 2021

Country: Italy

Imprint: Skira

Illustration: 142 Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Antonio Grulli
Edited by Maria Luisa Frisa

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 240.0mm

Height: 300.0mm

Weight: 1360g

Pages: 224

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Fashion critic and curator Maria Luisa Frisa holds a chair at the IUAV University in Venice, where she founded the Fashion Design and Multimedia Arts programme. She has curated numerous exhibitions and written many exhibition catalogues, her most recent publications being the monograph Le forme della moda. Cultura, industria, mercato, comunicazione (2022) and the anthology I Racconti della moda (2024).