Abstract
It is the goal of this article reflect about the relationship between fashion and cultural heritage, a complex theme as it calls, simultaneously, questions related to the epistemological-historiographic research, documental and political-public, in a general and in a particular level. As a premise, we take the fact that fashion studies, as of 1980, started influencing historical studies, kept away however from mainstream historiography, what happened specially in Italy, the country we focused on our analysis. We deepen, yet, in reflections about the relation between historical research and fashion historiography, presenting two case studies: the Archivio Istituto Luce on line, an exemple of public history, and the case of the three exhibitions concerning fashion that the Italian State organized, respectively, in 1911, on the 50th anniversary of the Italian Unification; in 1961, on the national centenary; and in 2011, on the 150th anniversary of the Italian Unification.
Keywords:
Fashion; history; cultural heritage; sociology; memory