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Edoardo Montaina

The increasing popularity of his work in the following years is reflected by his client portfolio, which includes global corporations (Ferrari, Finmeccanica, Ford, Fiat, Eni, Enel, Agusta, Fincantieri, Telecom Italia) fashion houses (Roberto Capucci), international advertising agencies (J.W. Thompson, Saatchi & Saatchi, Young & Rubicam) and television networks (SKY, RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, Mediaset, LA 7, ZDF).

Roberto Capucci

In 1968 he returns to Italy in his atelier at via Gregoriana in Rome, where he showed his collections during the fashion calendar organized by the Camera Nazionale dell’Alta Moda and, in the same year, he draws costumes for Silvana Mangano and Terence Stamp for Pier Paolo Pasolini’s movie “Teorema”.

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Only 26 years old, he was considered the best designer of the Italian fashion, particularly appreciated by Christian Dior, and in 1958 he created the “Linea a Scatola” (Box Line), artistic and stylistic a real revolution.

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With the exhibition “Roberto Capucci l’Arte Nella Moda - Volume, Colore e Metodo” in 1990 at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, his explosive season began with big praise of critics and audiences in the most important museum of the world, including Kunsthistorisches Museum (Wien), Nordiska Museet (Stockholm), Puskin Museum (Moscow), Museum of Art of Philadelphia, Reggia di Venaria Reale (Turin).

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