LUPANO, Mario and Alessandra VACCARI. Una Giornata Moderna: Mode e Stili Nell’ Italia Fascista.

(Bologna, Italy): Damiani, 2009.  First edition.  Hardcover.  30.2cm by 24cm.  398 pages. A richly illustrated visual essay on fashion and modernism in Italy during the years of the Fascist regime. It investigates the active role of fashion in the affirmation of a modern aesthetic within Italy — through processes of international cultural diffusion and regime‑induced visions.  The book draws from a wide array of Italian sources — women’s and fashion magazines, cinema and celebrity culture, photographic archives, design and architecture journals, corporate and governmental publications. Organised around four key concepts — Measure (Misura), Model (Modello), Brand (Marca) and Fashion Show (Sfilata) — the text charts major actors and pivotal moments of Italian fashion from the 1920s through the early 1940s; scrutinising how modernist themes, glamour, spectacle and regime choreography intersected.  Supplemented by archival texts of the era and original critical contributions, the book includes a bibliographic apparatus and an atlas of iconographic sources.  A fine still sealed copy.  Now quite difficult to find.