Moda e Patrimonio Cultural entre Imaginarios Sociais e Praticas Coletivas na Comporaneidade

It is the goal of this article 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 your analysis. We deepen, yet, in reflections about the relation between historical research and fashion historiography, presenting two case studies: the Archivio Istituto Luce online, an example of public history, and the case of the three exhibitions concerning fashion that the the Italian State origanized, 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.