Scholar of Art, Fashion and Applied Arts | Fashion Museum Curator and Historian, Brand Heritage Expert | Critics, fashion writer
Scholar of Art, Fashion and Applied Arts | Fashion Museum Curator and Historian, Brand Heritage Expert | Critics and fashion writer
Ms. Fiorentini was the project manager in charge of creating the historical Gucci Archive and the Gucci Museum for Guccio Gucci SpA from 1996 through 2001 in Florence, Italy. She then was the Art and Fashion consultant for Hugo Boss Industries Ldt between 2005 and 2007. After this project, she consulted on Art and Fashion for Fendi SpA and Confindustria in 2008 and 2009. Currently, she performs a broad range of consulting activities for various international fashion companies (Gucci, Valentino, Louis Vuitton, Dior). Ms. Fiorentini was also consultant to cultural institutions such as the Museo della Moda e del Costume at Palazzo Pitti in Florence (1987-2016) and the Museo del Tessuto in Prato (2004 till now). Numerous exhibits have also been among her activities. She was the co-curator for many exhibits on Costume and Fashion at important Italian museums, the Louvre in Paris (1993 and 2010) and the Solomon R. Guggenheim in New York (1994).
Her work for educational entities includes the roles of lecturer and instructor within the most prestigious Italian Institutions offering studies in Fashion:
• Departments of Architecture and Literature of the University of Florence (Fashion Design Graduation),
• The Polimoda Institute (Florence),
• The Department of Literature and Philosophy of Bologna;
• The Catholic University, the IULM and the POLYTECHNICAL (PoliMi) of Milan,
• The LUISS Busines School in Rome and Milan.
PUBLICATIONS
As an author, Ms. Fiorentini has produced non-fiction and monographs for international publishers on the subjects of Art, Costume and Fashion, Textiles and Costume Jewelry.
Of particular note:
• La Moda in Società. Raccolta fotografica da archivi privati italiani, Jesi, Stampa Nova 2015
• Alberto Lattuada. Progetti di scuola, Milano, Skira 2013
• Corrispondenze. Sete, ceramiche, cibo tra Cina e Toscana, Milano, Skira 2008
• La Moda a Firenze tra Arte e Artigianato, Firenze, Tipografia Nova 2006
• Le carte vincenti della moda italiana, in La sala Bianca. Nascita della Moda Italiana, Milano, Electa 1992
• Moda Italiana Anni '50 e '60, Cantini 1991
