PRE-WAR COVERAGE OF BODY DESIGN BY THE MAGAZINE, AND LATER, IN TWO SUPPLEMENTS IN 1981 AND SIX ISSUES FROM MARCH TO SEPTEMBER 1985

摘要

Under autocratic rule in 1938, Bernardo (sic) Rudofsky wrote an article for Domus on the design of a house with patio at Procida, inhabited by gowned owners and barefoot maids. With an introductory aphorism by William Morris ("How can people expect good architecture when they are dressed like this?"), the piece goes on to describe a lady wearing rather high-heeled shoes, all right for sitting or lying down but no good for walking, and stigmatises the anachronism of a dress style that mirrors "the baseness and insensitivity of our taste". Can anything be uglier, more servile and petty than a sleeve? Was there ever a shoe, be it by Padova or by Bata, that was actually made for human feet? "The unbiased woman in her home won't be wearing dressmaker clothes, fashionable milliner hats or handmade shoes."rnIn 1985 - in post-modern days - Alessan-dro Mendini devoted one of his editorials to clothes, in the form of poetry.