DATE: 12 April 2025 PLACE: Magazzini allo Statuto (MAS) complex. TIME: 18.00
‘ These graduates feel no need to define themselves as fashion designers or creative directors. They are researchers and creatives working in the field of personal identity and community‘
Accademia Costume & Moda recently showcased the BA Graduate Fashion Show ACM TALENTS 2025, a unique moment for twenty talents from the First Level Academic Diploma in Costume and Fashion: Fashion, Accessories & Costume Design, where they could present their creations in front of representatives of the Italian industry. The fashion show, held on April 16th at the new home of AC&M the old Magazzini allo Statuto (MAS) complex, marked the end of the educational journey for the young creatives in one of the world’s most renowned fashion institutes. Each student was able to showcase five looks from their capsule collection, created in collaboration with forty-three different Made in Italy companies. The show thus represented a moment of unity between the creatives of tomorrow and the experts of Italian tailoring and craftsmanship, an unforgettable synergy that contributed to bringing to life the visions of the twenty emerging designers.
This year’s graduates speak through a multitude of languages – from myth to memory, geometry to folklore, existential literature to ancestral ritual. Across accessories, leather goods, and full-look collections, their work draws from poetry, philosophy, and raw, tactile experimentation
Jacopo Cocci
Collection: Yozo
Yozo is inspired by Dazai Osamu’s No Longer Human, exploring identity, alienation, and the social mask. It merges Edo-period aesthetics and yokai folklore to create a tension between hidden and visible, past and present. Flowers, grids, and fringes act as metaphors for emotional repression.
Antonio Contartese
Trama Cerchio Contrappunto weaves together myth, philosophy, and symbolism. Trama refers to the thread of destiny, with the spider as metaphor. Cerchio symbolises the eternal return, drawn from Nietzschean philosophy. The eagle and the snake symbolise change and courage. Contrappunto explores harmony through contrast – of fabrics, shapes, and styles, combining couture, sportswear, and tailoring.
Collection: Trama Cerchio Contrappunto
Daniele Pio Rosati
Collection: Signorine Amaramè
Inspired by Lisetta Carmi’s portraits of transvestites, Signorine Amaramè explores unconventional normality. The title refers to a 16th-century Neapolitan text and the figure of the femminiello. The collection blends cultures and genders – referencing sailor-transvestite encounters, Apulian heritage, and proto-Italian ceramics, with silhouettes resembling amphorae that contain and release gendered energy.
Eleonora Cianti
The project Il Centro è la Meta began with family drawings of interconnected geometric shapes, echoing mandalas. Inspired by Carl Jung’s view of mandalas as paths to the self, it explores art’s connection to spirituality. Artists like Emma Kunz and Hilma af Klint – known for symbolic, geometric art – were influential. The collection uses shape and colour as therapeutic tools, promoting protection and inclusivity. The centre symbolises both origin and destination, turning creation and observation into a meditative, healing experience.
Collection: Il Centro è la Meta
